Contemplative Book Study Group: Ten Weekly Meetings
Facilitated by Lhasha Tizer
Monday evenings, September 16th though November 18th , from 6:15 to 7:45
$250 for the 10 weeks, Sol Member 15% discount is applicable
The Sol Center invites you to participate in a our first Contemplative Book Study Group. The book selected is:
Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love, by Oren J. Sofer.
This book is a beneficial guide, a practical roadmap, for cultivating the hearts capacity to face and transform our greatest personal and societal struggles. Through the content and engaged process you will learn ways to:
• Find more choice and freedom in life
• Strengthen focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals
• Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself with clarity and vitality
• Discover new ways to identify and work with areas of potential crisis without reacting or falling into fear, paralysis, worry, anger, anxiousness or grief.
The study group is structured so there is ample time devoted to group discussion and ‘break-out groups’ (smaller in size) where theme’s from each week’s chapter readings are discussed. The beginning of each session starts with a guided/silent meditation period, always relevant to what we are studying that week. The class is intimate and inclusive where all participants will feel safe, trusting and at ease to share their observations, thoughts, and ask relevant questions. Lhasha has abundant experience teaching spiritual related book study groups for over 10 years.
Lhasha Tizer, MS. is a certified Community Dharma Leader trained in Insight Meditation through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a long time practitioner and teacher of meditation and mindfulness, studying for 46 years, and has been teaching Buddhist Studies since 2010. Through Desert Insight Meditation, her teaching community, she offers classes, book groups, and retreats at Tucson Community Meditation Center and beyond. In her private practice, The Mindfulness Path, Lhasha guides, consults and provides individual instruction in mindful living, meditation practices, and mindful inquiry. Lhasha has a diverse background with a teaching certificate in “Chado”, The Japanese Way of Tea, with roots in Zen Buddhism. She has practiced as a Holistic Health Counselor, a Holistic nutritionist specializing in tea nutrition, and is a co-author of the book Tea Here Now. She is devoted to sharing the benefits of her personal studies and practices through her teachings with others, to enrich their lives with caring, non-harming, love, well-being, peace, and happiness.
