Online: Somatically Sensing – Knowing Thoughts and Emotions through Sensations
with Jill Satterfield
Saturday, June 12th, 2021 | 1:00pm – 4:00pm ET
This investigation of the felt sense of thoughts and emotions has the potential to relieve and release them without wandering into blame, criticism, identification, or complication.
For most of us, when we experience stress and distress, our first reaction is to cycle around the thoughts and feelings that we think are to blame. This often leads to rumination and even more distress.
A different approach is to mine the sensations of thoughts and emotions. By discovering the physical embodiment of thoughts and feelings, we can respond without getting caught up in a story or discursive thinking.
Included in this investigation of the felt sense will be a direct experience of thoughts and emotions expressed as sensations.
This uncomplicated way of addressing what is embodied has many benefits, including knowing the material form of consciousness and how body and mind relate and respond to each other on a moment-to-moment basis.
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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.