Zoom Series
Discover the well-spring of your wellbeing
Discover your own natural doorways into harmony and presence.
Tune in to your natural rhythm of activation and relaxation, the ebb and flow of how you meet and recover from life’s stresses.
Learn how to make your mind a friendly place in the ways you relate to yourself and others.
Work with the flow of your attention to fortify it.
Gently establish a meditation practice.
Resilience and presence practices
Everyday presence is the ability to be present with life’s ups and downs. Everyday resilience is returning to feeling okay after getting stuck in life’s ups and downs.
In this series, you will learn:
- Simple body and breath awareness practices that cultivate harmony and presence.
- Resilience techniques from somatic trauma-informed modalities that return you to feeling okay when you feel stuck in stress or anxiety.
Noble responsiveness practices
Noble responsiveness practices are noble ways of being with whatever arises. They are simple, profound and applicable in your everyday life.
• Compassion: for when we find ourselves or others hurting.
• Appreciative Joy: for when we find ourselves or others happy.
• Loving Kindness/Benevolence/Friendliness: to wish ourselves and others well.
• Equanimity: to be with what is, as it is.
Attention training practices
Attention training practices that are accessible and enjoyable, resourcing in qualities we all wish for:
• Inner Joy
• Peace
• Equanimity
• Spacious awareness
About Sentha
This series is informed by Sentha’s: 20+ years of training in meditation, and in teaching meditation across all three extant branches of Buddhism; 200-hour training in teaching meditation in a way that is natural, intuitive, individual and nourishing; Level 1 trauma resiliency training; 4 years of teaching and facilitating compassionate communication practice groups.
Sentha’s teaching style invites and evokes direct experience of what is being taught, so that you can ehipassiko, come and see for yourself.
Schedule
- 5 monthly workshops, 3 hours each
- February 14, 2025-June 13, 2025
- 2nd Saturdays of the month, 9:00 am -12:00 pm PDT (Feb 14, Mar 14, Apr 11, May 9, Jun 13)
- Each 3-hour workshop will include lecture, guided meditations and discussions with a short break in the middle.
- Weekly email check-ins will help you build your meditation practice.
- Option to join meditation retreat from July 24 to August 2 at Mt. Baldy Zen Center
Cost
Tiered pricing for the workshop series:
- Basic: $100
- Sponsor: $125
- Supported: $75*
*If this is not comfortably affordable, e-mail Sentha. No one will be turned away based on cost. Work-study options are available.
Recordings
You will have access to workshop recordings.
No prerequisites
Come as you are. This course has no prerequisites.