In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five-Month Course
with Lin Wang Gordon
Five Saturdays: February 25th, March 11th, April 8th, May 20th, & June 3rd, 2023 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm ET
Location: Still Mind Zendo, 37 W 17th St, #6W
New York, NY
Are you in your 40s and 50s and thinking about the second half of your life?
Every life stage brings its own gifts. Each life stage has its own purpose in our development as a whole being.
If our life were the four seasons, the 40s/50s could be the early fall. In every season of life, there are changes and growth.
Midlife could bring us menopause, greying hair, childcare, eldercare, an empty nest, loss of loved ones, or a second career, but we also have more life experiences than we had in our young adult years. While our culture likes to associate this time in our life with turmoil and crisis, it could also be a great time for inner growth, clarity, and purpose.
During this 5-month in-person course, we will explore many areas of our lives – health, career, money, family, relationship, kids/no kids – what are the gifts of this life stage?
How do we feel about each of these areas in our life at this point? How do we make peace with the life we have led so far? How do we live a fulfilling life with the time we have left? As we have learned from our life experiences so far, have we started to live according to our inner values and deepest desires? What rituals may you start on your own? This class is for exploring questions rather than having answers. It is loosely influenced by Bill Plotkin’s book, “Nature and the Human Soul” and other sources.
This course will meet once Saturday a month for five months. We will meditate, journal, form buddy groups, and build community through sharing and dialogue.
Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
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Teacher(s)
Lin Wang Gordon
Lin has studied insight meditation under the guidance of Jonathan Foust, Mark Coleman, and Sebene Selassie in the past decade.
In the last few years, Lin was particularly moved by the power of nature meditation to connect with a deep sense of well-being, love, wonder, resilience, and interconnection with all beings. Lin was inspired to share nature meditation and ecodharma as a doorway for personal transformation as well as a form of environmental activism.
She graduated from Mark Coleman’s Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Teacher Training in 2017 and has been learning to lead ecodharma retreats from Johann Robbins and David Loy since 2018. She has taught at New York Insight Meditation Center and around the country. She is enrolled in the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Program (CDL6). linwanggordon.com