Online: Practicing with Trauma – A Half-day Retreat
with Amma Thanasanti
Sunday, January 26th, 2025 | 2:00pm – 5:00pm ET
The promise of meditation is to reduce or eliminate sorrow, pain, and distress, and to realize freedom from suffering. Yet, accomplishing this is much more complex for those of us with unresolved trauma.
Join teacher Amma Thanasanti for a half-day retreat on a trauma-informed approach to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, or the Satipatthana Sutta—a series of meditation instructions designed to lead to peace. This class will include both classical and trauma-informed meditation instructions on working with sensations in the body, and delve into ways we can practice with, and not against, our fear, anger, and anxiety.
Together, we’ll learn mindfulness practices to help ease distressing thoughts, cultivate self-compassion, and nurture safety, confidence, ease, and joy.
Registration:
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Amma Thanasanti
Amma Thanasanti has been meditating for 45 years. She was a Theravada Buddhist Nun for 26 years including 20 years in the Ajahn Chah Forest Tradition. Since 1996, Amma has been teaching families since 1989 and intensive 10 day-meditation retreats.
Decades of living in monastic communities showed her several ways that ending suffering required more than what was available from Insight meditation practices and ethical guidelines. She returned to civilian life in 2017.
She loves to dance, considers herself a “Dharma Coyote” rather than a Buddhist; makes friends easily with trees, dogs, cats, rocks and water; and loves to cook and make herbal potions. Amma is passionate about trauma-informed meditation and the Integrated Meditation Program to give meditators tools to cultivate safety, joy, and the power of genuine connection with others.