Now Online: Resting into the Body of Awareness
with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, June 14th, 2020 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm ET
With current unknowns and everyday life simultaneously surreal and familiar, it can be challenging to find the ground beneath our feet or know where to rest our minds.
Many ‘think’ that consciousness resides above the neck, but the body is an incredible source of awareness with consciousness residing in every cell. In the Anguttara Nikaya the Buddha shares with his Sangha, “There is one thing that cultivated and regularly practiced leads to a deep sense of urgency … to the supreme peace … to happiness here and now … It is mindfulness of the body.” Tapping into the somatic, felt sense of the body can ease us back and down towards the earth, into a natural emergence of kindness and intelligence, with deeper ease and relaxed open attention.
Through meditation, breath practices and a restorative posture to calm the central nervous system, we’ll explore somatically, compassionately and tenderly. Together, we’ll rejuvenate and resource the body of awareness to navigate our own ways home.
All levels of practice are welcome.
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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.