{"id":45953,"date":"2015-07-20T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=45953"},"modified":"2015-07-20T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T18:07:19","slug":"upcoming-workshops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/07\/20\/upcoming-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Bhante Wimala\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Title: Meditation for Beginners<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nDate: August 21, 2015 &#8211; August 23, 2015<br \/>\nLocation: Omega, Rhinebeck, NY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meditation for Beginners provides a survey of meditation techniques to start the beginner and refresh the experienced meditator.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual traditions throughout the ages have recommended meditation as a core practice and a path toward peace of mind. Modern medicine is now finding that meditation techniques can be applied to alleviate pain, improve health, increase vitality, and buffer day-to-day encounters with stress.<\/p>\n<p>In this workshop appropriate for both nonprofessionals and helping professionals, we sample a variety of meditation traditions, philosophies, techniques, and practices from yogic and Buddhist traditions.<\/p>\n<p>For thousands of years, Buddhist masters have practiced and evaluated nearly every meditation technique. It is from this legacy that Bhante Wimala draws his knowledge and guides us to develop a personalized meditation program that can be used at home to find peace and health in daily life. He also shares with us his personal experiences through slide shows, talks, and videos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eomega.org\/workshops\/meditation-for-beginners#-workshop-description-block\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: Journey Toward Awakening: Meditation Retreat<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nDate: September 11, 2015 &#8211; September 13, 2015<br \/>\nLocation: Copper Beach Institute, West Hartford, CT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are honored that Bhante Wimala has accepted our invitation to visit Copper Beech Institute. Join us for a peaceful, restorative weekend, learning and practicing the original teachings of the Buddha with a world-renowned meditation teacher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Relax and connect with your heart energy<\/li>\n<li>Explore many different powerful, restorative, and healing meditation modalities<\/li>\n<li>Experience the benefits of a daily meditation practice<\/li>\n<li>Find inner peace during deeply restorative guided meditations<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to attract more peace, love, and harmony into your life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.copperbeechinstitute.org\/awakening\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhante Wimala\u00a0 Title: Meditation for Beginners Date: August 21, 2015 &#8211; August 23, 2015 Location: Omega, Rhinebeck, NY Meditation for Beginners provides a survey of meditation techniques to start the beginner and refresh the experienced meditator. Spiritual traditions throughout the ages have recommended meditation as a core practice and a path toward peace of mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}