Online: The Healing Journey Meets The Spiritual Path – How Pain and Illness Can Be a Vehicle for Awakening

I am pleased to be returning to New York Insight Meditation Center via ZOOM to present an online retreat: The Healing Journey Meets The Spiritual Path – How Pain and Illness Can Be a Vehicle for Awakening on August 24th (10am - 4pm ET).

There is no cure for the human condition, there is however a healing process and a spiritual path. How we choose to relate to, be with and face our pain and life’s difficult challenges is as important as what we do to treat them.

This workshop with Insight meditation teacher, Dr Paul Epstein will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness and compassion practice can be integrated in the process of facing and healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.

We will sit with the questions: What is healing and how does it happen? How can we welcome and open to our pain and illness as an opportunity and the very vehicle for awakening, and what happens when we do? We’ll explore how being with the truth of suffering is at the heart of the healing journey and is the path to the end of suffering.

“When any experience of body, heart, or mind keeps repeating in consciousness, it is a signal that this visitor is asking for a deeper and fuller attention….Under all the tears, the pain, the fear, and the anger we have contracted ourself around, we can find freedom, joy, and ease in the face of all life.” – from Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart

Join Dr. Paul Epstein for this retreat to explore this profound possibility.

This course will be offered via Zoom. All are welcome.

Click here for more information and to register.