Mindfulness is a Misnomer

Date & Time

Oct 29, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Registration

Location

NY Insight Meditation Center

Led by

Sebene Selassie

Cost

2 credits

In this evening salon, we will explore the roots of mindfulness as a somatic practice that can liberate us from the stress of the anxious mind. We will learn how meditation can reconnect us to embodied ways of knowing that modernity buried by prioritizing the mind and dismissing the body. The session will include a talk interspersed with meditation, journaling, and conversation. It will conclude with a discussion on how to cultivate embodied awareness in daily life for more calm, centeredness, and connection.

Dinner & refreshments included.

About Sebene Selassie

Sebene Selassie is a writer and teacher who leads meditation, creativity, and nature-based practices for personal and collective liberation. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington, DC, Sebene holds a BA from McGill University and an MA from The New School. With a twenty-year career in social impact, she has led community initiatives ranging from youth work in San Francisco’s Tenderloin to humanitarian efforts in refugee camps in Guinea, West Africa. She has spent over fifteen years teaching workshops and retreats and is a featured teacher on the Ten Percent Happier app. Trained as a coach, a meditation teacher, a licensed New York state hiking guide, and a practitioner of Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma (IFOT), her publications include her book, You Belong: A Call for Connection, published by HarperOne, and the newsletter remind me to love.

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