CULTIVATE

DISCOVER

PROCESS

PRESENCE

DEVELOP

Establish a consistent shamatha (calm-abiding) meditation practice at home

Incorporate the qualities of gentleness, discernment, and precision in your being

Learn techniques to work with strong emotions, in meditation and on-the-spot in your day-to-day life

Employ strategies to live a life of contentment in the here and now

Build your capacity for compassion through six actions

COURAGE

Experience inner peace through addressing change and fear head-on

Move away from the trap of doubting yourself toward touching your innate bravery and strength

RELEASE

Engage with whatever comes up in your life as part of your spiritual path

ENGAGE

Meditation is perhaps one of the simplest activities we can do—it is basically just taking our seat on this earth and paying attention to our breath. And yet, there are many misconceptions about the practice that can get in our way when we’re first starting out. In this lesson, we’ll review what meditation is—and what it is not. Susan will also give you practical advice for how to set up your home practice. 

Culturally, we tend to think of discipline as rigid and sometimes even cruel. But in the context of meditation practice, creating a container of discipline is life-affirming and even joyful. In order to bring discipline to our practice in a healthy way, we need confidence. In this lesson, we’ll learn five steps for creating outer confidence and one step for creating inner confidence. We’ll also learn the three most common obstacles to meditation practice and their essential antidotes.

Many of us encounter a deep well of self-aggression as we deepen in our practice. At that point, it would be easy to mistake our meditation as a means of self-improvement. Self-help, however, undermines the underlying principle of meditation practice, which is that we already have everything we need to be wakeful and kind. In this lesson, we’ll receive practical wisdom to avoid turning our meditation into a weapon we use against ourselves—instead, we’ll learn how to maintain our connection to the sacredness of the practice.

~ Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

In this course, Susan distills her best advice and tried-and-true meditation techniques

Establish a consistent shamatha (calm-abiding) meditation practice at home

CULTIVATE

Incorporate the qualities of gentleness, discernment, and precision in your being

DISCOVER

Learn techniques to work with strong emotions, in meditation and on-the-spot in your day-to-day life

PROCESS

Employ strategies to live a life of contentment in the here and now

PRESENCE

DEVELOP

Build your capacity for compassion through six actions

RELEASE

Move away from the trap of doubting yourself toward touching your innate bravery and strength

COURAGE

Experience inner peace through addressing change and fear head-on

ENGAGE

Engage with whatever comes up in your life as part of your spiritual path

PRAISE FOR ALAN MORINIS

Review of Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: One Man’s Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition by Alan Morinis:

“Alan Morinis, in his spiritual journey, has struck a rich vein of Judaism. This offering feels like a heart-gift to us.”—Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now and Still Here

Review of Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar by Alan Morinis

“A readable, engaging, friendly book. . . . [Morinis] writes as one besotted with the Jewish path, but not so intoxicated as to forget the conventions of the secular. He’s an accessible guide, and a sober one.”—Jewish Daily Forward

PRAISE FOR 

ALAN MORINIS

It has been proven to lead to everything from a good night’s sleep to higher productivity and reduced stress, to clarity of mind and even complete enlightenment. Recently, these benefits have become more widely recognized, but beginning and sustaining a practice amid the distractions and busyness of modern life can seem overwhelming. Over many years, meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Susan Piver has taught thousands of people how to do just that.

It has been proven to lead to everything from a good night’s sleep to higher productivity and reduced stress, to clarity of mind and even complete enlightenment. Recently, these benefits have become more widely recognized, but beginning and sustaining a practice amid the distractions and busyness of modern life can seem overwhelming. Over many years, meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Susan Piver has taught thousands of people how to do just that.

~ Julia Cameron, 

   author of The Artist’s Way

“I could not recommend [Susan Piver] more highly.”

WHAT YOU 

WILL LEARN

In this course, Susan distills her best advice and tried-and-true meditation techniques