Online: Basic Goodness
with Amma Thanasanti
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
The Buddha said that basic goodness is our birthright, who we essentially are. Yet for many, even after years of meditation, this can be elusive. This day-long retreat will review how our early childhood attachment formation contributes to our ability to feel our own innate goodness. It will describe the Idealized Parent Protocol formulated by Dan Brown and David Elliot. We will begin to practice attachment wounding repair using insight meditation, a type of loving-kindness meditation using visualization and collaborative co-regulation.
Program Format:
There will be introductions, talk, guided meditation, break out rooms and large group discussions. Interspersed will be mindful movement either inside or in nature.
Registration:
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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.