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Meditation 'Mini-Retreat from Stress!' with Jon Waterman at Dream Yoga Studio
With Jon Waterman All Levels
$49/person
Co-sponsored with IMCW (Insight Meditation Community of Washington)
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11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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Understanding
how to cultivate and sustain appropriate attention, both on and off the
meditation cushion, is essential in recognizing not only the origins of
stress in our busy and demanding lives, but also skillful ways to
reduce that stress. However, many of us here in the West come to the
cushion with great expectations and quickly discover that we first need
to remember how to relax.
Scientists have proven that meditation not only reduces stress. It also helps you in these ways:
- Strengthen the immune system.
- Increase heart health.
- Reduce high blood pressure.
- Slow biological aging.
- Strengthen coping skills.
- Sleep better.
- Better manage pain.
- Heal more quickly.
- Help you create positive behavior changes.
- Achieve a greater sense of overall well-being.
This
workshop is open to all—from beginners to long-time meditators—and is
an opportunity for you to extend your practice over a few hours. The
theme will be “Connecting the Moments.” That is, intentionally
cultivating and sustaining a focused attention on sensations in the body
as we mindfully transition from one posture to another;
sitting/kneeling; standing; walking; reclining and gentle stretching.
This four-hour workshop is crafted to be deeply relaxing, not to push
our limits in one posture or another.
Please join us in this
20th “Mini-Retreat” at Dream Yoga Studio. Come to share meditation
practice and get your questions answered. Explore new mindfulness
techniques that will help you experience greater calm and healing.
Wear
comfortable, loose-fitting clothing. Chairs, cushions, blankets,
kneeling benches and props are available, but feel free to bring your
personal sitting cushion.
Past participants are amazed at how peaceful they feel after this Retreat…and how fast the day flies.
Come share this special time together…
learning and practicing the many ways of mindfulness.
See how it helps you reduce stress!
About Dream:
Dream Yoga Studio & Wellness Center is an independently-owned and operated Kripalu Affiliate Studio--the
only one in the D.C. Metropolitan area. We're located in the heart of
downtown McLean, Virginia, convenient to Tysons Corner, the 495 Beltway,
and the George Washington Parkway.
Our yoga and meditation teachers and healing arts professionals are
dedicated to helping you experience greater health, well-being and
personal growth in body, mind and spirit. We warm-heartedly welcome you
as you are, and seek to provide a safe, inviting and nurturing environment that supports your journey.
Guided by the principles of yoga, we strive to create a true community that
supports each other in our efforts to become more fully present, alive,
balanced, peaceful, joyful and whole. We dream that our efforts will transform the way we experience our bodies and minds, each other, and the world.
Come…and explore yoga, meditation, massage and other holistic
paths to health and happiness. Come…and be inspired! Gain new
perspectives and insights. Take a deep breath, exhale and relax…to come home to your true Self at Dream Yoga.
For more information and a full list of our classes, visit us at www.dreamyogastudio.com or contact us at (703)448-YOGA (9642).