What’s Holding You Back?
Using Your Core Values to Break Free
Sunil Joseph and Tenzin Chogkyi
Apr 29, 2023
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
In person only
At Diamond Light Meditation Center
2791 24th Street Room 14 (upstairs, ADA accessible)
Sacramento CA 95818
parking lot in back (off 4th Ave)
Sliding scale $40-$60
Scholarships available, please email diamondlight.sac@gmail.com to request a scholarship.
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Our news feeds are full of good advice about what we need to do to have a happy and healthy life, and can include advice about exercise, diet, meditation, our relationships… Most of us know what the experts say about what might give us the health, happiness and love we seek, but the question then becomes, “What’s holding us back?”
Join Sunil and Tenzin for this interactive daylong workshop in which they will explore this question through inquiry and guided meditation, and then explore how discovering our core values and living in alignment with them could be the key to getting unstuck.
Special Instructions for Attendees:
At the request of the teachers, please wear masks during the class.
About the Instructors:
Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in India and Nepal. She completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period and took monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, practicing as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years.
Tenzin Chogkyi is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well. She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. She is featured on a monthly radio show called “Reflections on Buddhism” on KSQD 90.7 in the Santa Cruz area. She also finds time to create her Unlocking True Happiness podcast which you can check out at unlockingtruehappiness.org where you will also find her current teaching schedule. She is currently based on traditional Awaswas Ohlone land, in what is now known as Santa Cruz, CA.
About Sunil Joseph: I am a certified GRIP facilitator teaching a restorative justice-based healing and accountability program in California’s prison system. In 2021, I successfully completed the 2-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program offered by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach to become a certified Mindfulness teacher. As a graduate from BayNVC’s 1-year NVC Leadership Program in 2008, I have been teaching NVC to varied groups, including those incarcerated at San Quentin prison. I feel grateful for the amazing teachers and teachings I have personally benefited from. I welcome opportunities to support others in their personal journey to fulfillment and wellbeing. I was born in India and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information about Sunil: https://myempathycoach.com/