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Interweaving the skills of meditation and yoga offers the opportunity create a poetic portal practice – bringing the mind to clarity by virtue of viewing itself from the body.

Vajra Yoga + Meditation is a unique blend of yoga postures and meditation. It’s contemplative and sane  - utilizing the skillful means of collecting the mind into its body, harnessing the power of the mind to create radical awareness and consciously coaxing the heart to soften with acceptance and kindness.

This weekend is a chance to re-collect while still in the city – meet some wonderful people, and have a break from the mind bending illusions of urban living. Also excellent for anyone wishing to continue this way of practice and join the School for Compassionate Action’s training beginning again in September. One of the most powerful ways to help others and take social action is to be kind to compassionate with one self, and expand this fundamental practice to include the family of all living beings.

Limited enrollment, please reserve in advance.
A year or more of yoga practice is highly recommended.

Friday Evening: $25
Saturday: $125
Friday evening & Saturday: $135

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FRIDAY   6-8PM
Introductions, guided meditation, restorative yoga practice.
8-9:30 optional group dinner at Purume restaurant.

SATURDAY   9AM - 5PM
9-9:45 Guided meditation (Tonglen/giving and receiving practice)
9:45 – 12 integrated yoga and meditation (Tonglen in motion)
12-12:30 breath and mind yoking practice

12:30-1:30 lunch

1:30-2 silent personal practice (meditation, writing, restoratives, reading, resting)

2-4 integrated yoga and meditation
4 – 4:30 silent sitting practice
4:30- 5 Q & A, group discussion of practices

6-7 optional visit to the Rubin Museum to see the Patterns of Life exhibit.

 

About Founder and Director Jill Satterfield:
Jill Satterfield is the founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, a synthesis of yoga and Buddhism that combines meditation, yoga, visualization and contemplation practices. She is also the founder and Director of the School for Compassionate Action: Yoga & Meditation for Communities in Need, a not for profit that offers professional training in yoga, meditation and emotional support as well as classes for at-risk youth, people suffering with chronic pain and illnesses, PTSD, and addictions.

Shambhala Sun Magazine named Jill one of the “four leading Buddhist and Yoga teachers in the country”. Jill is on the faculty of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Mindfulness. In 2005 Jill was the scholar and teacher in residence at the Kripalu Center. Jill’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Tricycle Magazine, MORE, Shambhala Sun, Crains, Self, Fit Yoga, Yoga Journal, amongst others.

Read about Jill’s illness and healing in the chapter called “A Twisted Story” in Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind: Writings on the Connections Between Yoga & Buddhism edited by Michael Stone, Shambhala Publications

www.vajrayoga.com, www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org

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