Weekday Morning Meditation: A Down to Earth Program for Deepening Your Life
Daily Meditation Practice with Blake Abramovitz
Date: Daily Mondays through Fridays - an ongoing all levels class. Drop-ins welcome
Time: 8:00am PST (Los Angeles time zone)
Price: $20 per week, or $5 per sit. No one turned away for lack of funds
To Register: Please contact Blake at [email protected]
Dear Friends,
If you long to be happier and more alive, if you have an inkling that your heart could be more free, your mind a better friend to you, your relationships a sweeter refuge, then I invite you to run a bona fide experiment with yourself as the subject:
If you not only come meditate with me every weekday morning; if, rather, you also attend my Friday evening Treasure Map meditation course, you can ALSO expect:
Commit to some practice. Show up.
I promise you this is not skin deep.
See you on the cushion!
Love always,
Blake
Bio
After many years as a hard-partying Hollywood actor, I heeded a deeper calling to find a more balanced and fulfilling life purpose. I dedicated myself to serious yoga and meditation practice and study, training extensively with an array of L.A.'s most dynamic and respected teachers in both disciplines. The resources I’ve developed as a result of my studies have brought profound healing to the wounds of my rocky childhood and have allowed me to flourish mentally and emotionally.
I’ll be sharing these practices alongside insights on how neuroscience, psychology, and addiction theory support and expand our path to wholeness, allowing us to radically increase our overall life satisfaction and happiness. Though I am a meditation teacher of eight years now, I remain fiercely devoted to creativity as a spiritual path and still practice as a poet, musician, playwright, and actor.
To learn more about Blake, visit www.veniceyogi.com
Happiness in Trying Times
with David Leonard
Happiness in Trying Times
with David Leonard
Wednesdays 7:30 pm - 9 pm
This is an online event
Please RSVP below to get the link to online conference
Join us for a talk on ways to cultivate and maintain a happy mind in trying times. We will discuss powerful mental skills and practices to sustain mental peace in difficult times and throughout the rest of our life.
By donation.
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David Leonard has practiced and taught meditation for over 50 years, after receiving teacher training in Sri Lanka where he was a monk for three and a half years in his early 20s. David has done over eight years of deep retreat, and maintains an extensive daily practice. His intuitive approach to practice is uniquely suited to western minds, and he has been influential in the training of some well-known western teachers.
More teachings from David are now available at his YouTube channel, Mind Moment. Here's a video from that channel:
Treasure Map: Unearthing True Value in Yourself and Your Relationships
Facilitated by Blake Abramovitz
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
–Joseph Campbell
Date: Fridays - an ongoing all levels class. Drop-ins welcome
Time: 7:30 till 9:00pm PST (Los Angeles time zone)
Price: $10 per class, $35 for a 4 week pass, $70 for an 8-week pass
To Register: Please contact Blake directly at [email protected]
Treasure Map is a rolling eight-week meditation course, employing Buddhist mindfulness techniques, creative journaling practices, the evocative power of poetry, and authentic community to catalyze development across multiple lines.
This course is a skills-based training, guaranteeing no radical overnight transformation, no permanent ecstatic state. The aim of Treasure Map is to equip students with real, practical tools for navigating rough terrain. It focuses on the messy but necessary work of facing raw, vulnerable dimensions of our humanity, empowering practitioners to show up more authentically in their creative lives, their work, and their relationships.
Human beings employ various methods for fleeing what’s uncomfortable. As Carl Jung put it:
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Your treasure is locked in some inky cellar.
Or it is lying in a sodden swamp,
guarded by Will-o’-the-wisps,
Or it is clutched in the skeletal hands
of a mummy.
in the yellow of this faded map—
there you are—
and set out.
Like a dotted line twisting
across parchment,
your diamond feet
will find the way.
Bio
After many years as a hard-partying Hollywood actor, I heeded a deeper calling to find a more balanced and fulfilling life purpose. I dedicated myself to serious yoga and meditation practice and study, training extensively with an array of L.A.'s most dynamic and respected teachers in both disciplines. The resources I’ve developed as a result of my studies have brought profound healing to the wounds of my rocky childhood and have allowed me to flourish mentally and emotionally.
I’ll be sharing these practices alongside insights on how neuroscience, psychology, and addiction theory support and expand our path to wholeness, allowing us to radically increase our overall life satisfaction and happiness. Though I am a meditation teacher of eight years now, I remain fiercely devoted to creativity as a spiritual path and still practice as a poet, musician, playwright, and actor.
To learn more about Blake, visit www.veniceyogi.com.
