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Confidence Beyond Concept: a Mudra Space Awareness workshop with Greg Heffron
"Mindfulness" means nothing without embodiment. What are we mindful of? The Buddha's 'first foundation' for mindfulness was our body. The discipline of Mudra Space Awareness challenges us to see that even highly trained meditators aren't always able to relate in a direct way with bodily experience. Instead of being mindful of our actual body, we tend towards what Chögyam Trungpa called "psychosomatic body" — where we think about bodily experiences, rather than actually feeling them. This process is one of the main ways we disconnect from ourselves and lose the innate gifts of presence and confidence. To strengthen these, Trungpa introduced…
Find out more »(Philadelphia) Lee Worley – Mudra Space Awareness: Bringing Body, Voice, and Mind into Alignment
Lee Worley leads the pole exercises at Karme Choling retreat center (2007) NOTE: While not a Mudra Institute program, this is a great opportunity to study with senior Mudra teacher Lee Worley Join Nalandabodhi Philadelphia and the Shambhala Meditation Center of Philadelphia for a day of dharma at Children’s Community School with Nalandabodhi’s Mitra Lee Worley! Mitra Lee will be guiding participants through Mudra Space Awareness practice. (Find information on Mitra Lee’s program on Tuesday, 10/1 here.) Mudra…
Find out more »(L.A.) Mudra practice session with Greg Heffron
This workshop will introduce Mudra to those not familiar with the practice, and deepen it for those that are. Mudra Space Awareness is a method of mind/body training that draws inspiration from meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's early education in Tibetan monastic dance. The exercises combine intense physical training with focused sensory awareness to unlock the inherent awakened energy in the mind/body relationship. Mudra trains us to join fully with the intensity of experience. Come experience this provocative and profound…
Find out more »(Vermont) 7-Day Mudra Deep Immersion Retreat
This program will provide the full scope of Mudra. An extraordinary gathering of Mudra teachers will present intensive physical training, sensory exercises, meditations, talks and discussions. It is a qualifying program for Mudra advanced training to be held at Karme Choling in May of 2020.
Find out more »(L.A.) Mudra Practice Session with Greg Heffron
This workshop will introduce Mudra to those not familiar with the practice, and deepen it for those that are. Mudra Space Awareness is a method of mind/body training that draws inspiration from meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's early education in Tibetan monastic dance. The exercises combine intense physical training with focused sensory awareness to unlock the inherent awakened energy in the mind/body relationship. Mudra trains us to join fully with the intensity of experience. Come experience this provocative and profound…
Find out more »(L.A.) Mudra practice session with Greg Heffron
This workshop will introduce Mudra to those not familiar with the practice, and deepen it for those that are. Mudra Space Awareness is a method of mind/body training that draws inspiration from meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's early education in Tibetan monastic dance. The exercises combine intense physical training with focused sensory awareness to unlock the inherent awakened energy in the mind/body relationship. Mudra trains us to join fully with the intensity of experience. Come experience this provocative and profound…
Find out more »LIVESTREAM: Chaos Is Extremely Good News: Mudra & Digital Embodiment with Dr. Craig Warren Smith, Acharya Suzann Duquette and Greg Heffron
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said: "Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.” Through intensification and embodiment practices that engage our senses, Mudra meets the chaos of any moment and transmutes it into a clear sense of being. In this way, Mudra allows us to see fear, meet the groundlessness that is ever present, and engage both of these directly, with confidence. This presentation of Mudra Space Awareness through digital embodiment will explore key practices and themes of this group…
Find out more »Mudra Presentation & Practice Series, Talk 1
In this five-week class series, 50 years after Chögyam Trungpa first presented Mudra Space Awareness, it will be presented for the first time as a complete upaya — a 24/7 practice designed especially for the moment we are in today. No longer confined to theater training, this practice, succinctly presented in the above diagram, is designed to promote leadership in the moment of groundlessness that arises in the wake of COVID.
Find out more »Online LIVE from the Rock! – “Mudra Space Awareness In the Time of Zoom”
Do you often feel like you're becoming a two-dimensional screen version of yourself on zoom? Are you experiencing "thinking too much" and/or "not being in your body" on a regular basis? Is feeling disconnected from the world part of your life metaphorically, technologically, and/or literally? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you might want to come discover the world of Mudra Space Awareness.
Find out more »Mudra Presentation & Practice Series, Talk 2
The gateway to the Mudra experience is something called “intensification.” It is achieved through a series of mind/body exercises that dispel the conventional separation between tension and relaxation. Intensification provides a clue to the meaning of being “wrathful” as that term is understood in Vajrayana Buddhism. It becomes the basis of an engaged lifestyle that goes beyond mere mindfulness to achieve transformation. Why is intensification suitable to our own time of COVID?
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