Somatic Meditation – To Be at One with Your Body
- Josh Gale
- A half-day workshop
Somatic meditation is about working with the body as the ground of meditation practice. Rather than a top-down, mental orientation towards meditation, somatic meditation is a bottom-up approach, in which the body is the key.
With a combination of somatic meditation, yoga and bodywork, we can open our boundless awareness and experience the wisdom and intelligence of the body. The body and mind become one with our original nature.
During this half-day workshop, we will explore meditation exercises from Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan yoga while lying, sitting and moving.
Between the practices, there will be space to discuss and share experiences.
About the teachers:
Josh Gale is from Auckland, New Zealand and has been practicing yoga and meditation since 2002. He was a brahmacari (monk) for three years, serving in temples and ashrams in the UK and New Zealand. In 2006, Josh completed his first yoga teacher’s training course, and 10 years later, he completed another course, this time focused on a Buddhist mindfulness approach to yoga. He is also working as a mindfulness teacher.
Since 1985 Dirk Milanowski has been practicing meditation, according to the teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche in the Shambhala tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1992, Shambhala head Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche authorized Dirk as a meditation instructor. Since then, he has been teaching meditation and bodywork regularly in the Shambhala Center in Frankfurt as well as in other places.
Language: English and German
Please bring your own yoga mat and a pillow for meditation.
Registration is required; please send an email to Evelyn Bausch: ebausch@dai-heidelberg.de.
Costs: 30 Euro // 25 Euro for DAI-members (drinks and little snacks included)
Please transfer the course fee no later than three days after your registration and no later than three days before the workshop begins. The bank details will be submitted to you after you have registered.
If you happen to register at short notice and there are available spots, special payment regulations apply. For any further information please feel free to contact us.
