Anahat Meditation Center
Life Mastery Classes - Meditation - A Course in Miracles -
Emei Qigong
Every Wednesday evening at Anahat Meditation Center we hold free classes on Life Mastery and Meditation, followed by A Course in Miracles Study Group. There is no need to have attended previous classes and beginner as well as advanced students are welcome to attend. Scroll down for our Monday night Emei Qigong Class.
Updates to the schedule are posted here if they occur. Please be sure to check this page before arriving.
Life Mastery Group and Meditation
Wednesdays at 6:00pm to 7:10pm
with Matthew Brownstein
Also known as a Master Mind Group, AnahatCenter's Life Mastery Group is a class dedicated to consciously creating a self-actualized life. This free class is facilitated by Matthew Brownstein, yet all group members are encouraged to share their wisdom and knowledge with us. Together we work to become successful in all areas of our lives. This group uses methods that include:
- AnahatCenter's Life Mastery Course
- AnahatCenter's Getting Organized Process
- AnahatCenter's Creating and Manifesting Process
- NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming
- Hypnotic and Subliminal Success Programming
- The 21 Principles of Prosperous Living
- Working with Universal Laws
- Overcoming Limiting Beliefs, Emotions and Behaviors
Each class includes time for teachings, discussion and practical meditations for developing a truly fulfilling life.
Anahat Center is founded on a set of teachings called The Anahat Teachings as found in Matthew Brownstein's books The Sacred Geometry of Meditation and The Journals of Myckal Divane. These revolutionary teachings are unique to Anahat Center yet operate on universal truths and ancient wisdom traditions as found within all of the world's great religions. This class, along with Life Mastery Work, includes:
- An indepth look into the Anahat Teachings
- Asan - Proper sitting postures
- Pranayam - Breathwork
- Sacred Geometry
- Altered States of Consciousness
- Internal Energy Work
- Viraat Swaroop - Cosmic Consciousness
- Yog Darshan - The Vision of Oneness
- Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - The Stages of Samadhi
- Yantra Meditation
A Course in Miracles - Study Group
Wednesdays at 7:15pm to 8:45pm
with Matthew Brownstein
Join us for the Life Mastery and Meditation Class and then feel free to stay for A Course in Miracles - Study Group. You are also welcome to arrive at 7:15pm for just the Course. This group involves readings from the Course, group sharing, facilitator teachings, daily lesson reviews and Meditations on the Course itself.
Every week our class has an informal discussion on a few paragraphs from the Course. These form a small part of the class and yet offer students a chance to have read some of what will be discussed in class. For this week's paragraphs, click here.
For more information on A Course in Miracles visit www.acimorg.
The following exerpts are taken from the ACIM website:
A Course in Miracles is a complete self-study spiritual thought system. As a three-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace-or remembering God-is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy. A Course in Miracles also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands." Consequently, even though the language of the Course is that of traditional Christianity, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. A Course in Miracles therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, A Course in Miracles states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." (Text, p. 241) (T-13.II.7:1) The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." The miracle is defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course, "At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit." (Preface: ix)
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
A Course in Miracles was "scribed" by Dr. Helen Schucman through a process of inner dictation she identified as coming from Jesus. A clinical and research psychologist and tenured Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, she was assisted by Dr. William Thetford, her department head, who was also a tenured Professor of Medical Psychology at the Medical Center where they both worked.
A Course in Miracles was first published in 1975, the year Dr. Schucman assigned copyright of the Course to the Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP). In 1996 FIP assigned the copyright and trademark to the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (FACIM). There are currently over one and a half million copies of the Course in circulation worldwide. Translations in Africaans, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, and Swedish are also available, with many other translations now in progress.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God."
FREE WUJI GONG INSTRUCTION & PRACTICEwith Miranda Smith
Starting Monday, July 7 and continuing on Monday nights
7:00 pm for free instruction
7:30 pm for practice
Please join us for Monday night Wuji Gong instruction and practice!
Wuji Gong is the foundational form of Emei Qigong. Kept as a treasured secret by high-level monks for close to 800 years, Emei Qigong is a powerful healing discipline.
Also called "The School of Sudden or Gradual Enlightenment," Emei Qigong can radically change a person's emotional, mental, and spiritual status, as well as personal fate or destiny.
Wuji Gong forms one leg of the base of Emei Qigong. Practicing it regularly allows you to easily access your spiritual nature while also improving your physical and emotional health and balance. A growing body of research supports these claims. In the U.S., researchers have shown that qigong practice can treat arthritis, high blood pressure, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a host of other maladies; in China, where more replicated research has been done, the list is much longer.
Beginning practioners notice that their complexion clears, energy rises, many chronic pains dissipate, and weight becomes more appropriate to their frames-some lose and some gain.
Miranda Smith, certified Emei Qigong Level I teacher, will be teaching and leading the practice.
So join us! The more people practicing together, the stronger the group energy field!
