Mindfulness for Everyone (270R21)
Diana Winston, Alex Haley, Carol Cano, MA and Lissa Edmond, APN-C
June 14 - 19, 2021
Registration open until 11:59 p.m. (Pacific Time) on June 13, 2021. A waiting list will be created if the program fills early.
Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness
Description:
Most people practice mindfulness in a focused way—attending to their breathing, and returning to their breath when their attention has wandered. But there are actually many different ways to practice mindfulness.
In this retreat, we will learn about the Spectrum of Awareness Practices, from focused awareness to investigative and choiceless awareness, to natural awareness. Natural awareness is an effortless, radiant, and spacious state of being that includes awareness of awareness.
Over the retreat, through sitting, walking meditations, lectures, exercises, and meetings with teachers, we will practice each type of awareness and explore how these different approaches relate to one another. We will also make each practice relevant to daily life and will practice with them in our families, homes, and daily activities.
The retreat is based on Diana Winston’s book, The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness.
All are welcome! No one will be turned away for lack of funds as space allows. For more information, please email Registration@spiritrock.org.
General Daily Schedule (subject to revision; all times in US Pacific Time)
Opening Day
2:00-2:30 p.m. – Tech Orientation (optional)
3:00-5:00 p.m. – Opening Session
Main Days
7:30 a.m. – Sitting/Stillness Meditation
8:00 a.m. – Meal Break
9:00 a.m. – Sit, Instructions and Q&A (posture guidance)
10:00 a.m. – Walking/Moving Meditation; Small Groups
10:45 a.m. – Sitting/Stillness Meditation
11:30 a.m. – Walking/Moving Meditation; Small Groups
12:15 p.m. – Sitting/Stillness Meditation
12:30 p.m. – Meal Break
1:30 p.m. – Rest, Walk/Move, Siesta
2:30 p.m. – Loving Kindness Meditation
3:15 p.m. – Walking/Moving Meditation
3:45 p.m. – Sitting/Stillness Meditation
4:15 p.m. – Guided Mindful Movement
5:00 p.m. – Break
5:15 p.m. – Teaching Session
6:15 p.m. – Closing/Home Practice Instructions
Closing Day
7:30 a.m. – Sitting/Stillness Meditation
8:00 a.m. – Meal Break
9:00 a.m. – Closing Session
12:00 .m. – Close of Retreat
About the Teachers
Diana Winston
Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center. She has taught meditation retreats as well as mindfulness for health and well-being since 1999 in a variety of settings including in healthcare, universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools in the US and internationally. She created the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices Program […]
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Alex Haley
Alex Haley, PhD, teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Minneapolis Insight Meditation Community and online through Dharma Ground, where he currently serves as a core teacher. Alex completed Spirit Rock's Community Dharma Leader program in 2012 and graduated from the SRMC/IMS/IRC four-year teacher training in 2016. Beginning in his high school calculus class, Alex has […]
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Carol Cano, MA
Carol Cano, M.A., began her practice over 30 years ago at Wat Kow Tahm in Thailand and has actively engaged in building communities and teaching Dharma internationally. She is a graduate of the 2017-2020 Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Teacher Training program and a teacher at Spirit Rock often. She is a core teacher and a former […]
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Lissa Edmond, APN-C
Lissa Edmond (they, them), APN-C, is a certified meditation and mindful movement teacher, a community facilitator, and a somatic integrative mental health nurse practitioner. Lissa began a dedicated practice in yoga and the dharma in 2008 as well as in qigong in 2018. Lissa studies in the Theravada and Zen Buddhist traditions. Lissa identifies practice […]
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