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💻 Format: 2-hour Online event
🙋‍♀ Suitable For: All experience levels, including those new to mindfulness 

Overview

Join Vidyamala Burch, founder of Breathworks, in conversation with meditation teacher and author Sharon Salzberg, to reflect on what has helped them meet adversity, and why compassion sits at the heart of it.

Alongside the conversation, the recording includes a guided lovingkindness (metta) meditation led by Sharon and a live Q&A with participants.

What You'll Gain

• A steadier way to meet difficulty: Two experienced teachers share the lessons that have held them through adversity, from practising before a crisis rather than waiting for one, to living one moment at a time, to holding even serious things a little more lightly.

• A compassion practice to take away: Sharon guides a lovingkindness meditation you can return to on your own, offering simple phrases of goodwill to yourself and others as a way of paying attention differently, rather than forcing a feeling.

• A kinder relationship with yourself: Honest reflection on the inner critic, and why self-compassion, not self-judgement, is what actually helps you move forward.

• Permission to begin again: A reframe of what "getting it right" means, in practice and in life. As Sharon puts it, the healing is in the return, not in never having wandered off in the first place.

• The reassurance that you're not alone: The recognition, running through the whole conversation, that difficulty is part of every life, not a sign that something has gone uniquely wrong with yours.

• Ways to soften struggle without denying it: Including the idea of "ease of heart," and how the Breathworks model of primary and secondary suffering can help you loosen the extra layer of resistance that so often builds on top of pain.
  
  

Is This Event For Me?

This conversation is open to everyone, whatever your experience of meditation.

It may speak to you most if you're living with pain, illness or loss, or moving through a difficult stretch. Both speakers draw on real experience, without minimising how hard things can be.

Mindfulness teachers may also find elements of this session useful for CPD, particularly Sharon's approach to guiding lovingkindness as an offering rather than a forced feeling, her framing of "beginning again," and the discussion linking metta to the primary and secondary suffering model. 

Practical Details

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