Program Details

(May) Meditation In Everyday Life (2-for-1 Discount)

What recent students said:

"Accessible. Simple. Profound."

"It has changed my life. I feel I've begun a path I've always wanted to be on."

"I have already had 3 friends register; that about sums it up."

2-for-1 Discount!
Pre-Register yourself and a friend and you each pay half price! For this discount you cannot register on-line, but please register by phone - and in advance - to ensure accurate 2-for-1 registration. Simply call: 212-675-6544

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5 Wednesdays, 7 - 9 pm
May 29; June 5, 12, 19, 26
$150 + 2 recommended books*
$120 + 2 recommended books* members

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves.

Meditation in Everyday Life is a 5-week course that teaches mindfulness meditation and shows us how this practice can improve our daily lives in the most practical sense. We experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. We learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation. And how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

*In addition to the program fee, there are two recommended books we invite you to purchase for the class (both books are available in the Shambhala Center bookstore and through all major booksellers):

• Turning the Mind Into An Ally, by Sakyong Mipham


• Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by Chögyam Trungpa

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

View the Meditation In Everyday Life course schedule

Joseph Mauricio, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist Tradition, is a student of Meditation Master Sakyong Mipham, Rinpoche. He is a writer, lecturer and, as founder of LIFEWORK Personal Coaching Services, a meditation, performance, public speaking and personal actualization coach.