Thursday Morning Meditation
2015-04-02 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-09 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-16 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-23 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-04-30 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-05-07 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-05-14 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-05-21 02:00 - 03:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
For those interested in supporting their morning practice, we invite you to join us on Thursday mornings for silent meditation. The meditation will begin promptly at 9 am in Universalist Unitarian Fellowship sanctuary.
There will be a 30 minute silent meditation period, followed by a short 10 – 20 minute period in which individuals may comment on their own practice, while the group listens in silence.

Special Guest: Nina Wise
2015-04-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation hosts a talk by spiritual author and performance artist Nina Wise.
Nina is a well-known performer who has devoted her career to investigating the relationship between art and spirit. Artistic Director of Motion, she is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Marin Arts Council and has received seven Bay Area Critics Circle Awards. She is the author of A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self-Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Sun, Yoga Journal, Tricycle, Inquiring Mind and Whole Earth Review.

Meditation & Discussion: Lori Stelling
2015-04-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Lori Stelling will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Mike Coughlin
2015-04-21 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Mike Coughlin will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Syra Smith
2015-04-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Syra Smith will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion.
Syra is the founder and curator for Oakland’s Dana Cafe, offering transformational teachings at no cost to participants. She co-leads and organizes East Bay Meditation Center’s weekly Teen Sangha and is a mindfulness and meditation instructor with the Mind Body Awareness Project.

Out evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Daylong Retreat: Meditation and Mindful Movement
2015-05-02 03:00 - 09:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
BODY AWARENESS: MEDITATION AND MINDFUL MOVEMENT
Join us for this daylong event as we explore the nature of the body through mindfulness. The program will include sitting and walking meditation, instructions, and body movement.

What to Bring: Please bring a lunch, beverage and appropriate clothing for outside walking meditation.
Suggested Donation: $20 – $60; No one turned away for lack of funds.
All levels of experience welcomed!
For more Information: Contact Susan DuQuette at susandiorr@yahoo.com
Forrest Hill has been practicing Insight Mediation since 2004 and is the founder of Napa Valley Insight Meditation. He has served as a facilitator at NVIM since its inception in 2011. Forrest is currently enrolled in the Community Dharma Leaders Program, a Buddhist teacher training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He has a PhD from MIT in Biological Oceanography and works as a socially responsible financial advisor. Forrest believes insight meditation can foster greater awareness, wisdom and kindness in our daily lives, and teach us how to respond more compassionately to the world around us.
Juan Sacristan has been practicing Yoga and meditation since 1975. He has a Doctorate in Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West and has practiced Chiropractic for over 25 years. Juan studied lyengar based Yoga with Victor Oppenheimer and has trained with a wide array of teachers including Dharma Mitra, Anna Forrest and Doug Keller. He specializes in alignment-based therapeutic Yoga practice, Asanas, Pranayam (Yogic breathing techniques) and meditation for a variety of mental and physical health issues. Juan continues to integrate his background in health care, his training in Yoga, as well as his personal practice, to help students focus their practice of Yoga as a therapeutic approach to healing and meditation for people of all ages, experience and abilities.

Meditation & Discussion: Forrest Hill
2015-05-05 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Forrest Hill will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion. Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Lori Stelling
2015-05-12 12:00 - 13:30, 2015-06-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Lori Stelling will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion.
Lori has practiced Insight Meditation since 2002. She has completed Insight Meditation Center’s 9-Month Eightfold Path Program and is currently engaged in year-long Buddhist studies through Dharmagiri and Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundations of Well-Being Program.
Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Meditation & Discussion: Mike Coughlin
2015-05-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Mike Coughlin will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion.
Mike has been practicing mindfulness in the vipassana tradition for over a decade. He has received training in Buddhism and mindfulness through Spirit Rock Meditation Center and Mindful Schools and is currently enrolled in UCLA’s Certification in Mindfulness Facilitation program.
Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Special Guest: Kathy Cheney
2015-05-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation hosts a talk by Buddhist meditation instructor Kathy Cheney.
Kathy Cheney has been a student of insight meditation since 2000. She has sat many retreats in the US and in England as well as extended periods of self-retreat. Kathy has been mentored by Gil Fronsdal as a community dharma teacher and completed the Sati Center Chaplaincy training.
Kathy worked for several years as a retreat manager at Spirit Rock and taught meditation in the bay area. She currently lives in Volcano Hawaii where she will be teaching a weekly meditation class with Spirit Rock Senior Teacher, Mary Grace Orr.

Meditation & Discussion: Forrest Hill
2015-06-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Forrest Hill will facilitate our Tuesday evening meditation and discussion.
Forrest has been practicing Insight Meditation since 2004 and is a founding member of Napa Valley Insight Meditation. He is currently enrolled in the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.

Special Guest: Carley Hauck
2015-06-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559, United States
Napa Valley Insight Meditation hosts a talk by mindfulness speaker, writer, coach and consultant Carley Hauck.
Carley is the founder and senior wellness architect at Intuitive Wellness, an integrated wellness practice serving individuals, organizations and the community, founded on the premise that mindfulness is the first step to wellness. She has over 15 years’ experience working with individuals and organizations in the area of healthy behavior change and wellness. Carley is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program and teaches classes on happiness, becoming a better you, food as medicine, and mindful training for healthy nutrition and well-being at Stanford University and the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine.

Thursday Morning Meditation
2015-06-18 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-06-25 02:00 - 03:00, 2015-07-02 02:00 - 03:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559

Meditation & Discussion: Mike Coughlin
2015-06-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559

Visit Aloka Vihara
2015-06-27 00:30 - 2015-06-28 10:00 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
Aloka Vihara is a community of bhikkhunis (fully-ordained nuns) living in the Sierra Foothills, dedicated to practicing the Buddha’s teaching in the style of the Theravada Forest Tradition. NVIM supports the nuns work to build a rural monastery where women can live and train as nuns and where the lay community can practice.
On Saturday June 27th, we have been asked to come up to the Vihara to help build a yurt that will be part of the new monastery. We will also have a chance to meet with the bhikkhunis to explore the monastery. For those that are interested, there is the option of camping out overnight till Sunday, June 28th.
For more information or RSVP, please contact Erika and erika@napainsight.org

Meditation & Discussion: Forrest Hill
2015-06-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559

Meditation and Discussion: Lori Stelling
2015-07-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists, 1625 Salvador Ave, Napa, CA, 94559
Lori Stelling will facilitate this evening’s meditation and discussion. Lori has practiced Insight Meditation since 2002. She has completed Insight Meditation Center’s 9-Month Eightfold Path Program and is currently engaged in year-long Buddhist studies through Dharmagiri and Dr. Rick Hanson’s Foundations of Well-Being Program.
Our evening sittings generally begin with a 30 minute meditation, followed by a short break for tea and greetings. The Facilitator will then give a short talk on relevant themes and lead a group discussion. All levels of experience are welcome.
