Online: Feeling and Caring for our Strong Emotions – Letting the Body Lead the Way
with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Saturday, February 19th, 2022 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
How can we manage times of overwhelm and crisis, when it feels like we can’t find any space inside? How can we learn to really be with our strong emotions rather than running from them or drowning in them? In this half day of mindfulness, we’ll learn powerful practices of staying rooted and grounded in the midst of life’s storms by listening to the wisdom of the body. We will become more intimate with our emotions and how to care for them in our body. Through intentional, somatic practices like belly breathing and walking mindfully, we will discover how to return to the reality, and safety, of the present moment and stay connected to the earth in full awareness.
Using powerful teachings from Buddhist Psychology on how our minds work, we will also do a deep dive into how to really be with and soothe strong emotions, which can be so painful and disruptive in times of change. We learn and practice how we can access mindfulness to help us recognize whatever painful emotion is arising, accept it, and then embrace it like a loving adult would hold a crying baby. As we do this, our emotion settles down and we are able to look deeply into to understand it at its root in the deeper layers of our mind. This leads us to insight and gradual transformation of habit patterns that keep us stuck in reactivity, fear and anger.
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Teacher(s)
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher who has a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor, at the age of twenty-five she entered a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition and spent fifteen years living as a nun under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Zen teacher in 2007, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Today she sees her work as a continuation of the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as well as the work of her parents, inspired by their stories and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King Jr. on desegregating the South. In addition to writing We Were Made for These Times: Skilfully Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption, she is also the editor of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children. Now based in New York, she teaches and leads retreats internationally, provides spiritual mentoring, and interweaves art, play, nature, racial and earth justice, and embodied mindfulness practice in her teaching. She especially feels called to share the Dharma with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as activists, educators, youth, artists, and families. Visit kairajewel.com to learn more.