Friday, May 1, 2015

May 3rd Integral Tai Chi Day of Mindfulness with Chau Yoder


  Green Island Sangha

SUNDAY May 3rd


9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
 
Integral Tai Chi Day of Mindfulness
with Chau Yoder
 
Arrival to help with set up 9AM
 
You can come for the whole day or part of the day
 
All donations for this day will be going to our
Dear Visiting Teacher Chau Yoder
 
You will need/ Please bring your own: cushion, soup bowl, spoon, chopsticks or fork, mug for tea/water, napkin, mat for total relaxation, beach chair for outdoor practice (the weather is going to be lovely), sunscreen, hat
 
 
Schedule
9AM set up room, help with parking & unloading cars,
making tea and soaking Pho noodles
9:30 Welcome
Introductions
Sit
Integral Tai Chi
11:30 Break
Preparing veggies for making Pho VietNamese Soup
Cooking & Clean Up
Eating Meditation
Total Relaxation
Informal Tea & Fruit & Cookies
Hugging Meditation Thanking Chau
4:30 Ending
Resetting up the room/loading cars
 
Please RSVP to Green Island Sangha so we can plan for
making enough soup for all;
no worries if you did not rsvp & want to come...please do.


Nassau Hall
1864 Muttontown Road, Syosset, NY 11791

Map


Nassau Hall is on the south side of Muttontown Road.
Please follow the driveway to the house and park in the parking area to the left of the house.
The front door will be locked; please enter through the door around the left side of the house.



Chairs are available.
Bring your own cushion if you like.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

3/29 &30 Two Days of Mindfulness w Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn & Morning Sun Community‏


Dharma teachers Fern Dorresteyn & Michael Ciborski
&  Morning Sun Mindfulness Community 

Joyfully Together: A Day of Mindfulness

for Adults, Teens and Children 




Saturday March 29, 2014


Veatch Ballroom @ Veatch House


Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock
48 Shelter Rock Rd, Manhasset, NY 11030
(directions below/train/shuttle info below)

10AM to 4PM
(9:30 Registration Starts/
preregistration recommended)

 



Join us and the Teachers from Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in New Hampshire for a daylong program for all generations. There will be a lovely balance of adults and children practicing mindfulness together and practicing separately. The children's program will be a chance for children to learn basic age-appropriate mindfulness practices and games. The theme for the day will be enjoying and appreciating the people in our lives. See this video from our last day of mindfulness together http://vimeo.com/41563309
Donation/Dana*
*We invite the Practice of Dana - Generosity practice – to help cover expenses and to support these Teachers who rely on donations to support their teaching and their center.
  • Please BRING your own cushion (Chairs will be provided)
  • Please BRING your own Veggie Lunch (HerbalTea, water & children’s snacks will be provided)
To register/rsvp/questions/info/sign up for train shuttle please emailgrnislandsangha@gmail.com


Fern Dorresteyn and Michael Ciborski lived at Plum Village monastery in France for nine years, training in the meditative arts as monk and nun for seven. They were fortunate to live and work intimately with Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastic community to organize, support, and offer meditation retreats around the world. They are both members of the Order of Interbeing as well as ordained Dharma teachers in the Plum Village tradition. In 2003, each of them departed Plum Village and, when they encountered each other, returned to lay life. Now they are married and have a son, Laurian, and two daughters, Seriena and Fiana. In 2011, they were joined by Tim Ambrose Desmond and Annie Millar Desmond, whose experience directing nonprofits was a perfect compliment to Fern and Michael’s experience as monastics. Ambrose and Annie have a new baby boy, Finn born last year.
Train: Take the LIRR Port Washington line to Manhasset.
There will be a Shuttle to Veatch House only for the 8:48 AM from Penn arriving 9:28 Manhasset (Port Washington line) please emailgrnislandsangha@gmail.com to reserve a space on the sangha shuttle.
Please also Car pool from your Local Sanghas follow directions below once on UUC grounds
By Car: Directions to UUC Shelter Rock: Seehttp://www.uucsr.org/discover/getting-to-shelter-rock/
Then follow directions below once on UUC grounds
Getting to Veatch House and the Veatch Ballroom
When entering into the UUC off Shelter Rock Rd you will then travel a long drive to the main parking lot, Do not go into the main parking lot just as you get to the main parking lot make a right. Veatch House is a separate building from the main UUC building and is  on the far right of the property and has its own parking. Look for Mindfulness signs

Park in the Veatch Parking lot and then go up the stairs and go to the door on the left to get into the ballroom (it is on the first floor which is above the basement level). We will post signs

Wheelchair Access/Elevator Access
There is a handicap parking lot but you must have a handicap sign to park in this lot.
To get there take the same directions going toward the Veatch House Parking and just before entering the VH parking lot there is a turn to the left which will take you to  another parking lot in a courtyard with handicap parking as well as an entrance to the basement level with an elevator which will take you to the first floor where the Veatch ballroom is located. 


This InterSangha Day of Mindfulness is cosponsored by
      The Earth and the Three Jewels:
      A Day of Mindfulness in the Plum Village Tradition
      Green Island Sangha
      Dana/Donation Practice
      For more information please email us at
      Grnislandsangha@gmail.com
      Mindfulness practice can offer us a refuge from our suffering and can show us the way to deep happiness. Join us for a daylong program with teachers from Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in NH as we explore the relationship between the Buddhist teaching of the Three Jewels (awareness, teachings and community) and Deep Ecology.
      Fern Dorresteyn and Michael Ciborski lived at Plum Village monastery in France for nine years, training in the meditative arts as monk and nun for seven. They were fortunate to live and work intimately with Thich Nhat Hanh and the monastic community to organize, support, and offer meditation retreats around the world. They are both members of the Order of Interbeing as well as ordained Dharma teachers in the Plum Village tradition. In 2003, each of them departed Plum Village and, when they encountered each other, returned to lay life. Now they are married and have a son, Laurian, and two daughters, Seriena and Fiana. In 2011, they were joined by Tim Ambrose Desmond and Annie Millar Desmond, whose experience directing nonprofits was a perfect compliment to Fern and Michael’s experience as monastics. Ambrose and Annie have a new baby boy, Finn born last year.
By Car: I-495 (LIE) to exit 41 or Northern State Parkway to exit 35N then:
North on Rt 106 to Rt. 25A, Northern Blvd. Left onto Northern Blvd. Left onto Muttontown Lane.

By Rail: LIRR out of Penn Station to the Syosset stop. Take cab to Mansion (3 1/2 miles)

Friday, January 31, 2014

Green Island Sangha will be once again hosting a mindfulness weekend with Morning Sun. They will be returning to the NY area for a weekend of mindfulness in March 2014. Stay tuned for dates and schedule. Here is a short video from their 2012 visit (Planting Fields Arboretum)

Friday, December 6, 2013

Tsumani


A soon-to-be-published poem by our own Candie



Tsumani

By: Candace Henshaw-Osias

Dharma Name: Awareness Path of the Heart


STRONG emotions

old patterns emerge

hurtful words are spoken

old friends appear

FEAR, ANXIETY, PAIN arise

Tears, sobbing tears, racking my body

A Tsumani

I walk the long stairway

Close the door

My cushion and Buddha await me

like an old friend

embracing me, telling me all will be well

Impermanence

Sitting, breathing, crying

breath after breath after breath

relaxation appears

Tears subside,

Emotions calm

Holding my old friends

I look at the causes, the conditions, the patterns

Embracing the suffering, I smile

Insight appears

The storm has calmed

The emotions quelled

Yet they still float in the receding tide

Awaiting to return to the shore

Maybe during the next high tide

Without destruction there is no renewal

Without suffering there is no joy.

Without Tsunamis there is no calm

This is the black and white

The Ying and Yang

The balance of mother nature

My tears have transformed into clouds

My suffering into joy

Transformed, preserved and fleeting

Peace is obtained the way has been shown

Now I must choose

I arise - renewed.

Winter Retreat


Follow the winter retreat -

If you want to follow the winter retreat...see http://www.youtube.com/user/plumvillageonline?feature=watch
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT9Ez-Emtgg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUcv7KJIAsiddB2YRegvrF7g

 

 

 

GRATEFUL: A Love Song to the World


Musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel Nahmod brought together dozens of people from around the world to create this beautiful, heart-opening melody. Inspired by the 21-Day Gratitude Challenge, the song is a celebration of our spirit and all that is a blessing in life. For the 21 Days, over 11,000 participants from 118 countries learned that “gratefulness” is a habit cultivated consciously and a muscle built over time. As a famous Roman, Cicero, once said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” This soul-stirring music video, created within a week by a team of volunteers, shines the light on all the small things that make up the beautiful fabric of our lives.