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The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice
Incorporating mindfulness practice and the Enneagram in the Narrative Tradition
September 30 – October 5, 2008
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, CA
Five-day retreat with David Daniels, Polly Cherner, Anna Douglas, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and Mark Coleman
Discover how these two paths of sacred knowledge deepen our capacity to live with greater wisdom and compassion, and greater freedom from habitual patterns.
This workshop combines the transformative power of Mindfulness practice with the penetrating insights of the Enneagram to bring about healing and transformation. It is recommended for those with a basic understanding of either the Enneagram or with Mindfulness meditation.
For those with a mindfulness practice, the Enneagram reveals personality patterning that may not arise so obviously in sitting meditation. Knowing our Enneagram type is particularly useful in understanding where our attention and energy habitually go, and hence our relationship dynamics, styles of communication and our blind spots.
The practice of Mindfulness and Loving Kindness has been used for more than 2,500 years as an effective means of alleviating human suffering. It is a non-theistic, non-dogmatic teaching on how to attend to present experience in a way that allows for an un-doing of ingrained patterns of thinking and feeling. When we practice Mindfulness and Loving Kindness, essential qualities of being inevitably awaken.
The Enneagram is a profound spiritual/psychological system based on nine fundamental ways attention and energy are organized. The resulting nine habitual patterns keep us caught in repetitive and limited ways of thinking, feeling and sensing. Each of us falls more heavily into one pattern than another. Knowing our Enneagram type is an effective way of freeing attention and energy from our habitual patterns.
This workshop will be in silent retreat format with instruction in sitting and movement meditation in the Insight Meditation tradition. The Enneagram panels and breakout groups focusing on inner reflection, panel work and specific practice as antidotes will be blended to provide maximum benefit.
Contact information and registration: Spirit Rock Meditation Center or 415-488-0164, ext. 243.
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