We wouldn’t want a life without the pull of our emotions—whether we are experiencing love and joy or grief and sadness, our emotions help us navigate our lives, discern what we need, and relate to others. Yet, overwhelming emotions can leave us feeling triggered, drained, and unable to engage in the fullness of life. When the pull of our emotions becomes too strong, we get caught in reactivity when what we truly long for is safety and connection.
But we can use our emotional life as a tool for transformation. As we gain a richer understanding of the inner-workings of emotion, and come to understand how to drop in to our own experiences with awareness and ease, we create space between stimulus and reaction—expanding our capacity to be with our suffering, connect with others, and show up for life.
In this experiential training you will learn about contemplative and western scientific approaches to understanding emotions. You will be guided through meditation training in non-distraction and an embodied experience of our emotions. Each gathering will include presentation, small group dialogue, guided meditation and personal reflection. Join us, bring your emotions.
5 Tuesdays Feb 7 – March 7
6:30-8:30pm
1 Saturday, March 4
10:00am-1:00pm
At Diamond Light Meditation Center
2791 24th Street, Room 14 (upstairs)
Sacramento CA 95818
At age 19 Amie Diller stumbled on Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, dropped out of college, and embarked on a life-long passion for the study and practice of Buddhism. For the last 15 years Amie has been practicing & teaching internationally in the Tibetan Gelupa Buddhist tradition. Being a certified nurse-midwife and mother have also brought great joy, along with fertile ground for practicing in the world with a wise and compassionate heart.
Brandy Davis is a meditation and yoga teacher. She has been studying and practicing for over two decades. Her current passion is restorative justice and working with incarcerated populations. She has a particular knack for personalizing deep philosophical concepts and making them applicable to our modern lives. She teaches with love and humor. Brandy’s greatest joy comes from witnessing the opening of the human heart.
The Cultivating Emotional Balance training began during a meeting between behavioral scientists, a neuroscientist, a monk, a philosopher, and the Dalai Lama in 2000, as a new approach to understanding our emotional lives. Combining contemporary scientific research with the practices of mindfulness & opening the heart (loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity), this class series offers new tools for working with emotion.
http://bigthink.com/videos/mindfulness-how-to-call-off-the-emotional-attack-dogs-2