The offering will take place on Sunday, February 12, 2023, from 9AM - 3PM US Eastern Time.
Saki will guide us, while we practice in silence. Please have easy-to-prepare food on hand, for your nourishment needs.
Note: this program will not be recorded.
Nearness:In the Guest House of Companionship, Silence, and Intimacy with Saki SantorelliSunday, February 12, 2023, 9AM-3PM (US Eastern Time)
People may become friends, they may become acquaintances, relations, they may become
connected through industry, political friendship, partnership in business or any collaboration,
and yet they may be separated. Nearness in space does not bring the nearness of real friendship. There is only one way of coming near to one another and that is by way of the heart.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Creating a circle of mutual support and companionship, we’ll gather for a day of practice. Sitting together within this circle, we’ll lean into silence, lingering here, allowing it to guide us into the beauty and intimacy of our lives. While meditation and mindfulness require effort, often enough our efforts are filled with a striving founded in our small, limited self.
Transcending this limited view, let’s see what happens when we shift our focus from striving to receiving, from seeking to being sought, from acting to being acted upon. By surrendering to the moment-by-moment, breath-by-breath actuality of our lives unfolding, by giving rather than seeking love, imagine what secrets of the heart might be revealed in our journey to nearness and inseparability with the whole of life.
Saki Santorelli
Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA is an educator, meditation guide, writer, gardener, and pioneer in integrating meditation and mindfulness into medicine, health care, and the broader society. In 2017, he retired as professor of medicine, executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and director of the internationally acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic – the clinic of origin of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) - at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
His entire forty-year career in medicine and healthcare has been oriented around the integration of mindfulness into public health fueled by an abiding trust in the innate brilliance and nobility of human beings. He has plumbed the nature of the healing relationship by working with thousands of medical patients, educating and mentoring generations of medical students, healthcare professionals, educators, and researchers of mindfulness and MBSR. Through his vision and leadership, the Center for Mindfulness transmitted the ethos, practice, teaching, and science of mindfulness to individuals and organizations around the world.
Saki has been a student in the universal Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan for nearly fifty years. In 1980, his teacher, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, suggested he also become a student in the Buddhist insight meditation tradition. He did so. A year later, he met Jon Kabat-Zinn. Blessed with such good fortune, he entered an apprenticeship with Jon. As their decades-long relationship unfolded, they became colleagues, friends, and dharma-brothers transmitting the taste of mindfulness, the fragrance of the heart, and the vision of a grounded, lively contemplative science and education to people around the planet.
Saki teaches, writes, presents workshops, seminars, and leads retreats internationally. He is the author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine now translated into fourteen languages and founder/director of the website and online community, Guest House Awareness.
Generosity policy applies—to cover costs for our small business, to ensure adequate compensation for the instructors, and so that people with fewer financial resources can be accommodated, please pay at the highest level available to you.
TIER 1 (Supporting Others): $130
TIER 2 (Our Cost): $100
TIER 3 (Subsidized Rate): $75
If Tier 3 is still financially prohibitive for you, please email us so we can find a way for you to participate.
From the pulldown menu, please select the level of payment that applies to your situation, and complete your registration using either a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.
You do not need a PayPal account in order to use your credit card to make your payment (you may need to select the "Checkout as Guest" option to use a credit card).
You will be asked to provide your phone number during the payment process—this is so that we can contact you should there be any changes to the course schedule, etc.
Once you have paid, your slot is reserved.
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Schedule
The offering will take place on Sunday, February 12, 2023, from 9AM - 3PM US Eastern Time.
Saki will guide us, while we practice in silence. Please have easy-to-prepare food on hand, for your nourishment needs.
Note: this program will not be recorded. -
Program Cost
Generosity policy applies—to cover costs for our small business, to ensure adequate compensation for the instructors, and so that people with fewer financial resources can be accommodated, please pay at the highest level available to you.
TIER 1 (Supporting Others): $130
TIER 2 (Our Cost): $100
TIER 3 (Subsidized Rate): $75If Tier 3 is still financially prohibitive for you, please email us so we can find a way for you to participate.
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Register
From the pulldown menu, please select the level of payment that applies to your situation, and complete your registration using either a credit card, debit card, or PayPal account.
You do not need a PayPal account in order to use your credit card to make your payment (you may need to select the "Checkout as Guest" option to use a credit card).
You will be asked to provide your phone number during the payment process—this is so that we can contact you should there be any changes to the course schedule, etc.Once you have paid, your slot is reserved.
REFUND POLICY:
You may receive a full refund if you notify us via email (info@eastcoastmindfulness.com) at least 24 hours prior to the program. No refunds will be granted thereafter.
Questions? Please email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com