The Saturday, March 15 MBSR All Day Retreat has been cancelled due to prediction of severe weather beginning late evening March 14 through late on March 15. This retreat will be rescheduled, and offered to all past MBSR participants. The new date will be posted on this page, so stay tuned….and stay safe tomorrow! Feel free to call, email or text Geri Wilimek if you have questions.
Call or text: 218-209-8234 Email: geriwilimek@gmail.com.
We move into Week 4, establishing daily mindfulness meditation practice. Keenly interested in knowing ourselves and our stress experiences more intimately. Learning moment by moment presence, as a new way of experiencing life. Opening to to the possibility that we can grow, learn and reduce our stress as we bring nonjudgmental awareness to our lives moment by moment….
Interested in a future class? Know someone who may be interested? Contact Geri Wilimek at geriwilimek@gmail.com with FUTURE MBSR in the subject line.
MBSR is an evidence based approach to reducing everyday stress using mindfulness meditation to cultivate awareness, emotional regulation, and appreciation for life no matter what arises. Click Here to read more about MBSR.
Winter 2024 MBSR is underway! We will be connecting experientially to…the inherent human capacity to pay attention to what is happening in the present moment, without judgement and discover how this is linked with less suffering and better functioning in everyday life. We will practice tuning in to life through present moment awareness of sight, hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste, overall body sensations and thinking. Each participant will discover personally how this can reduce stress and improve quality of life. This empirically supported course, learning community and teacher will enable you to establish a mindfulness meditation practice that can last a lifetime!
If you are interested in a future MBSR course, email geriwilimek@gmail.com with MBSR in the in the subject line. I will contact you when the next class is scheduled.
This food arises from earth; From circumstances and actions too numerous to count. May we receive this meal with eyes ears nose tongue body mind heart. May we radiate gratitude in the ten directions.
A non-traditional but heartfelt meal blessing, for a unique Thanksgiving Day. With love for all beings, Geri
We are here brightly
and briefly.
It matters
that we are connected
by invisible lines,
holding us together,
earthly constellations,
while ten thousand things
undulate and swirl.
Geri Wilimek 2019
I received this poem from Sondra Gudmundson. I offer it with her permission. I recite it slowly to myself, and feel it as a lullaby….!
Wonder of ONE Presence
One breath
One humanity
One moment
One life
Come back.
Come here.
Come inward.
Come home.
Be gentle.
Be generous.
Be curious.
Be okay.
What now?
What is
What helps
What comforts
Still support
Still together
Still humanizing
Still living
Receive.
Release.
Touch.
Turn.
Self-love
Self-kindness
Self-understanding
Self-compassion
Recognize.
Remind.
Realign.
Rejoin.
Inspire.
Play.
Balance.
Practice.
Live on.
Live free.
Live wholly.
Live authentically.
One consciousness
One heart
One world
One connection
Wonderful warmth
Wonderful love
Wonderful kindness
Wonderful compassion
One breath
One humanity
One moment
One life
Come back.
Come here.
Come inward.
Come home.
Be gentle.
Be generous.
Be curious.
Be okay.
What now?
What is
What helps
What comforts
Still support
Still together
Still humanizing
Still living
Receive.
Release.
Touch.
Turn.
Self-love
Self-kindness
Self-understanding
Self-compassion
Recognize.
Remind.
Realign.
Rejoin.
Inspire.
Play.
Balance.
Practice.
Live on.
Live free.
Live wholly.
Live authentically.
One consciousness
One heart
One world
One connection
Wonderful warmth
Wonderful love
Wonderful kindness
Wonderful compassion
Hi everyone! While this song by Ze Frank won’t make our troubles go away, it may provide a moment of feeling understood and nurtured! Please enjoy.
Also, let’s take a moment to remember that the breath, that central refuge for calming and focusing our minds, is not to be taken for granted. Be grateful if your breath can be your refuge!
Recently John Lovas a friend and fellow teacher of mindfulness, shared a message he received from the Belfast, Ireland Covid Response Team. I share it here:
When you go out and see the empty streets, the empty stadiums, the empty train platforms, don’t say to yourself, “It looks like the end of the world.” What you’re seeing is love in action. What you’re seeing, in that negative space, is how much we do care for each other, for our grandparents, our parents, our brothers and sisters, for people we will never meet. People will lose jobs over this. Some will lose their businesses. And some will lose their lives. All the more reason to take a moment, when you’re out on your walk, or on your way to the store, or just watching the news, to look into the emptiness and marvel at all of that love. Let it fill you and sustain you. It isn’t the end of the world. It is the most remarkable act of global solidarity we may ever witness.
– Belfast, Ireland COVID Response Team
For years John has been posting daily observations and perspectives about mindfulness on his his blog, Mindfulness for Everyone I highly recommend making a visit to this engaging site!
Be safe. Turn toward love. Geri
All about now... 