Graduate Members' Seminars 2020
The 2019 Graduate series brought us interactive science, the machinery of memory, Indigenous history and illuminated minds! This year we look forward to bringing you another range of topics and presenters. The seminars are designed for current members who have completed or are attending Level 4. The aim of these seminars is to provide a forum whereby members can explore ways of thinking about and integrating meditation into life; fully and consciously.
2020 Seminar Series
Seminar One: A simple model to understand the meditating mind: it will improve your meditation. Presenter: Ian Nuberg
Friday 28 February, 5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Seminar Two: Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga – Continuing your practice into the night
Presenter: Mark Tatyzo
Friday 28 August, 5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Seminar Three: The connection between pain and stress – a neuroscience and physiotherapy update
Presenter: Marelle Wilson
Friday 25 September, 5.45-7.15 pm
Seminar Four: A three woman perspective of meditation and practice
Friday 6 November, 5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Presenters: Robyn Walden, Gretta Koch and Catherine Gasmier
Seminar One
A simple model to understand the meditating mind: it will improve your meditation.
Presenter: Ian Nuberg
Friday 28 February, 2020
5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Lifeflow Studio
Following on from Ian’s 2019 Ten Stages of Meditation talk …
Distractions and dullness are conditions that beset all meditators and can be difficult to deal with. The first step to mindfully intercept and deflect distractions and dullness is to have a good understanding of how they arise, and what to do about it. In this seminar we will discuss a simple model of how the meditating mind works. We examine the relationship between the unconscious and conscious mind; and within the conscious mind, the five sensory sub-minds. We will see how distractions and dullness arise from a lack of unification of these sub-minds and how this can be corrected during meditation. We will also see how this mind system constructs the enduring sense of a separate self in space and time. This information is drawn from The Mind Illuminated (Culadasa 2017) which was used in a previous seminar on Ten Stages of Meditation. It doesn’t matter if you missed the earlier seminar.
Seminar Two
Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga – Continuing your practice into the night
Presenter: Mark Tatyzo
Friday 28 August
5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Lifeflow Studio
Mark Tatyzo will dive into one of his favourite meditation topics and practices – lucid dreaming and dream yoga. Come along to hear what these are, where they fit in with the meditation tradition and how these inner explorations of the mind at night can be utilised to compliment and blend into your daytime meditation practice. Mark will share some of his experiences, talk about the benefits and challenges and provide a few pointers for those interested in understanding and learning more about this elusive but fascinating topic.
Seminar Three
The connection between pain and stress – a neuroscience and physiotherapy update
Guest Presenter: Marelle Wilson
Friday 25 September
5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Lifeflow Studio
A modern, neuroscience based understanding of pain means that the experience of pain is much more complex than we once believed and may or may not involve damage to our body’s tissues. We will have pain when our brain decides that there is more credible evidence of danger related to the body than there is credible evidence of safety. It’s as simple, and as complicated as that!
Thoughts and feelings are nerve impulses too, so our capacity to change and down-regulate pain using a range of techniques, including meditation and education about how our pain system actually works can have powerful effects for some people.
This seminar will be available as a Live Stream event for those who are unable to attend in person. Please call Reception to book your tickets and you will be emailed log in details for the live Zoom session.
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Seminar Four
A three woman perspective of meditation and practice
Presenters: Robyn Walden, Gretta Koch and Catherine Gasmier
Friday 6 November, 2020
5.45 pm–7.15 pm
Lifeflow Studio
Lifeflow members and teachers, Robyn Walden, Gretta Koch and Catherine Gasmier will share with you their decades of meditation experience and knowledge. Come and hear what prompted them to begin the meditation work, challenges they have met along the path, how these have been negotiated, and what has inspired them to continue with their practices over so many years. Each woman will speak firstly of their own experiences and then there will be opportunity for questions and discussion from the audience.
Seminar Fees
Single session ticket $25
Single session ticket conc $20
2020 series ticket (4 sessions) $80
2020 series ticket (4 sessions) conc $60
Concession rate is available to full time students, Health Care card holders and Pensioner Concession cards. Please present your concession card at the first class.
Prerequisites: These sessions are open to current members who have completed or are attending Level 4.
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