03-13-24: Sara-Mai Conway,
Loving Awareness
00:17: Guided meditation led by Sara-Mai (loving awareness of this moment)
19:30: Students share their experience with the meditation
25:25: The four foundational principles of mindfulness as inspiration for today’s meditation
- Primary emphasis on body and five senses
- Non-judgment: not good or bad, right or wrong… rather: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral
- Allowance, care and curiosity of this actual experience
- Non-reactivity: not grasping, avoiding or pushing away
28:28: Question: Should we leave significant silence on the recordings we submit for certification?
31:01: Question: How can I get advice and feedback regarding my mindfulness programs?
37:40: Question: On asking teachers to take my course in order to receive feedback
40:00: Receiving feedback and being mindful of what is worthy of reacting to
43:22: Being mindful of how we react to feedback while guiding a practice
46:10: Question: In meditation, I let the pleasant come and go, but grasp to the unpleasant. How do I work with that?
45:40: Question: Where to start with the certification process?
57:12: Question: I’m having a hard time not repeating myself on the self-assessment rubrics. What am I doing wrong?
1:02:25: Letting go of control and perfectionism in our teaching
1:05:25: Concern over harming others if I teach before I’m perfectly healed
1:09:48: On sharing mindfulness not as a teacher, but as a co-practitioner
1:10:39: A review of the requisites and suggestions for order of completion
1:21:15: Bringing love and self-compassion to our awareness
Resources Mentioned:
Nenad Vasic on YouTube Marketing
Danny Grieco on Sales Training for Teachers
Michael Taft on Teaching Mindfulness to Corporations
Chris Germer on Addressing Shame with Self-Compassion
ABOUT SARA-Mai
Sara-Mai is a yoga and meditation instructor. She found yoga in 2006 when looking for new ways to cross train for her own competitive racing. She was immediately impressed by the athleticism and physical challenge of the practice. Years later, it is the spiritual side of the practice that keeps yoga part of her daily regimen. Sara-Mai's classes are informed by her athleticism as well as her spiritual studies in Buddhism.
Sara-Mai completed a Masters Degree in Sport Management at the University of San Francisco in 2004 and is a 1999 graduate of Tufts University. She is a certified Experienced 200-hour Yoga Teacher under Yoga Alliance and a certified 500-hour Remedial Yoga and Applied Mindfulness Advanced teacher with Bodhi Yoga Spain under the Independent Yoga Network (UK). In addition, she has completed several hours of continuing education in meditation and Tibetan Buddhist studies.
Off the mat, she can be found adventuring throughout Southern Baja and beyond with her husband, Travis, and their two dogs, Sport and Bijou.