Saturday 8th November 12PM - 13:30PM
£45* or 2.5 Credits
*Full Madara Membership Discount Applied
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
The Brahmavihārās (divine abodes) are profound practices that uncover your natural capacity to live your life easefully with love, connection, wisdom, and joy. In this experiential workshop, we’ll use daily guided meditation practices, storytelling, song, relational mindfulness practices, self-directed neuroplasticity, yoga, and somatic play to explore the classical Buddhist Heart practices known as the “boundless states” or the “four immeasurables.”
In this workshop, we will explore these four key virtues (found in the Yogic & Buddhist traditions) and ways to cultivate them, including:
Loving-kindness (metta) practices for self-acceptance, relational healing, gratitude, forgiveness, and kinship with all beings.
Compassion (karuna) practices for tenderness, resilience, an open-heart to suffering, and a greater sense of our shared humanity.
Sympathetic joy (mudita) practices for enthusiasm, authentic joy, generosity, and celebratory participation in life.
Equanimity (upekka) practices for wisdom, perspective, clarity, and an unwavering sense of trust.
Whereas some spiritual practices are aimed at otherworldly enlightenment, the four divine abodes help us awaken to the beauty, clarity, and vast possibility available right here in our complex, often messy, mundane, and wholly sacred human experience. They are a pathway to unburdening ourselves of self-doubt, resentment, and regret. They guide our way home to that wellspring in our hearts from which unconditional love flows, where we contact our wholeness, discover radical acceptance, and remember our belonging in this world.
No matter who you are, where you are on your spiritual path, or what you’ve been through, discovering renewal is possible. Join us if you long for a deep, playful, tenderizing workshop that may touch your heart and leave you forever transformed.
HANNAH MUSE
Deemed the “midwife of possibility,” Hannah is an internationally-celebrated teacher of mindfulness, mysticism, and yoga. A mother and devoted student of Buddhism, neuropsychology, and mythology, Hannah is known for weaving complex teachings into accessible, heart-opening, life-changing experiences. Over the past ten years, Hannah has trained hundreds of yoga and mindfulness teachers, and been a featured presenter at dozens of conferences, festivals, and professional trainings around the globe.
With a background in social/environmental advocacy, Hannah’s spirituality is inspired by our shared humanity and her deep love for the world and its beings. Hannah is a founding board member for the Yoga for All Movement, an organization that shares yoga and mindfulness with individuals experiencing incarceration, people in recovery from substance abuse, survivors of domestic violence, and others who have historically not been served by the wellness industry.
When she’s not leading Awake Heart yoga teacher trainings, facilitating retreats throughout the world, or with her beloved Shelter in the Heart meditation sangha online, you can find her in the ocean with her daughter, dancing wildly or meditating quietly.