Topic: Equanimity: Freedom from Hope & Fear
** This is daylong one of two, which can be attended separately or together. The second daylong is scheduled for November 19th, hosted by SBMG.
“How do I respond wisely to the changing conditions of my life and the world?
“How do I find Equanimity in the middle of hoping things will be OK & fearing they won’t be OK?”
Equanimity is the Balance of the Non-Reactive mind & heart, grounded in Wisdom, which supports a deep Caring and leads to an Appropriate Response. The quality of Equanimity allows us to be less reactive, more compassionate and wise in the face of the underlying conditioned patterns of Hope & Fear. In this daylong we will identify and investigate these underlying patterns, how they manifest in our minds/lives, and examine what it means to have a heart open in the midst of all things. Teachings and practices will focus on developing the qualities of embodied groundedness, spaciousness, mindfulness, equanimity, and lovingkindness.
Enjoy a day of quiet sitting and walking meditation, which allow our minds to settle down, and our hearts to open to an inner wisdom. In addition to insight meditation practice, Heather will guide Equanimity Practices through sitting meditation, somatic practices to help settle and discharge reactivity, teachings, simple movement practice and plenty of discussion about how to live with increasing wisdom based on the teachings.
Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999 and has completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last 25 years, Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for almost 20 years. Between 2010- 2015 she spent a cumulative one-year in study, practice, and pilgrimage in Asia. Since 2011, she has been a Teacher at Mountain Stream Meditation Center and sister communities in the Sierra Foothills, and also teaches nationally, especially at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. For more information about Heather visit heathersundberg.com or www.mtstream.org.
Dana (donation) The Teacher offers the teachings freely in the tradition of the Buddha, and her livelihood is completely sustained by the generosity of the communities she serves. Dana (donation) for these priceless teachings will be gratefully accepted by the teacher, giving participants the opportunity to freely engage in the practice of generosity, the first step toward freedom.
