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4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
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Buddhist Teachings (Series)

A Year To Live: A Year-Long Collective Journey Exploring End of Life as Liberation

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Lisa Kring, LCSW Teacher

Rosamaría Segura Teacher

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What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Description:

In Buddhism, along with many cultures and spiritual traditions, it is considered a deep wisdom practice to reflect on and accept death as a natural and vital part of life. In reality, to deny death is to deny life itself. In the west, death and dying are taboo, so many of us live our lives in fear and denial until it is too late. What’s your plan for your life?

This year-long program, based on the book A Year to Live by Stephen Levine, is designed to radically respond to this question for people of all ages, regardless of life stage. In community, this course will focus on waking up and living life together more fully through the exploration of death as spiritual practice. Death is explored not to frighten us, but as an object of contemplation to help us awaken to the fragile, fleeting, and precious nature of our lives.

Together we will celebrate life and explore mortality with mindful conversations that help lessen death anxiety in a safe, nurturing, and supportive space. Each gathering will involve experiential practice, relevant talks, prompts for inquiry and reflection, group sharing and community building.

Ultimately, this is a year-long practice in forgiveness, gratitude and letting go. Through guided meditations, inquiry and small group discussions, we will be guided, with the support of community, through a process of living this year as if it were our last.

Let the truth of dying change everything…….

Mindfully Yours, Lisa and Rosamaria

All are warmly welcome!

Intro session
Feel free to join us for the intro session on Saturday, December 7, 2024, 1pm-2pm PT. Click here to register.

Program Includes:

  • Teachings: Monthly (12) large group sessions with Lisa and Rosamaria
  • Community Peer-led support: Monthly (12) home group sessions with home group sangha, with monthly readings, guidelines and prompts for group practice and sharing (Lisa and Rosamaria will join at least one of these home group sessions during the course as added support)
  • Home practices: Guided meditations, readings, reflections
  • Access: Video and audio recordings

Program Dates:

Monthly Teaching group sessions (first and last sessions will be hybrid) – 2nd Sundays of each month, 1pm-3pm PST:
– February 9, 2025 (hybrid, both online and in person at Benedict Canyon Retreat Center)
– March 9, 2025 (online)
– April 13, 2025 (online)
– May 11, 2025 (online)
– June 8, 2025 (online)
– July 13, 2025 (online)
– August 10, 2025 (online)
– September 14, 2025 (online)
– October 12, 2025 (online)
– November 9, 2025 (online)
– December 14, 2025 (online)
– January 11, 2026 (hybrid, both online and in person at Benedict Canyon Retreat Center)

Monthly Support Full Group Sessions– held on the first Friday of every month, 12pm-1pm PST, starting in March 2025.

Participation Commitment*:

  • Attend at least 10 of 12 monthly teaching group sessions – must attend the first session. The first session is required(!) to establish the safety of the container and respect the shared commitment of our “Y2L” sangha.
  • Participate in home group sessions as skillfully as possible
  • Complete homework assignments, practices, and readings

Sliding scale cost:
$500 sustainer
$600 base
$700 supporter

(Scholarships available. Please inquire)

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The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean —
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

 

Lisa Kring, LCSW Teacher

Lisa Kring is an LCSW (MSW-USC) and is a committed practitioner of Theravada Vipassana mediation for over twenty years. She is a graduate of the Dedicated Practitioner’s Program and Advanced Practitioner Program at Spirit Rock, and has studied with many teachers over the years, including Dan Siegel, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ven Analayo, Ven Ayya Tathaaloka and... Read more

Rosamaría Segura Teacher

Leer Abajo en Español  Rosamaría is committed to teaching mindfulness to communities with limited access to these practices. Her approach integrates guided and silent meditation alongside elements of nature, fostering well-being and spiritual healing. Offering classes in both Spanish and English, Rosamaría collaborates with non-profit organizations, public schools, and meditation centers dedicated to Buddhist teachings. In... Read more

Pricing Options
Supporter $700
Base $600
Sustainer $500

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Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

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