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SUMMARY:Qigong with Robert Peng (In-person)
DESCRIPTION:Robert Peng\, a world-renowned Qigong Master and healer\, was born and raised in Hunan\, China. \nAt age eight\, he began an intensive apprenticeship under the close guidance of the legendary monk Xiao Yao\, an enlightened master known for his profound healing ability and martial arts skill. At age 15\, Robert endured a 100-day water fast in a small dark room at a secluded monastery in the remote mountains of Hunan province\, which initiated a radical spiritual transformation and awakened amazing healing powers. \nAfter pursuing his training quietly while attending university in Changsha\, he began to teach publicly at 29\, and within five years had trained over 150\,000 students all over China\, Australia\, and the U.S. \nWith his deep understanding and practice of Qigong\, and with extensive life and teaching experience in the Western world\, Robert has developed a unique way to teach Qigong that people from different cultures can easily understand and follow while enjoying the real essence of this ancient Chinese healing art of wisdom\, love\, and vitality. \nThis is an in-person event. \nCost: $69.99 \nRegister: Here
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/qigong-with-robert-peng-in-person-4/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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SUMMARY:Qigong with Robert Peng (In-person)
DESCRIPTION:Robert Peng\, a world-renowned Qigong Master and healer\, was born and raised in Hunan\, China. \nAt age eight\, he began an intensive apprenticeship under the close guidance of the legendary monk Xiao Yao\, an enlightened master known for his profound healing ability and martial arts skill. At age 15\, Robert endured a 100-day water fast in a small dark room at a secluded monastery in the remote mountains of Hunan province\, which initiated a radical spiritual transformation and awakened amazing healing powers. \nAfter pursuing his training quietly while attending university in Changsha\, he began to teach publicly at 29\, and within five years had trained over 150\,000 students all over China\, Australia\, and the U.S. \nWith his deep understanding and practice of Qigong\, and with extensive life and teaching experience in the Western world\, Robert has developed a unique way to teach Qigong that people from different cultures can easily understand and follow while enjoying the real essence of this ancient Chinese healing art of wisdom\, love\, and vitality. \nThis is an in-person event. \nCost: $69.99 \nRegister: Here
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/qigong-with-robert-peng-in-person-5/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240413T103000
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SUMMARY:Qigong with Robert Peng (In-person)
DESCRIPTION:Robert Peng\, a world-renowned Qigong Master and healer\, was born and raised in Hunan\, China. \nAt age eight\, he began an intensive apprenticeship under the close guidance of the legendary monk Xiao Yao\, an enlightened master known for his profound healing ability and martial arts skill. At age 15\, Robert endured a 100-day water fast in a small dark room at a secluded monastery in the remote mountains of Hunan province\, which initiated a radical spiritual transformation and awakened amazing healing powers. \nAfter pursuing his training quietly while attending university in Changsha\, he began to teach publicly at 29\, and within five years had trained over 150\,000 students all over China\, Australia\, and the U.S. \nWith his deep understanding and practice of Qigong\, and with extensive life and teaching experience in the Western world\, Robert has developed a unique way to teach Qigong that people from different cultures can easily understand and follow while enjoying the real essence of this ancient Chinese healing art of wisdom\, love\, and vitality. \nThis is an in-person event. \nCost: $69.99 \nRegister: Here
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/qigong-with-robert-peng-in-person-6/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240629T170000
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SUMMARY:Regenerative Connections™ Series (Workshop 1): The Arts\, Science\, and Practice of Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Tara Bennett-Goleman and Daniel Goleman Present The Arts\, Science\, and Practice of Meditation\nJune 29 (One Day Workshop) \nWe invite you to join us as we explore ways ancient wisdom and modern psychology regenerates connections of all kinds.\n\n\n\n\n\nRegenerating natural qualities of mind and heart can lead to a growing confidence in our inner resources. This one-day\, in-person\, workshop on meditation can be taken as a stand-alone session\, or as the first in the Regenerative Connections™ series\, which lays fertile ground for nurturing connection in relationships of all kinds – starting with ourselves and then expanding out to the interpersonal\, the collective\, and the natural world. \nThere is limited space if this is taken as a stand alone session. This meditation session is also a prerequisite for the next 2 workshops for those attending the whole series. \nWe will give instructions in four kinds of meditation: one-pointedness\, discerning insight\, mindful walking\, and compassion. \nAny of these methods can be used daily by those who are beginning meditation\, or as a refresher for more experienced meditators\, as well as an innovative lens on the expressions of meditative awareness in everyday life. \nMeditation regenerates qualities that can transform negative qualities to positive ones\, including greater focus\, insight\, equanimity\, compassion\, presence and resilience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncluded in the Workshop \n The ways meditative arts such as Japanese flower arranging emphasize learning from symbolic teachings of nature and our inner awareness \n The neuroscience of meditation and of connection\, its psychological benefits and brain changes \n Reflections on phase transitions in nature\, in human nature – and their interconnection \n Connecting to the part of the mind that can see more clearly \n Tuning into the natural world in mindful walks in nearby Hudson River parks. \n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more and register HERE. \n  \nWorkshop Series Schedule\n \nThe Arts\, Science and Practice of Meditation\nJune 29\, 2024 \nPatterns that Connect and Disconnect\nSeptember 28 and 29 \nWidening the Circle of Caring\nNovember 16 and 17
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/regenerative-connections-series-workshop-1-the-arts-science-and-practice-of-meditation/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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SUMMARY:Samye Hermitage Presents: Everyday Meditation with Tulku Migmar Tsering - In Person
DESCRIPTION:Join our friends from Samye Hermitage at The Aligned Center as they host a special evening talk with Tulku Migmar Tsering. Tulku Migmar is profoundly experienced yet approachable practitioner of meditation\, and he will share the essence of the contemplative life\, offering practices and perspectives that have the power to transform anyone who embraces them. By consistently incorporating these key points into your routine\, you’ll begin to experience a gentle shift in your day-to-day experience. Instead of reacting impulsively or being judgmental\, you’ll develop a state of equanimity\, becoming better equipped to accept whatever comes your way and face life’s challenges with calmness and resilience. \nTulku Migmar Tsering is a master of the Chokling New Treasures lineage of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in Nubri\, Nepal in 1975 and began his training at an early age after having been recognized as a reincarnate lama. Learn more here. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/samye-hermitage-presents-everyday-meditation-with-tulku-migmar-tsering-in-person/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240928T170000
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SUMMARY:Regenerative Connections™ Series (Workshop 2): Patterns that Connect and Disconnect
DESCRIPTION:Tara Bennett-Goleman and Daniel Goleman Present Patterns that Connect and Disconnect\nSeptember 28 & 29 (tw0-day workshop) \nWe invite you to join us as we explore ways ancient wisdom and modern psychology regenerates connections of all kinds.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur emotional habits can connect us or keep us at a distance from ourselves and others. When these habits activate we react to symbolic threats as though they were real – e.g.\, the fear of abandonment triggers exaggerated fearfulness and thoughts of losing someone. Even if they may not make rational sense\, these patterns have an emotional reality; understanding them can yield insights in our own and others’ vulnerabilities and help us respond with empathy\, understanding\, and caring. \nWhen we believe their skewed messages these habits can shape how we think\, feel\, act and relate. We can become aware of these learned emotional habits and their expression\, such as clinging or avoidance. When they act as invisible lenses\, they distort our view rather than letting us see ourselves and each other as we genuinely are. \nReparative interventions from ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychology can allow for insight and connection rather than confusion and reactivity. \nRegenerative qualities\, including insight\, equanimity and a warm and caring heart\, can lead us to an inner calm and wiser perspective\, even as we sense the signals of these emotional habits. We can embrace underlying unsettling feelings with care\, kindness\, and a non-judgmental awareness that can help to free our minds and hearts. \nIn addition to modern and ancient psychologies we will draw on findings from neuroscience\, in a combination of lecture\, discussion and experiences. \nThese include mapping these learned emotional habits and ways to sense their activation\, calm our reactivity\, and repatterning for healthier responses. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Workshop 2 We Will Learn To:\n \n Widen the gap between emotional impulse and action\, to make wiser choices \n Transform emotional patterns that separate into ones that connect \n Increase clarity and empathic understanding \n Allow for transformative insights into our habits of mind and heart. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more and register HERE. \n  \nWorkshop Series Schedule\n \nThe Arts\, Science and Practice of Meditation\nJune 29\, 2024 \nPatterns that Connect and Disconnect\nSeptember 28 and 29 \nWidening the Circle of Caring\nNovember 16 and 17
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/regenerative-connections-series-workshop-2-patterns-that-connect-and-disconnect/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T100000
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SUMMARY:Regenerative Connections™ Series (Workshop 3): Widening the Circle of Caring
DESCRIPTION:Tara Bennett-Goleman and Daniel Goleman Present Widening the Circle of Caring\nNovember 16 & 17 (tw0-day workshop) \nWe invite you to join us as we explore ways ancient wisdom and modern psychology regenerates connections of all kinds.\nJust as we fertilize plants in a garden\, we can nurture qualities of awareness and compassion to both enrich our own being and also to benefit others. As findings from social neuroscience tell us\, emotions are contagious. Regenerating inner qualities like warmheartedness\, understanding and calmness can have a soothing influence on those around us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeeing your emotional patterns at work and bringing them into awareness allows us to be sensitive to recognizing these vulnerabilities in others. These patterns operate at the collective level as well. As we clear emotional and cognitive obscurations we increasingly connect with the minds natural qualities and a genuine sense of interconnection. We will continue to explore how reparative Eastern and Western psychological perspectives and practices can nurture regenerative connections of all kinds.  \nWe’ll share real life cases in point. We’ll hear from our collaborator Aaron Wolf about transformation with groups who disagree but come together to manage a river system. We’ll also share how young changemakers create a sense of trust and belonging -regenerating their connection with each other – while being in service to others. We’ll also hear about our friend and mentor\, the late Dr. Ariyaratne of Sri Lanka\, a model of selfless service who founded Sarvodaya\, an altruistic grassroots community development movement that helps neighbors work together for common goals. \nAs Dr. Ari said\, “We cannot solve one problem independently; everything is interconnected…for this we need to heal the mind\, to transform our thinking”. We will explore regenerative solutions and how we each can contribute our unique ability to act on interests like the environment\,  social concerns\, and simple acts of caring in our everyday lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Workshop 3 You Will Learn To:\n \n Build a toolbox of skill ways to being clear\, non-reactive communication to your relationships \n Explore how to engage in difficult conversations\, including ways we ourselves can work more collaboratively \n Use recognition of emotional patterns to relate from a clear space rather than a reactive one \n Communicate more skillfully and authentically\, rather than through the distorted filters of our emotional habits \n Work through differences from a place of connection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more and register HERE. \n  \nWorkshop Series Schedule\n \nThe Arts\, Science and Practice of Meditation\nJune 29\, 2024 \nPatterns that Connect and Disconnect\nSeptember 28 and 29 \nWidening the Circle of Caring\nNovember 16 and 17
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/regenerative-connections-series-workshop-3-widening-the-circle-of-caring/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Mind-Body Awareness
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SUMMARY:EngageAsia Presents The Vow from Hiroshima - In Person
DESCRIPTION:Join our friends\, EngageAsia at The Aligned Center as they host a special in-person event featuring a screening of the powerful documentary\, The Vow from Hiroshima.   Following the screening\, stick around for a thought-provoking panel discussion with Susan Strickler (Director & Producer) and Mitchie Takeuchi (Writer & Producer). The event promises to be an enlightening and engaging experience. \nThe Vow From Hiroshima is a poignant documentary that delves into the life of Setsuko Thurlow\, a remarkable survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. At just 13 years old when the bomb devastated her city in 1945\, Setsuko’s harrowing experience is vividly captured in this intimate portrait. The film chronicles her enduring friendship with second-generation survivor Mitchie Takeuchi\, offering a moving narrative of resilience and determination. \nSetsuko’s story is one of tragedy and triumph\, as she recalls being pulled from a burning building after the bomb’s impact\, unable to save her 27 classmates who perished in the flames. This pivotal moment shaped her lifelong commitment to ensuring that no one else would suffer the same horrific fate. \nThrough decades of tireless activism\, Setsuko’s journey culminates in a powerful milestone – the realization of her dream with the establishment of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. Setsuko made the acceptance speech in Oslo\, Norway. \nFunds raised will support both EngageAsia as well as the From Hiroshima to the Heartlands project that will enable the film to be shown in-person throughout the United States. Tickets are non-refundable as this is a philanthropic event to support our important charitable work. Attire is business casual. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND LEARN MORE
URL:https://thealignedcenter.com/event/engageasia-presents-the-vow-from-hiroshima/
LOCATION:The Aligned Center\, 1 Bridge Street\, Foundry Building Suite 64\, Irvington\, New York\, 10533
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