Options and Offerings
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Online Courses
Your host Rita is a certified mindfulness and meditation instructor in the Mindful Life Program, and certified to practice Guided Embodied Inquiry for Individuals (GEII)
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Mindfulness Foundations Course
Reduce mental and emotional suffering. Learn to bring attention and intention to your life, and get the tools you need to cultivate a daily mindfulness practice, in this transformative 8-week program
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Meditation Basics
Think you can't meditate? Tried but don't get it? Forgotten why you started? Want to deepen an existing practice? Understand the whys and hows of this ancient beneficial practice and develop a consistent daily practice with this 4-week introductory course
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Introduction to Mindfulness
Developed by Mirador Eco-Retreat for the Oregon Education Association and now available online to individuals and groups. This 4-week overview of mindfulness principles and skills including meditation, attention, values, intention, and action will help you decide if mindfulness can improve your life
To support you in developing a regular meditation practice, Telesangha was created to provide the structure of guided meditation by phone with a live teacher and a small group of meditators who meet each weekday, including holidays. Many people have found this an enriching way to sense the support of community around their practice. Our Telesangha group meets at 9am MT, Monday through Friday, and has been ongoing since 2016. Click here to learn more and register.
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Individual Mindfulness Mentoring
Guided Embodied Inquiry​
"When we bring awareness into the body, we discover that we are holding pain and self beliefs that have been accumulating throughout our lives. By creating the space and stability to allow emotions safely to emerge and move through, these old patterns begin to unwind and release."
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Our culture has taught that we can think or talk our way out of constraining mental and emotional habits, but mental processes are rarely enough to untie these 'psychic knots.' Embodied Inquiry allows us to discover and release from subconscious programming that keeps us stuck and suffering. We all carry conditioning, automatic reactions to buried beliefs and hurts, lodged in our bodies. This conditioning, if left unexplored, limits our capacity to live fully and freely.
Individual sessions of Guided Embodied Inquiry use meditative techniques and compassionate interaction to help uncover this subconscious programming and begin the process of healing and release. Often one session can provide a dramatic breakthrough and/or profound relief. Most people benefit from several sessions to unwind these internal tangles.
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Please email to schedule a free half-hour introduction to the practice, or a full hour-long session, offered on a sliding scale from $50 - $90 to make this offering affordable.
One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching
Everyone on the mindfulness journey can benefit from support: It's hard to go it alone, even with courses, readings and recordings. Questions arise, practice slips, challenges seem overwhelming. Especially when you're starting out, it's helpful to have someone you can call and talk things over with, someone who may be a few steps ahead of you on the path whom you can count on to offer an empathetic ear and help you find your way.
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Please email to schedule a free half-hour discussion of options to see if
a "personal mind trainer" might be right for you!
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For Graduates
Annual 'Deepen Your Practice' course for graduates of the MLP Mindfulness Foundations Course. Next course starts March, 2025. Call or email for more information.
Guided Meditations
Short
Guided Mindfulness of Breath (MoB) and Insight meditations less than15 minutes, suitable for beginning meditators
Guided Meditations
Long
Guided Mindfulness of Breath (Shamatha) meditations and Insight (Vipassana) meditations,15-30 minutes
Mindfulness Meditation
Solo or together, silent or guided, meditate in the gardens or out in the woods ~ find a favorite place or sit somewhere different every meditation.
Guidance offered with certified MLP instructor Rita Clagett
Limited in-person retreats may resume summer 2024
Iyengar Yoga
Lessons from the best, with Senior Iyengar teacher Nancy Stechert and ancient junipers, or more sedately, on mats at the yurt or in the gardens ~ your choice.
Nancy offers Iyengar asana classes, Pranayama, and custom private lessons.
Limited in-person retreats may resume summer 2024
