Ten million Americans will meditate today-and that number is only expected to rise. What's the best way to get started? Learn from an experienced teacher.
Sharon Salzberg, known for her ability to make meditation accessible while keeping true to tradition, offers Guided Meditations for Love and Wisdom. With more than a dozen beginner-friendly meditations, this program offers a well-rounded practice that will open your heart and mind.
Join this cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and meditation teacher of more than 30 years for step-by-step instruction in:
• Meditation for balance
• Meditation for seeing good
• Drinking tea meditation
• Compassion meditation
• Sensation meditation
• Meditation for emotions
• Walking meditation
• Lovingkindness meditation
"Meditation practice opens us up to the world and allows us to realize fully what we are feeling, with balance and compassion, as we encounter both the joy and suffering in life," teaches Salzberg. Now with Guided Meditations for Love and Wisdom listeners will have the tools to begin-and stick with-the liberating practice of meditation.
Course objectives:
• Gain an understanding of the importance of breath in meditation
• Receive direct, first-person experience in the 14 meditative practices
• Practice meditation in daily life
• Understand ways in which we sometimes prevent ourselves from fully experiencing meditation
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg, a student of Buddhism since 1971, has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. Influenced by her more than forty-five years of study with Burmese, Indian, and Tibetan teachers, she teaches intensive awareness practice (vipassana or insight meditation) and the cultivation of lovingkindness and compassion. She is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society and The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, both in Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Salzberg is the host of Metta Hour, a New York Times bestselling author and the author of many books, including Real Love, Real Happiness at Work, The Kindness Handbook, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, and A Heart as Wide as the World. She has also authored several Sounds True audio and interactive learning programs including Insight Meditation (with Joseph Goldstein), Unplug, and Lovingkindness Meditation. Learn more at sharonsalzberg.com.
