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About the Home Practice Program
A Message from Shinzen Young

Many people experience immediate positive effects from Mindfulness, but its real power to foster broad and deep psycho-spiritual transformation only becomes evident through ongoing practice. The problem is that most people are not able to get away on a regular basis to do extended retreats. Without regular retreats it is usually difficult to realize the exponential growth potential of the practice. Family and work responsibilities, the expenses involved and the travel required prevent the vast majority of those ready to take on a regular practice from doing so.

To overcome these barriers I have developed a unique program of monthly phone-based "mini retreats." These retreats involve guided practice, self practice, group discussion and a chance for one-on-one private interviews with a teacher - just like onsite retreats do. But these retreats are delivered via conference call to your home or anywhere you happen to be in the world. They typically last four hours.

Many of these mini retreats emphasize a specific theme such as working with emotions, managing physical discomfort, dealing with difficulty concentrating, maintaining practice in daily life and so forth. Taken together they represent a unified ongoing curriculum covering all facets of Mindfulness practice.

It is my hope that participating every month or two in relatively short but tightly structured programs will produce cumulative effects comparable to those you might get from onsite retreats in a practice center.

How to Get Started

Home practice weekends always begin on the second Friday of the month, so it’s easy to plan ahead. Five independent programs are offered during each practice weekend.

These programs represent an ongoing curriculum in mindfulness. Therefore some of them have prerequisites. However, each month there will always be at least 1 or 2 programs that require no previous experience whatsoever. You can begin your Basic Mindfulness training with any of those programs. After that, you can grow in two directions...

Go deeper...by continuing to practice the focus option(s) that you already know--reviewing their Foundations and taking programs that Drill, Sharpen, and Apply them.

Go broader...by learning new focus options.

When you see the benefits of the practice, you may want to learn how to share the practice with others by participating in the Facilitator Training Program.

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You can also get started by browsing the practice manual or by doing on-site classes, seminars and retreats with Shinzen Young or his facilitators. Visit www.Shinzen.org for a complete schedule of his on-site programs.


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