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Meditation Community Circle – Metta Practice with Donisha Dunn, MD
January 12, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Find Peace and Joy Together!
This week, Donisha will lead a a guided Metta Practice (The Practice of Loving Kindness)
Loving Kindness meditation (or Metta Practice) is done to cultivate compassion for self and others. It is a practice reflecting on and expressing the desire for well-being to include one’s self, loved ones, neutral persons, those with whom we have a difficult relationship, and extending to all beings. It is crucial for nurturing a sense of well-being and joy in the midst of life’s challenges and difficult emotions.
Donisha Dunn, MD is a physician board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine. She is also a meditation and yoga teacher, and the founder of The Mind Body Collective. She started practicing yoga in 2009 and found it to be highly effective for increasing insight about the mind and body, reducing anxiety and depression, and changing cycles of unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Having also been trained in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapies, she decided to deepen her practice and became a yoga teacher in 2013. On her journey with meditation, she became highly influenced by Tara Brach and, in 2021, embarked on The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, class of 2023.
For the entire month of January we are celebrating the 2023 Graduates of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), culminating on graduation day Jan 22nd! This 2 year program is led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield through the Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The graduating cohort includes over 2000 teachers world wide and New Orleans is blessed to have FOUR of these Shambhala Warriors!
They will be guiding meditation this month. JOIN US!
Jan 5th – Stephanie Osborne (Meditate New Orleans)
Jan 12th Donisha Dunn, MD
Jan 22nd Laura Johanna (Sama Studio)
Jan 26th Alan Delery (UpLIFT NOLA)
