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Transforming Consciousness (Series)

Choice of Sessions 10AM - NOON or 7PM-9PM
Fridays bi-monthly
4100 Westheimer, Suite 233, Houston,TX77025
This course is derived from other courses but is offered in broad strokes - an overview of ways to do meditation practice that transform consciousness. Different courses are offered each session. Themes parallel the book Being Prayer--Transforming Conciousness. – It is a series, but each session stands on its own and can thus be taken by itself. This course can also be explored in individual sessions.

Transforming Consciousness
Date Level Credits Method Instructor Cost Register Alternatives	Bi-Monthly Fridays Content varies in five - six sessionss All levels 2 hours per each two hour session Group Course (See alternate formats below) Insight Meditation Teacher, Mary Rees, MS $50 Current Course: Birthing Embodied Being, September 26 Individual objectives of each of these courses can also be met in individual sessions, as well as in retreat and workshop settings.

At the conclusion of this series of sessions, participants will be able to:

Session One: Preliminary Practices

• Develop familiarity with the mind and kinds of consciousness
• Identify and foster qualities of mind conducive to skill mind states

Session Two: Knowing the Mind

• Experience different kinds of consciousness
• Sharpen the minds capacity to observe.
• Make contact with direct experience, bare attention

Session Three: Freeing the Mind

• Practice meditation skills that free the mind
• Recognize spaciousness of mind, even in difficult mind states
• Identify moment of volitional opportunity
• Name some common skillful and unskillful mind states

Session Four: Shaping the Mind

• Differentiate experientially several mind states
• Develop skills for fostering skillful qualities and extinguishing unskillful.

Session Five: Birthing Embodied Being

• Using developing openness and spaciousness of mind and sharpened capacity for observation of subtle mind/body processes for integrating practices of knowing, shaping and freeing the mind in daily life.
• Finding ways that life can flow or can be lived as dance