FRIDAY, JUNE 23
10:00-11:00 AM ET
connected: heart practices for embodiment & expansion
A Difficult Person—Forgiveness with Space to Expand
“It’s not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.” —Sara Maitland
Join us for a four-week immersion of loving-kindness to kick off a summer of love through Metta meditation, yoga, and relaxation. Let’s gather in community and fortify our ability to feel more connected to ourselves, each other, and the world around us. With practice, we can all spread a little more peace and love this season.
DESCRIPTION
A Difficult Person—Forgiveness with Space to Expand (Slow Flow)
This practice is dedicated to someone you have minor difficulty with. You do not have to take on your most challenging relationship or mortal enemy. Rather, think of someone who may irritate you a little bit, regularly. (I will say, over time, this is how I did change my most difficult relationship.)
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Each Friday will begin with a Traditional Metta Meditation that is free and open to the public (register here). Often translated as “loving-kindness,” Metta has been used to foster patience, compassion, and acceptance for over 25,000 years. Research now shows that practicing a simple mantra-based meditation for 12 minutes a day can transform how we handle conflict and feel more connected and open—even life gets really stressful.
We’ll then integrate the principles of our Metta meditation with a loving-kindness slow flow and relax practice. Progressively, we will balance the nervous system, release tension, and expand our breathing in order to fully embody our compassion practice. Step by step, you'll build a supportive foundation allowing you to release deep stress, which is a barrier to energy, healing, and self-love. Most importantly, you'll learn simple, repeatable, tools that you can take off the mat and into your daily life.
As you come home to your body, breath, mind, and heart, you will replenish essential resources—physically, mentally, and emotionally—and create a container where we can embody and integrate our loving-kindness practice in our lives.
Cultivating this compassion helps us set conditions for more clarity—seeing, listening, feeling, sensing—and create more ways to connect rather than cut off. It is through this deep warmth of loving friendship that we are able to really open our hearts to ourselves and others. So when we do befriend ourselves this way, it’s not only good for us, it's good for everyone we come into contact with.
PAIR THIS PRACTICE WITH MY FREE WEEKLY DEEP LISTENING MEDITATION FRIDAYS AT 9:30 AM ET.