Meditation/Prayer Class

I am offering the meditation/prayer course in Paris for the first time.  If you took the course in Austin and found it helpful feel free to comment.  I, for one, am so grateful I learned these practices!

MEDITATION/CENTERING PRAYER CLASS

Instruction and Practice

Robyn Whyte

The purpose of this six-week class is to learn and practice the most common forms of meditation and introduce participants to the Centering Prayer method of silent prayer as promoted by Thomas Keating.  The course provides a gentle, positive approach to meditative practice.

Week 1                Introduction and breath meditation

Week 2                Mantra meditation

Week 3                Guided meditation

Weeks 4-6           Introduction and practice of Centering Prayer

Each class will include discussion of the prior week’s practice. It’ll be fun!

Who                     Robyn Whyte has taught this course

                           numerous times and practiced Centering

                           Prayer for many years.  Robyn received certification

                           from Contemplative Outreach to teach Centering Prayer

                           in 2001

When                   Tuesday evenings at 7:00, beginning Jan 15

Where                           519 CR 32505—4 miles from the loop off Hwy 79

Cost                     $50 at first class, or $10 per class, OR whatever

you feel you can comfortably afford.  Please do not allow cost to prevent you from participating!

RSVP                    Please call for more information and to register at 903-782-1240, or email to robyn0623@gmail.com.

                           PLEASE SHARE WITH ANYONE YOU THINK MIGHT WANT TO JOIN US!

                            

Before I learned to meditate...

Our Sunday School class is reviewing a DVD of a dialogue between Ken Wilbur and Thomas Keating, which is sparking lots of memories for me.  I learned to meditate more than 20 years ago and soon after was privileged to view many instructional DVD’s of Father Keating teaching his method of contemplation, Centering Prayer.  A few years later I completed the initial training to be certified to teach Centering Prayer.  Quite simply, it changed my life.

Before I learned to meditate I had little or no experience of the meaning of the word, “serenity.”

Before I learned to meditate I believed myself to be undisciplined and impulsive.

Before I learned to meditate I was afraid of my own mind.

Before I learned to meditate “time stopping” was foreign to me.

Before I learned to pray in silence “the indwelling Holy Spirit” was merely theoretical.

Before I learned to pray in silence I had little access to my own Voice of Loving Kindness.

Before I learned to pray in silence I did not know it possible to rest in God.

Before I learned to pray in silence I would seek but rarely find.