Online: Home Body – Being with What Is
with Jill Satterfield
Tuesdays, February 4th – 25th, 2025 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
Our bodies are not what we think.
Just like everything in our minds, the body—the material form of consciousness—is impermanent and of the nature to arise, cease, shift and change and always re-arrange.
Generally, we’re familiar with the “gross” form of the body—our skin, bones, and tissues. But we may be less familiar with the “subtle body,” which is unseen, but felt, and influences our mind states.
In this four-week course with Buddhist teacher Jill Satterfield, we’ll learn about how the subtle body is actively communicating with (and altered by) the breath. We’ll also explore how the subtle body affects our thoughts and feelings, imagination, and conditioned beliefs.
We’ll begin each session by noticing our internal landscape: sensations, breath, thoughts and emotions. Following that, we’ll practice ways to balance the central nervous system. Every session there will be a breath practice from the Buddhist yogic traditions with the intention to create more spacious, open awareness.
Together we’ll develop a greater awareness of how breathing into an area of body affects the
inner and outer landscape of the body.
Finally, we’ll work on making the subtle our home and a place of refuge. By attending to the breath with kind awareness, we can create the space inside to be with what is.
Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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.