Open Heart Zen Sangha

Weekly Meditation Practice, Wednesday 7 pm to 8:30 pm (via zoom)

12/31/2026

Open Heart now offers a weekly Meditation practice and monthly group discussion (Wednesday 7:oo pm to 8:30 pm) via zoom.
You may register for the online meditation practice by sending an e-mail with the following information to [email protected]
Your first and last name, Member status - New or previous member.

Monthly Group Discussion Wednesday, May 29, 2024, @ 7 PM

5/22/2024

The Art of Attunement (click to view)
Attunement is a relational mindfulness practice that allows our nervous systems to create inner calm and a safe space where we can be fully present with people in their authentic entirety. Attunement grants us greater social agency so we can transmit our inner gifts to the outer world. This quality is essential to activism and change-making as it deepens our care for the world and enables us to take action.

Monthly Group Discussion April 24, 2024, @ 7 PM

4/11/2024

The Eight Limbs of Yogic Meditation - Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (Click to view)
The eight limbs (ashta anga) of yoga present a road map for spiritual practice, beginning with yama (prohibitions) and niyama (injuctions) which are intended to purify one's mind (sattva shuddhi), then asana, posture, required for long periods of seated meditation, then pranayama, breathing exercises, pratyahara, sense withdrawal, dharana, concentration, dhyana, meditation, all leading to samadhi, a mystical state of absorption.

Monthly Group Discussion March 27, 2024

3/25/2024

Four Ways of Letting Go by Ajahn Brahm (Click to view)
Ajahn Brahm reveals ways of letting go. Ajahn offers a teaching on how to train your mind to let go, to be peaceful and happy. And reflects upon why we find it so hard to let go of our hurts and difficulties and how beneficial letting go is for us and others.

Monthly Group Discussion Wednesday, February 28, 2024, @ 7 PM

2/27/2024

Transforming Challenges into Growth With Eckhart Tolle (Click to view)
Eckhart Tolle explores the journey of personal and collective evolution through challenges. He discusses how facing physical, psychological, and situational obstacles can be the catalyst for growth and heightened consciousness. He also explains why embracing difficulties is essential for our spiritual progress and how adversity can lead to awareness.

Monthly Group Discussion Jan 31, 2024

2/27/2024

Dharma Rain, and Being Alone | Thich Nhat Hanh (Click to view)
In this short teaching video, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh talks about the seeds of peace and joy in ourselves, and about "being alone" to practice solitude, not caught in the past, not carried away by the future, and not carried away by the crowd..

Monthly Group Discussion December 27, 2023, @ 7 PM

12/17/2023

The group will view these two videos followed by discussion.
(1) 8 minutes video
You Decide How To Feel | Dr Gabor Maté (click to view)
IIn this video his video Gabor Mate tells us how we can decide how to react and feel when a challenge comes to us. How we can decide how to feel when something or someone makes us feel mad or something like that. This is about taking responsibility for our own life and emotions
(2) 15 minutes video
How To Reconnect Yourself and Live The Life You Wanted | Dr. Gabor Maté Powerful Advised (click to view)
In this powerful and captivating video, Dr. Gabor Maté shares his views on how to rediscover yourself and create the life you want. In this powerful and captivating video, Dr. Gabor Maté shares his views on how to rediscover yourself and create the life you want.

Monthly Group Discussion November 29, 2023, @ 7 PM

11/25/2023

The group will have a short period of meditation practice, followed by viewing this 15-minute video and engaging in a group discussion. "How to Find Yourself | The "True Self" in IFS Therapy" by Dr. Tori Olds (click to view the video). Dr. Tori Olds is psychologist.

Monthly Group Discussion Oct 25, 2023, @ 7 PM

10/17/2023

"MICHAEL SINGER ON HOW TO GET RID OF ANNOYING THOUGHTS"
Negative thoughts can be debilitating, draining our energy and affecting our mood and outlook on life. However, there are effective ways to free our minds from these harmful thought patterns.
Speaker ; Michael Singer Oprah Winfrey
Michael Alan "Mickey" Singer (or Michael A. Singer)
Born 6 May 1947 is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and former software developer.

Monthly Group Discussion Wed, Sep 27, 2023, @ 7 PM

9/25/2023

Focus of the group discussion is "Breathing".
The group will view a 24 minutes video
"8 exercises of Mindful Breathing" by Thich Nhat Hanh
(click the title to open the video).

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