New Life Weekly Meditation

You only need to register once!

We will send a reminder email with the Zoom Link before each meditation.

If the Eventbrite registration is full please register by email at:

facilitators@newlifefoundation.com

Description:

Do you want to meditate more but find it hard? Are you struggling to establish your daily mindfulness practice? Studies show the best way to make meditation a habit is by doing it in a group. These sessions are a chance for you to continue practicing everything you learned during your time at New Life Foundation Thailand in a supportive community space.

Key Session Highlights:

1. Learn how to establish a regular mindfulness practice and gain scientifically proven benefits such as reducing stress and anxiety and improving focus and emotional balance.

2. Reconnect with the New Life community and find a valuable, safe space for supportive exchange and friendship.

3. Develop tools to build your resilience and nurture overall wellbeing by integrating mindfulness into your daily life.

4. Be guided by experienced meditation instructors trained in a variety of classic contemplative traditions and contemporary approaches.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Key Facts:

Duration: 30 minutes lightly guided meditation

Format: Online

Cost: Free

Note: Please make sure you have a quiet space where you can talk freely. No additional equipment is required.

Participants: New Life Alumni

About the facilitators:

Julien Gryp

Julien has led the New Life Foundation for more than 13 years. A practitioner of meditation for almost twenty years and a Buddhist monk at Thamkrabok Monastery in central Thailand for eight of those years, he is inspired by a wide range of schools and traditions including Theravada, Mahayana, and Zen Buddhism.

Alongside his meditation practice, he is a keen student of multidisciplinary evidence-based research which explores topics like motivation, identity, anxiety, stress, depression, and substance misuse, all of which are issues he has struggled with in the past.

Julien has dedicated his life to building community and cultivating spaces for support, friendship, and belonging.

Marina Kolaric

Marina specializes in alternative approaches to health, spirituality, and life in general. Originally from Yugoslavia, she spent her life traveling the globe earning various certifications, and collecting valuable life experience. Marina has a BA in Psychology and her MA is in Speech and Communications. She is an eternal student of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. In 2018/2019 she worked as a counselor at New Life Foundation, and this experience forever changed her life and her career path. Marina is a certified Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) coach and Compassionate Inquiry (CI) practitioner. Currently, she is enrolled in the Jungian Coaching program, a comprehensive certificate program which combines theory with practice and aims at integrating Jungian theory with the personal experiences of the coaching practitioner. Marina also writes a weekly blog about her personal journey through recovery and all the things in life that make this human experience both magical, as well as painful.

Her work is closely connected to her personal path of recovery from addiction. Through one of her dear teachers she has learned that “we teach others what we need to learn”, and so her hope is to continue growing as well as teaching and assisting others in their transformation.

Vincle Cullen

Vince Cullen is an ex-alcoholic who has been associated with the Wat Thamkrabok monastery in Thailand and Buddhist-oriented drug and alcohol recovery since 1998. Vince founded and has facilitated Fifth Precept Sangha meditation-for-awakening Sit-and-Share meetings in England, Scotland, Ireland, India, Nepal, Thailand and the USA as part of his ongoing teaching of Hungry Ghost Retreats. He is a charter member of the Buddhist Recovery Network.

Vince has completed both the Committed Dharma Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner programmes offered by Gaia House in England. Vince has completed the Mindfulness Teachers Development Programme offered by Bodhi College in Switzerland and the UK. Vince has twice taken temporary ordination in the unique Buddhist tradition practised at Wat Thamkrabok monastery in Thailand. He has previously been a Buddhist Prison Chaplain in both male and female prisons in the UK.

Corina Erismann

Corina is a clinical psychologist and certified mindfulness teacher trainer, mindful eating teacher, group facilitator, deep listening practitioner, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy specialist with focus on depression. She has been teaching mindfulness programs and mentoring mindfulness teachers since 2013. Since 2017 she has taught MBCT groups for sensitive individuals experiencing recurrent depression, trauma and challenging emotions. Corina also facilitates supervision and support group sessions for psychologists on the topic of mindfulness-based psychotherapy.