For more information or to register, go to www.newtoncommunityed.org or call 617.559.6999

THE YOGA OF MINDFULNESS: AWAKENING IN THE BODY

MINDFULNESS: THE ADVENTURE OF LIVING WELL Newton Community Education is once again proud to be able to offer a series of talks by four leading practitioners and teachers of Mindfulness. Each speaker will talk about their personal journey and the insights they have gained through mindfulness practice.

3 Wednesdays, May 2, 9 & 23, and 1 Thursday, May 17 @ 7pm $19/talk (advance registration) - $25 at Door - $70/series Newton South High School — 140 Brandeis Rd., Newton Center

Limited Seating — Advance Ticket Purchase Recommended

Chip Hartranft is the author of �e Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali: a new translation with commentary (Shambhala) and the forthcoming How �e Buddha Taught Meditation. He has taught a blend of yoga movement & meditation in the Bos-ton area since 1978 and is the founding director of �e Arlington Center, dedicated to the integration of yoga and dharma practice.

BEING MINDFUL & HEALTHY: CARING FOR THE HEART

Kathryn Komidar and Bill Ryan have studied, practiced, and taught Taoist qigong, meditation, and bodywork arts for a combined 50 years. Bill was the founder of Brookline Tai Chi, where Kathryn also taught. �ey now co-direct Toward Harmony Tai Chi and Qigong in Northampton, MA. �ere they teach, o�er qigong bodywork, and lead seasonal weekend retreats in nature. 

SAVOR: MINDFUL EATING, MINDFUL LIFE

Using timeless principles of mindfulness and the latest nutrition science, this session will provide a unique approach to achieving the active, healthy lifestyle we all want.  It will cover not only what to eat and how much to exercise to lower your risk of disease and to keep your weight in check, but it will also introduce the key skills for making these a reality.  In today’s hurried and over-stimulated world, it’s easy to lose the connection to ourselves – to our minds and our bodies. Mindfulness helps reconnect minds and bodies – and along with cutting edge science – puts yousteadily on a path to healthy eating, lower stress, greater peace, and better health. www.thenutritionsource.org 

Dr. Lilian Cheung is a lecturer and Director of Health Promotion & Communication in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health.  She is also the Editorial Director of Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source and co-author with �ich Nhat Hanh of Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life.  Photo by: Gretje Ferguson

Yoga is commonly understood to address the body, while meditation trains the mind. To the Buddha no such dis-tinction seems to have existed, especially in the cultivation of mindfulness. As he recognized, our aliveness - palpable in the present moment as the energy within breath and bodily sensation - is the primordial backdrop againstwhich all sensory and mental experience arise, and a path not only to deeper and more nourishing embodiment but to insight and freedom. �rough talk, meditation & dialogue, we'll discover and explore the living body - and life - we think we inhabit. www.arlingtoncenter.org

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Chip Hartranft Wed, May 2 X601

Narayan Liebenson-Grady Wed, May 9 X602

Dr. Lilian Cheung Wed, May 23 X604

and Bill Ryan �urs, May 17 X603

Kathryn Komidar

�is evening will focus on the path of the heart and how awareness accesses the joys and sorrows of life with sen-sitivity, stability and love. Mindfulness meditation is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment obser-vation of the mind/body experience through calm, open and precise awareness.  By learning to observe the mind/body experience from a place of spacious stillness, one is able to live in a balanced state of health and well-being. �e presentation will include sitting meditation, a dharma talk and Q&A. www.cimc.com

Narayan Liebenson-Grady is a guiding teacher at CIMC who has been teaching at the Center since it opened in 1985.Narayan is also a guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She is the author of When Singing, Just Sing: Life as Meditation and is a regular contributor to Buddhadharma: A Practitioner's Quarterly.

BRING YOUR BODY ALIVE: MINDFULNESS IN TAOISM, QIGONG, & TAI CHI

Taoists initially approach wellness with a simple idea. Bring your mind into your body to open, awaken and bal-ance it and the chi (life energy) that enlivens it. If you do this, health will follow, and you will have a strong vesselwithin which to awaken and balance the energies of your emotions, mind, and spirit. Taoists developed practical arts to promote wellness including qigong and tai chi. Bill and Kathryn will lead you in exploring the mindfulnessaspects of these arts as practiced in the Taoist Water Tradition. For more info please visit www.TowardHarmony.com.

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