Finding Deeper Ground

A 40 Day Online Winter Practice Gathering

This is a gathering of people who wish to undertake their own retreat at home over winter, in the company of supportive others from around the world. We will be undertaking a "body of practice" together, engaging in the same practice, and plugging into the potency and support of a group of people practicing together with a shared intention.

We will be building foundations, developing skills, and deepening our capacities to commit to ourselves and our inner lives, in the midst of our work and worldly responsibilities. We will be exploring the relationship between our inner and outer life experiences, and the power of our wholesome intention to fuel our growth and unfolding.  

This course is suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners. There will be an emphasis on learning and refining skilful methods that we will be able to apply in our every day lives and in any meditative work we might do in the future. 

We will be exploring the focussed meditation on breathing - a universal practice that can lead us skilfully and gradually from wherever we are to the full experience of healing and liberation made possible through meditation. It is a profoundly compassionate practice, said to be suitable for all people, at all times, in all situations. We will be taking time to build and revisit the foundations of this practice in a way that will give beginners a thorough and reliable base from which to develop their practice, and will give experienced people a chance to refresh and refine their practice in an enlivening and illuminating way. 

The unique perspective and life experience that each of us brings to this practice community will be a gift; through our natural and wholehearted presence we will each be contributing to, and drawing from, the nourishment, support and inspiration of the collective. 

Please continue reading for the course schedule, and considerations before registering. 

If you have any questions before registering, please get in touch with me. 

I am looking forward to your company in Finding Deeper Ground!

Warm wishes,

Chani

chanigrieve@gmail.com

+64 204 1537 356

https://movementfromtheheart.c... 

Course Schedule : 

The course commences on Sunday 9th June with our first live gathering, 7pm - 8pm NZT. Find your time zone here

We will continue for 40 days until Thursday July 18th. 

Live gatherings will happen each Sunday from June 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, July 7th, 14th. 

We may have an additional closing gathering on Sunday July 21st - TBA.

Once you register for the course, you will receive an email with further information about what to bring, how to best prepare, and also the Zoom link that will be the same for each of our weekly meetings.

Finding Deeper Ground consists of : 

* Weekly Live Sessions - A 1-hour session to end and begin each week. We will reflect on and learn from our week of practice, set up the theme for the coming week, and have time to share observations and answer some of the questions from people's practice. 

You are not required to attend all the live sessions, although it is strongly encouraged, as this will be where we answer questions, and plug into the potency and support of the group container of people practicing together.

* Brief Daily Practice Prompts - These will serve to remind you of the process you are in, and will help orient your heart and mind in the direction of your deepening practice according to the theme or emphasis for the week. 

* Longer Guided Practices on the weekly theme - For those who have the time and inclination, there will be longer practice recordings offered to deepen your understanding and experience of each of the weekly themes. This is not required, but offered as a resource.

* Online Community Space - a dedicated space for people to connect with one another, ask questions, share insights, discoveries and challenges. This is an optional aspect of the course to offer and enjoy support from those sharing the journey.

Once you have registered, or 10 days before the course commences (whichever is the later), you will be sent an invitation to join this dedicated online community space. 

Practice Commitments - Considering your intention before registering : 

Registering for this event is a commitment. To honour the intention of the course, and the people who will be participating in it, you are requested to please only register if you are willing to commit to the program to the fullest extent of your capacity. Imagine that we are entering a retreat together, where we make every effort to put down what is extraneous and unnecessary, and we endeavour to take up what is wholesome, supportive, and most fruitful. 

You are requested to commit to some degree of daily practice - either the brief daily prompts and contemplations, or one of the longer practices that are offered. This course is designed to be undertaken in the context of our daily lives, and so we make room for all the complexity and surfing the waves of what arises in the process. 40 days is intended to be something of a stretch, but also very doable! The main purpose here is to orient the mind in the direction of the depth, to set a course and then to make effort to stay the course, using the practice and the community as a steady anchor. 

Cost and more details : 

This program is offered on a sliding scale to ensure equity of access. A suggested sliding scale for the 40 days is from $100- $200NZD. However, you will not be turned away for lack of funds, so there is also an option to offer whatever you can. Your generosity is deeply appreciated to enable this work to flourish.