Now Online: Finding Peace in the Storm – Facing Anxiety and Uncertainty with Mindfulness and Compassion
with Paul Epstein
Sunday, May 17th, 2020 | 1:00pm – 3:30pm, ET
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung
In this workshop, we’ll discuss four practical strategies to face and manage anxiety, and learn nine ways to deal effectively with uncertainty. We’ll explore choosing to welcome and embrace our difficulties with a compassionate heart and unconditional presence and, as Rumi suggests in the Guest House, “Be grateful for whatever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
We’ll integrate dharma teachings, guided meditation practices and learn mind-body skills that cultivate resilience and support finding calm within the COVID-19 global crisis. Ultimately, this will support us to not only move through these dark and challenging times of change, but to learn and awaken from them. This perspective will deepen our courage, wisdom, and compassion, and strengthen a healing connection within ourselves and with each other.
The program will include a presentation, guided meditation practices, and time for discussion.
Registration:
Please register at the highest level that your generosity offers.
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
New York Insight Meditation Center has streamlined the registration fee levels. Members of our Circle of Friends are eligible to receive 20% off of the Sustaining Rate via a code provided in the email confirming membership, which you can enter after clicking the Sustaining Level registration.
*Benefactor Level: Supports NYI’s ability to offer the Subsidized Base.
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***Subsidized Base: Made possible by the generosity of Benefactor Level above and other donations to ensure participation by those requiring financial assistance.
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Teacher(s)
Paul Epstein
Paul Epstein, ND is a Naturopathic Physician, mind-body therapist, meditation teacher and speaker. He specializes in mind-body integrative medicine and the clinical and therapeutic application and integration of mindfulness practice and Buddhist perspectives in health and healing, transforming stress, pain, and illness into a journey of self-healing and awakening. He is on the faculty of AIHM, the Association for Integrative Health and Medicine. Paul completed the first Community Dharma Leaders (CDL) teacher training joint program of Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Centers, trained at the Academy for Guided Imagery, and has trained in the Internal Family Systems Model of Psychotherapy, and is a certified yoga teacher. He founded and led the Insight Meditation Community of Fairfield County, and co-founded and co-directed the Israel Center for Mind-Body Medicine. Paul leads mindful healing training, workshops and retreats worldwide, mentors health professionals and is in private practice in Westport, CT and is the author of Happiness through Meditation.