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SUMMARY:21 - day Meditation Challenge
DESCRIPTION:ONLINE | Monday\, JAN  6 – Sunday\, JAN 26 2025\nDaily 7:15 – 8:00am \n$74 Early bird use promo code CHALLENGE\, exp. 1/1/25 | $108  regular | Financial aid available \nBook now/OnlinePlease register in advance; a Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the session\, or join Zoom directly via your Momence dashboard. \nJoin meditation teachers Swami Ramananda\, Claire Schneeberger\, and Diana Meltsner for 3 weeks of daily morning meditations\, Monday\, January 6 – Sunday\, January 26\, 2025.\nDevelop\, deepen or jumpstart your meditation practice with a 21-day meditation challenge. Meditation reduces stress\, brings Self-knowledge and more. It becomes a mini-retreat where we connect with the inner calm\, feeling whole and the contentment of simply being. Meditation cultivates positive states of mind that can lead to compassionate actions in our daily lives.\nWe will practice Integral Yoga-style pranayama and meditation. There will be guidance in the beginning and we will progressively reduce the instructions and increase time for individual practice.\nEach session will include a topic relating to meditation\, such as Why People Meditate; The Technique and Objects for Meditation; What to do with distracting thoughts; Affirmations\, Chants & Prayers; Breathing Practices\, Obstacles\, Insights & Wisdom; and traditional texts that speak on meditation.. We will create a space for sharing and questions at the end of each week. Keeping a weekly sadhana chart to track the practice is optional.\nEach session will be recorded and shared with all enrolled.CUEs for Yoga Alliance are available upon request.\nFinancial aid available\, please contact diana@integralyogasf.org.\n  \nSwami Ramananda\, C-IAYT\, E-RYT 500\, is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco\, C-IAYT\, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.\nHe leads beginner\, intermediate and advanced-level Yoga teacher training programs in San Francisco and offers a variety of programs in many locations in the U.S.\, Europe and South America. Ramananda co-developed the Stress Management Teacher Training program with Swami Vidyananda\, has trained many teachers to bring Yoga into corporate\, hospital and medical settings\, and has taught mind/body wellness programs in many locations. He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance\, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI)\, which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth\, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many. \nClaire Schneeberger\nI am an educator leading workshops\, classes\, and healing circles related to meditation\, mindfulness\, compassion\, and well-being. I facilitate a regular mindfulness meditation circle for WomenCARE\, a center serving women with cancer in Central California\, and have teaching certifications in meditation from the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute and in applied compassion from Stanford’s Center for Compassion and Altruism (CCARE). I am passionate about building communities and connections focused on compassion\, empowerment\, and well-being. \nDiana Meltsner\, C-IAYT\, ERYT-500\, YACEP\, has been teaching a variety of classes and workshops since 2001 and since 2017 offers yoga therapy sessions privately and at Integral Yoga Therapy Clinic in San Francisco. She has been working in the clinical setting for Kaiser Permanente since 2005 as a yoga teacher\, yoga therapist\, and health educator and is teaching mindfulness and meditation to the medical staff. Her focus is on the healing aspects of yoga on the mind as well as the body by applying the teachings of Yoga\, practices of breath-control\, mindfulness and meditation. Diana helps her clients to find healing and the ability to move through life with increased ease\, stress resilience\, and intuition. Diana Meltsner works as a programs manager at Integral Yoga Institute\, an urban ashram in San Francisco. She is a yoga teacher trainer for the 200-hour and Meditation Teacher trainings. www.dianameltsner.com
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