Insight Meditation South Bay
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall
2094 Grant Rd., Mountain View, CA 94040
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March 16 - Venerable Ayya Tathaaloka - Body/Mind Conscience and the Voice of Knowing
March 23 - Jennifer Dungan - Sleeping, Dreaming, and Waking Up: Mindfulness Through the Day and Night
March 30 - Elad Levinson - Addiction—You Can Never Get Enough of What You Don’t Really Need
April 6 - Ajahn Anandabodhi - The Freedom of Limitation: The 5 Precepts as a Source of Happiness
April 13 - Misha Merrill - Bringing Mindfulness to Work
April 20 - Amy Saltzman, M.D. - Mindfulness and Compassion Fatigue
Contact Information: Sharon at (408) 730-2293 or retreats
imsb.orgEveryone is welcome. No registration is required. Chairs are provided. Bring a cushion of you prefer to sit on the floor.
Donations are encouraged to support the teacher and organizational expenses.
Speakers
Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni - March 16 - Body/Mind Conscience and the Voice of Knowing
Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni is an American-born member of the Buddhist Monastic Sangha with a background in Zen and Theravadan Buddhism. Venerable Tathaaloka began her journey into monastic life more than twenty years ago, and was granted Higher Ordination by an multi-ethnic gathering of the Bhikkhu & Bhikkhuni Sanghas in Southern California in early 1997. In 2005 she co-founded the first Theravadan Buddhist women's monastery in the Western United States here in the San Francisco East Bay. Following in the late Ayya Khema's footsteps, in 2009 Ayya Tathaaloka became the second Western woman to be appointed a Preceptor in Theravadan Buddhism. Inspired by the Forest traditions in Buddhism, she is currently involved in founding a rustic off-the-grid women's monastic retreat on the Sonoma Coast named Aranya Bodhi: Awakening Forest Hermitage, while sharing her time with the hermitage's 'in the Bay' annex in Fremont: The Bodhi House.
Jennifer Dungan - March 23 - Sleeping, dreaming, and waking up: mindfulness through the day and night
Jennifer Dungan began her meditation practice in 2003 with a mindfulness based stress reduction course (MBSR). The discipline of meditation opened a new world of personal discovery and her desire to continue learning propelled her to IMSB in January 2006. Jennifer especially appreciates the scientific method promoted by the Buddha. She lives with her spouse in Mountain View and works at NASA Ames Research Center.
Elad Levinson LCSW - March 30 - Addiction—You can never get enough of what you don’t really need
Elad Levinson LCSW has studied and practiced Buddhism since 1970. His practice has always been passionately interested in the integration of Buddhist philosophy and methods with the mundane world’s exigencies. He is the co-founder of Pounds for Poverty, whose mission is to bring Mindfulness and Altruism to the treatment of weight related illnesses. He has an active psychotherapy practice in Palo Alto and management consulting firm focused upon accelerating the solutions to environmental and social problems working with the entrepreneur- founder/investors or senior leaders. His firm is called “Noble Purpose Consulting.”
Ajahn Anandabodhi - April 6 - The Freedom of Limitation: The 5 precepts as a source of happiness
Ajahn Anandabodhi was born in Wales in 1968. At the age of 14, she came across the Buddha's teaching, which had a profound effect on her and seeded a deep confidence and interest in the Buddha's Path of Awakening. Seven years later she began to meditate and visited Amaravati Monastery where she felt a deep sense of 'coming home'. In 1992 she moved to Amaravati and took on the Anagarika (novice) training, taking Siladhara (nuns') ordination in 1995. Since then she has mostly lived at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England. Ajahn Anandabodhi is currently involved in helping to establish a monastery for nuns in California and will be resident in San Francisco from December 2009.
Misha Merrill - April 13 - Bringing Mindfulness to Work
Misha Merrill is a Zen priest in the lineage of Suzuki Roshi of the San Francisco Zen Center. She has practiced meditation since 1984 and was given dharma transmission (permission to teach) in 1998. Her group, Zen Heart Sangha, has been meeting since 1996, and includes sanghas in Menlo Park, Woodside, Sacramento, and upstate New York.
Amy Saltzman M.D. - April 13 - Mindfulness and Compassion Fatigue
Dr. Amy Saltzman is a holistic physician, mindfulness teacher, scientist, wife, mother, and devoted student of transformation. She is recognized by her peers as a visionary and pioneer in the fields of holistic medicine and mindfulness in K-12 education. Dr. Saltzman is trained in Internal Medicine, a founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, founder and director of the Association for Mindfulness in Education, and a founding member of the Northern California Advisory Committee on Mindfulness. In 2002, Dr. Saltzman established a private practice in Menlo Park, CA, where she provides holistic medical care and individual mindfulness instruction to children and adults. She also offers presentations and courses for young children, teens, parents, educators, and health care professionals.
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