Dates: Material available until June 30, 2019. Open for registration until April 1, 2019.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code SB1N19.

Our focus in this online class will be on interactive discussion, virtual community building, current events, and how to bring our practice more fully into everyday life. Sylvia and guest Spirit Rock teachers will share practical tools to respond to these rollercoaster times with mindfulness, presence, and an open heart. Join us for heartfelt connection with sangha, meaningful shared moments, and plenty of Sylvia-style laughter!

This new iteration will be interactive discussion based, and will include Q&A, small group exercises, guided meditation, and dharma vignettes.

Class material (included): 11 video-based teachings with Sylvia on how to make your day-to-day experience a basis for mindfulness practice. Filmed at her home, Sylvia offers reflections, teachings, and instructions for everyday experiences such as drinking coffee, driving, preparing food and even walking your dog. With easy, accessible instructions based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as well as Loving-kindness (Metta) practice, this course will offer you an opportunity to take your practice “off of the cushion and out into the world.”

CLASS INCLUDES:
• 12 video conferences with Sylvia & friends (recorded and posted for later viewing)
• 11 video teaching segments
• A downloadable class manual

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 10:00AM PT ON:
• January 10
• January 31
• February 14
• February 28
• March 14
• March 28
• April 11
• April 25
• May 9
• May 23
• June 13
• June 20

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page. Useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge. The class material will be available until June 30, 2019. Videos originally recorded in 2014.

Dates: Material available until June 30, 2019. Open for registration until April 1, 2019.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code SB1N19.

Our focus in this online class will be on interactive discussion, virtual community building, current events, and how to bring our practice more fully into everyday life. Sylvia and guest Spirit Rock teachers will share practical tools to respond to these rollercoaster times with mindfulness, presence, and an open heart. Join us for heartfelt connection with sangha, meaningful shared moments, and plenty of Sylvia-style laughter!

This new iteration will be interactive discussion based, and will include Q&A, small group exercises, guided meditation, and dharma vignettes.

Class material (included): 11 video-based teachings with Sylvia on how to make your day-to-day experience a basis for mindfulness practice. Filmed at her home, Sylvia offers reflections, teachings, and instructions for everyday experiences such as drinking coffee, driving, preparing food and even walking your dog. With easy, accessible instructions based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as well as Loving-kindness (Metta) practice, this course will offer you an opportunity to take your practice “off of the cushion and out into the world.”

CLASS INCLUDES:
• 12 video conferences with Sylvia & friends (recorded and posted for later viewing)
• 11 video teaching segments
• A downloadable class manual

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 10:00AM PT ON:
• January 10
• January 31
• February 14
• February 28
• March 14
• March 28
• April 11
• April 25
• May 9
• May 23
• June 13
• June 20

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page. Useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge. The class material will be available until June 30, 2019. Videos originally recorded in 2014.

Dates: April 13 – 14, 2019; 10:00am – 4:30pm
Sliding Scale: $150 – 400. Code SB1M19.
11 CE credits available for $110, for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

Description:
The premise that happiness, and freedom from suffering, is the direct reflection of the absence of negativity and ill-will in the mind is the basis of this weekend retreat. Meditation practices cultivating equanimity, goodwill, compassion, empathic joy, and kind-heartedness will alternate with didactic teachings linking these “sublime states” to the development of wisdom.

The retreat will include Dharma explanations, guided meditation, and Q&A opportunities. The non-residential structure of this retreat will provide a real-life laboratory for practicing the skills of balancing and awakening the heart in daily life.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Care providers will be able to strengthen their personal commitment to a clear and balanced mind that is therapeutic for themselves and their clients, and expedites the therapeutic alliance. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:

• List at least three scientifically validated benefits of mindful practices for health care professionals that may result in improved patient care;
• Incorporate mindfulness of breath practices to develop presence moment awareness, and to calm the mind in preparation for, and when working with clients;
• Utilize, and describe to clients, two mindfulness practice that may be used to reduce stress and suffering;
• Identify three practices of cultivating mindful self-compassion to shift the functioning of the brain from contraction, reactivity, and negativity to openness and the larger perspective;
• Incorporate self-compassion practices in stressful situations, in ways that may improve patient care and reduce emotional exhaustion;
• Integrate compassion practice with clients to work with reactive mind states;
• Demonstrate how to use a self-compassion break, in ways that improve patient care and prevent compassion fatigue;
• Integrate the principles of equanimity and compassion for meeting stress, pain and burnout with kindness and wisdom;
• Describe two meditation techniques for cultivating joy, that may be used in a professional setting to reducing emotional exhaustion;
• Identify the barriers to experiencing joy, and describe to clients practices to cultivate sympathetic joy.

Continuing Education content level: Introductory

Dates: Material available until June 30, 2019. Open for registration until April 1, 2019.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code SB1N19.

Our focus in this online class will be on interactive discussion, virtual community building, current events, and how to bring our practice more fully into everyday life. Sylvia and guest Spirit Rock teachers will share practical tools to respond to these rollercoaster times with mindfulness, presence, and an open heart. Join us for heartfelt connection with sangha, meaningful shared moments, and plenty of Sylvia-style laughter!

This new iteration will be interactive discussion based, and will include Q&A, small group exercises, guided meditation, and dharma vignettes.

Class material (included): 11 video-based teachings with Sylvia on how to make your day-to-day experience a basis for mindfulness practice. Filmed at her home, Sylvia offers reflections, teachings, and instructions for everyday experiences such as drinking coffee, driving, preparing food and even walking your dog. With easy, accessible instructions based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as well as Loving-kindness (Metta) practice, this course will offer you an opportunity to take your practice “off of the cushion and out into the world.”

CLASS INCLUDES:
• 12 video conferences with Sylvia & friends (recorded and posted for later viewing)
• 11 video teaching segments
• A downloadable class manual

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 10:00AM PT ON:
• January 10
• January 31
• February 14
• February 28
• March 14
• March 28
• April 11
• April 25
• May 9
• May 23
• June 13
• June 20

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page. Useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge. The class material will be available until June 30, 2019. Videos originally recorded in 2014.

Dates: Friday, May 17, 3:00pm – Sunday, May 19, 11:30am; 2 nights
Benefit Rate: $5,000 ($4,500 of this amount is a tax-deductible charitable contribution to be used where it’s most needed in supporting Spirit Rock). Code 252R19.

Retreat Description:
On the weekend of May 17-19, a small group of Spirit Rock supporters will gather for an intimate three-day retreat with Spirit Rock Founder Jack Kornfield. Together, we will develop the heart quality of love, dwelling in kind awareness as we practice metta and cultivate our natural capacity for care and connection, towards ourselves and all other beings. This base of goodwill–combined with compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity–can transform our lives.

Attendance for this retreat will be limited, and proceeds from this unique event supports scholarships and all we do here at Spirit Rock. The rate for this benefit weekend is $5,000; $4,500 of this is a tax-deductible charitable contribution to Spirit Rock, supporting everything we do here.

This intimate three-day weekend will include:
· Small group connection with Jack and other Spirit Rock teachers
· Guaranteed single rooms
· Gourmet meals planned exclusively for this group
· Daily movement sessions

Dates: Material available until June 30, 2019. Open for registration until April 1, 2019.
Sliding scale: $199 – $299. Code SB1N19.

Our focus in this online class will be on interactive discussion, virtual community building, current events, and how to bring our practice more fully into everyday life. Sylvia and guest Spirit Rock teachers will share practical tools to respond to these rollercoaster times with mindfulness, presence, and an open heart. Join us for heartfelt connection with sangha, meaningful shared moments, and plenty of Sylvia-style laughter!

This new iteration will be interactive discussion based, and will include Q&A, small group exercises, guided meditation, and dharma vignettes.

Class material (included): 11 video-based teachings with Sylvia on how to make your day-to-day experience a basis for mindfulness practice. Filmed at her home, Sylvia offers reflections, teachings, and instructions for everyday experiences such as drinking coffee, driving, preparing food and even walking your dog. With easy, accessible instructions based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as well as Loving-kindness (Metta) practice, this course will offer you an opportunity to take your practice “off of the cushion and out into the world.”

CLASS INCLUDES:
• 12 video conferences with Sylvia & friends (recorded and posted for later viewing)
• 11 video teaching segments
• A downloadable class manual

VIDEO CONFERENCES – 10:00AM PT ON:
• January 10
• January 31
• February 14
• February 28
• March 14
• March 28
• April 11
• April 25
• May 9
• May 23
• June 13
• June 20

REGISTRATION AND ACCESSING COURSE MATERIAL:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the link to the class page. Useful for newer students as well as more experienced meditators who want to refresh their knowledge. The class material will be available until June 30, 2019. Videos originally recorded in 2014.