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| Create a container for your practice through regular meditation at home, even if it's just for 10 minutes. And to deepen your knowledge of skillful ways of bringing mindfulness into your daily life, you are warmly invited to join us at a daylong or residential retreat.
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| 20th Anniversary Celebration Join us for an evening of food, fun and reflection Saturday, October 28, 6:30-9 p.m. ************ Featuring Tara Brach Hosted by Ofosu Jones-Quartey
We will also hear from our teachers, sangha leaders, supporters and friends to commemorate this milestone achievement. As part of the program, we will showcase pre-recorded video from Dharma leaders across the country, including Joseph Goldstein, Ruth King, Jack Kornfield and more. More... |
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Bring Mindfulness into the Workplace -- 4th Annual Mindful Leadership Summit November 10 & 11 Are you a mindful leader? Join the experts of the mindful leadership movement November 10 & 11 at Mindful Leader, the largest gathering for mindfulness in the workplace. The summit is being held in Washington, DC and Final Discount tickets are now available. Save 33% when you register today. The summit features an extraordinary group of 25+ presenters including Dan Siegel, Nancy Costikyan, Darnell McDonald, Peter Senge, and Gina LaRoche. In the last three years, our events have brought together over 2,100 leaders and changemakers from 34 countries... (More...) |
| Intensive class series are held to introduce you to meditation and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
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| Class Series
You are invited to join the Mindfulness and Depression series with Sraddha Laura Dorsett on Wednesdays, October 4-December 13, in McLean, VA. In this course, we will use the book, "The Mindful Way Through Depression" by Mark Williams as our guide as we explore mindfulness and yogic practices designed to help you feel like yourself again. Come to the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction series with Hugh Byrne and Rebecca Hines on Saturdays, October 7-December 9 in Silver Spring, MD. This intimate and intensive 8-week course is designed to help you establish your own unique mindfulness practice, teach you techniques that can help reduce physical and emotional symptoms made worse by stress, and increase your peace and quality of life. |
| An Evening with Daniel Goleman Tuesday, October 17 Washington, DC
The most compelling impacts of meditation are not better health or sharper business performance but, rather, a further reach toward our better nature. For Altered Traits, Goleman teamed up with renowned neuroscientist Richard Davidson to compare claims made about meditation--in traditional Eastern texts, Western popular media, and practitioners' subjective experience--with emerging scientific research. Exciting, compelling, and grounded in new research, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level.(More...) |
| Practice conscious awareness.
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| 2-Day Workshop, Daylong or Half-Day Retreat--it's your choice!
Join our special, 2-Day Core Skills Mindful Self-Compassion Workshop with Kristin Neff and Christopher K. Germer, October 6-7 in Washington, DC. Participants will directly experience self-compassion and learn practices that evoke self-compassion in daily life. Linda Naini offers a Half-Day Mindfulness Mini-Retreat, October 8 in the rolling, green hills of Frederick, MD. Slow down, awaken your senses, and come home to this body, breath, heart, and natural world around you through mindfulness meditation practices. At a special daylong for educators, Teaching from the Heart with Kaira Jewel Lingo, on October 28 in Washington, DC, we will learn and practice tools for taking good care of ourselves, so that we can be truly present for those we teach, and bring the best of ourselves into the classroom. Jonathan Foust invites you to his daylong, A Meditative Journey, Mindful Movement, Meditation and Deep Relaxation, on October 28 in Bethesda, MD. You can't make a state of inner quiet happen, but you can create an optimal environment through conscious movement and breathing. Through the day you'll learn movement sequences that help to release deep-seated tension and help to draw your awareness inward.
The Mindful Communication in Challenging Times Half-Day workshop with Bill Mies on October 28 in Washington, DC, explores and experiments with finding a wise path through difficult conversations. We will cultivate the qualities and insights inherent in human nature that encourage mutual understanding, empathy, intimacy, and meaningful communication.
Families! Registration for the Fall Family Daylong 2017 is now open. In Washington, DC on the afternoon of November 5, Family Days are a wonderful opportunity to spend the day connecting with your children, yourself and a community of supportive peers. Come play, share, learn and open your heart!
Full Surrender: Learning to Ride the Waves, with Shell Fischer on November 11 in Stephens City, VA, will explore a variety of guided and silent meditations to put us more in touch with the changing flow of phenomena, a talk on annica (impermanence), silent walking meditation, lunch shared in silence, and quiet time in nature.
La Sarmiento and Sebene Selassie offer Fresh-ish Off the Boat (a POC Retreat) in Silver Spring, MD on November 11. This daylong is an opportunity for reflection, practice, and dialogue around what it means to be an immigrant or first generation person of color awakening through teachings and practices rooted in ancient wisdom traditions. |
| Join us at a weeklong or weekend retreat-- for adults, at a special retreat for women, or for families with children.
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| Residential Retreats
A few spots are still available for the Fall Weeklong Retreat, Friday, October 13-Friday, October 20 in Reisterstown, MD. An exciting lineup of teachers includes Jonathan Foust, La Sarmiento, Pat Coffey and Sebene Selassie. During this retreat, we will learn how to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world. The Deepening Presence, Deepening Embodiment weekend silent retreat with Stan Eisenstein, November 17-19 in Germantown, MD, focuses on a deepening sense of stillness and embodied presence. Through dharma talks, group meetings with the teacher, meditation instruction, gentle qigong practices, and personal meditation, you will be guided to a deeper experience of wholeness, authenticity, and the capacity for living in the present moment. Register for the New Year's Retreat 2017 with Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, Hugh Byrne and Luisa Montero-Diaz in Reisterstown, MD. This retreat, held Wednesday, December 27-Monday, January 1, is a wonderful time to touch sacred presence and deepen our roots in spiritual life. In this silent retreat we will open our hearts and minds through practices of Vipassana (mindfulness meditation--both sitting and walking sessions), traditional heart meditations (metta), yoga (mindful movement) and evening chanting. |
| Join a weekly class
IMCW weekly classes help deepen your meditation practice by offering a community of like-minded people, and by teaching skills that support your daily practice.
Find classes throughout D.C., Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, and other counties across the DC metro area. |
| Bring the teachings into your daily life with sitting meditation
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| Fill Your Body with Love Meditation, with Tara Brach
When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting in loving presence and offering loving prayer.
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