Join us for a bottom-up way to find calm and stillness in Meditation. Often the demand for bodily stillness in Meditation practice creates its own charge in the body. If we move most of the time in our lives, the request to sit still can force a freeze in the central nervous system. By allowing the body to regulate and unwind, then come into periods of stillness, we develop the natural capacity for deeper meditation.

Dancer Barbara Dilley created this practice at the Buddhist-inspired Naropa University in the 90s, and it was fundamental to the somatic curriculum of the religious studies, dance, poetry, and psychology departments. As we find stillness organically through simple movement prompts, we discover freedom through creative exploration and the practice of letting things be as they are. Dilley explains, “The underlying motivation was to let each person find their own connection between the stillness of sitting, posture, and movement to study what happens to your body-mind as you come out into the open.”

Natalya, a graduate of Dance Movement Therapy at Naropa and a long-term Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, will guide you through the simple flow on and off the cushion.

No Meditation experience necessary.

This is a drop-in, ongoing Friday Evening Class

6:00-7:15 pm September 18th

October 2nd, 9th, 23rd, & 30th

November 6th, 13th, & 20th

Sliding-scale donation: $10- $20. No one turned away for lack of funds. Wear comfortable Clothes.