What Is This Body? Exploring The First Foundation Of Mindfulness
Event on 2013-04-06 09:00:00
What Is This Body? Exploring The First Foundation Of Mindfulness
with Simone Moir
What is this body? And why should we care? Some of us ignore our bodies until we get run down or sick. Others are obsessed with the body. We dress the body up to embellish it and downplay its flaws. We try to change its form through exercise and diet.
In the end, what we know as our body is really our preoccupation with managing it. We mistake this struggle to manage the body with the experience of our body as it is.
In the First Foundation of Mindfulness, the Buddha taught that staying present with the body’s sensations is essential to ending our struggle with ourselves, and it is the gateway to freedom from suffering.
What does this really mean? Is it actually possible? Why is the body a place of so much strife, change and pain so important to waking up? How can we make friends with ourselves in our own meditation practice and daily life?
In this one-day meditation workshop we will explore how we can stop struggling with ourselves by examining the First of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Body. You will be invited to get out of your head and drop into the body through meditation practice (including walking, movement and asana), interpersonal dialogue and other creative inquiries.
ABOUT SIMONE MOIR
Simone Moir is a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Yoga Instructor and Director of Parkdale Prana Room. Simone offers a variety of bodymind programs informed by her experience in meditation, yoga and visual and performing art. Simone has been involved with Centre of Gravity since its inception. She studies in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition and teaches mindfulness meditation courses in a clinical capacity. As a therapist and teacher, Simone balances playfulness and creativity with non-judgmental attentiveness to the here and now of the therapy or teaching moment. www.pranaroom.org
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REFUND POLICY: Refunds are available up to 2 weeks prior to a workshop/retreat, minus a administration fee. Refunds will be issued in the method payment was received. For registration fees under 0, a credit will be issued instead of a refund.
at Sheraton Centre Hotel Reservations
123 Queen St. W.
Toronto, Canada
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