One day workshop and book signing with Dr Bob Stahl The Mindful Body An exploration of the original Body Scan	Book signing and drinks: 4.30 – 5.30pm. Bob has written a wonderful book: A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Publications, March 2010). This will be available for sale after our workshop…time to eat, drink, talk, relax, connect with each other and get a book signed if you wish it. “This is an excellent, systematic, helpful, and practical workbook. Doing these practices brings many blessings. They will reduce your stress and truly transform your life.” -Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., author of The Wise Heart, A Path with Heart, and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry “Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein have woven an inspiring tapestry of illuminating insights and practical exercises that can trans- form your life and even help you build a stronger brain. Inspired by their work as teachers of the research-proven Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction Program, the authors have provided a step-by-step approach to bringing this scientifically grounded approach into your daily life. -Daniel J. Siegel, MD, codirector of the University of California, Los Angeles Mindful Awareness Research Center and author of Mindsight and The Mindful Brain.
3rd July, 2010 Marist Father’s Centre, 1 Mary St, Hunters Hill $145 inc GST, teas, drinks, snacks BYO Lunch (for silent lunch) Workshop: 9 - 4.30pm Book signing and drinks: 4.30 - 5.30pm Your history is here inside your body. Your body is your storehouse Of learning’s, feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Only waiting to be invited to reveal your treasures to yourself. Help yourself. As you let the learning emerge and take shape, you can Appreciate the wisdom of the body. Each cell alive with spirit, emotion, and intelligence. Ready to help you at any moment, always with you and for you. - Martha Elliot

The body scan is a central and integral part of some well known evidence - based interventions: MBSR, MBCT and MiCBT – having it’s roots in the first foundation of mindfulness as taught in Vipassana or Insight meditation. This workshop will be a day for beginning and experienced meditators as well clinicians using mindfulness in their work, to learn and practice the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation that can be considered the original body scan. We will explore how this practice intersects with contemplating the four elements and death as a way of deepening our understanding of impermanence and ultimately, the impersonal nature of the body and mind.
The first foundation of mindfulness – exploring bodily experience - contains six distinct body practices. The first three are commonly practiced: bringing mindfulness to breathing, bodily postures, and into everyday life activities. The other three are the 32 parts of the body, the four elements, and the nine charnel ground contemplations on death. Although clearly important, these last three meditations are almost never taught in the west and most meditators, even those who are quite dedicated and experienced, have no exposure to them. Many practitioners are not even aware they exist.

This day will be a time for you to delve more deeply into your body. As you feel into and listen to your body you will develop a more vivid body awareness leading to insights, to enable you to better care for yourself and others physically, mentally, and emotionally.

As you work with the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation, you may begin to discover the body’s true nature as it begins to break down into the primary elements of solidity, liquidity, motion, and temperature revealing the impermanent, unreliable/dissatisfying and ultimately impersonal nature of the body/mind.

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Teachers:
Dr Bob Stahl (MA Counseling Psychology, PhD. Philosophy and Religion), a long-time practitioner of insight meditation, lived in a Buddhist monastery for over eight years. He has a PhD in Philosophy and Religion with a specialization in Buddhist Studies, and now directs Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs in six Bay Area medical centers. Bob studied with the renowned Burmese masters Taungpulu Kaba-Aye Sayadaw, Hlaing Tet Sayadaw, Dr. Rina Sircar and Pokokhu Sayadaw, and has experience with 32 parts of the body, 4 elements and charnel ground meditations.

Venue:
Marist Father’s Centre, 1 Mary St, Hunters Hill

Date:
Workshop: 9 – 4.30pm
Book signing and drinks: 4.30 – 5.30pm

Cost:
$145 inc GST
($120 for AABCAP and SIM members)
BYO Lunch (for silent lunch)

Registration:
Please register your interest early so that we can plan for numbers.
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Payment:
By EFT via internet banking (Account details below)
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Account details:
Account Name: Openground
Bank: ANZ
BSB: 012-241
Account No: 4990-00818

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Post to:
Openground
3/71 Boronia Rd
Bellevue Hill NSW 2023

Refund policy:
No refund given after Thursday, 24th June, 2010.
Full refund (minus $15 admin fee) given up to Wednesday, 23rd June, 2010.