A live virtual meditation experience led by Michael Lifshitz & Pam Kramer
December 8, 2024, 9 am – noon PT
Join us for a few peaceful hours of stillness meditation before the holiday season begins and 2024 comes to a close. Enjoy spacious periods of silence and insights about practice from Michael Lifshitz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. ITP teacher Pam Kramer will host and lead mindful movement segments during the session.
At this special gathering, Michael will guide us into deep, nourishing stillness and share emerging research on states of deep meditation, exploring how the brain can generate feelings of gentle contentment and even bliss. We’ll take science as a launching point to reflect on different approaches to meditation, emphasizing the value of a playful, exploratory approach to practice.
Michael will discuss recent shifts in his own practice that emerged from a newfound curiosity that led him to follow gentle feelings of joy. Together, we will explore the interplay of stillness and presence, holding the ancient practice of meditation up to the light of new scientific findings and the bright space of our own experience.
Bring your questions about the effects of meditation on healing, relationships, well being and ways to navigate the cultural spaces we inhabit with greater harmony.
"Plunge into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely 'understandable' world. The unseen region in question is not merely ideal, for it produces effects in this world.” – William James
Session Facilitator & Host
