Transforming Consciousness
This course, offered in broad strokes, is an overview of ways to do meditation practice that can transform consciousness. Themes parallel the book Being Prayer--Transforming Conciousness. – It is a series, but each session stands on its own and can thus be taken by itself. The course can be further explored experetnitlly in individual sessions.

Date Level Credits Method Instructor Cost Register Alternatives

By arrangement or online All levels 2 hours per session Individual Sessions (also homestudy and group) Insight Meditation Teacher, Mary Rees, MS $100 individual Sessions, $50 group and homestudy sessions Individual Sessions (or Home Study) Individual objectives of each of these courses can be met in individual sessions, as home study, or in retreat and workshop settings.

At the conclusion of this series of sessions, participants will be able to:

Session One: Preliminary Practices

• Develop familiarity with the mind and kinds of consciousness
• Identify and foster qualities of mind conducive to manifesting skillful mind states

Session Two: Knowing the Mind

• Experience different kinds of consciousness
• Sharpen the minds capacity to observe.
• Make contact with direct experience, bare attention

Session Three: Freeing the Mind

• Practice meditation skills that free the mind
• Recognize spaciousness of mind, even in difficult mind states
• Identify moment of volitional opportunity
• Name some common skillful and unskillful mind states

Session Four: Shaping the Mind

• Differentiate experientially several mind states
• Develop skills for fostering skillful qualities and extinguishing unskillful.

Session Five: Birthing Embodied Being

• Using developing openness and spaciousness of mind and sharpened capacity for observation of subtle mind/body processes for integrating practices of knowing, shaping and freeing the mind in daily life.
• Finding ways that life can flow or can be lived as dance