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June 24, 10:30AM- 1:00PM
Body as House: Coming Home to your Heart/Body with Jill Satterfield MBC

We can live in our body without really knowing it - we can take it for granted and not care much about it until it becomes sick or injured. But why not radically accept it by taking care and opening up communication between our body, heart and mind?

 We can experience our body as our home and begin to liberate the illusion of separateness of heart, mind and body. Being curious about and intimately knowing our physical and emotional body is a way to feel at home everywhere, to embrace our humanity, to be more engaged and live with more ease.

Admission: $40 (for Sunday, June 24 morning event)   click here to pay

June 24,  2 pm - 4:30 pm
Buddhist Psychology and Contemplative Psychotherapy with Robin Boudette PhD

 Over the past decade, mindfulness has emerged as a powerful intervention in healing physical and psychological illnesses.  The workshop will include an overview of the current research and theory and an introduction to the essentials of Buddhist psychology.

$40 (for Sunday, June 24 afternoon event)   click here to pay
Both workshops (morning and evening): $75    click here to pay

Presenter:

Jill Satterfield is the founder of Vajra Yoga & Meditation, a synthesis of yoga and Buddhism that combines meditation, yoga postures, visualization and contemplation practices. She is also the founder and Director of the School for Compassionate Action: Meditation, Yoga and Educational Support for Communities in Need. SCA is a not for profit that trains teachers, psychologists, social workers, and health care providers to integrate mind and body into their professions. SCA also offers classes to at-risk youth, people suffering with chronic pain, illness and trauma. Jill turned to meditation and yoga over 30 years ago to successfully heal from a debilitating physical condition coupled with acute chronic pain. Her personal triumph became the inspiration and drive to guide as many people as possible in utilizing and understanding their own mind, heart and body to help them selves.

Jill is on the founding faculty of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Mindfulness for Yoga Training and the Kripalu Institute’s Integral Leadership Program for young adults. Jill was scholar and teacher in residence at the Kripalu Center in 2004, and was named one of the four leading Buddhist and yoga teachers in the country by the Shambhala Sun Magazine. . Jill’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Tricycle Magazine, MORE, Shambhala Sun, Crains, Self, Fit Yoga, Yoga Journal, amongst others. Her story of healing, and the founding of the School for Compassionate Action in NYC was included in “Freeing the Body: Freeing the Mind. Writings on the Connections between Yoga and Buddhism” by Michael Stone.

As a pioneer in the field of mind body awareness, Jill has been teaching, consulting organizations and instigating mindful, creative educational programs for over 20 years. www.vajrayoga.com, www.schoolforcompassionateaction.org

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