Bruce Pardoe - Wellspring of Gratitude
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Cost: Sliding Scale $60 - $90
Where: In Person only, Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion St, Nevada City, CA 95959
Registration and Information: Contact juanita@mtstream.org
Description: The fulsome energies of Spring are emerging. Life’s renewal celebrating the joy of its own vibrancy. What better time to connect to the wellspring of gratitude that is always available to us as practitioners of the dharma. Gratitude is not only the absence of wanting any more or less from the moment, but actually bubbling over with happiness at that relief. This is a taste of the awakened state the Buddha tells us is our birthright. During our day together we will discover our access to gratitude even in challenging times, and also feel it as a direct experience. We will see how happiness not for only ourselves, but also for others, is the truest form of gratitude that leads to awakening and liberation.
Bio: Bruce Pardoe’s personal healing journey with complex trauma led him to develop the radically gentle Heart Fluency method for engaging emotional wounds and afflictive patterns as portals to our essential well-being and happiness. Heart Fluency combines neuroscience and the unconditional nourishment of a healing awareness in an uplifting, heart-centered approach.
For more than 40 years Bruce has been navigating and facilitating the path of inner healing. After spending over two years on silent retreat he became a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism. He has completed Spirit Rock’s Meditation Center’s 2 year Community Dharma Leader training and has studied extensively in Asia in the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Advaita. Bruce has also trained in Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement and Hakomi’s body-centered psychotherapy.
Dana: During the daylong, there is an opportunity to offer a financial donation to Bruce as part of the Buddhist practice of dana (the practice of giving and receiving). All offerings are gratefully received and support the continuation of the Buddha’s teachings.
What to bring: Please bring a bag lunch.