Joy: A Mindfulness Workshop
- Yoga Hanalei 5-5161 Kuhio Highway Hanalei, HI, 96714 United States (map)
We often depend on specific circumstances to bring joy into our lives: a promotion, a graduation, the birth of a child. In this half-day mindfulness workshop, Devon and Craig will guide participants through practices that can generate joy right here, right now, regardless of our circumstances.
All are welcome, regardless of race, religion, gender identification, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, and class.
Questions? Email: info@satimindfulness.com
To register email: yogahanalei@hotmail.com
About Devon and Craig Hase
Devon and Craig have studied with some of the great meditation teachers of our time. When they are not in months-long retreat, they teach mindfulness widely in the United States and Europe.
Joseph Goldstein, the co-founder of Insight Meditation Society and author of acclaimed works on mindfulness, says of them, "Devon and Craig are deeply experienced practitioners, with a strong dedication to their own meditation journey. They have immersed themselves for many years in long intensive practice, and I highly recommend their mindfulness teaching."
The world can feel dark these days: unstable, shaky, sometimes horrifying.
So how do we live with all this? And is meditation even a worthwhile response to a world in crisis?
What are we actually doing with this racehorse of a mind every time we sit down and take a look?
I started hearing about the future impacts of climate change when I was in high school in the mid-90s: predictions of fires, floods, heat waves, droughts, rising seas, mass migrations, and the rest.
Fast forward 30 years: the conversation is no longer about what might happen.
Everything is big. Cities are big, highways are big--and emotions? They blow through like a category four typhoon.
what's struck me lately is not so much what we're doing but the raw fact that we're doing it.
Put simply, meditation is an audacious act.
It doesn't really matter what the question is.
The answer is metta,
lovingkindness,
this cultivation of the boundless warmth of the heart.
I think this life is precious beyond measure,
not only because of ponderosas and songbirds,
but because we have this opportunity, this precious opportunity,
to wake up from the dream of suffering,
right here, right now.
Coming out of this yearlong retreat, our maxim has been: do less, slower.
As in, put less on the calendar.
Also, try to accomplish less in a day.
Finally, do less in meditation—less effort, less striving, less accomplishing.
When I was living in a Zen monastery years ago, the phrase I practiced with most often was, "just this."
Only two words. But as I held them in mind, day after day, and then over years, they revealed a world to me.
Since we finished our yearlong retreat a few weeks ago, some friends have been asking what we’re up to.
As in: it looks like we’re still kind of in retreat.
But not.
The confusion is understandable. Maybe I can explain.
It has been over a year since I last posted to this blog. As many of you know, we've spent most of that time in retreat.