SPARTA: Tuesdays 7 – 8:30pm
How to Uplift Your Mind with Meditation
January 6 – February 3
Come alive again by energizing yourself and inspiring your mind! Feelings associated with discouragement, low self-esteem, and low-energy are endemic. When we lose our confidence and hope our mind can become deflated. We can find it hard to get out of bed and do much of anything.
We can solve these problems and move to a state of realistic optimism, hope, and encouragement through the practice of meditation. Through this course, we will look at specific meditations that help us understand where discouragement and frustration come from, how to find joyful, positive energy, and ultimately build a stable sense of happiness from within. Everyone is welcome!
Weekly Topics
January 6: How to Energize Yourself with Meditation
January 13: Encouragement through Small Steps
January 20: The Confidence to Change
January 27: Dealing with Discouragement
February 3: Building Lasting, Joyful Habits
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
March 3: Meditations for Difficult Relationships
March 10: Overcoming Loneliness and Isolation
March 17: Finding Fearlessness
Teacher: Sarah Schaffer
Sarah is a Teacher at KMC New York where she studies in the Teacher Training Program. She is the main teacher for the Sparta Meditation class. Her teachings are practical and show how we can easily include meditation and Buddha’s timeless advice into daily life.
Class: 7 – 8:30pm | $10
Location: Sparta Ambulance Building
14 Sparta Avenue | Sparta
