Mindfulness Classes

2023!!

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tuesday ONGOING ONLINE weekly drop-in class

Tuesdays 5-6pm Mountain Time

All are welcome.

By donation, $10-$20 suggested.

Email ivyrossintheland@gmail.com for zoom link and with any and all questions

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PAST OFFERINGS

Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

Sunday Series

This 4-week online series is designed for the beginning or seasoned practitioner to: 

• cultivate an ongoing practice; 

• strengthen an existing one; 

• and learn more about mindfulness in a welcoming and kind environment where all experiences and questions belong. 

  
  As a participant, you will receive tools to awaken from habitual patterns of response in order to meet each moment afresh. We will practice mindfulness of breath, body, thoughts and emotions and look at ways of bringing our practice alive in the world. We will reflect upon challenges and triumphs, personal and collective, with wisdom and compassion.

  Sliding Scale Tuition $80-$120 for series

  Scholarships Available

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weekly Ongoing All levels drop-in class - January focus - THE BAd attitude

Come as you are. Bring your bad attitude! This is about freedom, acceptance, and belonging.

Mondays 4:30-5:30 Mountain Time

If you thought that meditation would yield a life consisting of only the easy or pleasant elements of existence, think again!! Part of being human is experiencing a dynamic range of thoughts, sensations, and emotions. Meditation practice involves cultivating the presence, self-knowledge, and ultimately freedom to choose how to relate to the many facets of our shared humanity.

In the quest to cultivate compassion, we begin with compassion for ourselves, which means owning and loving all of the parts of ourselves. The irony is that when the less socially acceptable parts of ourselves are loved, they become allies and strengths. They are all elements of the compelling prism that exists within us.

In January’s weekly classes, we will cultivate courage to be with any feeling or attitude, and we will release the flustrating notion that we’re supposed to be internally calm, cool, and collected at all times. (*flustrating = flustered + frustrating :)

Life is messy!!

For tenderhearted jaywalkers and armored inner children.

$10-$20 Sliding Scale

Scholarships available!

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Be here meow

A Mindfulness Meditation Workshop for Animal Lovers!!

Sunday January 15, 2023

9:30-11:30am Mountain Time

The furry beings who share our homes provide us with a powerful portal to unconditional friendliness.

In this workshop we will unlock the superpower that awaits when we strengthen the neural pathways that connect us with the deep sense of care, humor, and interdependence that arises in their presence.

Inclining our minds towards presence and our hearts towards friendliness…

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Ongoing online all levels drop-in class hosted by my dear friends at Yoga Oasis!

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MINDFULNESS & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

July 30, 2022

9am-4pm

Sliding Scale Tuition

This is an Online Retreat for anyone who’s interested in understanding the connection between inner freedom and outer freedom, how presence, Self-knowledge and compassion can lead the way to personal and collective well-being.

A world of false hierarchies requires our participation. In Mindfulness and Social Transformation, we will practice recognizing when social conditioning is superseding our values and consider how we might create the conditions for a world of safety, dignity, and belonging for all, starting with ourselves.

All are welcome, full scholarships are available, please email me to register or with any questions: ivyrossintheland@gmail.com

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“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”

~Pema Chödrön

“Under duress, we do not rise to our expectations, but fall to our level of training.”

~Bruce Lee

“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.”

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.”

~ adrienne maree brown

“Life is available only in the present moment.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Resources:

https://www.tarabrach.com/

https://eastbaymeditation.org/

https://plumvillage.org/