FOUNDATIONS OF MINDFULNESS:
CULTIVATING GENTLENESS, PRECISION, AND LETTING GO
WITH DAVID NICHTERN & STEPHANIE BELHOMME
Thursdays, August 3rd – 24th, 2023
6:00pm – 7:30pm ET
Mindfulness meditation has exploded in popularity in recent years due to its ability to help us work with life's unavoidable ups and downs. Meditation is also proven to help us reduce stress and understand and relate to challenging feelings in healthier ways.
Along with these benefits, and perhaps most importantly, mindfulness offers us the opportunity to learn to be fully present and open to whatever is happening in our own experience, just as it is.
Through this direct attention, we learn to be kinder and more accepting of ourselves and bring this awareness into our relationships and the world we share.
If you've wanted to learn how to meditate or renew the meditation practice you already have, join longtime Buddhist teacher David Nichtern and Stephanie Belhomme, Assistant Teacher at Dharma Moon, for this four-week Foundations of Mindfulness online course to explore the practice of mindfulness meditation.
The course is meant to be a fun, concise, deep dive on cultivating mental stability, clarity, and wakeful awareness available through these powerful and transformative practices.
COURSE CURRICULUM AND DATES
Class 1: August 3rd – Introduction to mindfulness practice
Class 2: August 10th – Inviting Gentleness
Class 3: August 17th – Applying Precision
Class 4: August 24th – Non-attachment and Letting Go
RECOMMENDED READING
The Wisdom of No Escape and How to Meditate by Pema Chödrön
WHEN YOU REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM, YOU GET
- Four live online classes on Thursdays from August 3rd – 24th, 2023 led by Dharma Moon Teachers David Nichtern and Stephanie Belhomme
- An in-depth exploration of mindfulness practice
- Clear guidance and group practice to help you establish a sustainable personal meditation practice
- Ongoing class discussion and support from a community of like-minded practitioners
- Video recordings of each live session for future reference and review
COURSE INSTRUCTORS
David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This tradition combines a contemporary, secular approach to meditation with the ancient practices and philosophies of Tibetan Buddhism.
David is also a four-time Emmy winner and two-time Grammy nominee, and a successful entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience integrating spiritual practice and everyday living. He is the author of Awakening From The Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and Creativity Spirituality and Making A Buckon Wisdom Publications.
Stephanie Belhomme
Stephanie on-boarded as one of Dharma Moon’s Assistant Teachers following the completion of its signature 100hr Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training certification. She is one-third of the tri-part cohort spearheading conversations, thought-leadership, and a fresh take around experiences of Equity within Dharma Moon, and beyond it.
By day supporting, furthering, and exploring the case for mindfulness in business and startups she serves as a Salesforce Ecosystem Professional, and by night in the Spring & Fall she pays forward her talents & tech sector experiences to BMCC-CUNY college students as an Adjunct Lecturer.
