SARATOGA SPRINGS: Tuesdays 7 – 8:30pm

February – Living a Life of Kindness and Interconnection

February 10 – March 17

Choose to see kindness and live through a lens of gratitude. We can decide what mindset we bring to our world. If we bring a pessimistic or cynical mindset, we will see a negative, unhappy world around us. If we bring a positive mind, we will see a positive world.

Through this series, we will dive into an experiential taste of meditation on interconnection. In this practice, we learn to see ourselves as like a cell in the vast body of life, distinct yet intimately bound up with all living beings. We start to see ourselves in a web of kindness! By training like this, we will find a beautiful state of mind of love, and this will reflect back a beautiful world for both ourselves and others. Everyone is welcome!

Weekly Topics:

February 10: Choosing to See Kindness
February 17: Meditations on Gratitude
February 24: Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness CANCELLED
March 3: Meditations for Difficult Relationships
March 10: Overcoming Loneliness and Isolation
March 17: Finding Fearlessness

April & May – Freedom from Irritation and Annoyance

March 24 - May 26

Our lives can be full of situations we would rather avoid and its easy to get into habits of irritation and annoyance. We cannot avoid all the challenging experiences of life, but we can all DEFINITELY change the way we think about them. Learning to stand up to habits of frustration and non-acceptance give us the space to live a happy, peaceful life even if things do not go according to plan.

Each class, we will look at some facet of understanding the source of our anger and irritation and how to move towards a happier way of living. There will be plenty of time to meditate and quiet our busy mind down so we can look at the situations of our life more clearly, and practical tools that we can immediately utilize day-to-day. We will leave this series understanding how to have a flexible, happy mind even in an often troubling world. Everyone welcome!

Weekly Topics:

March 24 The Basics of Effective Meditation
March 31 Overcoming Annoyance and Irritation
April 7 Understanding Our Anger
April 14 The Art of Acceptance
April 21 Creative Solutions to Difficult Situations
No class Apr 28
May 5 Learning to Live More Lightly
May 12 Finding Fearlessness
May 19 Using Logic for Inner Peace