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.
This course is designed both for beginners and experienced practitioners.
The second workshop on developing and maintaining resilience during challenging times.
On the International Day of Peace let's dedicate the couple of hours to participate in a peace wave going 'round the world.
We will draw on our collective wisdom in facing physical changes, loss, as well as altered roles in family and society.
Join us for Yoga Nidra, a guided relaxation technique that helps promote peaceful feelings and aids sleep. All donations benefit Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center.
Reconnect with yourself and embrace the power of Yoga. All levels welcome. All donations benefit Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center.
This is a weekly online study group hosted by Lama Gursam. Click to see flyer details.
This will be a yoga class taught by Josephine Russell to open the Heart Chakra followed by a talk and meditation on the Heart Sutra taught by Lama Gursam.
Two-part class: Friday evening 5:30-8pm, and Saturday 9:30am-4:30pm
Lama Gursam, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, will present TAKING REFUGE DURING THESE TROUBLESOME TIMES. This is a retreat that offers an opportunity to both the beginner and more advanced meditator.
We welcome David Blair and Lina Hervas to speak to us on our theme, “Solidarity With Refugees”.
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.
