This program will be held online via Zoom. All registrants will receive the link to join the program in their Order Confirmation email. This program will not be recorded. Times are ET.
If there’s one thing we know to be true, it’s that things in life are never certain—or at least never as certain as we’d like them to be. And while we can typically handle uncertainty when it comes along in small doses, exceptionally disruptive events can leave us feeling isolated, anxious, and overwhelmed.
This practice group will use the techniques of mindfulness meditation to help us examine and regulate fast-moving streams of information from without—such as schoolwork, news reports, work demands, and our interactions with others—as well as equally fast-moving streams of information from within, such as our own thoughts, feelings, worries, and hopes. In doing so, we will learn to establish an attitude of ease and stability, even in the most uncertain times.
Through the basic principles of meditation, we will look uncertainty in the eye, and develop strategies on how to meet it and work with it skillfully in the context of the Buddha’s teachings. All participants will leave with practical, effective exercises they can begin using immediately. In addition, participants will learn how regular mindfulness practice can enable them to respond to stressful situations in a calm, clear, and thoughtful manner.
This practice group is appropriate for first-time meditators as well as those with meditation experience. All are warmly welcome. There will be time for questions and reflections.
Full and partial scholarships are available. Please submit your requests to office@cambridgeinsight.org at least 72 hours prior to the start of the program.
Zeenat Potia teaches meditation in Buddhist and secular spaces. She has over 15 years of training, with extensive silent retreat experience in the early Buddhist tradition and advanced trauma-sensitive mindfulness. Zeenat incorporates her life experience — as a South Asian immigrant, as a mother, and as a strategic communications professional in higher education, non-profit, and publishing for over 20 years — into her teaching.
Her current work integrates mindfulness, 12-step recovery, and Internal Family Systems as a way to heal intergenerational trauma and transform structures of internal and external oppression. She is committed to sharing mindfulness with underserved and underrepresented populations. Zeenat has taught at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center since 2014, as well as teaching meditation in organizations and universities throughout the Boston area. Learn more at: zeenatpotia.com
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