Prairie Centre for Mindfulness
330 - 2445 13th Avenue S4P 0W1 Regina, SK, Canada

Legs up the wall - your body will thank you!

Nothing Special..... Please do not have high expectations that you are going to achieve something very special. Meditation is nothing special. It’s just being o...pen to ordinary things. It’s nothing extraordinary. This is something beautiful about meditation. So it is not results that we are going to achieve but the practice itself, that is the result; knowing what is happening is the result, not what comes after. In meditation the result is the practice. This is what is very interesting about meditation. The result is just being open, knowing what is happening from moment-to-moment, experiencing every moment. Kalyanamithra Godwin Samararatne

Dans cette période vraiment particulière, notre souffrance vient de l'incertitude. Notre souffrance vient de cette absence totale de vision de ce que nous réser...ve l'avenir. Or nous detestons ne pas savoir, ne pas contrôler notre destin. Nous imaginons souvent le pire... Du coup on cherche à se rassurer et pour cela, on se raccroche à ce que l'on possède, ce à quoi nous sommes profondément attaché. Attachement à notre famille, à nos amis, à notre santé, à notre travail, à nos bien matériels et à beaucoup d'autres choses encore. En soit cela n'est pas problématique, sauf si cela détermine et conditionne notre bonheur. En ce sens cette période est une formidable opportunité pour voir où nous en sommes avec l'attachement. Car là où il y a attachement, il y a la peur de perdre. Et là où il y a la peur, il ne peut jamais y avoir de véritable bonheur ou de satisfaction profonde et durable. C'est une constatation évidente, logique : il serait souhaitable de ne pas être dépendant, des conditions extérieures pour être heureux. Mais c'est bien sûr extrèmement difficile, inabituel voir angoissant. Alors comment faire, comment arriver à lâcher nos attachements, notre besoin constant de contrôle ? Il semble que le bonheur est à trouver à l'intérieur de nous. Il nous faut abandonner, renoncer à cette croyance que le bonheur et la satisfaction se trouvent quelque part en dehors de nous-mêmes et qu'il nous faudrait s'en saisir et le capturer. Avec le temps et du recul on finit souvent par le comprendre. Et quand le désir de se libérer de ce shéma est fort, quand nous souhaitons véritablement être libres de nos attachements, quand nous voulons arrêter de souffrir indéfiniment, nous renonçons tout simplement à cette façon de penser. Nous la laissons tomber parce que nous avons déjà eu des aperçus, des fulgurances de ce qu'est la paix profonde, de ce qu'est le bonheur non conditionné. Nous savons avec certitude qu'il est là, qu'il est déjà présent au fond de notre conscience. M.E.S

Right now there are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing o...f your happiness. Someone you haven't met yet is already dreaming of adoring you. Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next two years that will change how you look at life. Nuns in the Alps are in endless vigil, praying for the Holy Spirit to alight the hearts of all of God's children. A farmer is looking at his organic crops and whispering, "nourish them." Someone wants to kiss you, to hold you, to make tea for you. Someone is willing to lend you money, wants to know what your favorite food is, and treat you to a movie. Someone in your orbit has something immensely valuable to give you for free. Something is being invented this year that will change how your generation lives, communicates, heals and passes on. The next great song is being rehearsed. Thousands of people are in yoga classes right now intentionally sending light out from their heart chakras and wrapping it around the earth. Millions of children are assuming that everything is amazing and will always be that way. Someone is in profound pain, and a few months from now, they'll be thriving like never before. They just can't see it from where they're at. Someone who is craving to be partnered, to be acknowledged, to ARRIVE, will get precisely what they want and even more. And because that gift will be so fantastical in it's reach and sweetness, it will quite magically alter their memory of angsty longing and render it all "So worth the wait." Someone has recently cracked open their joyous, genuine nature because they did the hard work of hauling years of oppression off of their psyche this luminous juju is floating in the ether, and is accessible to you. Someone just this second wished for world peace, in earnest. Someone is fighting the fight so that you don't have to. Some civil servant is making sure that you get your mail, and your garbage is picked up, that the trains are running on time, and that you are generally safe. Someone is dedicating their days to protecting your civil liberties and clean drinking water. Someone is regaining their sanity. Someone is coming back from the dead. Someone is genuinely forgiving the seemingly unforgivable. Someone is curing the incurable. You. Me. Some. One. Now. Danielle LaPorte

An incredible opportunity to learn and explore. Looking forward to sitting together.