Join WITHIN Meditation teacher Tasha Brown for a three-part class series that can help you untangle difficult feelings, find some healing, and uncover your most wise self.
Our feelings and emotions are what motivate our behavior and lead us to make choices. When we take time to go within ourselves and become more aware of and tender towards our emotional experiences, it can positively change how we interact with ourselves, others, and the ups and downs in life.
In these three 40 minute classes you will practice bringing awareness and self compassion to your more challenging emotional experiences using the RAIN meditation practice. RAIN is an acronym for:
Recognizing what's here - what emotions are present and naming them
Allowing what's here to be just as it is - not trying to change the experience but just noticing how it actually is without pushing it away
Investigating it with care and non-judgment - kindly noticing how the experience is showing up in your body through sensation
Nurturing yourself and Non-identifying - responding to this normal human experience with your own caring wisdom
Through RAIN, you'll learn to be with your more tough emotional experiences in a way that can unstick you from the confusion, shame, blame or feelings of unworthiness that can often accompany them. You'll also practice finding your own wise and compassionate response that can lead to release and healing.
Each class in the series will start with a teaching around the practice of RAIN, followed by a guided RAIN meditation and then ending with time for reflection and questions. Please bring a journal for our reflection section of the class.
Each 40-minute class happens at 8:30-9:10am PDT / 11:30am-12:10pm EDT on three Fridays: September 8th, 15th & 22nd. All classes are held online via Zoom. Come to one class, two or all three! Like all mindfulness practices, the more you do it, the more you get out of it.
Tasha Brown
Tasha came to her meditation practice seeking tools to manage anxiety that developed as a result of a number of chronic health issues. Not only did she find ways to recalibrate her nervous system but, to her surprise, she also found a practice that made her aware of and changed her relationship to negative thought patterns, supported a presence to savor all of life's joys, gave her a capacity to respond to difficult emotions more wisely and opened her heart towards compassion for herself and others.
The profound healing and awakening she has experienced led Tasha to do Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley. Drawing on the programs in depth training and her own personal meditation journey, Tasha helps students start and build their meditation practice through a variety of mindfulness meditation practices - wise compassion, forgiveness, RAIN (emotional awareness), awakening joy, and mind & body. What brings her great joy is to see students have those "aha" moments where they begin to trust and tap into their own innate ability to bring curiosity, non judgement, and compassion to their life and thereby, find their own wise and light responses to each moment as it arises.