The Healing Journey Meets the Spiritual Path

This topic explores how illness can be a vehicle for spiritual awakening.

This talk (or workshop) will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness practice can be integrated in the process of healing the diseases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. How we are with and relate to our pain is as important as what we do to treat it. This presentation will delve into these very important questions:

What is healing and how does it happen?

How can we welcome and open to our pain and illness as an opportunity and vehicle for awakening, and what happens when we do?