Opening the Hand of Thought: Releasing Mental, Emotional and Physical Clinging
with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, March 1st, 2020 | 10:00am -5:00pm
“Opening the hand of thought” was once suggested by Zen Master Kosho Uchiyama Roshi as a means of letting go of grasping in the conceptual mind.
There are many skillful means to consciously releasing our sometimes hidden, sometimes known fixed views which are the binding elements of clinging. Sometimes it’s not just recognizing them mentally but exploring them somatically and imagistically as well. Through different yet complimentary approaches, letting go can be more than a cliché and actually felt in the body, heart and mind equally.
We’ll explore these approaches through seated, lying down and walking meditation practices, as well as in dialogue with each other.
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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.