Category: Past Classes
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Intro to Mindfulness Meditation: A Tool for Personal Transformation
Mindfulness is a gateway to lasting personal change and growth. In this class, you will learn about mindfulness and concentration in a kind and supportive environment as you take the first steps toward establishing your meditation practice. There will be a strong emphasis on cultivating an open heart as you experience the full benefits of…
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A Daylong Meditation Retreat: Intention, Action, Care
The Buddhist map – Choosing the Right Road Towards Liberation in Our Lifetime When: Saturday September 28, 9:00am – 3:00pm Where: Turner Senior Center, 2401 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, Mi 48105 Wise intention is about honoring the heart space that guides everything we undertake. It’s about awakening our readiness to recommit – to be wholehearted…
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(BEGINNING) MEDITATION INSTRUCTION-Revised
The Teachers’ Council is offering meditation instructions prior to Sunday Sitting on a monthly basis. These instruction sessions begin at 9:00 am and conclude about 9:45. Anyone in the sangha who would like to speak with Still Mountain teachers about their meditation practice is welcome, from folks who are just beginning mediation to experienced meditators…
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Daylong Retreat June 22 at Turner Senior Resource Center with Karen, Curt and Hugh
We will meditate and practice together on the theme of Right View, the first factor of the Noble Eightfold Path. This is the foundation and the ground from which we start the investigation of the Eightfold Path. With Right View we learn to recognize how the body, mind, and heart are interacting with this moment so we can…
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The Cycle of Dependent Arising and Ceasing
A New Class, Six Sessions, In Person – Freeing the Heart from Addictive and Destructive Habitual Attitude and Behavior. When: Thursdays, Jun 13, 20, 27, July 11, 25 August 1, 2024.6:30-8:00pmWhere: Turner Senior Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Teacher: Bilha Birman-Rivlin, PhD.Cost: This class is being offered on a Dana basis The process of the cycle of…
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BEGINNING MEDITATION INSTRUCTION
The Teachers’ Council is offering beginning meditation instructions prior to Sunday Sitting on a periodic basis. The instructions include mindfulness, basic focus on the breath meditation, and the importance of being as compassionate and patient with ourselves in the practice as we can. Instruction is geared mainly toward beginning meditators and newcomers to Still Mountain,…
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Basic Insight Meditation For Mindful Living
Mindfulness is a gateway to lasting personal transformation. In this class, develop mindfulness using insight and concentration meditation techniques. The class provides a kind and supportive environment for practicing and discussing these techniques. There is also a strong emphasis on cultivating the open heart as a support to experiencing the full benefits of mindfulness. All…
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BEGINNING MEDITATION INSTRUCTION
The Teachers’ Council is offering beginning meditation instructions prior to Sunday Sitting on a periodic basis. The instructions include mindfulness, basic focus on the breath meditation, and the importance of being as compassionate and patient with ourselves in the practice as we can. Instruction is geared mainly toward beginning meditators and newcomers to Still Mountain,…
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Retreat: The Middle Way, Saturday, February 3, 2024
Still Mountain is hosting a retreat on Saturday, February 3, 2024, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Turner Senior Resource Center. If you have not already registered, you may do so by booking your seat online.
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The Cycle of Dependent Arising and Ceasing
New class starts Tuesday, January 2, 2024, on freeing the heart from addictive and destructive cycles of attitude and behavior.
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Retreat in Michigan: Loving Kindness, Concentration, & Jhana Factors
August 22 @ 5:30 pm EDT – August 31 @ 3:00 pm EDT Cultivating Loving Kindness, Concentration, and the Jhana Factors with Shaila Catherine Tuesday, August 22, 2023 – Thursday, August 31, 2023Partial attendance can be arranged for the first 3 nights. LOVING KINDNESS (mettā) is a profound quality of friendliness toward all of life. Mettā meditation cultivates a…