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Shinzen Interviews

September 2013


WELCOME!
Below you'll find the programs offered this month.

    Registration Opens: Wednesday, August 28, 2013

    Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:00 pm (Eastern)

  • To Register and Pay Online: Use the Add to Cart PayPal buttons below for each program.

  • To Register and Pay by Check: Email a list of the programs you would like to register for to info@meditationtraining.com, and send your check made out to 01 Expert Systems to: 01 Expert Systems, 42 Woodlawn Road, Burlington, VT 05408.

  • Call-in information: Specific call-in numbers are emailed AFTER the deadline to registered participants.

  • IMPORTANT: To make sure that you receive the call-in information and any email communications from the Home Practice Program, please add info@meditationtraining.com and emily@meditationtraining.com to the "Safe Senders" list of your email program. If you do not receive an expected email, please first check your SPAM folder. That is most often the reason people don't receive our emails.


SEPTEMBER 13-15 - Weekend of September Programs

To register for all retreat programs offered during this month's Home Practice Program weekend (except the Facilitator Training Part II), you can "add to cart" using either the four buttons from the program listings below or just this one button below.

Fee: $70 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)


SEPTEMBER 13 (Friday PM) - Expand and Contract on Everything
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Pacific / 10:00 pm to 12:00 am Eastern

Leader: Julianna Raye

Type of Program: Special Offering

Prerequisites: Some previous experience with "Focus on Everything".

Description: In this special offering, we'll be using the Focus on Everything strategy to explore the expansive and contractive nature of attention itself.

Reading: In preparation for this program, please read/review the following sections from Shinzen’s manual “Five Ways to Know Yourself”:

  • Introduction to Basic Mindfulness, pp. 7-17
  • Chapter 4 – The Way of Flow, pp. 51-63
  • Chapter 8, Part 4, Focus on Everything, p. 94 

Fee: $10 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)


SEPTEMBER 14 (Saturday AM) - Focus on Hear
8:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific / 11:00 am to 3:00 pm Eastern

Leader: Julianna Raye

Type of Program: Core Curriculum

Emphasis: Foundations

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary.

Description: Learn how to work with all 4 themes of auditory experience, mental talk, external sound, auditory rest, and auditory flow. This technique trains you to appreciate the entire auditory system as it ranges over the various states of inner activation, outer activation, rest, and flow. Focusing exclusively on auditory states for a while tends to create a merging of subjective and objective hearing, leading to the oneness of inside and outside.

Reading: In preparation for this program, please read from Shinzen’s manual “Five Ways to Know Yourself”:

  • Introduction to Basic Mindfulness, pp. 7-17
  • Chapter 1, Part 2, Hear In, p. 22
  • Chapter 2, Part 2, Hear Out, p. 30
  • Chapter 3, Part 2, Hear Rest, p. 36
  • Chapter 4, Part 2, Hear Flow, p. 53
  • Chapter 8, Part 2, Focus on Hear, p. 93 

Also skim the About Posture article regarding options for posture (if you haven’t done so already).

Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)


SEPTEMBER 14 (Saturday PM) - Focus Out
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Pacific / 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm Eastern

 

Leader: Chris Trani

Type of Program: Core Curriculum

Emphasis: Foundations

Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary.

Description: Learn how to focus on physical sights, physical sounds, and physical body sensations. In daily life, we are constantly looking, listening, and moving the body. The Focus Out technique will allow you to stay deep and anchored even while going about complex activities such as driving, working, or talking to people. It’s a systematic and tangible way to experience the Power of Now.

Reading: In preparation for this program, please read the following sections from Shinzen’s manual “Five Ways to Know Yourself”:

  • Introduction to Basic Mindfulness, pp. 7-17
  • Chapter 2 The Way of The Physical Senses, pp. 29-32

Also skim the About Posture article regarding options for posture (if you haven’t done so already).

Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)


SEPTEMBER 15 (Sunday AM) - Focus In
5:00 am to 9:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am to 12:00 pm Eastern

 

Leader: W.T.S. Tarver

Type of Program: Core Curriculum

Emphasis: Drill

 

Prerequisites:  Some previous experience with Focus In.

Description: Deepen your ability to work with your thoughts and emotions: mental images, mental talk and emotional body sensations. As a “Drill Program” the emphasis here will be on training strength and endurance through repetition.

Reading: In preparation for this program, please read from Shinzen’s manual “Five Ways to Know Yourself”:

  • Introduction to Basic Mindfulness, pp. 7-17
  • Chapter 1 The Way of Thoughts and Emotions, pp. 21-25

Fee: $20 per person (This fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.)


SEPTEMBER 15 (Sunday PM) -
How to Teach Focus on Feel - Part II

10:00 am to 2:00 pm Pacific / 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Eastern 

Leader:  Soryu Forall and Shinzen Young

Type of Program: Facilitator Training

 

Prerequisites:  

  • Participation in Part I (held in August 2013)

  • Field experience teaching this technique to at least one student in the last month.

Preparations: 

  • Also please complete preparations from Part I if you haven't done so already:

    • Review the outline “How to Teach Focus on Feel." Use the quiz questions at the end of the outline to help you integrate the material.

    • Already be familiar with the “Focus on Feel" technique by having practiced it yourself.

    • Read "Facilitating in a Nutshell."

    • Listen to "Introduction to Teaching" (Parts 1 and 2). (Located in the Facilitator Training Network space.)

    • Listen to a recorded example of Shinzen teaching this focus option, archived in the "Focus on Feel" section within the Network space.

    • Carefully review relevant sections of the "Five Ways" manual:

      • Introduction to Basic Mindfulness, pp. 7-17

      • Chapter 1, Part 3, Feel In, p. 22
      • Chapter 2, Part 3, Feel Out, p. 30
      • Chapter 3, Part 3, Feel Rest, p.37
      • Chapter 4, Part 3, Feel Flow, p. 53
      • Chapter 8, Part 3, Focus on Feel, p. 93

Description:

During Part 2 of the training, you will have a chance to discuss and address any questions, concerns, or experiences that you had while teaching during the month since you took Part I (in August). You’ll have the chance to listen to other trainees’ experiences.

By the time you complete Part 1 and Part 2, you will have acquired a valuable life skill, the ability to guide another human being through the process of fully experiencing the physical and emotional body. 

Fee:

  • Registration was completed and fee was paid by registrants in August. If you were a part of Part I of the training, you will automatically receive for Part II of the training the prep questions and call-in details. (If you do not receive the call-in details by Friday September 13, 2013, please first check your spam or junk folder. If it's not there, then please email info@meditationtraining.com.)

  • The fee does not include charges, if any, by your long distance phone service.

If you missed the live Part I training in August and are committed to teaching and are still interested in options for participating in this program, email info@meditationtraining.com.


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