GUIDED METTA MEDITATION

GUIDED METTA MEDITATION

This retreat focuses on Metta, or loving friendliness. Ayya Sobhana's distinctive approach to teaching Metta leads students in a method of Metta Meditation that is grounded in mindful awareness of feelings in the body. Students also learn to recognize and overcome the hindrances to Metta. For beginners, this Metta Meditation practice helps to harmonize and guide thoughts and emotions in a positive direction. For more experienced meditators, the practice leads to deeper levels of concentration.

This retreat is experiential. The focus on feelings in the body enables students to see and work honestly with whatever blocks their Metta practice. Noble Silence will be maintained outside the meditation hall.

Ayya Sobhana has been a student of Bhante Henepola Gunaratana since 1988. She received novice ordination at the Bhavana Society in 2003, and bhikkhuni ordination at Dambulla, Sri Lanka, in 2006. She is part of the North American Bhikkhuni Association. Before her ordination, Ayya Sobhana was active with the Friends Meeting of Washington DC (Quaker), Mintwood Zendo, and the Washington (DC) Mindfulness Community.