
TINY MINDFULNESS RETREAT
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
4-6pm
2nd floor, NOLA Massage
5207 Magazine Street
NOLA, 70115
suggested donation: $25
Space is limited! Sign-up is required.
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Join us for a Tiny Mindfulness Retreat this Ash Wednesday!
I'm SO EXCITED to partner with NOLA Massage for this event!
The day after Mardi Gras is a day of cleansing, recovery, and reflection. In the Christian liturgical calendar, Mardi Gras is the last big bash before the forty somber days of Lent. During Lent, the faithful bring their awareness to their sins and seek reconciliation. It’s a season of sacrifice and fasting, and identifying with Jesus when he was tempted by the Devil for forty days in the desert. Easter, the ultimate sacrifice and reconciliation, is the triumphant conclusion to Lent.
Practitioners of Buddhism reflect on the impermanence of our physical form. Through mindfulness, we contemplate and learn to accept our human imperfections, sitting with our limitations and suffering in non judging awareness. Followers of Buddhism seek to end the suffering of self and others, while at the same time acknowledging and welcoming suffering as necessary to spiritual growth.
Both East and West honor and seek to connect with the humility of our human form. Integration of mind and body is the key to healing. Study after study has revealed that interoception can teach our bodies to heal even emotional wounds. Interoception is the ability to perceive sensations within your body. Examples of interoception include feeling or hearing your heartbeat, noticing hunger or digestion, sensing your muscles contract or relax.
Join us this Ash Wednesday as we focus on interoception as a pathway to cleansing, recovery, and reconciliation.
The offering: (two-hour Tiny Mindfulness Retreat)
- talk/discussion: embodying imperfection, interdependence, and impermanence
- guided meditation, 10 minutes
- short break
- talk: detoxification and our bodies
- guided walking meditation, 15 minutes
- short break
- talk: healing properties of interoception, introduction to Yoga Nidra
- Yoga Nidra practice, 20 minutes