Online: The Body’s Mind – A Resource Guide to Emotional Intelligence, Wisdom and Abundant Kindness
with Jill Satterfield
Thursdays, October 15th – November 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
The body knows before the mind cognizes. How can we tap into that knowing before the volitional thinking mind gets involved?
Because many of us have grown up in cultures that privilege thinking over sensing, and encourage pushing past discomfort rather than turning toward it, we are rarely pointed toward the body as a source of wisdom, let alone refuge. We learn to live above the neck, never mining the great resources of the body we live in.
Through a range of practices and perspectives, including the Buddha’s teachings on the body/mind connection, we’ll explore how to come back into relationship with the body: not as something to fix or manage, but as a living resource of intelligence, emotional clarity, and quiet strength.
As the body houses the heart, it’s the home of kindness, the seat of compassion, and how we can feel tenderness toward ourselves and all living beings.
During the course we’ll investigate:
- Nama Rupa: the mind-body connection as two non-separable forms of conscious awareness that the Buddha spoke about
- Skillful means to access and move kind awareness throughout the body, discovering it fully
- Developing agency and more choice around the habits of mind before they happen
- Sensing the beginnings of anxiety, anger, fear, or any type of emotional loss of control, and mitigating it more easily
- Regulating the nervous system during meditation, not as a separate practice
- Utilizing imagination as a guide and bridge between body and mind
Note: This program will be recorded. Recordings will be sent to all registrants after each session, so you are welcome to register even if you cannot attend one or more sessions live.
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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Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield has been a quiet pioneer in the integration of embodied awareness practices and Buddhist teachings for over 30 years.
Her heart/mind and body approach developed from somatic and contemplative psychology, 35 years of Buddhist study, extensive meditation retreat time and decades of living with chronic pain.
At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was the first to offer mindful movement and somatic practices on silent retreats first at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and then the Insight Meditation Society 30 years ago. She has since developed teacher trainings and mentoring programs that integrate embodied awareness with Dharma ever since.
In addition to teaching embodiment and Dharma with Ajahn Amaro, she was also invited to teach on Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s retreats in the US and Nepal. It was at his urging that she teach subtle body practices to his students. She contributed movement practices to his brother Mingyur Rinpoche’s retreats and was a consultant for his 2 best-selling books.
Jill’s Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings were part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She was on the faculty for Spirit Rock’s Mindful Yoga and Meditation Training, and she is currently a mentor for Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Teacher Training, was the scholar and teacher in residence at Kripalu Center in 2003 and is a graduate of the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training.
Her organization School for Compassionate Action was a training and service organization that taught mindfulness and somatic practices for chronic pain, illness and post 9/11 trauma in NYC hospitals and at-risk facilities for over ten years.
She has been featured in and has written for numerous publications such as Tricycle, Lion’s Roar (who named her one of the 4 leading mindful movement teachers in the country) and the NY Times. She contributed to the book Freeing the Body: Freeing the Mind by Michael Stone.