Heartwood

Mindfulness and Focusing
2022-01-01 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-02 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-05 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-07 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-01-08 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) and 15 more dates | Heartwood, 1818 Dempster Street, Evanston, IL, 60202, United States
Discover Mindfulness and Focusing resources for self care and emotional well-being.
Sunday, Sept. 11, 6 to 7 pm.
Fee: $15
RSVP smithhuemer@gmail.com or 847/323-1717
Additional dates: Oct 2 , Nov 6.
Marsha Smith, LCSW, is a psychotherapist and certified Focusing and mindfulness trainer who integrates body-mind practices and other practical approaches to help with a variety of emotional, health and social challenges.
You’ll learn about resources available to support you with your self care and emotional well-being. You’ll be introduced to ways to manage stress, anxiety and frustration with more calm and skills to deepen your awareness so you can move past blocks and find steps of change.
For healing professionals: The class is an introduction to mindfulness and focusing training for work with clients. Ongoing CEU training opportunities are available beginning October. In the training you’ll learn practical step-by-step methods for helping clients work though problems and find relief, insight and new steps of action, using mindfulness and focusing.

Sunday Sangha
2022-01-02 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-01-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-01-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-01-23 10:00 - 12:00
Sunday Sangha led by Meditation Program Director, Nancy Floy
10:00am – 12:00pm (via Zoom until early May 2026)
Nancy will lead us in a few simple Buddhist chants and a guided meditation. Following meditation, we will return to our new text, Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism by Thich Nhat Hanh. “Socially-engaged Buddhism” has become something of a buzzword in among many sanghas, but what exactly does it mean? More importantly, how do we practice it? Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, created these practices to help people develop the insight of the interconnected nature of reality and the human experience, which could then lead to a collective awakening.
Contact Larry Akey, (Lakey0752@gmail.com) for key code to enter building or further information.

Friday Meditation Class
2022-01-07 17:30 - 19:00, 2022-01-14 17:30 - 19:00, 2022-01-21 17:30 - 19:00
Friday Meditation Class, led by Larry Akey and Nancy Floy

5:30pm – 7:00pm (via Zoom until early May 2026)
Our text is Flight of the Garuda by Lama Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, a 19th century wandering yogi from Amdo in the eastern part of Tibet. This beautifully poetic text comprises twenty-three songs that aid our practice of trekchö, cutting through delusion to natural primordial awareness.
Email Larry (email address Lakey0752@gmail.com) or at (202)580-9313 for the key code to enter the building or further information.
Donations appreciated.
