ONLINE MINDFULNESS TRAINING

The Vipassana Fellowship Meditation Course offers :
A 90 day online course in Buddhist Meditation from the serenity and insight traditions.>Intended primarily for beginners, the 90 day course is also suitable for experienced meditators who wish to explore different aspects of the tradition. The emphasis is on building a sustainable and balanced meditation practice that is compatible with lay life. The course is led by Andrew Quernmore, an experienced meditation teacher based in England. The course is delivered online and participants also receive our audio supplement on CD-Rom.
The fee is about $120 CDN

MINDFULNESS INFO FOR OTTAWA AREA

A reminder that there is a great on-line newsletter and website describing everything that's happening in the Ottawa/Gatineau area.
Its at: OttawaMindfulness.ca
And thanks to the editors for giving us a link on the website and making Mindfulness in The Valley the cover story for the Fall.

MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS LISTING

We are preparing a Fall Listing of Courses and Programs related to mindfulness meditation in the Renfrew, Lanark and Leeds region. It will be posted here in September. If you want to be included, contact Ray

RESEARCH INTO MEDITATION

The Centre for Evidence-based Research at the University of Alberta has just released a 400 page report on types and efficacy of "meditation" programs. It makes very interesting reading.

Metta Bhavana-Loving Kindness

In the Change Your Mind Program, we introduced a short reflection where we direct our best wishes to ourselves and others. This is called Metta Bhavana, the cultivation of loving kindness.
I have recently returned from a Metta Course at the Vermont Zen Centre.
For more information on the VZC program, visit their site.
For the text of the Metta Sutta, that is the Teaching on Loving Kindness, a beautiful translation of the original Buddhist verse, read it here.
Listen to a commentary on the Sutra here.

AUDIO FOR MINDFULNESS

Here are some excellent audio guides to mindfulness.

There are four exercises here which are related to Acceptance Therapy

http://act-for-anxiety-disorders.com/therapist_materials_audio_files.html

There are some good 2-3 minute clips from Jon Kabatt-Zinn here:

http://www.nightingale.com/pa~product~Mindfulness_Meditation~audio~1447.asp

There are some good introductory talks on Insight Meditation here:

http://www.buddhanet.net/audio-meditation.htm

Planning Worksheets

Below you can find copies of the following sheets we have used. They are in JPG image format and should print OK.
The Life Cycle
The 6 Month Purpose Planner
The Monthly Purpose Planner
The Weekly Purpose Planner