Getting Started
Meditation Support
Joe is not currently accepting new meditation students for individual guidance/support.
Meditation is a practice of embracing life as it is, reducing reactivity, and gently softening the resistances within our minds, bodies, and emotions.
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Over time, it becomes an effortless abiding in our true nature. Recognizing that beginning this journey can be challenging due to our conditioned distractions, I offer guidance to help you cultivate concentration and expand your capacity to navigate distress.
Mindfulness Meditation & The Hindrances
In meditation, it's natural to encounter what are known as the hindrances--desire, aversion, restlessness, sloth and torpor, and doubt. While these experiences can feel challenging, they are valuable teachers, offering opportunities to deepen your practice. Learning to meet them with awareness and self-compassion is an essential part of the journey.
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I provide gentle guidance to help you navigate these experiences, whether you're new to mindfulness meditation or already have an established practice. Together, we'll begin right where you are, exploring your practice with curiosity and kindness.
What to Expect
The meetings are approximately 45 minutes and focus specifically on your meditation practice and the hindrances that you are encountering. I will offer guided meditations and suggestions during our time together.
Meditation sessions are offered on a sliding scale. Please contact me for additional information.
Certifications
I am a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and a graduate of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, accredited by the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley.
"Not striving, not halting, I cross the flood. This is sublime, this is release."
- Buddha
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
-Victor Frankl
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