Michael Sheehy @ Well of Being

Special guest Michael Sheehy joins Eve for a practice and a conversation on the science and experience of nondual awareness.

Join us in person at 2929 24th street
OR online via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/SFDharma (password: 108108)

Michael R. Sheehy, PhD is a meditation researcher whose work illuminates the generative, dynamic, and ever-evolving processes of contemplative practices. His scholarship and experimental studies query contemplative dynamics at the junctures of the history of religion, empirical phenomenology, and the cognitive sciences to understand the workings of consciousness and its transformations. Michael specializes in the nondual meditative traditions of Buddhism in Tibet – namely, Dzogchen, Mahāmudrā, and Zhentong.

He is a Research Associate Professor and the Director of Research at the Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia. As the founding Principal at the CIRCL, Contemplative Innovation + Research Co-Lab, he directs a transdisciplinary experimental collaboratory that studies how contemplative practices work in bodies and minds, cultures and ecologies, ourselves and our worlds. The CIRCL team uses multiple methods including EEG-ECG (brain-heart physiology), microphenomenology, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and self-report measures to understand underlying dynamics of contemplative experiences. He is cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemplative Studies, a peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original scholarship. Additionally, he holds appointments by courtesy in the Department of Religious Studies and UVA Tibet Center. At the University of Virginia Press, he is the coeditor of two monograph series: Varieties of Contemplative Experience and Traditions and Transformations in Tibetan Buddhism.

On March 7, Michael will be presenting a workshop exploring how imaginal capacities of mind are mobilized via specific Tibetan Buddhist contemplative practices across the thresholds of sleeping, dreaming, and waking.

WORKSHOP: Lucid Dreaming, Lucid Waking – Berkeley, CA