Effective one-on-one learning in just 8 sessions
One-to-one instruction is more effective than group learning, because you have a private, open dialogue with your teacher. Sober Buddha offers an eight-session format.
Meditation Part 1 – Anapana Breathing (2 sessions, once per week)
A simple technique of focusing attention on the inhalation and exhalation of the breath as the first step in learning how to concentrate, accept, and appreciate moment-to-moment experience while maintaining equanimity – the ability to accept whatever happens with a calm, non-reactive mind.
Meditation Part 2 – Noting Body Sensations (2 sessions, once per week)
Locating, naming, and allowing all body sensations, whether pleasant or unpleasant, is crucial to productive meditation. Noting builds your awareness of exactly what is happening in your body and allows you to convert body sensations into a sense of rhythmic, organic flow. Some say, “I’m not even doing the meditation, it’s doing me, like a massage!”
Meditation Part 3 – Sitting with Obsessive Thinking (2 sessions, once per week)
Take the distracting energy out of intense mental pictures, voices in your head, and emotional upsets that otherwise lead to anxiety and distracting behaviors like overindulgence in chemicals, gambling, shopping, sex, or any other behavior that harms you or others.
Meditation Part 4 – The Do Nothing Technique (2 sessions, once per week)
By paying precise attention to the body, mental images, internal talk, and emotional feelings all at once as they arise and pass away – without becoming obsessed with trying to understand or control them, the mind and body are free to experience equanimity and peace. This technique is the polar opposite of most therapies, which emphasize the cognitive effort of trying to figure out each and every experience.
Meditation Part 5 – Concentration, Acceptance and Compassion
FREE BONUS SESSION
- Discuss how practicing these Vipassana skills can work in your personal life situation to liberate you from anxiety, depression, and addiction.
- Discuss how your ability to concentrate and solve problems will increase.
- Discuss how you can use mindfulness to accept what you cannot change.
- Learn how to listen to your intuition and let it guide you in proper directions.
- Learn how to develop more compassion for yourself and others.
- Learn to appreciate the mentally strong, spiritual individual you were born to be.