Facilitator MaryAnn Reynolds is one of our resident Massage Therapist who spent a year meditating daily for 30 minutes while working with Zen teacher Dr. Peg Syverson at Appamada Zendo, and she continues her daily practice.  She will share with how to make meditation  a positive experience in order for it to be sustainable. "When you’re ready for something else, you’ll know it". 

She will discus how everyone has a preference for the visual, auditory, or kinesthetic sense. Sometimes the most effective way to “wake up” is to do something different than usual.

• Look forward to spending that little bit of time alone with yourself, your mind, your body, your being because it adds well-being to your life.

• Develop more equanimity, the ability to handle life’s ups and downs.
• Increase your self-awareness, of sensations, thoughts, emotions, stillness, silence.
• Feel more connected to the sacred realm.
• You may (or may not) have profound experiences.
• Become more able to be present with what is instead of resisting it.
• Feel less anxious and stressed.
• Relax more deeply.
• Become more compassionate with yourself and others.