(Registration for this Event is full. Please email Louise Meredith if you want to be added to the waiting list.) 

An Afternoon of Quiet in the Season of Advent:

Mindfulness: Breath by Breath Workshop with Marie Hurley Blair

Sunday, December 9, 2 - 4 pm, Chapel

Discuss and experience the core practices of mindfulness: breathing, meditation and subtle movement; talk about stress reduction, emotional/mental fitness, and the spiritual practice of Advent.

• First hour includes:

  • Discussion about yogic tradition, emerging insights in neuroscience, faith journey

    • How Advent invites cultivating deep down goodness and wholeness

    • Name some dimension of you that needs healing or calming.

• Breath practice –breath physiology followed by experiencing different techniques such as:

  • Awareness – noticing what is present without changing the breath

  • 3 – part breathing technique

• Meditation practice:

  • Breath and simple being

  • Loving kindness

• Second hour: a mat-based yoga practice:

  • Integrating breath with embodied experience – attention to noticing sensation, thoughts, emotional currents

Fee: Donation to St. Stephen’s, suggested $10.

Please bring your own mat.

To register, click HERE.

For more about Marie, go to http://www.marieblairyoga.com/