Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds
Elaine Retholtz
| Monday, September 27, 2010 - Monday, October 18, 2010 | $45 |
10am–12pm
Mondays, September 27, October 4, 18
The Buddha said, “These eight worldly conditions … keep the world turning around, and the world turns around these eight worldly conditions. What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, pleasure and pain.” Sound familiar? Let’s investigate these winds together so that we can become better at forecasting and preparing for whatever conditions we encounter.
Elaine Retholtz has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1988. In 2004, she completed the internship in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and in 2005, the Teacher Development Intensive at the Center for Mindfulness in Worcester Massachusetts. She is also a graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Program. Elaine has been teaching the traditional 8 week MBSR program at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan since 2005.
In addition, she has adapted the MBSR program into a 3-day model suitable for use in institutions. Elaine is on the faculty at the Tri-State College of Acupuncture, where she teaches MBSR to first year students. Here she also guides students in cultivating mindfulness of the experience of learning to be acupuncturists and taking on the identity of healers.
As part of a facility-wide staff stress reduction initiative, she trained the staff at Rivington House, a residential facility for people living with AIDS. Pre and post measures of participating staff showed significant decreases in perceived stress and emotional exhaustion, and increases in self-compassion. As a result of her experience at Tri-State and Rivington House, she is very interested in using MBSR as a vehicle for insitutional culture change.
Elaine is an associate teacher at New York Insight Meditation Center.
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