Online: Somatically Sensing – Knowing Thoughts and Emotions through Sensations
with Jill Satterfield
Saturday, June 12th, 2021 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm ET
This investigation of the felt sense of thoughts and emotions has the potential to relieve and release them without wandering into blame, criticism, identification, or complication.
For most of us, when we experience stress and distress, our first reaction is to cycle around the thoughts and feelings that we think are to blame. This often leads to rumination and even more distress.
A different approach is to mine the sensations of thoughts and emotions. By discovering the physical embodiment of thoughts and feelings, we can respond without getting caught up in a story or discursive thinking.
Included in this investigation of the felt sense will be a direct experience of thoughts and emotions expressed as sensations.
This uncomplicated way of addressing what is embodied has many benefits, including knowing the material form of consciousness and how body and mind relate and respond to each other on a moment-to-moment basis.
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Teacher(s)
Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield integrates somatic and contemplative psychology with 35 years of Buddhist study and extensive silent retreat practice.
At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was the first to offer mindful movement in silent retreats at Spirit Rock and Insight Meditation Center 29 years ago as a way to integrate more embodied awareness into Dharma. She has taught with him ever since, including most recently at Spirit Rock. She was a close student of and taught on Tsoknyi and Mingyur Rinpoche’s retreats as well as many other teachers in the Theravadin and Tibetan lineages.
Jill’s Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings were part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She was 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. She is a graduate of the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training.
Her organization School for Compassionate Action: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices for Chronic Pain, Illness; Trauma taught in NYC hospitals and at-risk facilities for over ten years. She has been featured in and has written for numerous publications.