Through meditation, we become intimately acquainted with the moment by moment flow of energy, known as Anicca or Impermanence. This is an intrinsically pleasant experience.
Music moves us and sparks the imagination. Through the vehicle of music, Pop Go Zen heightens and clarifies the flow of Impermanence, leading to insight into the nature of self and world.
This workshop explores the mind/body relationship to music, both recorded and live. By bringing meditative awareness to bear, participants strengthen their concentration skills, develop clarity with regards to their moment by moment experience and heighten their fulfillment.
Pop Go Zen taps people’s love of music and entertainment as a way into practice and a way to bring practice into the world. This series is ideal for people new to practice as well as those looking to expand their practice into more of their lives.
Julianna Raye has extensive training in two major schools of Buddhist practice, the Vipassana and Zen traditions, providing a broad knowledge base from which to draw on. Her teachers are Shinzen Young and Joshu Sasaki Roshi. Having facilitated people in their practice for over 11 years, both privately and in group trainings, Julianna’s goal is to get people interested, engaged and doing some form of meditation practice with regularity. She wants people to know that you don’t have to dress up in funny outfits, ascribe to peculiar diets, listen to specific music, follow any particular dogma, isolate yourself or do anything hokey… unless you choose to!
Pop Go Zen is about being free to be whoever you are while having access to skills that improve your life. Given her background as a professional musician, the most natural way for Julianna to deliver this message is through music and the arts. Julianna feels profoundly fortunate to have encountered her teachers and is grateful for the radical inner transformation experienced through practice. She is happy to be of service to others on the path. For more info, check out popgozen.com.
“Julianna’s voice is a rare gift. Pop Go Zen merges her rich experience as a professional musician and her extensive meditation training, making her uniquely qualified to offer this music based approach to practice.”
– Shinzen Young,
Meditation Teacher
Cost: $20 per week and the offering of dana to the teacher. $10 Discount if paid in advance.
No one is turned away for lack of funds; write or call for scholarship and/or work-study information.
Questions? Please call or write us at:
323.665.4300
service@againstthestream.org
http://www.againstthestream.org/programs/class-series/pop-go-zen
