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SUMMARY:Mentor-led Sangha | Dawn Mauricio
DESCRIPTION:Led by MMTCP Mentors\, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session\, mentors will offer a short talk\, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.   \n \nThis session is led by Dawn Mauricio and is from 11 am – 12:30 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here \n \nPlease note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person\, please join us live for this valuable community. \n \nMore about Dawn \nDawn Mauricio (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian mindfulness and Insight Meditation teacher who has been practicing since 2005. A graduate of Spirit Rock’s 4-year Retreat Teacher Training and other advanced programs\, she has co-led multi-year Dharma trainings and is now the coordinating teacher for the annual 8-month Living the Dharma program. Dawn teaches across Canada and the U.S.\, offering a playful\, dynamic\, and heartfelt approach grounded in relational and embodied practice. She is a co-founder of the True North Insight BIPOC practice group\, a core teacher with Sacred Mountain Sangha\, the author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners\, and a Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner. Learn more at dawnmauricio.com.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mentor-led-sangha-dawn-mauricio/
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SUMMARY:Ānāpānasati Sutta with Dharmacharya Shantum Seth
DESCRIPTION:For many of us\, focusing on the breath is foundational to our meditation and mindfulness of breathing is a concept we are all familiar with. But do you know the origins of this practice for Buddhists? In the Ānāpānasati Sutta  the Buddha lays out a clear and detailed meditation practice to develop a serene and concentrated mind and insight.  \n \nJoin Dharmacharya Shantum Seth as he brings us back to the roots of mindfulness of breath teaching to explore and deconstruct the 16 steps of conscious breathing which are broken into four tetrads—body\, feelings\, mind\, and mental objects. Whether you have worked with Ānāpānasati  before or this is your first exposure to the sutta\, this session offers an opportunity to study this discourse\, with a skilled guide\, as it was taught over 2\,500 years ago and to discover why it is considered the “direct path” to liberation and awakening. \n \nThis Deepening Dharma Series session is from 11 am – 1 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here \n \nMore about Shantum Seth \n \nShantum Seth is an international meditation teacher\, educator\, and facilitator whose work bridges contemplative traditions with leadership\, education\, and social transformation. Ordained as a Dharmacharya (Dharma Teacher) in 2001 by the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh\, he has been sharing mindfulness and ethical living globally for over three decades. \n \nA pioneer of mindful pilgrimage\, Shantum has been leading transformative journeys across Buddhist Asia since 1988\, when he organized an early pilgrimage for Thich Nhat Hanh.These journeys invite participants to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha while deepening contemplative practice and weave together meditation\, dialogue\, and direct experience at sacred sites such as Bodh Gaya\, Sarnath\, and Kushinagar. He led the first  alumni pilgrimage in December and will guide another in February 2027.  Shantum is Co-Founder of Ahimsa Trust\,( www.ahimsatrust.org)  which is developing a Plum Village–inspired mindfulness practice centre in the Himalayan foothills. His work spans educators\, corporate leaders\, civil servants\, and social sectors\, focusing on awareness\, resilience\, and compassionate leadership.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/anapanasati-sutta-with-dharmacharya-shantum-seth/
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SUMMARY:Mentor-led Sangha | Gullu Singh
DESCRIPTION:Led by MMTCP Mentors\, these sessions offer a place for you to bring any and all of your personal practice and teaching questions and to be in sangha with alumni peers. In each session\, mentors will offer a short talk\, lead a reflective or practice exercise and then offer guidance and wisdom for any questions you have.   \n \nThis session is led by Gullu Singh and is from 7 – 8:30 pm ET;  the Zoom link is here \n \nPlease note: these sessions are not recorded. Now more than ever we need to be in community and though we can’t be together in person\, please join us live for this valuable community. \n \nMore about Gullu \nGulwinder “Gullu” Singh is a mindfulness and Dharma teacher who also practices corporate real estate law. Although he was exposed to meditation as a child\, he found his own practice when\, after law school\, he found himself working at high-powered law firms where the job was extremely stressful. \nGullu completed the four-year Spirit Rock Meditation Center Teacher Training Program and qualified to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Gullu is core faculty in the Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training\, the Spirit Rock Dedicated Practitioner Program\, and a mentor for MMTCP. He is also a core teacher and board member for Sacred Mountain Sangha\, a senior teacher at InsightLA\, and a member of the guiding teacher’s council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. \n \nGullu is deeply inspired to share meditation as an antidote to stress\, a path to well-being\, and a way to inject more sanity\, compassion\, and wisdom into this world.
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/mentor-led-sangha-gullu-singh/
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SUMMARY:Becoming a Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to increase your visibility as a meditation teacher and contribute to your livelihood through teaching? Join Hugh Byrne for a workshop on ‘Becoming a Meditation Teacher on Insight Timer’\, Sunday\, May 31\, 1:00 – 3:00pm eastern time.  \n \nIn this workshop we will discuss how to launch yourself as a teacher on Insight Timer\, and approaches to increasing visibility and contributing to your livelihood by offering meditations\, talks\, courses\, and live sessions on I.T.   \n  \nHugh Byrne has been a Buddhist meditation teacher since 2000 and is an emeritus teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and a guiding teacher with the DC Center for Mindful Living. Hugh has been an active teacher on Insight Timer for ten years and his meditations and talks have been downloaded over 3.5 million times. This workshop is offered on a dana/donation basis — MMTCP alums are invited to participate.  Please contact Hugh Byrne directly f you wish to attend or have any questions. 
URL:https://mmtcpalumni.org/event/becoming-a-meditation-teacher-on-insight-timer-information-session/
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