Sit and Stretch: Meditation and Movement — Training the Body, Taming the Mind

Nalandabodhi Seattle invites you to join us on Tuesday and Thursday mornings to ease into the practice of sitting meditation by gently waking the body and warming up the muscles. Through mindful movement and basic yoga, we will train in the suppleness required to sit comfortably so that our meditation can accomplish the goal of completely taming our minds.

Sit & Stretch is offered at no cost to Nalandabodhi Seattle members with a suggested contribution of $10 for community drop-ins.

Beginning meditators are welcome to join as we explore ways to sit comfortably. Meditation posture and the basics of shamatha (calm abiding meditation) are the focus of these ongoing classes. Participants are welcome to stay for Open Morning Meditation from 8:00–9:30a on Tuesdays and Thursdays after the conclusion of Sit & Stretch.

Led by Karunika Karen de Luna, all those who are interested in training their bodies and taming their minds are welcome to join.

Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays
onsite at Nalanda West only
7:00–8:00a

Facilitator Bio

Karunika Karen de Luna is a lifelong mover, a dancer and former aerial arts and flexibility coach. Currently the co-director of Nalandabodhi Seattle, she enjoys helping others improve their flexibility so that they can sit with an inward smile, just like the Buddha.

The “Karunika” title: In 2021, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, with the support of the Nalandabodhi Acharyas, Lamas, and Mitras (the most senior group of designated teachers in Nalandabodhi), appointed over eighty long-time students to serve in a newly created supporting teacher’s role to assist in guiding our sangha members and to help share with the general public Nalandabodhi’s unique approach to spirituality. The Sanskrit term “Karunika” means “one who has compassion.” Possessing a wide range of backgrounds and sets of individual expertise, as well as formidable experience in the study and practice of the Buddhadharma, the Karunikas offer programs on themes connected to the paths of study, meditation, and mindful activity and on the “five fields of knowledge”: healing, the arts, language and communication, logic and epistemology, and the inner science of mind.