"The world is suffering. It's my job to meet it." - Frank Ostaseski
Life is stressful, painful, challenging and sometimes overwhelming. Life is also stunningly beautiful, joyful, surprising, and even peaceful. And there's no doubt the more than human world is suffering and urgently needs our care.
The path of the Bodhisattva asks us to dedicate ourselves to the well-being of all sentient beings - to show up as best as we can for ourselves, each other, and the natural world with a quality of no-matter-whatness. It is an essential task of our times.
Please join us as we take a deep dive into the timeless and beautiful teachings of the Bodhisattva, the one who meets suffering with steadiness, strength, determination, courage, and love.
Each session includes a dharma talk, meditation, and time to talk with each other. Everyone is welcome, new and seasoned practitioners.
DATES & TIMES
4 Monday Afternoons
4:00pm to 5:30pm PT
October 7 - October 28
Online via Zoom
We're excited to offer this program in collaboration with Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. Please check out all that's happening at this beautiful Center.
FEES:
Full Series $95 - $160, sliding scale (not available after the first class)
Individual Classes: $25 - $45, sliding scale
Offering fees above the base rate helps make Pacific Mindfulness programs more widely available. Thank you for your consideration.
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Pacific Mindfulness is committed to increasing access to the teachings and practices of awareness, generosity, compassion, and wisdom. In this spirit, most of our courses and retreats offer some financial support.
Financial assistance is available for this series. Please apply here.
Heidi Bourne is a meditation teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition and is the founder and guiding teacher of Pacific Mindfulness. She has been teaching since 2005 offering classes, series courses, nature retreats, trauma-informed and resiliency-focused professional programs, and teaches regularly for Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She holds certification in mindfulness facilitation from UCLA, trauma resiliency from the Trauma Resource Institute, and is a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. Heidi is especially interested in the integration of the common sense, accessible and timeless teachings of awareness, ethics, and compassion into the complexity of our everyday lives. She is known for her grounded, down-to-earth humor and presence. She has a background in nursing and has been a small business owner in Arcata, California for 35 years.
