Trusting True Nature: Mindfulness and the Cultivation of the Wise Heart

with Michael Pellegrino

Saturday, August 23 from 1:00 to 4:00

$55, Sol Member discount applicable

From a young age most of us are taught to be skeptical, to doubt, to mistrust the world we live in. As we get older our heart closes off, protects and pushes away the possibilities to connect, to understand- to bridge the mind and heart.

Trust is the foundation of spiritual practice. Along with self-investigation and self-love, the cornerstones of trust, we begin to leave behind the burden of false beliefs and the limitations of habitual tendencies.

With the cultivation of wisdom and courage our heart learns to trust the process of letting go, we can meet the world with kindness, compassion and equanimity, moving with life’s joys, heart-breaks, pains and pleasures. We know we got this, and we can trust again and again.

This 3 hour practice session will include inquiry, reflection, heart meditation, and embodiment practices to uncover what is always here, the compassionate heart of True Nature. New and experienced meditators are welcome.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time – Maya Angelou

The awakened mind is one with the trusting heart – Zen proverb

Michael Pellegrino is a certified yoga teacher through the Kripalu Institute. He is a certified mindfulness instructor through Sounds True with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He is also a Spiritual Director, certified through the Tacheria Interfaith School of Spiritual Direction. He has been a holistic healer and manual therapist (Rolfing Structural Integration and Craniosacral therapy) for twenty years, specializing in nervous system regulation. Michael is most interested in the synthesis of the world wisdom traditions and sharing it with others in a simple and heart centered way. For many years he has been devoted to the teachings of Christian mysticism and Adviata Vedanta, while at the same time immersing himself in the Zen and Vajrayana practices of Buddhism. He has studied with Tina Rasmussen, Shinzen Young, Jack Kornfiled and Tara Brach. His foremost teachers are Dr David Hawkins, Jac O’Keeffe, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi.