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Public Programs
Fall 2008
 

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Class:

     A New Earth:
     Awakening to Your
     Life's Purpose

Retreat:

     The Direct Path
     to Spiritual
     Awakening

Open Meditation:

     Sunday Silent 
     Meditation

     Half-Day Silent
     Meditation

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Public programs are open to everyone interested in beginning or continuing an existing meditation practice. The following classes, retreats and open meditations have a broad appeal and are designed to meet the needs and interests of people coming from many backgrounds and interests, including

  • Newcomers to meditation

  • Those with some meditation experience looking for a support structure to insure progress

  • Those who have taken a Mindfulness-based Stress Management program

  • Anyone wanting to re-establish a regular daily practice after a significant break

  • Yoga students interested in complementing their physical yoga practice with meditation

A New Earth:
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Weekly Class
on-site, or via audio recordings

September 23rd - November 25th

10 Tuesday evenings     7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Walk in the Woods - morninglight.usThis class is based on Ekhart Tolle's best-selling book A New Earth, Awakening to your Life's Purpose.  We will focus on how to directly experience the principles described and apply them in your everyday life.  Whether or not you have read this fantastic book or watched Oprah Winfrey's webcasts with Tolle, this is an opportunity to bring these teachings alive with the help of a local teacher who lives these awakened principles.  And you have the option to attend the 10 week live class on Tuesday evenings or listen to the downloadable audio recordings at your leisure (see below).

Classes will include talks, guided meditations, and awareness exercises designed to awaken you to the timeless True Self, and to free you from identification with the false self, the ego.  It is attachment to ego that creates the dysfunction of anger, jealousy and unhappiness.  Transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.  In this course you will learn how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

  • There will be weekly readings from the book, so please acquire your own copy before the first class.

  • No previous meditation experience required

  • Each weekly class includes an opportunity to raise questions and discuss material

  • Audio recordings of each class will be posted to the internet, accessible by all class participants for listening or downloading.

  • This class will include a half-day meditation on Saturday, November 1

  • Weekly remote meditation energy transfers from Scott will support your learning and experience of the material.

Instructor:  Scott McBride  (for more information about Scott, go to his Faculty page)

Registration Options:

  1. On-site classroom
    10 Tuesday evenings, 7-9 PM
    September 23 - November 25
     See description and bullets above.
         Cost:   $150 for the on-site class option if pre-registered by September 16th.  $175 after September 16th and at the door.
    Location:  MLUC
    Click here to link to registration information for the On-site Classroom option.

  2. Internet Classroom

  • Based on recordings of each weekly class through accessing internet audio files (Requires computer and internet access.)

  • Weekly readings from the book as in the on-site classroom

  • A new file will be made available each week

  • This class will include a half day meditation on Saturday, November 1

  • In addition, Scott will support remote students through weekly meditation transfers of energy.

  • Cost:   $100, register anytime up until November 30th

  • To register for the Internet Classroom option, please make check payable to "Scott McBride" and send to 486 Maynard Drive, Wayne, PA  19087.

Sunday Silent Meditations at Verge

The semimonthly Sunday evening meditations at Verge Power Yoga will not be held during the summer.  Please check back in the Fall.

(Free and Open to the Public)

Sundays, 7:00 to 8:00 PM

Monthly, every 2nd and 4th Sunday 

Verge logoParticipants should have some meditation experience, as this is in complete silence with no verbal guidance.  It consists of sitting and walking for 1 hour.  

Please bring your own cushion or chair.

  

Cost:   No charge

Location:  Verge Power Yoga, 250 W. Lancaster Avenue, Wayne, PA

     

Half-Day Silent Meditation

(Free and Open to the Public)

Saturday, November 1st,  9:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Sitting and Walking Meditation

Please join us for this morning of silent group practice that is open to everyone who has received meditation instruction.  This program is offered every semester as a way to bring meditators together, including students from the current classes.  It provides an opportunity to experience the powerful support of a group while deepening your own meditation.  The schedule will include periods of sitting and walking meditation.  Please note, no meditation instruction will be provided during this program.

Cost:   No charge

Location:  The Main Line Unitarian Church

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