Online: Home Body – Being with What Is
with Jill Satterfield
Tuesdays, February 4th – 25th, 2025 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
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:
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield has been a quiet pioneer in the integration of embodied awareness practices and Buddhist teachings for over 30 years.
Her heart/mind and body approach developed from somatic and contemplative psychology, 35 years of Buddhist study, extensive meditation retreat time and decades of living with chronic pain.
At the invitation of her primary teacher, Ajahn Amaro, Jill was the first to offer mindful movement and somatic practices on silent retreats first at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and then the Insight Meditation Society 30 years ago. She has since developed teacher trainings and mentoring programs that integrate embodied awareness with Dharma ever since.
In addition to teaching embodiment and Dharma with Ajahn Amaro, she was also invited to teach on Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s retreats in the US and Nepal. It was at his urging that she teach subtle body practices to his students. She contributed movement practices to his brother Mingyur Rinpoche’s retreats and was a consultant for his 2 best-selling books.
Jill’s Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings were part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. She was on the 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, was the scholar and teacher in residence at Kripalu Center in 2003 and is a graduate of the Sati Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training.
Her organization School for Compassionate Action was a training and service organization that taught mindfulness and somatic practices for chronic pain, illness and post 9/11 trauma in NYC hospitals and at-risk facilities for over ten years.
She has been featured in and has written for numerous publications such as Tricycle, Lion’s Roar (who named her one of the 4 leading mindful movement teachers in the country) and the NY Times. She contributed to the book Freeing the Body: Freeing the Mind by Michael Stone.