Mindful Self-Compassion

Session Description

Utilizing mindfulness meditation, neuroscience, and psychology to embrace the full spectrum of the human experience. Guiding students to turn toward their stuck places with honesty and compassion, begin unwinding somatically held emotional energy, and disrupt addictive patterns. Blake employs tender yoga sequencing, mindfulness, neuroscience, psychology, and the power of poetry to galvanize healing and development. The space he facilitates is intended for sincere seekers who are tired of surface approaches and grandiose promises.This is an invitation into a deep, skills-based training, not a guarantee of overnight transformation. It's about patience and painstaking kindness. It's about the courage to feel. In dynamic motion or reverent stillness, it's about turning toward vulnerable dimensions of our humanity and learning finally to love them. If these practices do what I have a reasonable expectation they will, then over the next few months, you will notice: -Some genuine reduction in your overall suffering. -Some increase in your overall fulfillment— increased enjoyment of the living present moment. -Increased mastery over your behavior and words; reduction of compulsive, unskillful conduct. -Better day-to-day alignment with pursuits you find meaningful. -A basic psychoeducation on the legacy of childhood experiences. -Kinder, more fulfilling relationships. About Blake Shields Abramovitz: I spent my 20s as a sometimes focused, sometimes hard-partying Hollywood actor. Secretly, I was always burning with an unnamed yearning. I wanted to embark on a spiritual journey, I just didn't know how to begin. Then, one day, my girlfriend blithely suggested that we attend a 10-day silent meditation retreat. I will always be grateful to her. On that first retreat, I suddenly knew that the journey I'd dreamed of was possible. I became a yogi & meditator. In yoga, I've trained extensively with Hala Khouri &Julian Walker in their psychology-informed Awakened Heart Embodied Mind training, Saul David Raye in his devotional Atma Yoga style & with Sifu Matthew Cohen, Brad Keimach & Jason Frahm. I've also attended over 30 silent residential meditation retreats with Dharma teachers George Haas, Shinzen Young, Jack Kornfield, Noah Levine, Wes Nisker and Trudy Goodman- ranging in length from a week to a month. After training closely for 8 years with George Haas and eventually teaching alongside him, I struck ouout on my own and developed my own signature course series.