How does it feel to be oneself? What is our inner narrative?
Do we have a feeling of separateness and isolation or of connection? How do we view and experience others?
In this Day of Practice, senior Dharma teacher and former Buddhist nun Martine Batchelor invites us to contemplate these questions, gently unraveling the threads of identity we weave through our thoughts, conditioning, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
With curiosity and compassion, we’ll explore how we experience being ourselves – what our identity is based on, and how we relate to it – and how meditation can open the door to a more fluid, connected, and creative sense of self. Martine will lead us in a guided meditation focused on the body and impermanence in order to experience ourselves in a more flowing and flexible way.
Together we’ll endeavor to experience our creative and spacious self as totally connected to a wider living world through mindfulness of the breath and listening to sounds. Whether you feel confined by limiting beliefs or simply long to deepen your understanding of self and other, this day with Martine is an invitation to open to a brighter, freer, and more relational way of being.
