Friday, August 9, 2024

SUMMER FRIDAY: Meditation + Humor

With David Nichtern

Location: Yoga Shanti Sag Harbor
Level: Open (all students welcome)
Details: Friday evenings during August This Summer!
Cost: $40 Drop-In.

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Often in the heat of summer fun we need to center and revitalize. Yoga Shanti invites you to join us for our Summer Fridays, exploring yoga, meditation, breath-work, sound healing, and movement. It’s the ultimate way to ground your week and welcome the weekend. Sign up today! See you on your mat.

Cost: $40

Meditation & Sense of Humor

There are so many benefits and promises attached to the marketing of meditation these days – a clearer mind, mitigating stress and anxiety, less emotional reactivity, better sleep, more productive at work – on and on. Sounds amazing! We may even practice mediation with the ambition to achieve some higher or more blissful state… better than drugs even. But what if the practice allows all our submerged conflicts, dramas and fixations to come to the surface of our awareness and be seen clearly. What if we get bored, irritated or frustrated? Will we demand our money back? Do we have to lose our sense of humor completely to attain enlightenment?

Session will include talk, discussion, meditation instruction and practice.

“It is impossible to overcome passion, aggression, and ignorance with a long face. We have to cheer up. When you begin to see yourself fully and thoroughly, then you discover your sense of humor. It is not the same as telling bad jokes. Humor here is natural joy, the joy of reality.” – Chogyam Trungpa

About David Nichtern

David is a highly regarded meditation teacher, Emmy award winning musician, composer, producer, writer, and entrepreneur. Sharing the wisdom elucidated in his book,Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck, David offers a balm and a remedy to the prevailing narrative of scarcity, poverty mentality, fear and misaligned work in the world – a world which positions the values of economy and spiritual gifts in an oppositional way. David will share his own journey as an accomplished musician, Buddhist student and teacher, and successful entrepreneur – including his studies with Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.He will also be drawing from his illustrious and diverse career – including working with Jerry Garcia, Stevie Wonder and Christopher Guest etc., owning and operating 2 Indie Labels, signing Lana del Rey, 4 Emmy’s, 2 Grammy nominations, scoring film and TV etc. and playing guitar with and producing records for Krishna Das.