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Joanna Sitting Instructions 2

Presented by: Joanna Katz

Presenter: Joanna Katz Event & Date: N/A Podcast Notes: Joanna teaches us the practice of sitting meditation. She weaves the practice of developing gratitude into our sitting practice. She discusses the development of intention, or kavanah, for practice.

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What does it mean to Teach?

Presented by: Jordan Bendat-Appell

Presenter: Jordan Bendat – Appell Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training May 2015 Podcast Notes: Jordan offers the understanding that teaching is intrinsic to this practice. He guides us to places in the liturgy that instruct us to teach, and to talk about a practice of love and of presence. Jordan introduces the reflection that […]

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Shabbat and the Eightfold Path

Presented by: Sheila Weinberg

Presenter: Sheila Weinberg Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training May 2015 Podcast Notes: Sheila begins with a explanation of the value of the making the Buddha’s Eightfold Path part of your practice. The seeds of the results of our actions are the wholesome and unwholesome intentions that inform these actions. Shabbat supports our wholesome intentions […]

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Walking Meditation Instructions

Presented by: Sheila Weinberg

Presenter: Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training 2014 Podcast Notes:  Sheila teaches about the importance of a focused attention during walking practice. She gives detailed instructions, reflecting on the connection to Jewish contemplative practice.

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Sitting Meditation Instructions

Presented by: Joanna Katz

Presenter: Rabbi Joanna Katz Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training 2014 Podcast Notes: Joanna teaches us the practice of sitting meditation. She weaves the practice of developing gratitude into our sitting practice. She discusses the development of intention, or kavanah, for practice.

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Teaching Torah through the Lens of Mindfulness | Teaching Mindfulness through the Lens of Torah

Presented by: Sheila Weinberg

Presenter: Rabbi Sheila Weinberg Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training Podcast Notes: Sheila begins with the connection of mindfulness to the cycle of Jewish holy days, being immersed in the embodied experience of the intentions arising in the practice of each holy day.  Sheila teaches that Torah has a sense of being a path of […]

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This Very Life is Your Practice

Presented by: Joanna Katz

Presenter: Rabbi Joanna Katz Event & Date: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training 2014 Podcast Notes: Joanna talks about how each of us has something precious and unique that is only ours to unfold in this practice.  That a spiritual practice is a practice that allows the heart and mind to settle.  Joanna teaches that spirituality, which is […]

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Loving Attention, Small Mind and the Aggregates

Presented by: Jeff Roth

Presenter: Rabbi Jeff Roth Series: 2014 Jewish Meditation Teaching Training Podcast Notes: Jeff presents a brief introduction to the theology of Jewish contemplative practice. He discusses what is needed to support our practice, and focuses on the Jewish concept of mochin de katnut, or small mind. Jeff details how the experience of self-identity is a process […]

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