Online: Practicing with Trauma – A Half-day Retreat
with Amma Thanasanti
Sunday, January 26th, 2025 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm ET
The promise of meditation is to reduce or eliminate sorrow, pain, and distress, and to realize freedom from suffering. Yet, accomplishing this is much more complex for those of us with unresolved trauma.
Join teacher Amma Thanasanti for a half-day retreat on a trauma-informed approach to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, or the Satipatthana Sutta—a series of meditation instructions designed to lead to peace. This class will include both classical and trauma-informed meditation instructions on working with sensations in the body, and delve into ways we can practice with, and not against, our fear, anger, and anxiety.
Together, we’ll learn mindfulness practices to help ease distressing thoughts, cultivate self-compassion, and nurture safety, confidence, ease, and joy.
Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Amma Thanasanti
Amma Thanasanti has practiced meditation for over 45 years and has been teaching since 1989. She spent 26 years as a Theravada Buddhist nun, including 20 years in Ajahn Chah monasteries. Her teachers have included Dipa Ma, Ajahn Chah, and the Dalai Lama.
She is the Spiritual Director of Awakening Truth and founded the Integrated Meditation Program (IMP), which brings attachment repair and trauma-informed tools to address baseline patterns that meditation alone may not shift. She also developed the SHINE meditation practice, which helps practitioners access positive states to build resilience alongside working with difficult emotions. She is currently writing a book on anger from a trauma-informed Buddhist perspective.
Thanasanti teaches nationally and is committed to making dharma practice accessible, healing, and transformative for diverse practitioners. Her teaching integrates profound insight experiences, early Buddhist teachings, nature-based wisdom, and embodied knowing.