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Mudra Space Awareness with Suzann Duquette
Mudra Space Awareness is a mind/body transformation method developed by The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Inspired by his education in Tibetan Monastic dance, the Mudra exercises combine intense physical training with focused sensory awareness to unlock our inherent freedom and create a radical shift in our understanding of the mind/body relationship to space. In the early 1970s, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche introduced Mudra practice before he formally conferred Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhist) teachings to his American students. This practice accessed the qualities…
Find out more »Embodying Humanness: Exploring Feminine and Masculine Principles through Mudra Space Awareness and Co-Creativity with Zoey Moyle
Three Mondays in a Row: 6-8:30pm (see link below for details) Gender is a big topic. Often we get caught on a more conventional or relative level of understanding it. According to the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings, what underlies this is that no matter what gender one relates to being, we all contain two principles. These energies can be called Masculine and Feminine. Along these lines, it could be said that we cannot flourish without feeling our connection with both…
Find out more »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.
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