Healing Through Practice: A Four-Part Workshop

Dates:

• August 9th
• August 16th
• August 23rd
• August 30th

This is a four-part workshop. You are welcome to register and attend one or all events in the series at any time.

Purpose and scope

This workshop is a layperson-led Chan training on “healing” in the practice sense: reducing avoidable suffering, stabilizing attention, and strengthening wise conduct under stress—especially when life includes illness, pain, fear, grief, caregiving demands, or chronic uncertainty. The emphasis is embodied awareness: using posture, breath, sensory contact, sitting meditation, slow walking, 8-form, guided relaxation, etc., to train cognition from the body up. The workshop repeatedly returns to three themes: responsibility (what I do next), diligence (consistent practice without self-violence), and curiosity (clear seeing without story inflation).

Intended audience

This workshop welcomes experienced practitioners, new attendees, people dealing with illness or recovery, caregivers, and anyone working with anxiety, stress, or life transitions.

Practices are accessible, with options for chairs and pacing. No prior chanting is required; chanting is not a focus.

Core practices

In this training, you will learn and/or practice the following:

• Seated meditation: “bright and non-interfering” return training
• Slow walking: feet contact + exhale anchoring
• Sensory drills: 8-form, self massage, “2-Minute Return” protocol: downshift physiology → contact sensation → next clean act
• Loving-kindness: framed as disciplined attention (not positive thinking), used as a disassembling phrase practice and phrase-to-sensation translation

Note from Dewaine: I am not a medical professional. This is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not replace professional care.

Hybrid Event

This is a hybrid event. If you would like to attend over Zoom, please register and you will be emailed a link to join.

Price and Registration

• Cost: This event has a suggested donation of $200–$250. However, finances should never be a barrier to practice, and we are pleased to offer a scholarship or free attendance if you would like to attend.
• Registration: Whether you are joining online or in-person, please register at the link below.