A Beginner's Guide for Meditating with Race
Transforming Racism Begins on the Inside
Whether you're a beginner or an advanced practitioner, this course offers practical insights and tools to navigate racial complexity with wisdom and compassion.
Racial hardships can leave us feeling sore, tender, and vulnerable from the habitual ways we have met the rough edges of racial distress, and it can feel overwhelming. Mindfulness meditation can be our ally in navigating these challenging emotions.
Core to uprooting racial distress is learning to work wisely with our minds. This path begins with turning our attention inward to discover that our distressing thoughts and emotions are not permanent states, but experiences that need our care and attention.
A Beginner's Guide for Meditating with Race is an invaluable resource that introduces both newcomers and seasoned practitioners how meditation builds the resilience needed to face racial distress with stability, confidence, and grace.
Let's begin!
This Introductory Course Includes 6 Lessons:
This Course Also Includes 8 Guided Meditations:
- The Body Scan
- Establishing Stillness in the Body
- Attention to Breathing
- Noticing & Naming Practice
- Standing & Walking Meditation
- Working with Trauma
- Self-Compassion Practice
- Equanimity: Centering in Wisdom
Enjoy this Introductory Course!
Meditation does not help us eliminate racial ignorance, anger, or ill will. Rather, it offers a way for us to slow down and investigate our inner experiences with wise care. With practice, we can bear witness to our racial distress and conditioning without distortion, elaboration, or judgment. We can notice, for example, how racial perceptions live, what thoughts we are giving birth to, and how we feel thinking about them. We can acknowledge where we get stuck and discover what supports letting go. With practice, we make better choices in our lives and in our relationships with other races.
The practices offered in this course are not cures nor are they quick fixes. Offered here are ways to always begin, in this very moment! Whether you are a beginner or an advanced practitioner of mindfulness, this guide provides you with a practical way to stay on course and be at ease in your own skin, moment-to-moment, regardless of your circumstances.
Join this online self-study course and explore how mindfulness can transform the way you approach racial distress, helping you to move forward with compassion, stability, and grace.
