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Meditations on Opening to Essential Nature

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Features

  • Inquiry-based explorations
  • Structured guided meditations
  • Practice time builds gradually
2.9hrs

Challenge Overview

An Invitation to Explore Your Core Beliefs

This three-week meditation program offers you the chance to explore the practice in a supportive, structured, and inquiry-based way. Each week, Stephanie gives you an introduction to the concepts you’ll explore in the two practices that follow. The practices are shorter (ten to twenty minutes) in the first week and longer in weeks two and three (twenty-five to thirty-five minutes).

You’ll learn about and experience the concepts of ground of being, essential nature, the “I thought,” and more. Breathing practices are incorporated throughout to support your experience of these concepts and help you feel easeful during the meditations. You’ll also work with your core beliefs as well as challenging emotions, and be invited to explore them in different ways so as to integrate them with more fluidity in your day-to-day life.

Finally, this program encourages you to move into a state of love, compassion, and wonder, where you can experience how we are all interconnected beings.

A breakdown of the Program:

Week 1

  • Week 1 Orientation: Ground of Being

  • Simply Being

  • Living From the Ground of Being

Week 2

  • Week 2 Orientation: Welcoming Body, Breath, and Mind

  • Breathing Into Stillness

  • Welcoming All Aspects of Body and Mind

Week 3

  • Week 3 Orientation: Essential Nature as Clear and Direct

  • Inherent Qualities of Essential Nature

  • Separation to Wholeness: Seeing Through the "I Thought"

  • Closing

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Meet Your Teacher

Stephanie Lopez

Stephanie Lopez, LISW-S, C-IAYT, is the Senior Director of Teachings & Programs, and a Senior iRest Trainer...

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Meditations on Opening to Essential Nature

$129 USD free today for members!