Introductory course to mindfulness meditation With Muli Glezer

 "Being Mindful" 

English Introductory course 

to mindfulness meditation

With Muli Glezer

At the Tovana "Sangha House", 21 Ovadia-Mibartenura St. (App. 15), Bazel area, Tel-Aviv

Starting July 1st, 2014

6 weekly sessions on Tuesday mornings between 9am-11:30am

The course will focus on learning the basic skills of mindfulness meditation practice.

Dates of sessions: July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. August 5.

This course is for all who wish to understand and learn the Buddhist practice of mindfulness meditation (also known as insight meditation). This practice has the potential of liberating us from inner limiting and painful patterns and enable deep joy and peace fill our lives.

Mindfulness is a mental quality developed through the practice of insight meditation. It enables a direct and authentic contact with ourselves. During our mindfulness practice we learn to know what "is" – what appears moment by moment and experienced by our senses. By acknowledging and befriending with what "is"' we can gradually learn to contain all that happens within us, to deepen our understating of ourselves and the world around us and gradually live our lives with less stress and growing peace.

The sessions will support the the development of home daily practice at of good habits of practice in our lives.

Some of the topics that will be discussed and taught in the course:

* What is meditation? What is mindfulness? How can we practice and develop our capacity to be mindful? Acknowledging physical sensations and the breath. Stopping and resting here and now.

* Mindfulness of breathing: How to befriend the breath, to let go of control patterns and learn from being mindul to the breath?

* Mindfulness of bodily sensations: how to acknowledge and allow sensations to be as they are, without changing them. During that we will become aware of the power of our mental and emotional habitual patterns. We will discover how mindfulness can be helpful in knowing these patterns and gradually release them.

* Uninvolved mindfulness: while being attentive to our bodily sensations we will learn to identify our pleasant and unpleasant sensations, as well as what's in between. We will learn to see our conditioned reactive habits that try to modify each sensual experience. By working with the body we will learn to delay our reactions and to develop a new attitude to sensations.

* Attention to hindrances in the practice: how to identify hindrances in the practice and transform them into a tool for intensifying the practice and deepening mindfulness.

* Application of insights in daily life: meditation can become a powerful tool in our lives. Skillful application of the approach we learn can greatly influence our ability to create balance and peace in our relationship to ourselves, our lives and the people and situations around us.

* What's next? How to continue our practice through life?

Muli Glezer has been practicing meditation since 2000. Management team member at Tovana Insight Meditation Society. Worked in corporate and marketing strategy and as a personal consultant for executives.

Registration

  For registration please follow 2 steps:

1) Fill an on-line form HERE

2) Pay registration fee of 180 nis with credit card – HERE

Tovana is not sponsored by any individual or organization. Its activities are in the ancient spirit of Dana (generous giving) – for reading reading about Dana – click here

All the activities are based on the generosity of practitioners who support Tovana financially and thanks to a large number of volunteers.

With this spirit we ask from participants in this course a registration fee of 180 nis to (partially) support the organizational costs of those course.

We prefer on-line payment as it is much easier for our volunteers. It also secures your place in the course.

If you experience any difficulty regarding the on-line payment please contact Liora- the registration manager via email Tovana.mavo@gmail.com.

If you are not answered with a couple of days you may call her at 054-5217264

After registering on-line and paying the fee your registration is completed.

Supporting the teacher

The teacher is not paid for the teaching of the course. Therefore, in the end of each session the participants are invited to practice generosity and support the teaching.

Sangha House

The Sangha House that hosts the course is given to Tovana as a generous donation. Our commitment as practitioners is to help in covering the running costs of the place. In the end of each sessions the participants will be invited to be generous and give support to the house.

For any further information you may contact Liora at Tovana.mavo@gmail.com