Finding Our Way: Using Zen Stories to Understand Ourselves and Our World with Annie M.
Readings of short stories/koans from Buddhist teachers and writings (ancient and modern), silent contemplation, and meaningful discussion.
Six-week Series
9:00am CT, Thursdays - 60 minutes (7am PT/8am MT/9am CT/10am ET)
23 July - 27 August
Each week we will read a short story/koan from Buddhist teachers and writings (ancient to modern times), contemplate/meditate together in silence, and then discuss what this story means for us in our lives today. An engaging way to bypass the analytical mind and learn more about ourselves and our intentions.
If you miss a session - they're recorded and available within 48 hours.
Annie Mahon is an inspired creator of spiritual spaces, an author and an ordained Buddhist mindfulness teacher. She is the founder of the Circle Yoga Cooperative in Washington, D.C., the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community, DC Community Yoga, and DC Yoga Week. Annie has been writing and teaching about mindfulness, parenting, stress and yoga since 2004. Her blog, rawmindfulness.com and social media are popular with mindfulness and yoga practitioners. Annie’s book, Things I Did When I was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food (Parallax Press, 2015), documents Annie’s search for sanity in her eating disordered family life, and reveals how mindfulness helped her go beyond the search for perfection and learn to love the moment as it is.
Annie holds many certifications in yoga, Focusing and massage therapy and dabbles in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and has as a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Religious Studies from Howard University School of Divinity. When not visiting her children, teaching, traveling with her husband, drinking Jasmine tea, writing or walking her dogs, she practices yoga and mindfulness with her community in DC.
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