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Do hearts break? Can they actually open?
Being human is full of complex and beautiful feelings. And the way we navigate them shapes our experience of the world. Join Tessa Leon for 4 weeks exploring love and loss, compassion and joy, and how to hold them all.
Mettā meditation is the core of Buddhist heart-training practices. It involves cultivating the four brahmavihārās, or the ‘immeasurables’, which are loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. By understanding the psychology and physiology of these emotional experiences, we can investigate how they influence our thoughts and behaviours, and how we can develop them. We can learn what’s blocking self-love. What our painful emotions might offer. How to transform envy into vicarious joy. And transform overwhelm by reminding ourselves that we’re not alone.
Informed by in-depth scholarship as well as embodied practice, we’ll explore traditional concepts alongside contemporary research. Each session runs for 1hr 45mins and will include mindfulness and grounding techniques throughout. This course will be trauma-informed.
Sessions will involve:
Dates & Time
12 Jan – 2 Feb (4 weeks)
Sundays 5:45pm – 7:30pm
Location
City Studio | Kaurna Land
Level 1, 60 Halifax St, Adelaide
Cost
$159
(members 10% discount)
About Tessa Leon
My work aims to spark wonder, reconstruct meaning, and find fluency in our shared humanity.
Over the past 2 decades, I’ve had the privilege of guiding thousands of people through the complexities of human experience, and shaping their presence in the world.
Today I am immersed in teaching meditation and mindfulness, guiding yoga and movement, nurturing the H.K community, hosting crucial conversations, and researching contemplative sciences as a Master of Psychotherapy candidate at Adelaide Uni.