“A very warm and supportive environment for self-examination, learning, and sharing.”
Fran
FEATURE SERIES
Making Friends With Ourselves
A 3-part series: April 9th, April 11th and April 18th, 2022
Most of us know what it means to be a good friend - honest, kind, appreciative, supportive, loyal, trustworthy, non-judgement, forgiving, interested, funny, etc.. In good friendships, we can even open up to hearing something we don’t like about ourselves because we feel loved. We feel like we can show up without hiding parts of ourselves or pretending to be something we are not. In short, we feel accepted, which makes us feel received, safe and protected.
Brain science shows that when we feel safe, we heal. We feel good and healthy again. From this state of balance and well-being, we can then see situations more clearly and respond to them more accurately with less fear and anxiety getting in the way. Then we can experience our natural joy, confidence and compassion and we can share that with all other beings.
It all begins with developing a safe and genuine relationship with ourselves - Body, mind and spirit. Join us, and learn how friendliness towards yourself can provide the foundation for a happier and healthier life.
ALL THREE 90-MINUTE SESSIONS ARE HOSTED ON ZOOM
INVESTMENT FOR THIS SERIES: $197
REGISTER HEREWorkshop Session Overviews
Session 1
What is the Wisdom of the Body
Saturday, April 9th, 2022
9:00am - 10:30am PST
In this Session, we will rediscover a much underutilized, incredibly powerful and ever curious part of ourselves - OUR BODIES. We will give our critical thinking mind a rest by shifting our attention to how our bodies feel without trying to change or fix anything. Through guided somatic meditation, mindfulness Body-scan, gentle movement and visualization we will begin acknowledging and relating with our experience in any given moment. This is the genuine ground of any safe and genuine friendship.
Session 2
How to Befriend Our Bodies
Monday, April 11th, 2022
6:00pm - 7:30pm PST
In this session, like a gentle, authentic and curious friend, we will pay close and spacious attention to the places in our bodies that are charged and communicating with us. We will listen as our bodies reveal their insight through their rich language: Thought, images, movements, emotions and sensations. We will not attempt to “label” anything but observe what happens when we engage with our bodies in the process of dialoguing without goal.
Session 3
How to Stay Well While Helping Others
Monday, April 18th, 2022
6:00pm - 7:30pm PST
In this session, you will learn a few techniques that you can return to whenever you feel you need some extra grounding, nourishment and protection. These three techniques will help you maintain your own sense of well being and balance, while allowing you to face all the events in your life. From this place of feeling resourced and grounded, we can then extend out to others to be of help without experiencing burnout or adding to their pain and confusion.
Your body is the greatest friend you didn’t know you had. To feel good and whole is our birthright. And we can start reclaiming it by first meeting ourselves as we are.
Register For This SeriesWithin this Foundational Series you can expect to:
- Establish an immediate sense of friendliness towards yourself within the first few minutes of our session with the help of your body.
- Get out of your critical and repetitive thinking mind by engaging your body first through movement and somatic, body-based awareness practices.
- Learn how curiosity, humor and a light touch are the key ingredients for creating safety.
- Learn the modern science and ancient wisdom of Body-Centered practices that restore you joy, balance and health.
- Learn about the research-backed health benefits of loving-kindness meditation done for just a few weeks.
- Gain a collection of tools that you can employ to return again and again to the natural warmth, relaxed and wakeful qualities (aka: friendliness), that are innate to you and all beings.
- Be welcomed into a safe and expansive space to learn and grow alongside a curious, supportive and playful community (yes we have FUN) - one that is committed to a joyful and creative approach to body-centred mindfulness.
Meet Your Guide, Ladan Yalzadeh
Ladan is the Founder and teacher at Honey in the Temple and is a trained Healing Circle Facilitator. Ladan has brought together many aspects of her 15+ years of meditation , somatic practice, Buddhist studies to form Honey in the Temple . Ladan’s inspiration in creating Honey in the Temple is to share with others the joy and liberation she has discovered in her pursuit of what lays beyond suffering and pain. She brings her own flavor and alchemy to create a playful, warm and nurturing environment where everyone is invited and encouraged to find their innate wisdom and joy by reconnecting with themselves and their world. In addition to being a mindfulness teacher and embodiment practitioner, Ladan holds an MFA in Creative Practices from Plymouth University in the UK.
“All of us opened up and connected so quickly that it immediately became a space full of friends even though I've never met any of them in real life. The sessions were well-organized; even with a number of things to get through we had time to talk and unpack whatever we'd been working with. The sense of playfulness and fun was delightful--adulting can be so serious!"
Barb
