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Taoist Arts Center Meditation courses explore a range of meditation traditions through different but effective techniques for expanding awareness. All Taoist Arts Center courses are designed to help students harmonize with themselves, nature and the universe. Here are some of the Meditation courses we teach: Meditation: Chakra Balancing
Some of the oldest Buddhist meditations on mindfulness of the body vanished from India but were preserved in Southeast Asia. In this version of the White Bone Meditation from the Theravada tradition students learn to visualize their skeleton and then their chakras (energy centers) in order to connect with the energy of the universe. With its use of visualization and its power to help students cut through attachments to a calm, clear awareness, the Chakra Balance Meditation is an excellent introduction to the central Buddhist tradition of meditation. Inside Chinese Meditation
This course brings students to the heart of Chinese meditation as a road to health, relaxation and spriituality. Instruction in posture, breathing and concentration will be offered. Special emphasis will be given to the Water Method of Lao Tzu, a unique Taoist tradition with a gentle approach that has many applications to everyday life. Open to all Chinese Meditation: Being Present
Many spiritual traditions recommend being present and living in the moment. Long believed to promote feelings of well-being, being present helps people slow down and recognize the wonder in every day. The Insight Meditations in this workshop offer breathing, movement and awareness techniques to help students gain self-knowledge, and unite body, mind, heart and soul. Being Present is an excellent introduction to Buddhist and Taoist meditation and will be useful to all those who wish to increase their consciousness and awakened to the universal in everyday life.
Chinese Taoist Meditation: Inner Dissolving
Taoist Inner Dissolving (often called The Gentle Rain) is the central practice in the Water Tradition of Lao Tzu. As water wears away rock, Inner Dissolving enables us to wear away obstacles to our spiritual growth leading us gently inward to our being and helping us to fully live our lives. It is extremely effective while also gentle. The meditations taught in this workshop will help us to become aware of our hidden motivations and enable us to change or eliminate those that we no longer find useful. The Gentle Rain will be helpful for all those who wish to develop peaceful, relaxed, energy and feel more at one with the universe around them.
Chinese Taoist Meditation: The Water Meditations of Lao Tzu
As water wears away rock, so the Water-Meditations of Lao Tzu wear away obstacles to our spiritual growth, leading us gently inward to the core of our being. This unique meditation tradition from the Tao Te Ching uses the energies of body, heart and mind, to resolve difficulties and attain a clear and relaxed spirituality. Progressing from the physical, through the emotional to the spiritual, the meditations lead students to balance and harmony with themselves and the universe around them. Safe and beneficial for all, the Water-Meditations of Lao Tzu may be practiced amid the stresses of daily life. Students are welcome to take the entire workshop or only half. Open to all. Part 1. will focus on stress reduction, breathing and posture. Part 2. will focus on releasing old trauma and balancing the nervous system.
Chinese Taoist Meditation: Cosmic Resonance Meditation
Taoism preserved and developed the native meditation traditions of China, Tibet and elsewhere. In this meditation from the Water Tradition of Lao Tzu, students learn to feel and transform the energies of their mind and body, so they may resonate with the energies of their inmost selves, of nature and the universe around them. Cosmic Resonance provides a tangible connection to a profound but little known tradition of Taoist meditation.
Chinese Taoist Meditation: Gods Meditating in the Clouds
This powerful chi kung was a favorite of Taoist Grand master Liu Hung Chieh. It unites Taoist Meditation with of Gods in the Clouds Chi Kung to circulate blood and chi, strengthen the internal organs, open the heart and connect us to the universe.
Chinese Taoist Meditation: The Jump to Emptiness
Emptiness is the source of all being. In Emptiness there is clarity, inner stillness and a central place that is permanent and stable. The goal of many spiritual traditions, the peaceful quiet mind - empty - yet filled with awareness, is the perfect vehicle for increasing mindfulness and cosmic realization. In this workshop traditional Taoist techniques will help students relax, release energy blocks, and convert emotional energy to spirit and emptiness. Open to all, 'The Jump to Emptiness' will be useful to everyone who wishes to relax into an expanded consciousness and a new level of inner harmony and joy. Chinese Taoist Meditation: Tai Chi Meditation
Tai Chi Meditation is the merger of Wu style Tai Chi with the practices of Taoist Meditation. It was created centuries ago in China to help people turn chi into spirit and emptiness.
Buddhist Meditation: Opening Your Central Channel
The meditations in this workshop help us open, refine and balance the core energies of our body and mind, with our central channel, our chakras and our aura (etheric body). This meditations in this workshop will give students a tangible awareness of their inner energies and will be helpful for all interested in increasing their health and spirituality.
Open to Beginners, and students of all traditions and all levels of experience. |
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