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Open Teacher's Potluck Meeting to Discuss Mindfulness in the Schools
October 14th Tuesday 7pm-9pm in San Anselmo
(send email on contact page for details)
New 9 Month Teacher's Group Starts in November (therapists and other care providers welcome)
As teachers we spend a great deal of time focused outwardly in the service of others. In this monthly small group we can renew our connection with our own inner experience in the company of other teachers.The quality of presence we can bring to our own experience, feelings, and thoughts profoundly impacts our teaching and facilitating abilities. By practicing together we can support each other to teach and guide others from our deepest intentions and to nourish our own inner development and practice while teaching. Our small group size will allow for personal sharing as well as guided/silent meditation and group discussion. We will meet the 2nd Saturday of the month from 10am to 1:30pm in San Anselmo.
Lead By Lesley Grant
6 Week Teacher's Group
This is a small group for weekly renewal of our practice of presence. A chance to meditate together and share insights and discoveries in bringing mindfulness practice to our lives and work with others. About half of the group meeting time will be spent in meditation and the other half will be a time for sharing our paths and inspiring each other.
Wednesday evenings 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. by donation
Lead by Lesley Grant
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| Lesley Grant: meditation & children's co-op teacher |
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| Lesley Grant is the director of the Marin Mindfulness Co-operative. She teaches our mindfulness classes , and teacher's groups and teaches our children's Dharma Programs & children's mindfulness classes. She has taught graduate students and mentored teachers during the past 20 years, including founding a mindfulness and yoga therapy-based internship program for graduate students in medical and mental health settings. She spent 12 years teaching mindfulness to neurology patients in medical clinics, then graduating from CIIS with a thesis in east west psychology education, she was ordained in Sikkim as a Buddhist nun and then returned to lay practice in 2003, as director of our program and as a parenting godmother. She is authorized to lead practice groups and to teach mindfulness by Guy Armstrong of Spirit Rock Center & Thrangu Rinpoche, main tutor of the 17th Karmapa. She is also a California certified director and teacher, and has taught in and directed Waldorf Inspired programs since 1995.
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| Teachers: Mireya, Liz, and Alice |
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| Mireya Quirie is a California credentialed elementary school teacher and wilderness and nature specialist. She spent five years teaching before giving birth to her daughter in 2003 and has since spent 2 years in our Waldorf and Dharma inspired program. She leads outdoor adventures and gives educational support to our program.
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Liz Levy teaches a dance-like form of yoga, is a cranial sacral therapist and is a long-time practitioner of meditation and spiritual practice in both Tibetan Buddhist and Native American Medicine traditions. She is a long time Waldorf parent of two sons, five and ten years old. She teaches yoga for our program.
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Alice Treves, LCSW has been leading groups for children and adults for many years. A mindfulness meditation practitioner for over 15 years, she has worked with the program Stepping Stones and was authorized to teach at Spirit Rock Meditation Center with middle school and teen meditation classes. She has two daughters, one and three years old. She co-leads our 7-11 year old girls Dharma and meditation group.
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| Jai Uttal |
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| Jai Uttal, is a renound composer and musican with numerous Cd's including Monkey, Beggers and Saints, and many others. We are honored to have Jai lead us in singing sacred music and teach instrument making to the children. Jai and his wife Nubia, a wonderful yoga teacher who also teaches classical India dance with us during our vacation programs, have a three year old son.
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| Sienna Smith |
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| Sienna Smith is the director and owner of Yoga Mountain Studio. She has over 10 years experience teaching yoga and has extensive background in yoga therapy. She teaches children's yoga for our program. She has 2 children ages 6 and 4.
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