Desire is one of the most potent forces on our planet. When we’re open to it, desire can bring us vitality, inspiration, and creativity. It’s a call into life and connection. When disconnected from desire, it’s common to feel listless, uncertain and lost. But the experience of desire can also stir confusion, touch shame, and activate greed and clinging. So how do we engage with it skillfully? What does it look like to turn towards desire, become intimate with it, and integrate its intelligence and aliveness?
When we include desire in our practice, and apply our mindfulness, we discover it is the foundation of healthy boundaries and intuitive knowing. We access its energy. We deepen our intimacy. And we may even find it to contain the seeds of our awakening – acting as an agent that shakes up fixed identities, our ideas of who we “should be”, and revealing something more authentic and whole.
In this four week series explore how to skillfully work with desire in all its manifestations. Through conversation, meditation, inquiry practices and optional paired exercises, develop your capacity to:
- Become aware of what you desire, tuning into the subtle whispers and sensations of your body and engaging them as a guide
- Discern between the intelligence of desire and the suffering of greed and clinging
- Be with the experience of longing, without collapse or reactivity
- Develop understanding of (and facility with) the fear and shame that keep you from working consciously with desire
- Express desire skillfully, discovering its connection to healthy boundaries
- Cultivate the energy of desire to bring more vitality into your life and mindfulness practice
This class is welcoming to and inclusive of adults (18+), single and in relationship, of all genders and sexual orientations.
Schedule:
June 7
June 14
June 21
June 28
Suggested Donation: $120