Insight Meditation Community of Harrisonburg

10/11/2023

For those looking to relate more wisely to their smartphones, I have a new meditation on Insight Timer:

This meditation is designed to help people have a healthier relationship with their smartphone. In this practice, we will apply mindfulness meditation techniques to understand the effects of smartphone use and to change habitual behaviors. The meditation is done with a smartphone, so please have one...

08/13/2023

New class starting Sept. 3rd!

06/23/2023

06/19/2023

Tired of losing hours to your smartphone? Wondering how to find balance? Interested in meditation?

02/17/2023

New in-person class starting in March!

Wise thought (Samma sankappa) Wise speech (Samma vaca)  Wise action (Samma kammanta) Wise livelihood (Samma ajiva)  Wise effort (Samma vayama) Wise mindfulness (Samma sati) Wise concentration (Samma samadhi) By learning and applying all of these dimensions of Buddhist wisdom, we can create the con...

01/25/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/23/mindfulness-meditation-anxiety-medication/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_optimist&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38f161f%2F63d136ac1b79c61f876407ba%2F596bdea69bbc0f403f997341%2F15%2F51%2F63d136ac1b79c61f876407ba&wp_cu=07e388a1ba2239fa320f4444fb8248b8%7CC0DBB82FB0172B3DE0430100007F44AE

Breathing and body exercises helped relieve anxiety as effectively as medications over an eight-week study of 208 people.

06/02/2022

Check out this new blog from a member of our meditation community! https://kinderslowerhappier.substack.com/

Let's be imperfect humans together. Click to read Kinder Slower Happier, by Ros O'Brien, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

04/24/2022

Registration is open until 3 p.m. today for Rediscovering Joy Through Presence, a six-week course designed to help you develop presence and explore its spiritual implications. Here's the week-by-week plan for the course:

Week One: The Experience of Presence

Week Two: Presence in the spiritual traditions

Week Three: Presence as attunement to the Natural World

Week Four: Tending the emotions of the moment

Week Five: Discernment in past and future thinking

Week Six: Presence in the vibrant mundane

https://mailchi.mp/59818ee4b568/xmt8a74xct

04/06/2022

Spring is a perfect time to deepen your practice! Join us for this new course: https://mailchi.mp/59818ee4b568/xmt8a74xct

01/22/2022

New class offering from Jared Featherstone:
https://mailchi.mp/f710f296347c/m3ecgnndi8

07/07/2021

Great fall offering from IMCC: https://www.imeditation.org/event-4308788

Lion's Roarmagazine. The class format will be roughly forty minutes of lecture followed by a twenty-minute Q&A period, though the Zoom link will remain open for longer Q&A.

04/01/2021

Great opportunity from Insight Charlottesville!

01/31/2021

Glittering flakes:
The wind is breaking
Frozen moonlight.
~Horiuchi Toshimi

Jared Featherstone's new course, Beginning Again: A Course in Mindful Living, starts tonight! This is the time to create more peaceful and wise inner and outer worlds. The best way to do that is in community. Join new and experienced students in engaging in practices and teachings designed to bring stillness, presence, compassion, and insight. You can register right here.

https://mailchi.mp/f9e3176eb07e/vt0h6n3khj

01/20/2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/lifestyle/wellness/stop-doom-scrolling-ideas/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_optimist

57 ideas to decompress from *gestures* all of this.

01/17/2021

So many great teachers involved in this! I really appreciate what they are doing: https://thepeoplesinauguration.org/

Only we can bring our communities together, tend our wounds, and begin the labor of reckoning, reimagining and remaking our nation block-by-block, heart-to-heart.

12/02/2020

Excellent opportunity for study and practice from IMCC: http://www.imeditation.org/event-4067857

11/20/2020

I just published a brand new meditation to Insight Timer: Mindful Attunement. Enjoy! Please share. Thanks! http://insig.ht/gm_174661

This meditation is designed to help you move from the busy planning and storytelling of the mind into a direct, felt sense of now, allowing enough space from the mental noise to become attuned to your body and surroundings.