PROGRAM
DESCRIPTIONS
Dynamic
Mindfulness Meditation for Every Day Life
-Introduction
6
- Week Lesson Plan
1. Introduction to dynamic mindfulness meditation; intentions,
positions, attitude, principles & practice. (Moving, walking,
standing, sitting, lying down, dancing)
2. Sustaining spacious attention / practicing with distractions
3. Mindfulness of breathing, awareness of the body,
4. Noticing & accepting thoughts & emotions. Investigating
meaning
5. Integrating body, mind & breath. Cultivating the heart
– loving kindness & compassion
6. Insight/intuition, Mindful dialogue. Heart clearing, Daily
practice – continuity
The Practice of Dynamic Mindfulness Meditation:
• Learning to become present - any time, anywhere
• Developing the skill of deep, non-judgmental listening
• Releasing stress and transforming fears
• Conscious breathing for well-being
• Becoming free of unnecessary suffering
• Increasing the ability to respond (responsibility)
• Focusing ‘wise attention’ on your ‘wise
intentions’
• Discovering your vision and your life's work
• Fostering conscious relationships & mindful communication
• Sourcing your strength, creativity and meaning from
life’s Presence 3
principles
• Look and see. (Notice)
• Let it be. (Accept)
• Be free. (Let go)
Six Steps of Restoring Presence
• Connect with your breath.
• Sense your bodily sensations.
• Notice your thoughts.
• Feel your emotions.
• Accept this moment.• Celebrate the present.
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Calming Your World -
Creating
Your Calm Space
intermeditate training
"The
purpose of life is being happy. Inner peace is the key. In that
state of mind you can face difficulties with calm and reason,
while keeping your inner happiness."
H. H. The Dalai Lama
Discover
how you can be grateful for the journey of life; trusting in
the breath to partner with you, guide you and enjoy the process,
regardless of your circumstances or conditions, moment-by-moment,
breath-by-breath...
Join the growing community, responding to one of the urgent
needs of our times, awakening and taking responsibility for
your happiness;
“Calming your world - contributes to a happier world.”
With OneGlobalBreath you can calm your world,
restore Presence & access the JoyOfBeing.
Develop
a personal meditation practice, and create a Calm Space of
transforming EgoFearMind - to JoyOfBeing - Presence
1. Breathing with intention
2. Noticing – look and see…
3. Accepting – letting it be…
4. Letting go - being free…
5. Celebrating – gratitude…
Includes;
one individual session,' 21 days of Calming Your World' - journaling,
online support, Gym4theSoul.
email: Samuel@livinginthepresent.com
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12-week Coaching
Program With Dynamic Mindfulness Meditation
Plugging into the Rhythm Of Breath...accessing the Frequency
of Calm - Presence - The JoyOfBeing
“The law of Love supersedes the law of karma. It intervenes
in the process by focusing in the present. In fact, one could
say that Love is being fully present. When anything is initiated
in Love in the present, the future of that reality will be purposeful,
meaningful, loving and powerful”
- Henry Ward Beecher
Participants in the advanced coaching program prctice on a daily
basis demonstrating the Frequency of Calm.
The program includes a monthly individual session, a weekly
group meeting, daily journaling, email, phone and online support,
weekly teleconference, online posting, Gym4theSoul.
We meet on Wednesdays,
6:15 – 8:00PM at: 148 East 28 Street.
Payment - $250 per month,
Or $700 for 12 weeks.
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Mindfulness Counseling / Coaching for Individual &
Couples
- Learning
to take response-ability for your life.
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Identifying your issues/challenges.
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Learning to listen, accept and trust your unarguable
truth and that of others – in the present moment, through
the practice of dynamic mindfulness meditation.
- Learning
to listen to the unarguable truth of your partner and others.
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Learn to release stress and transform fears & traumas
- and practice the skill of conscious breathing.
- Learning
to communicate - from the perspective of the present moment.
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Getting in-touch with your wise Intention and life purpose
- and learning how to pay wise attention.
- Cultivating
authentic self esteem; Inner peace, joy of being, and wisdom
of heart.
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Making
choices between being happy and being right.
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Learning
to resolve conflicts - peacefully.
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Tolerating
intimacy, generating loving kindness & comopassion for
yourself and for others.
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Developping
your individual practice.
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Calming Your World - for Companies & Organizations
One hour and a half - workshop
Stress
is one of the main challenges in today's world. Not having enough
time, getting overwhelmed by too many tasks and frustrated by
miscommunication, can decrease our health and productivity,
and derail the quality of our lives. In this training you and
your co-workers can learn how to replace stress with joyful
calming vitality;
How to:
* Rest - without sleeping;
* Relax and stay alert;
* Feel rejuvenated and joyful;
* Be more spaciously focused
* Communicate better.
By learning to direct your attention mindfully; following and
expanding your breath - you can calm your mind, relax your body
and regain the clarity of the present moment. These simple and
accessible techniques can be practiced and implemented to real
life situations in a matter of seconds - wherever you are.
Components of the program:
* Reducing & managing stress – relaxation & breathing
techniques
* Dynamic Mindfulness Meditation - learning how to become present
* Focusing spacious attention on your intentions
* Conscious breathing, gentle movement and stretching
* Mindful dialogue and responsable communication
* Daily Practice
* Follow up
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FREE -Teleconference:"Calming Your World"
In
this one hour open call, you can address a question you have
about anything going on in your life, which you need support
or clarity with, from the perspectice of the Present.
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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS
& TRAININGS OFFERED
* Mindfulness
Meditation for Stress & Pain Management
* Aging Mindfully
* Understanding and Transforming Unbearable Pain
* Restoring
Our Life Force
* Mindful Dancing
Our
work is avaialble in the following forms:
Classes, Workshops, Lectures, Training, Retreats, Conferences,
Organizational consultations, Individual & couple sessions,
Individualized and group coaching programs.
Living In the Present
is
a dynamic form of mindfulness meditation, which combines movement,
silence and dialogue to help us calm our world, accept and trust
our life experience - and gain insight in the process. It is a
holistic approach that engages the body, mind, emotions, and breath
synergistically. By connecting to the breath, moving awareness
into the body, witnessing our thoughts and opening the heart with
compassion, we can focus on the moment, and experience the joy,
peace & wisdom of now.
The
mission of this work
is to help you calm your world, and cultivate presence - the Joy
Of Being; moment by moment, breath by breath.
The
Joy Of
Being
book
and 2 CD's, can help you become open and allow breath to fill
you and heal in you what you’re mostly afraid of, resistant
to and stuck on - on a daily basis. It comes with a special journaling
and work book - '21 days of Calming Your World & Cultivating
the Joy Of Being" and
provides you with simple skills and practices of:
1. Calming Your World - clearing stress, pain, anxiety and
insecurity
2. Aligning with your breath
3 .Grounding your body
4 .Investigating your thoughts
5 .Waking up your heart
6. Accessing your intuition and good sense
7. Freeing your spirit
Our programs include: Introductory six-week courses, intermediate
training, coaching programs for groups and individuals, individual
and couple sessions (on the phone and in person). We conduct workshops,
lectures and retreats. We offer CD’s, DVD’s Books
and articles, online support and phone conferences.
Excerpts from The
Joy Of
Being book and
2 CD's:
"The lack of self-love is more than just an individual crisis:
it is an ecological hazard. When we condemn and loathe ourselves
we tend to condemn others, the world and the way things are. For
this reason, we feel alienated from the human family. Conversely,
loving ourselves unites us with the world and makes it a happier
place. Only by reconnecting to presence - our authentic selves,
can we be connected to the world at large."
"To love and appreciate yourself is to love and appreciate
all of creation - because in love there is no separation. People
who love themselves make the world a happier place, and that is
cause for celebration."
"The surrendered state is the loving place we reach when
we are out of the controlling state of the Ego Fear Mind. In the
surrendered state we dwell in our being, our attention is ‘dropped’
from the head to the heart and core. In this state we trust in
life to do the navigation, and we participate willingly and with
trust."
"Self-love as a concept can be challenging. For many it brings
up concerns about self-centeredness, selfishness and narcissism.
As a practice however it takes on another energy. It is not about
ourselves loving ourselves; it is about being open to love as
the purest, most powerful and finest energy that we are. It means
allowing love to fill us – especially where we’re
bruised and feel un-whole – and accepting that everything
that’s happening is not done to us but is happening through
us, and is an opening for love. Especially, the parts we most
want to hate, negate and do away with"
.
"I want to invite you to embark on a journey. This could
be the most exciting and beneficial journey of your life. It is
a journey into yourself, with the sole purpose for you to become
more familiar and befriend yourself, and bring more heart, more
soul, more love and more joy into your life."
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Mindfulness
Meditation for Stress & Pain Management
Physical,
emotional and mental pain can become so relentless and unbearable
that it can distort the mind, create stress, anxiety, and depression,
and erode the quality of our lives. Unbearable pain is hard to
understand, embarrassing toshare, and difficult to accept. In
this presentation/class/workshop you can learn how to live with
and witness pain without losing respect and compassion for yourself
or become hardened and alienated to it in others. Learn to restore
your life force and manage your pain through the power of full
breathing, conscious movement, and mindfulness meditation. Discover
the simple joy of being in the present moment regardless of your
condition and circumstances.
Currently
taught at Gilda's Club New York, Friends In Deed, NY Open Center,
The 92-Y.
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Aging Mindfully
How to age more gracefully, wisely and joyfully
While the anti-aging
industries and technologies are growing, we still need
to deal with the internal aspects of the aging process, and the
progression
of time. Ultimately, our happiness is a timeless, inside job -
depending on
our ability to respond with Respect, Endurance, Acceptance &
Love ofourselves and of life. Being Present with the aging process
can be filled
with joy, inner peace and wisdom of heart. Through the practice
of dynamic mindfulness meditation and conscious breathing, we
can learn to focus ourattention on the moment, transform our fears
of growing older; the anticipatory
anxiety of the future, and regrets about the past - one breath
at a time. In this workshop we shall learn to move, rest, stay
alert, and dialogue mindfully, and cultivate a personal practice
- alone and in community.Learn how to grow older - more gracefully,
and make the necessary
adjustment to accept and celebrate the inevitable now of your
life.
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Understanding
and Transforming Unbearable Pain
Pain
is a necessary part of life. It alerts us to the fact that something
needs to be watched for and tended to, but there are times it
can relentless create so much stress, anxiety, and/or depression
that our lives are derailed. Whether it is physical, emotional,
or mental, such intense pain is hard to understand, embarrassing
to share, and difficult to accept. In time it may begin to define
who we are. Much of the emotional/mental pain we are feeling is
not personal but part of the overwhelming pain of the world,.
Samuel Kirschner has had over 20 years' experience as a mindfulness
meditation teacher and counselor, teaching thousands, including
many people with HIV and cancer, how tomanage stress and pain.
Recently blind sided himself by an episode of severe, nearly suicidal
depression, Samuel has emerged with a deeper understanding of
pain and powerful new skills, renewed and revitalized in his commitment
to be of service to those with unbearable pain. If you or someone
you know is suffering from extreme pain, join Samuel Kirschner
as he shows how we can begin to:
*Speak about our pain with dignity and authenticity.
* Learn to understand the world's pain, and how it affects us
personally.
* Become aware of our fearful mind sets and the fear-based culture
in which we live, and free ourselves from the judging mind.
* Open ourselves to support without attachment to results.
* Practice mindfulness meditation -- committing to an awareness
of the present moment.* Restore our life force through deep breathing
and conscious movement.
* Cultivate compassion.
* Learn to practice the JOB - Joy of Being alive, breath-by-breath.*
Maintain a regular daily practice.
In seeking relief from pain, we understandably just want to get
rid of it, but there are times when the only possible relief can
come from transforming ourrelationship to it--non-judgment ally
opening up to its moment-by-moment sensations and seeing it for
what it is. This experienced and committed teacher can help us
discover that, paradoxically, being compassionate to ourselves
andaccepting our own pain can free us from the shackles of excessive
suffering, renew our faith, and re-awaken the basic joy of being
alive.
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Mindful
Dancing
"We
have got to get ourselves in rhythm
Wake up the heart that seems to have fallen asleep
Send a wave of joy across the planet
Synchronize 6 billion lives to one beat " HOWARD
JONES
Get your special outfit together for this
special occasion. Breathe from the core... connect to the rhythm
of your body and the music, let go of the ego and dance with abandon.
If you are out Mindful Dancing notice
your breath synchronizing with the pavement, and the people who
are passing you on the strees.... their dogs as well as the trees.
Connect your breath to the houses and the apartments in them.
If any anxiety arises or disturbing thoughts come up, return your
attention to your breath and flex your core muscles and to the
next ste.... turning it into a cool, joyful, inclusive and un-intrusive
dance, connect to and celebrate life on the planet.Mindful
dancing is connecting
your inner environment with the outer - dancing with Joy Of Being
to the oneness of life - sending a wave of joy across the planet.
In
Mindful Dancing events, we prepare
for the dance by practicing 30 minutes of conscious breathing
and mindful moving meditation.
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