Meditating with Difficult Emotions, with Michael Taft
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Meditating with Difficult Emotions: Daylong Meditation Workshop with Michael W. Taft
Meditation is not about pretending that you don’t have a problem. It’s not about generating a false positive attitude or telling yourself to just “buck up.” It’s about learning how to contact, sit with, and understand what you’re feeling in a new way. It’s about learning new ways to surf the monster waves of emotions while simultaneously accepting their existence—one of the main prerequisites to deeper awakening.
In this daylong workshop, you will learn several different techniques for working with emotional challenges, from vipassana to vajrayana and including insights from psychology and neuroscience. Combining insightful talks, lively group discussion, and guided meditation practice, you will access new perspectives on your emotional experience.
If you're feeling anxious, depressed, and overwhelmed, want to deepen your practice significantly, or would just like to learn to handle your feelings more gracefully, then register here.
Michael W. Taft is a maverick meditation teacher, bestselling author, and podcaster. As a mindfulness coach, he specializes in secular, science-based mindfulness training in retreats, groups, corporate settings, and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Mindful Geek, Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, and Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.
He has often taught meditation at Google, worked on curriculum development for SIYLI, and is currently core faculty at Wisdom Labs, in San Francisco. Michael is also a featured teacher on the Simple Habit app, and an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, and was the long-time editorial director of Sounds True.
From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has been meditating for over thirty five years and has extensive experience in both Buddhist Vipassana and Hindu Tantric practice. Michael is a senior facilitator in Shinzen Young’s Unified Mindfulness system, and is a teacher of meditation groups around the Bay Area. He currently lives in Oakland, California, and is founding editor of the iconoclastic mindfulness meditation blog and podcast Deconstructing Yourself.