Sunday Community Class
The closeness of community and sharing are ongoing.
The topics change each week.
Online Sundays 10-11:15AM Eastern and/or
Mondays 7PM Eastern
By signing up for this, you receive a reminder email Sunday morning, plus a Resources email mid week with the recordings. You also receive my regular Friday email.
Our Sunday community classes are soon moving to Stillpoint Village. This will help build sustainability in the upcoming years. When you join the Village, you're getting courses and classes for yourself plus you're helping keep the daily practice and my many other resources free for someone who may be in crisis right now and who otherwise would not be able to participate. Village members receive a complimentary audio and pdf of my book Friends With Your Mind, and we meet monthly for mentorship.
Please click here for your invitation to join in community in the Village.
Deep Listening
Beginning September 13, we begin a six week exploration into what it means to deeply listen. Most of us think of listening as something we do with other people, but it also involves us and our body. That's where we begin.
In week one, we'll practice noticing your body's signals before they build into something overwhelming, and look into differences between thinking about an emotion and actually feeling it. From there, we'll move into listening to emotion itself, and then into our nervous system, understanding why we sometimes go into fight, flight, or freeze when it doesn't feel safe to feel or to listen.
From that foundation, we turn outward. What actually happens in our body while someone else is talking, including the ways our mind jumps ahead and predicts what they're about to say before they've said it.
How do we share our own truth, especially when we disagree with someone, without losing our connection to them? We close in week six with something quieter still, intuition, wisdom, and the silence and pauses underneath our words.
I'd love to have you join us.
Please join Sundays on our Sunday community class link (above). Insight Timer has only the first portion of inquiry with slides. Sunday community class has breakout groups as well as returning to the large group.
You can also join me live Mondays at 7PM Eastern on Insight Timer where there will be an opportunity for sharing through chat.
WHY ISTHIS CHANGING?
Our community class has been free since we began in 2018. Running it well takes time and care each week, and I want to keep offering it for years to come. When people contribute what they can, it helps make that possible.
If you can contribute something each month, I invite you to join Stillpoint Village.
If finances are tight, you are also very welcome here. Send me an email and I will add you to Stillpoint Village at no charge, no questions asked.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
25 minutes: education and somatic inquiry
30 minutes: small groups sharing
20 minutes: sharing in full group with reflection by Lynn
WHAT IS SOMATIC LISTENING?
We use words to express ourselves and with practice we become more skilled at staying present in our body and not getting so wrapped up in thought.
We practice listening without resistance and judgment. We keep our focus internal and we notice thoughts and energy in our body. We practice “staying in our own lane”.
Click here if you have the password for the replay
The public portion is available to everyone on my YouTube channel.
“I look forward to connecting with my chosen family every week in Lynn’s Sunday community class.
We reflect and share with people we can trust to listen.
It feels safe to share who I am.”
- SUNDAY CLASS PARTICIPANT
Every Sunday at 10am Eastern Time
“Fast forward 33 years from when I first learned meditation in the early nineties. I see and love myself. I am authentic and connect deeply. My body is relaxed and a known space.
Trauma is largely healed and resolved. I am mostly free of reactivity and I have skills to work with thoughts and sensation. I know from experience I can be with whatever is arising in this space and time. I feel finally, at 73, that I am now an emotionally mature adult.” Lynn Fraser