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Welcome to the place that everywhere becomes here,
the place that everywhen becomes now.
Learning To Listen Yoga & Meditation Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community committed to offering tools that promote conscious living. For the most part our offerings are grounded in the wisdom traditions of Asia, particularly those born in ancient India. Our central guiding lineages are that of Patanjali's Classical Yoga and the Teachings of the Buddha (Dharma). In addition to our central practices of yoga and meditation, we also honor any practice that supports the cultivation of mindfulness; all things if done mindfully can contribute to one's growth.
Our goal is liberation, to allow freedom for all — especially freedom from oppressive mind thoughts. We feel that the result of this freedom will be world peace.
Learning To Listen is not an effort to stand out; it is an effort to live an outstanding life. Not until you feel at home everywhere, will you feel at home anywhere. WELCOME HOME.
OUR EFFORTS
This site acts as an introduction to what Learning To Listen offers. Currently Learning To Listen's primary offerings are Collaborative Retreats and the supporting of it's Teaching Collective, a collection of teachers found primarly on North America's Western Coast. The Collective offers a wide range of tools for conscious living, including: yoga, meditation, chi-kung, T'ai Ch'i, tea as practice, satsang, Sanskrit chant, transformational coursework, Ayurveda, artistic expressions, bodywork, family services, mindful relationships to food, skillful environmental consumption, and activism.
We also offer a Monthly Newsletter, please consider signing up. Please feel free to contact us and contribute your thoughts and/or participation. We hope to see you, and to be seen by you — for it is sangha, community, that rounds off the edges of truth.
For more information on how to donate financially, click here. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us, even if just to say hi and to support our effort by letting us know that you know of it. Be well, and thanks for visiting — love always, and kindness.
Listen with your ears: hear music in all sound, be present to what others have to say, be interested and hold space for sharing. Listen with your eyes: see things - witness them for what they truly are, allow things and people to see you, make eye contact with people. Listen with your nose: be sensitive to smells — allow them into your being, be available to the subtle. Listen with your tongue: taste life and food, be aware of what you say and its impact. Listen with your skin: touch and be touched, feel air holding you, move maturely, act. Listen with your heart: love, and allow yourself to be loved; be kind, and forgive yourself, and meditate. Listen.
"When we listen as if we were in a temple and give attention to one another as if each person were our teacher, honoring his or her words as valuable and sacred, all kinds of great possibilities awaken. Even miracles can happen. To act in the world most effectively, our actions cannot come from our small sense of self, our limited identity, our hopes, and our fears. Rather, we must listen to a greater possibility and cultivate actions connected with our highest intentions from the patient and compassionate Buddha within us. We must learn to be in touch with something greater than ourselves, whether we call it the Tao, God, the dharma, or the law of nature. There is a deep current of truth that we can hear. When we listen and act in accordance with this truth, no matter what happens, our actions will be right."—Jack Kornfield, from A Path With Heart
