Insight Meditation Community of Harrisonburg

10/11/2023

For those looking to relate more wisely to their smartphones, I have a new meditation on Insight Timer:

This meditation is designed to help people have a healthier relationship with their smartphone. In this practice, we will apply mindfulness meditation techniques to understand the effects of smartphone use and to change habitual behaviors. The meditation is done with a smartphone, so please have one...

08/13/2023

New class starting Sept. 3rd!

06/23/2023

06/19/2023

Tired of losing hours to your smartphone? Wondering how to find balance? Interested in meditation?

02/17/2023

New in-person class starting in March!

Wise thought (Samma sankappa) Wise speech (Samma vaca)  Wise action (Samma kammanta) Wise livelihood (Samma ajiva)  Wise effort (Samma vayama) Wise mindfulness (Samma sati) Wise concentration (Samma samadhi) By learning and applying all of these dimensions of Buddhist wisdom, we can create the con...

01/25/2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/23/mindfulness-meditation-anxiety-medication/?utm_campaign=wp_the_optimist&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_optimist&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38f161f%2F63d136ac1b79c61f876407ba%2F596bdea69bbc0f403f997341%2F15%2F51%2F63d136ac1b79c61f876407ba&wp_cu=07e388a1ba2239fa320f4444fb8248b8%7CC0DBB82FB0172B3DE0430100007F44AE

Breathing and body exercises helped relieve anxiety as effectively as medications over an eight-week study of 208 people.

06/02/2022

Check out this new blog from a member of our meditation community!

Let's be imperfect humans together. Click to read Kinder Slower Happier, by Ros O'Brien, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

04/24/2022

Registration is open until 3 p.m. today for Rediscovering Joy Through Presence, a six-week course designed to help you develop presence and explore its spiritual implications. Here's the week-by-week plan for the course:

Week One: The Experience of Presence

Week Two: Presence in the spiritual traditions

Week Three: Presence as attunement to the Natural World

Week Four: Tending the emotions of the moment

Week Five: Discernment in past and future thinking

Week Six: Presence in the vibrant mundane

04/06/2022

Spring is a perfect time to deepen your practice! Join us for this new course:

01/22/2022

New class offering from Jared Featherstone:

07/07/2021

Great fall offering from IMCC:

Lion's Roarmagazine. The class format will be roughly forty minutes of lecture followed by a twenty-minute Q&A period, though the Zoom link will remain open for longer Q&A.