Meditating with a Focus on the Body
In the 1970s and 80s, researchers trained their sights on the mind/body
connection. Herbert Benson, M.D., and his colleagues at Harvard Medical
School led the way with the discovery of the relaxation response. This work
has led to a cascade of findings about how mind/body mechanisms can be used
for medically significant impact on hypertension, heart disease, cancer, the
immune system and other conditions. In the last twenty years scientific
studies have continued to show links between our thoughts, emotions, and
stress on the body.
Saturday,
July 24, 2010
9:30am-2:00pm
Merriwest West Community Center
1411 Millich Ave., San Jose, 95117
Tuition: $75.00
Relaxation methods, such as meditation and guided visualization, are useful
ways to bring our emotions into balance and strengthen our immune system.
And well, it just feels good.
Come and put a little relaxing focus on the yourself and your amazing body.
With that comes a greater understanding of yourself and others.
Balancing Energy -Chakra is a Sanskrit word meaning wheel and refers to
each of the seven energy centers of which our consciousness, our energy
system, is composed. The chakras function as pumps regulating the flow of
energy through our energy system. Balancing the chakras, energy centers, is
an ancient Eastern proactive.
The Amazing Body
Meditating with a Focus
on the Body
Location:
Hours: 9:30am-2:30pm
Location: Merriwest
West Community
Center
1411 Millich Ave.,
San Jose, 95117
Tuition: $65.00
"The
body is a marvelous gift
with intricate,
interconnected
chemistry, systems, and
organs. Through it we
experience and express
ourselves in the world
in millions of ways.
What a rich gift!"
Give yourself gentle,
quiet time to focus on
your body. In
loving-kindness, we will
go within to observe,
listen, appreciate, and
seed positive
intentions. The themes
of the meditations and
guided visualizations
will include:
acceptance, healthy
aging, energy balancing
through the chakras,
healing and well being.
We'll do some light
stretching and a walking
meditation.
"Each individual woman's
body demands to be
accepted on it's own
terms."
~Gloria
Steinman
"It's helpful to realize
that this very body that
we have, that's sitting
right here right now...
with its aches and it
pleasures... is exactly
what we need to be fully
human, fully awake,
fully alive."
~Pema
Chodran
