Special Events
Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center
Mindfulness Meditation involves learning to pay attention, connecting the mind and body in the present moment. We offer a number of one-time special events as well as 8-week courses throughout the year that explore basic techniques to develop a calm and open-hearted approach to living through challenging times and circumstances.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
An ongoing series, this time exploring Dark Red Victorious Tara
In this workshop we will teach and discuss a meditation practice called Calm Abiding that can help us to develop a state of calm that can support us during the day.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
An ongoing series, this time exploring Red Hum-Sounding Tara
The later years of life bring layers of new challenges — as well as opportunities for depth and growth. These five sessions will offer ways to bring mindfulness into dealing with physical changes, loss, and altered roles in family and society.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
An ongoing series, this time exploring Yellow All-Victorious Tara.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
An ongoing series, this time exploring Golden Tara.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
A three-part series -- October 19: Green Tara, November 16: Red Swift & Courageous Tara, December 21: Great White Soothing Tara.
Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche returns to the Monadnock Region! You are invited to meet and practice with Lama Gursam at two upcoming events.
Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche returns to the Monadnock Region! You are invited to meet and practice with Lama Gursam at two upcoming events.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
A three-part series -- October 19: Green Tara, November 16: Red Swift & Courageous Tara, December 21: Great White Soothing Tara.
Move, Meditate and Chant with the Mother of all Buddhas.
A three-part series -- October 19: Green Tara, November 16: Red Swift & Courageous Tara, December 21: Great White Soothing Tara.
Yoga, Meditation, and Chanting on "Peace Day"
Benefit for MMPC at Aloha Healthy Living
Facilitated by Eve Kodiak
The eight sessions will be geared specifically to people who have minimal or no prior experience with meditating, and would like to see how this increasingly popular practice might be beneficial in their own lives.
After a long absence, Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche returns to the Monadnock Region! You are invited to meet and practice with Lama Gursam at 2 upcoming events.
After a long absence, Acharya Lama Gursam Rinpoche returns to the Monadnock Region! You are invited to meet and practice with Lama Gursam at 2 upcoming events.
Come and Join a Half-Day Meditation Retreat at our Center in Downtown Keene
Aylene and Ginnie will offer an exploration of the role Mindfulness can play in deepening this often disorienting time of life.
This course is an opportunity to go to the source of what is taught in MBSR and what is commonly taught in mindfulness retreats and courses.
Free event at Aloha Center, 83 Court St, Keene, NH. Josephine Russell is sponsoring this, the third year she has done so.
The eight sessions will be geared specifically to people who have minimal or no prior experience with meditating, and would like to see how this increasingly popular practice might be beneficial in their own lives.
Ajahn Jayanto, the abbot of Temple Forest Monastery, a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai forest tradition in Temple, NH will present a Dharma talk in-person at the Center.
In Buddhism, The Four Immeasurables – Brahmavihara - are states without opposites. As we meditate on each one, we experience a different flavor of peace.
The course will explore basic techniques that develop a calm and openhearted approach to living through challenging times and circumstances.
An evening birthday party to celebrate the Center’s milestone twenty years!
The Mindfulness Center, in coordination with Cheshire Medical Center, will offer an Evening of Mindfulness at our Roxbury Street location.
We'll take advantage of the energy of the full moon for a heart-opening set of practices.
On Saturday, August 27, from 9 am to noon, we will sponsor a mini-retreat, open to all.
The morning will consist of sitting and walking meditation. There will be time to reflect on and share how obstacles like the pandemic have influenced participants’ relationship to mindfulness in their daily lives.
A 4-Night Meditation Vigil with Eve Kodiak
The “enemy” is the one who justifies our fury. It could be a head of state, whose policies are causing mass misery and death. It could be a criminal. It could be a boss or co-worker, a family member, friend or lover. It could be ourselves.
Extreme times require extreme compassion. To each meditation, we bring a willingness to be with whatever we find unforgivable. Our purpose is not necessarily forgiveness, a quality that is difficult to attain (and easy to fudge). Our purpose is simply to open up a space in our own hearts for compassion.An ocean is made of many drops of water. We aspire only to make our drops compassionate ones.
Bring a journal if you like. Participants are invited either to sit or lie down. There may be some guidance regarding the body, and a mantra for listening. But there will be mostly silence. The meditation period will last 25 – 30 minutes.
You are welcome to join any or all of the meetings.
This class is offered periodically and has previously met on: 29 April 2022.
Basic meditation techniques that develop a calm and open-hearted approach to living through challenging times and circumstances.
Six-week course exploring basic techniques for developing a calm and open-hearted approach to life.
The six sessions will be offered in a Zoom format and will be geared specifically to people who have minimal or no prior experience with meditating. The practice itself is simple, involving learning to pay attention, connecting the mind and body in the present moment.
Over the seventeen years of the Center’s existence in Keene, the six-week course has introduced hundreds of community members to the benefits of mindfulness practice. According to a recent article in The Boston Globe, Mindfulness Meditation Practice has produced measurable changes in the ability of practitioners to reduce emotional stress, while also promoting changes in the brain that can assist in coping with chronic pain, high blood pressure, and sleep disturbances.
Past class members have commented, “It was so much more than a class. It was a commitment to myself – a gift.” Others found, “It demystified the idea of meditation,” and “I found the meditations could be used throughout my day to help me cope with various challenges in a more positive way.”
The course will be taught by two facilitators at the Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center who have each been practicing meditation for many years. Aylene Wozmak has been a hospice nurse for twenty-five years and has received training in Mind/Body Medicine through Harvard Medical School Dept. of Continuing Medical Education. Ginnie Gavrin holds a Masters Degree in Counseling. She is currently retired from her massage therapy practice.
Registration for the course is required and the number of participants will be limited in order to accommodate a Zoom format. Suggested donation for the course is $75. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
For further information, or to pre-register, call Ginnie at 876-9318 or Aylene at 355-7255.
