--Eva
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New York Insight Meditation Center presents a day-long retreat with Nadine Helstroffer and Sandra Weinberg--Becoming Intimate with the Body: Awareness in Stillness and Motion.
Saturday, February 16, 10am–5 pm
Fee: $40
28 West 27th Street, 10th floor, Manhattan
Phone: 212-213-4802
E-mail: nyinsight@earthlink.net
This day is an opportunity to enjoy getting to know yourself in your body. As we tune into the spaciousness inside and outside the body, we come closer to our true nature. Building on the foundation of mindfulness practice, we will engage in a joyful and challenging form of inquiry in both stillness and movement. We will shift our awareness from concepts about the body to the arising and falling of each moment to moment experience. The four postures of body--sitting, standing, moving, and lying down--will be the place of exploration of our grasping and letting go.
NADINE HELSTROFFER
A Buddhist practitioner and a New York-based dancer-choreographer, Nadine Helstroffer has directed workshops in France, Canada, Korea, and the United States. In 1998 she founded the Resonance Body workshop, which explores the link between meditation and movement. She has been presenting her workshop at the Zen Center of New York City, the New School University and Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Vajra Realm, a dance pilgrimage with Nadine filmed in Central Tibet, was released in January 2007 and distributed by WGBH Boston/PBS as a special feature on the DVD Vajra Sky Over Tibet by John Bush. In collaboration with John, she is preparing the feature-length dance art film Schimmer, a meditation on impermanence.
SANDRA WEINBERG
Sandra Weinberg is a co-founder, member of the Teachers Council, and Board of Directors of NYI. She has studied and practiced mindfulness meditation for over 25 years and is a graduate of the first Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leaders Program. Sandra has taught insight meditation at NYI, the New York Open Center, City University of New York and elsewhere. She is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City.