Listen, Learn, Act – Racial Justice, Mindfulness and The Election
Elections always bring emotions to the surface, and passions run especially strong with several historic “firsts” surrounding one of our presidential candidates. We’ll find ways to honor our convictions while maintaining our inner calm and respecting those with differing opinions.
First Saturday Silent Sitting
Are you seeking the opportunity to join regularly in a guided group meditation practice? Do you seek greater peace for yourself and for the world? Our First Saturday Silent Sitting is a monthly gathering that will help you connect with other meditators and spiritual seekers from varying faith backgrounds.
Hope is Complicated: Searching for Wisdom and Courage in a World Falling Apart
What is hope? What does it mean to have hope? Given the turmoil of our world, is it possible to have open eyes and happy hearts? What can we do to strengthen our emotional and spiritual footing to be able to respond to our world with hope? In this course, Joe Phelps will facilitate an expansive conversation about just how complicated hope can be in times like these.
Earth Advocate Group
Are you tired of hearing about environmental problems and not knowing what you can do? Are you feeling depressed about the current state of condition of our planet? Are you looking for clarity about a way to move forward in protecting the planet? Do you want to know more about Louisville’s environmental issues and what can be done about them?
Practicing Presence
With the election just weeks away, there’s no time more important than now to practice relating to each other in positive, respectful ways despite having different opinions. The good news is that there are techniques and practices that allow you to engage with people on sensitive topics while maintaining your inner peace and still having meaningful conversations. Please join us for this timely class!
Journaling as a Spiritual Practice
Journaling invites us to delve into our lives through written observations, the narratives we develop, and the awareness of our own role and perspective as we write. When combined with the practice of mindfulness, the gifts of discovery increase. This class invites participants to explore the possibilities that arise when we combine those two practices. Using the work of Howard Thurman, a significant 20th century Christian mystic, we will acknowledge how our journal may become our own “Island of Peace” within our own souls. Each week participants will be encouraged to journal as they maintain a regular practice of mindfulness; prompts, including selection of readings from his book, Meditations of the Heart, will be provided.
Mindfulness Matters in Education – Community Gathering
This is a community gathering wherein people who believe in the benefit of mindfulness in education can meet and greet one another and share and support one another’s ideas and efforts.
Contemplative Practices: Exploring Pathways to Presence
Discover profound paths to inner peace and awareness, designed for everyone. In our fast-paced, interconnected world, the need for genuine inner connection has never been more critical. Our Contemplative Practices series offers a transformative five-part journey that bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary life, providing you with powerful tools for personal growth, mental clarity, and compassionate living. Whether you're a seasoned meditator or a curious beginner, this series welcomes all experience levels. Each session is crafted to meet you exactly where you are, offering depth and accessibility in equal measure.
Wilderness Spirituality
More and more, spiritual seekers are intuiting that the transformative experiences they are looking for are rooted in authentic encounter with the natural world. This course offers a contemporary take on an ancient approach to that encounter, that of the Desert Fathers and Mothers. These representatives of early Christian monasticism responded to their concerns that the politics of empire were undermining the credibility of Christian witness by relocating their spiritual practices to the wilderness. More recently, Pope Francis expressed similar concerns in Laudato si': On Care for our Common Home, his famous letter addressed to "every person living on this planet." In this course, "every person living on this planet" is invited to re-wild their own spiritual practices.
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation: Turn Your Stress into Strength
Turn Your Stress into Strength! Manage the stress in your life using research-based techniques including deep breathing, mindfulness, and visualization. You will leave the sessions inspired and on your way to a happier, more peaceful and fulfilling life. Trained, certified, and experienced in resiliency and wellness coaching, your facilitator Paula Kommor starts with the belief that you are whole, resourceful, and creative. As a group, we will focus on your strengths and past successes to help you build a sustainable resiliency habit. Give yourself the gift of self-care.
Mindfulness, Healing & Wholeness
Re-membering our wholeness. If you feel disconnected, broken, or wounded, you are not alone. We are all wounded in essential and frequently secret ways, and it can be difficult to know how to begin to heal. Join us for a complete reframing of what it means to be broken, and what it means to heal. In the second part of our healing series, we will focus on re-membering ourselves into wholeness. Together we will find wisdom, strength and guidance within ourselves, our community, and in the larger natural world. Together we will discover ways to re-member ourselves into wholeness.
Meditation in Motion Monthly Gathering
In his book Mindful Movements – Exercises for Wellbeing, the wise Thich Nhat Hanh says “Often it helps to meditate with other people. Sitting together, breathing together, we can feel very peaceful and happy. But sometimes we need to stop sitting in one place and start to move around!” Our Meditation in Motion class we will be taking Thich Nhat Hanh’s suggestion and we will “start to move around”, bringing our meditation practice from the chair to an embodied experience. As we move in a mindful & intentional manner, we can bring mind, body, & spirit into harmony.
Continuing Meditation: Meditation in Motion
Mindful Movement through Qigong is appealing to individuals interested in community based classes for health, healing, and longevity. It provides movements that fit all ages and all health ranges, especially geared toward seniors, but beneficial to all.
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation: Turn Your Stress into Strength
Turn Your Stress into Strength! Manage the stress in your life using research-based techniques including deep breathing, mindfulness, and visualization. You will leave the sessions inspired and on your way to a happier, more peaceful and fulfilling life. Trained, certified, and experienced in resiliency and wellness coaching, your facilitator Paula Kommor starts with the belief that you are whole, resourceful, and creative. As a group, we will focus on your strengths and past successes to help you build a sustainable resiliency habit. Give yourself the gift of self-care.
Yoga Foundations: Mindfulness and Movement
If you're interested in accessing the evidence-based benefits of yoga: balance, focus, concentration, mental relaxation and physical well-being, this class is ideal. Beginners and seasoned practitioners alike can participate - no previous experience of yoga or ability is required. Your instructor, Anne Borders, has over 25 years of experience teaching yoga and is committed to a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for exploration, growth, and self-discovery. Come join us and embark on a journey towards greater well-being and peace.
The Mindful Life Toolkit: A 4-Session Essentials Workshop
Discover the foundations of mindfulness and wellbeing in this live, in-person workshop designed for people navigating busy, demanding lives. Over four engaging sessions, you'll build a toolkit of practical, evidence-based techniques to manage stress, increase awareness, and create a life that feels more meaningful, connected, and sustainable. Perfect for those new to mindfulness or seeking approachable, impactful ways to thrive in today’s fast-paced world.
You’re Grounded: Mindfulness Tools to Cultivate Presence and Patience in Your Parenting
Parenting can be challenging, and finding time for mindfulness often feels impossible amidst the daily demands. But mindful parenting is within reach! This course provides a practical approach to incorporating mindfulness into your parenting, helping you stay present, patient, and connected with your child—even when things get tough—without needing extra hours in your day. You’ll learn how to respond intentionally to the challenges of parenting at every stage, from infancy to adulthood, while also building emotional resilience for yourself.
A Life of Peace in Times of Worry
In a world that often fuels anxiety, many of us find ourselves caught in cycles of worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. While these patterns are natural, they can be unproductive and take a toll on our emotional well-being, relationships, and overall health. This mindfulness-based course offers insights into the root causes of worry and rumination, exploring their effects and providing practical tools to break free from these cycles. Through mindful practices, participants will learn to cultivate peace, contentment, and resilience, even in turbulent times. Designed for anyone struggling with overthinking or persistent worry, the course combines informative teachings with experiential mindfulness exercises, along with suggested practices to deepen learning between sessions. Participants will explore new, mindful approaches to navigate these challenges with greater ease.
The Gift of Aging: Approaching the Transition
So many of us exist in a deeply conditioned, strongly reinforced view of death as the ultimate enemy. We not only fear the end of life in this form, but also avoid most exposure to alternate understandings, adopting instead a posture of denial and resistance to reality, and greatly limiting the richness of experience possible in our later years.
Mindful Aging Circle
Phyllis SanAngelo is stepping away for the time being, so the Eldering Circle is evolving. The circle is now called the Mindful Aging Circle. Bunny Nash will facilitate this month's Mindful Aging Circle.
The Happiness Discussion Group
The Dalai Lama is often quoted as saying, “The purpose of our lives is to be happy”. If asked, most of us would agree, “I could stand to be a little happier!” The good news is that authentic happiness is a choice. Almost half of our happiness comes from our thoughts, behaviors, and perspectives, which we can control.
Continuing Mindfulness: The Science of Changing Your Brain for Happiness
Whether this class is new to you or you’ve taken it in the past, you’ll learn how to overcome what gets in the way of your happiness by paying mindful attention to positive moments. Instructor Tony Zipple has decades of experience in training people in practices that improve their subjective well-being. He’s bringing this class back so you can refresh or begin your journey to “hardwiring happiness” into your daily life.