The whole curriculum is grounded in comprehensive training in mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment practices, including the deeper insight, compassionate motivation, and communicative skills that will enable you to apply them to your moment-to-moment life and work – where all our boundless potential for transformation lies waiting to be tapped.
WeiterlesenContemplative Psychotherapy is a hybrid therapeutic approach that blends the meditative insights, ethics and practices of Buddhism with the theory and application of Western neuropsychology, social psychology and psychotherapy. This amalgam may invoke cognitive dissonance for some.
WeiterlesenThe roots of Yantra Yoga lie in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism in the 8th century. In the beginning, yoga was a simple thing. One sat down to meditate and breathe. In modern yoga, the aspect of breathing has been lost. The practice of breathing is reduced to the pranayama technique and one focuses more on the posture.
WeiterlesenThe word karma, in its Sanskrit translation, simply means "action". In the Western context, it is often used to refer to fate or fortune. However, the Buddha explicitly mentioned that this was not its real meaning.
Karma refers to the natural law that describes the workings of cause and effect. Each action is defined by a series of previous actions that are interdependent – each action triggers a multitude of subsequent actions. It is the impersonal play of cause and effect that is continuous, inexorable and completely dispassionate.
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