Napa Valley Insight Meditation

Meditation & Discussion: Forrest Hill
2015-05-05 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Forrest Hill will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Daylong Retreat: Meditation and Mindful Movement
2015-05-02 03:00 - 09:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
BODY AWARENESS: MEDITATION AND MINDFUL MOVEMENT
Join us for this daylong event as we explore the nature of the body through mindfulness. The program will include sitting and walking meditation, instructions, and body movement.

What to Bring: Please bring a lunch, beverage and appropriate clothing for outside walking meditation.
Suggested Donation: $20 – $60; No one turned away for lack of funds.
All levels of experience welcomed!
For more Information: Contact Susan DuQuette at susandiorr@yahoo.com
Forrest Hill has been practicing Insight Mediation since 2004 and is the founder of Napa Valley Insight Meditation. He has served as a facilitator at NVIM since its inception in 2011. Forrest is currently enrolled in the Community Dharma Leaders Program, a Buddhist teacher training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He has a PhD from MIT in Biological Oceanography and works as a socially responsible financial advisor. Forrest believes insight meditation can foster greater awareness, wisdom and kindness in our daily lives, and teach us how to respond more compassionately to the world around us.
Juan Sacristan has been practicing Yoga and meditation since 1975. He has a Doctorate in Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West and has practiced Chiropractic for over 25 years. Juan studied lyengar based Yoga with Victor Oppenheimer and has trained with a wide array of teachers including Dharma Mitra, Anna Forrest and Doug Keller. He specializes in alignment-based therapeutic Yoga practice, Asanas, Pranayam (Yogic breathing techniques) and meditation for a variety of mental and physical health issues. Juan continues to integrate his background in health care, his training in Yoga, as well as his personal practice, to help students focus their practice of Yoga as a therapeutic approach to healing and meditation for people of all ages, experience and abilities.

Thursday Morning Meditation
2015-04-30 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-23 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-16 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-09 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-02 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-03-26 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-03-19 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-03-12 02:00 - 03:00 and 2 more dates | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
For those interested in supporting their morning practice, we invite you to join us on Thursday mornings for silent meditation. The meditation will begin promptly at 9 am in Universalist Unitarian Fellowship sanctuary.
There will be a 30 minute silent meditation period, followed by a short 10 – 20 minute period in which individuals may comment on their own practice, while the group listens in silence.

Meditation & Discussion: Syra Smith
2015-04-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Syra Smith will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion.
Syra is the founder and curator for Oakland’s Dana Cafe, offering transformational teachings at no cost to participants. She co-leads and organizes East Bay Meditation Center’s weekly Teen Sangha and is a mindfulness and meditation instructor with the Mind Body Awareness Project.

Out evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Mike Coughlin
2015-04-21 12:00 - 13:30, 2015-03-24 12:00 - 13:30, 2015-03-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Mike Coughlin will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Lori Stelling
2015-04-14 12:00 - 13:30, 2015-03-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Lori Stelling will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Special Guest: Nina Wise
2015-04-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation hosts a talk by spiritual author and performance artist Nina Wise.
Nina is a well-known performer who has devoted her career to investigating the relationship between art and spirit. Artistic Director of Motion, she is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Marin Arts Council and has received seven Bay Area Critics Circle Awards. She is the author of A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self-Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Sun, Yoga Journal, Tricycle, Inquiring Mind and Whole Earth Review.

Special Guest: Shahara Godfrey
2015-03-10 12:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation hosts a talk by Buddhist teacher, humanitarian, artist and meditation instructor Shahara Godfrey.
Trained in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for over 20 years, Dr. Godfrey has also been influenced by spiritual teachers from various cultures and traditions as well as the creative arts. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leadership Program, the Path of Engagement Program and holds a PhD in humanities with a focus on transformative learning and change from the California Institute of Integral Studies. A self-taught mixed-media artist, she has exhibited in the Bay Area, Oregon, Washington, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Hike in Westwood Hills Park
2015-03-08 03:00 - 07:00 | Westwood Hills Park, 3107 Browns Valley Rd, Napa, CA, 94581, United States
Come join NVIM members and friends at Westwood Hills for a nice leisurely hike and picnic.
This is a great opportunity to get to know your fellow Sangha members better, while enjoying nature and a beautiful scenic view of the Napa Valley.
Meet in parking lot, dogs and children welcome. Bring a lunch if you’d like to enjoy eating together in the park after the hike.

Special Guest: Kevin Griffin
2015-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
On Tuesday February 24th, at 7:00 Napa Valley Insight Meditation will host a talk by Kevin Griffin, author Buddhist teacher and innovator in the field of addiction treatment.
Kevin is a longtime Buddhist practitioner who trained as a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock. He is the author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and the forthcoming God, Buddha, and the Path of Recovery. A co-founder of the Buddhist Recovery Network, he teaches regularly at Spirit Rock, as well as at treatment centers, Buddhist centers, professional conferences, and colleges across the U.S. Kevin has been a member of the Spirit Rock Family Program for ten years.
Visit Keven’s website on Buddhism and Recovery for more information.

Special Guest: Mark Coleman
2015-02-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
On Tuesday February 17th, at 7:00 NVIM will host a talk by author, naturalist and meditation instructor Mark Coleman.
Mark has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is a Spirit Rock Meditation Teacher and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He also leads wilderness meditation retreats from Alaska to Peru, integrating mindfulness meditation with nature. He is author of Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery. Mark is a psychotherapist, life-coach and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence and nature.
Visit Mark’s website, Aware in the Wild, to learn more about his approach to nature-based mindfulness practice and how this approach has help students all over the world find greater peace and fulfillment.

Meditation & Discussion: Lori Stelling
2015-02-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation is a community of meditation practitioners dedicated to supporting the cultivation of mindful awareness and compassion in daily life. We meet every Tuesday from 7:00pm – 8:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Napa (1625 Salvador Ave). All levels of experience are welcome.
Our Tuesday night Sangha is led by a rotating group of local NVIM Dharma leaders and guest teachers. This week, Lori Stelling will facilitate the evening’s meditation and discussion.
Each meeting will generally follow the following structure:
– 7:00 pm Meditation Sitting Begins
– Sitting meditation: 30 minutes
– Short break for tea and greetings: 10 minutes
– Facilitator’s talk on relevant themes and/or group discussion: 45 – 50 minutes
– 8:30 pm Meeting Ends

Meditation & Discussion: Forrest Hill
2015-02-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation is a community of meditation practitioners dedicated to supporting the cultivation of mindful awareness and compassion in daily life. We meet every Tuesday from 7:00pm – 8:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Napa (1625 Salvador Ave). All levels of experience are welcome.

Our Tuesday night Sangha is led by a rotating group of local NVIM Dharma leaders and guest teachers. This week, Forrest Hill will facilitate the evening’s meditation and discussion.
Each meeting will generally follow the following structure:
– 7:00 pm Meditation Sitting Begins
– Sitting meditation: 30 minutes
– Short break for tea and greetings: 10 minutes
– Facilitator’s talk on relevant themes and/or group discussion: 45 – 50 minutes
– 8:30 pm Meeting Ends
