Bring Your Friend Night - Why (Not) Meditate? with Ethan Nichtern and David Nichtern
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Free if you are a first-timer!
$10/$5 students/members if you've been to IDP before.
Why do we meditate? Why don't we meditate? How does it aid mental health and wellbeing? What are some of the common misconceptions of meditation? What does it really mean to practice meditation and study Buddhism?
Ethan and David Nichtern will lead us through a guided mindfulness meditation as well as a talk and discussion about the benefits of practice, as well as confusion surrounding it.
This class is a great opportunity to bring a friend of yours who is new to IDP, or for you yourself to come to IDP for the first time. If you come with a friend who has been here before, the class is FREE for the IDP first-timer.
** Special Treat: We will be heading to Congee Bowery afterwards to share in some food and drinks to celebrate David Nichtern's Birthday. All are welcome to join the class and the reverie that follows.
Shastri Ethan Nichtern is the founding director and Senior Teacher in Residence of the Interdependence Project. For the past eight years, Ethan has taught ongoing meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats in New York City and around North America. He is on the part-time faculty at Eugene Lang College at New School University and lectures regularly at Brown, Wesleyan, and New York Universities. In the summer of 2010, Ethan was empowered by his teacher, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, as a Shastri, a senior teacher of the Shambhala tradition representing the New York region. He has also studied Theravadan and Soto Zen traditions, and is an avid yoga practitioner. www.ethannichtern.com
David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. He is the Director of Buddhist Practice & Study for OM yoga and leads meditation workshops around the world and online. David is a regular contributor to the Living Section of the Huffington Post and is also an accomplished composer, producer and guitarist --- a four-time Emmy award winner and two-time Grammy nominee. His new book, Awakening From the Daydream: The Wheel of Life, will be released in early 2013 on Wisdom Publications. www.davidnichtern.com
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