This Week
Mon 26 6:00am-7:00am Morning Sitting Meditation 5:45pm-6:45pm Kundalini Yoga 7:00pm-8:15pm Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps
Tue 27 6:00am-7:00am Morning Sitting Meditation
Wed 28 6:00am-7:00am Morning Sitting Meditation 9:15am-10:45am Soma Yoga 5:30pm-6:30pm Kundalini Yoga
Fri 30 6:00am-7:00am Morning Sitting Meditation 5:30pm-6:30pm Integrative Yoga
Sat 31 8:30am-10:00am Soma Yoga
Sun 1 10:00am-11:30am Kundalini Yoga

Mindfulness and the 12 Steps

Guest speaker William Alexander on August 9, 2010.

Join us for this special event! Author Bill A., Still Waters: Sobriety, Atonement, and Unfolding Enlightenment, is our guest speaker. Book signing follows the meeting.

Dates & Times

Monday, August 9, from 7:00-8:15 PM.

Cost

Open to all 12-Step participants. Donations welcome.

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Morning Sitting Meditation

When you arrive for early morning meditation, you can park in the back of our building, 2046 Saint Clair Avenue, and come in through the rear entry. If you arrive after the sitting period has begun, please wait until you hear the sound of the bell to enter the meditation studio.

Dates & Times

Monday through Friday: 6:00am - 7:00am

6:00 AM First sitting period
6:30 AM Second sitting period

Cost

Open to all. Donations welcome.

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Meditation Made Easy

Join us for this 90-mn introduction to meditation. While this is a beginning level class, it is open to everyone who would like to revitalize their meditation practice. In this class, Jim will present:

  • Instruction in basic sitting and walking meditation
  • Practices for breath awareness and quieting the mind
  • Suggestions on posture and sitting technique
Teacher

Jim Jacobs

Dates & Times

Sat Jun 19, 10 from 10:30am - 12:00pm

Cost

$10. (Pre-registration required.)

Register Online ($10.00)
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Summer Practice Circle

Deepen your meditation practice with weekly sitting, reflection, and support.

This meditation circle offers brief instruction and in sitting meditation, body awareness and walking meditation and loving-kindness practices, as well as an opportunity to practice with others. Participating in a meditation circle is a wonderful way to support your practice and the practice of others.

For anyone who has basic meditation experience at Mind Roads Meditation or another practice center.

Teachers

Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart & Jim Jacobs

Dates & Times

Jun 24, 10 - Aug 26, 10
Thursdays: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Note these time changes: Thu Jun 24, 10 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm

No class on the following days: Thu Jul 01, 10

Cost

$125 for the nine sessions
Pre-registration and payment are required.

Register Online ($125.00)
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Fundamentals of Meditation

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Practice

No more wired and tired! Create an oasis of calm by learning to meditate. This class includes instruction in breath awareness, mindfulness, and sitting and walking meditation, with an emphasis on including loving kindness in your relationship with yourself and others. Join us for a "hands-on," supportive approach to getting started with practice and integrating it into daily life. See how mindfulness meditation can help you become more in charge of your health and happiness.

We will follow the practices in Thérèse's book, Paths Are Made By Walking: Practical Steps to Attaining Serenity — a unique synthesis of brain science and the study of spirit, including practices for creating calm, developing mindful awareness, and observing our reactive habits. Classes include lecture, discussion and guided meditation.

This course includes a free copy of the Paths Are Made By Walking meditation CD.

Teacher

Jim Jacobs

Dates & Times

Watch for Fall, 2010 dates!

Cost

$95 for the six sessions
(Includes Paths Are Made By Walking book meditation CD. Pre-registration and payment are required.)

Register Online ($95.00)
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Living Kindness for Self and Others

Do you have a vigilant "inner critic"? Take the opinions of others too much to heart? Wish for deeper peace and contentment?

Open your capacity to receive goodness with this class on Loving-Kindness. We will look at the beautiful Eastern practice of "Metta" (loving kindness and compassion), meditations that revive hope and joy, remove tension and struggle, and build harmony in our relationships with others.

In this six-week seminar, you will:

  • Practice mindfulness of your breath, body and feelings
  • Develop awareness of your needs and desires
  • Cultivate greater openheartedness and generosity toward yourself and others
  • Deepen your acceptance of yourself "just as we are"
  • Use the power of your intention to wish for our well-being and the well-being of others

This class introduces classic loving kindness meditation, a protection meditation, and practices for healing the inner critic. It combines silent meditation, guided meditation, mini-presentations, discussion, and class handout-outs.

Teacher

Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart

Dates & Times

Watch for Fall 2010 dates!

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Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps

This weekly practice group explores basic teachings of the Buddhist practice of mindfulness and their reflection in the twelve steps. The group supplements recovery and is designed to reveal to us that consistent mindfulness and meditation practice is vital to spiritual progress.

We begin each session with a period of meditation and follow with a brief presentation and discussion. Anyone who wants to support a 12-step recovery program with a deepened understanding of meditation and Buddhism is welcome.

Preamble

“We meet Monday evenings, one chapter in a nation-wide community of Twelve Steps and Mindfulness meetings. Our addictions are wide-spread: drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, cigarettes, or codependency. Everyone is welcome.

 We introduce ourselves by going around the circle, saying our first name and Twelve Step affiliation. We have a common interest in meditation practices and how they can inform our recovery from addiction. Each month, we discuss one of the Twelve Steps and how Buddhist thought, meditation, and mindfulness practice can inform its application to our life in recovery. We sit in silent meditation together, hear a talk by one of our members, and share our reflections.

 As with many Twelve Step meetings, we are a diverse group of people, yet we are part of the great stream of beings seeking deeper serenity in our lives, grounded in sobriety by the Twelve Step program, inspired to awaken and live in the present by the practices of mindfulness meditation. In our addictions, we were never here in the moment. We wanted to be gone. Now we are learning to wake up to the joy of being alive. Please make yourself at home.”

Adapted from Mindfulness and the 12-Steps by Thérèse Jacobs Stewart
(MN: Hazelden Publications, 2010.)

Download handout on Meditation Room (“Zendo”) Etiquette

Dates & Times

Mondays: 7:00pm - 8:15pm at Mind Roads

Listen to audio presentations and meditations from this meeting.

 

Available at other locations on Thursday and Friday evenings:

Uptown, Thursday
7:00—8:15 PM
Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
3343 East Calhoun Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55408
www.mnzencenter.org
612.822.5313

Seward, Friday
7:00—8:15 PM
Common Ground Meditation Center
2700 E. 26th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
www.commongroundmeditation.org
612.722.8260

Cost

Open to all 12-step program participants. Donations welcome.

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2009-2010 Loving Kindness Intensive

This eight-month training will progress through all seven levels of formal Loving Kindness practice. It supports participants in deepening their meditation practice and entering the profound joy of bringing loving kindness to all relationships, including relationships with self, loved ones, and difficult people in our lives. This intensive is designed for participants who have prior experience in mindfulness or loving kindness meditation. A commitment to meditate at least five times a week is required.

The program will provide structured, sustained guidance and contact with Thérèse Jacobs Stewart, as well as encouragement and support from other class members who are in a similar phase in their practice.

Participation in the Loving Kindness Intensive includes:

  • Commitment to sit in meditation at least five times a week, at home, at MindRoads Meditation Center (MMC) or at another practice center
  • Willingness to participate in body movement practice (yoga warm-ups)
  • Attendance at all classes and mini-retreats to the best of your ability
  • Participation in small group meetings in the class session
  • Keeping a practice journal
  • Reading and reflecting on class hand-outs an reading assignments (TBD)

Interested persons apply and are accepted for the year-long program. For a printable application in PDF format, click here.

Dates & Times

Thursdays: 1:15pm - 1:00pm
Saturdays: 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Loving Kindness for Self:
Thu Oct 08, 09
Thu Oct 22, 09
Sat Oct 31, 09 Half-Day Retreat
Loving Kindness for Benefactors:
Thu Nov 05, 09
Thu Nov 19, 09
Loving Kindness for Loved Ones:
Thu Dec 03, 09
Thu Dec 17, 09
Thu Jan 21, 10
Sat Jan 30, 10 Half-Day Retreat
Loving Kindness for Neutral People:
Thu Feb 04, 10
Thu Feb 18, 10
Loving Kindness for Difficult People:
Sat Mar 06, 10 Half-Day Retreat
Thu Mar 11, 10
Thu Mar 25, 10
Dissolving the Barriers:
Thu Apr 08, 10
Thu Apr 22, 10
Loving Kindness for All Beings:
Thu May 06, 10
Sat May 15, 10 Half-Day Retreat

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