Karuna Training

Karuna Training

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Karuna Training episodes

  • Meditation: The Elegance of Aging

    This meditation is an extension of the previous episode, The Elegance of Aging: Working Compassionately with a Long Lens.


    If you'd like to learn more about Karuna Training, please visit www.karunatraining.com.

    10 min
  • The Elegance of Aging

    Join Karuna-trained faculty to discuss how aging can be an elegant oscillating process between fostering our gratitude for long life and walking on a courageous path of life review that allows acceptance, integration, and compassion for life’s teachings.

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    41 min
  • Meditation Practice: Four Ways to Love

    Karuna Training lead teachers continue their discussion with a Four Ways to Love meditation practice. In this practice, specific phrases are repeated to invoke the quality of the four flavors of love in our hearts.

    If you'd like to listen to the discussion that pairs with this episode, please visit the previous episode. This episode is available on all podcast platforms.

    To learn more about our basic training, visit: https://karunatraining.com/retreats/


    30 min
  • Four Ways to Love

    Karuna Training lead teachers discuss the classic teachings of loving-kindness, compassion, equanimity, and sympathetic joy. These four ways to love are essential for all relationships, romantic or not, relationships with others and with ourselves.

    This episode will be followed by a meditative practice on our February 28th episode.

    Resources:

    • A Fierce Heart by Spring Washam
    • Love as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
    • Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens
    • Monsters in Love by Resmaa Menakem

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      35 min
    • Reimagining Resolutions with Sandra Ladley

      As the New Year approaches, we think of change and the possibilities of making a fresh start in the areas of our lives where we may want or need to. Longings and resolutions run rampant, and at the same time, we’re haunted by past failures and habits we can’t seem to break.

      It’s easy to become disheartened during winter and lose our bearings when spring feels so distant. How do we make changes in our lives when it seems so hard? How can we tap into what research shows as the “fresh start effect” that is more available to us in January?

      Sandra explores this in her Karuna Live Reimagining Resolutions: Embracing Chance for the New Year.

      Participant sharing has been removed for privacy purposes.
      If you'd like to attend one of our events, please visit www.karunatraining.com/events.

      29 min
    • Karuna Live: Celebrating the Solstice with Sacred Ritual with Melissa Moore, Ph.D.

      The Solstice is a time for sacred rituals as it symbolizes the everlasting nature of time. The holidays can be relentlessly commercial, causing us to lose sight of finding the warmth of community and celebrating our year-end accomplishments as we enter the year's darkest day.

      In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice marks a moment to gather in and invoke the presence of our ancestors and the original stewards of our land. This is a time to express gratitude for the blessings we've been bestowed, to unite in appreciation, and to set intentions for the upcoming period of darkness.
      Join us in celebrating in a special Karuna Live honoring ritual; bring offerings of your creativity, making or finding something to represent the elements, or come only with an open mind.
      What to expect:
      An introduction to Contemplative Psychology.
      A ritual environment - with some orientation to enacting sacred ritual.
      A ritual offering of the five elements; space, water, earth, fire, and air - and participants are encouraged to make their elemental offering at home.
      A few minutes of silence and guided contemplation.
      Aspirations, sharing, and celebration
      What to bring:
      Bring a candle and something to represent the five elements: space, water, earth, fire, and air

      Make sure you have matches and sit where you can turn off the lights and light the candle without danger.

      Contemplate what you are aspiring for in the new year.

      We aspire that you come away with a sense of Karuna Training and that we stand for turning our allegiance to loving kindness and compassion in a world full of confusion and suffering.

      Please note that participant sharing has been removed for participant safety. If you'd like to attend one of our events, please visit www.karunatraining.com/events.


      27 min

    About Karuna Training

    From the publisher's feed

    Welcome to the Karuna Training Podcast: an exploration of Buddhist contemplative psychology. Join our faculty members as they delve into various topics, sharing their reflections and profound wisdom along the way.