For this month’s regular open-audience, open-discussion “Ask Us Anything” — continuing discussions about meditation and related topics — Denny and I hosted a open roundtable on “Practice-in-place” with fellow Insight Timer teacher Lydia Grace and Joanne Muir. The term “Practice-in-place” comes as a wise meditative response to “Shelter-in-place” induced by reactions to Co-V.
Amongst discussion about now using more technology in our practices and sessions we also get into, not necessarily in this order:
- Energy work
- 32 parts of the body in the Iddhipāda-Vibhaṅga Sutta — An Analysis of the Bases of Power (SN 51:20)
- Feeling fear
- Not being wrong about being in fear
- ego as an overstimulated nervous system
- PTSD
- Healing
- Matt Kahn’s main teaching of deserving more love not less
- Mindfulness/Bodyfulness when interacting with technology
- Dharmic Strategies For Empaths
- Body as a tool
- Emotional intelligence
- Techniques and methods
- Polyvagal Theory and The Embody Lab
- Brahmaviharas
- Trauma
- Being a hero to others still going through the same thing we’ve already mastered
- Thai massage
- Presence
- Puja
- Eating your own dog food
- Shell shock
- Sharing, processing, integrating and extremes of information
- Mountains
- “Surmountable by wisdom are all things”
- Information into knowledge into wisdom
- Fast food spirituality [I toss out a lot of nuggets quickly maybe due to limited time]
- Providing information and resources to our students/consumers
- Roundtables and collaborative formats
Lydia’s Insight Timer circle Embodied Living
Some of my original notes not mentioned:
- wake up call for me as I’m taking on more and more computer time. I turn off cell phone as much as possible and use a wired internet connection to help stay more embodied and not get lost in a wireless virtual reality of screens and have minimized dependence on two-factor authentication and apps with functionality exclusive to their mobile app
- importance of supporting both those formally practicing in real life and those who “practice-in-place”
- spirit rock retreat center looks like it is reopening next year
- my online 1/2 day retreats with beth upton and ajahn succito’s online retreat love as the breath of life
- real life opportunities via dharmagates.org:
In-Person Retreats:
- Bhavana Society one month or longer residency
- Silent Retreats with Beth Upton options for 10 days, 20 days, one month
- Zen Sesshins at Great Vow Zen Monastery residency, week-long retreat options
- Retreats with Gil Fronsdal at the Insight Retreat Center week-long retreats
- Remote Meditation Interviews/Instruction with Beth Upton donation-based
Hermitage & Self-Retreat Opportunities:
- Hermitage Program – Lama Foundation, Lama, NM
- Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge – Sangre De Cristos, NM
- TAT Foundation List of Self-Retreat Centers – USA
Note: self-retreat opportunities are generally only recommended to those who have an established relationship with a Buddhist lineage and teacher, and for those who have done extensive meditation practice
Audio only version: Practice-In-Place Roundtable | (10/26/2021 — “Ask Us Anything – LIVE” With Denny K Miu And Guests Lydia Grace and Joanne Muir)
Join “Ask Us Anything LIVE” next month, November 30, 2021 at our new time of 4pm Central via:
- Facebook [custom link redirecting to Facebook Live at 4pm: dennykmiu.com/facebook]
- YouTube on Denny’s 如是我錄Thus I Recorded YouTube channel
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