The classes are easy to count (MBCT, Insight Dialogue/Brahma Viharas, MBSR), but it’s not so easy to count the Mindful Mondays (30? 50?). Your mentoring and teaching has helped positively shape my middle age; it has positively shaped {my partner's} middle age, too, of course. You have always been supportive, making me—and anyone else who’s taken a class with you—feel seen and cared for. You have also helped me/us see life more clearly and realize that we’re not alone in struggling through it. Whenever an opportunity arises, I’ve encouraged people to take a class with you, to experience the wisdom and comfort you bring to class.
I look forward to practice on Monday, and as many future Mindful Mondays the universe has planned for us.
Very Truly Yours,
bk
I look forward to practice on Monday, and as many future Mindful Mondays the universe has planned for us.
Very Truly Yours,
bk
After many years of not being able to 'meditate,' I tried again, hoping it would help with my leaving a 40 year career in teaching children and pursuing time to 'do art.' I enrolled in Ruth's class MBCT for anxiety and depression. I have a history of depression which has taken the form of always needing to be in motion, to be awake and alert. My goal was to be able to just stop and develop this skill to be like appetite. I didn't know how to focus on breathing, as this thought would just make me want to run through a glass window.
Well its more than 8 years later and Ruth's class has helped me a establish my tiny practice of stopping and breathing without the fear. My goal now is mindfulness, not necessarily meditation. I've learned that meditation will probably never be like appetite for me but it is a habit I embrace to be and do better in this world. Maybe the timing was right. But so has been Ruth's voice, attentiveness, knowledge and flexibility with individual needs. I think Ruth's practice serves a universal need and is a gift she shares with us.
aw
Well its more than 8 years later and Ruth's class has helped me a establish my tiny practice of stopping and breathing without the fear. My goal now is mindfulness, not necessarily meditation. I've learned that meditation will probably never be like appetite for me but it is a habit I embrace to be and do better in this world. Maybe the timing was right. But so has been Ruth's voice, attentiveness, knowledge and flexibility with individual needs. I think Ruth's practice serves a universal need and is a gift she shares with us.
aw
I don't know why I am so sad you are leaving, except that you're great and you ended up being one of my pillar people (like, one of the main ones, even if you didn't know it) who helped me get back to being able to live with less suffering and more love. So, thank you. You really are a beautiful person in many ways and you've offered so much to our community, in at least a few realms I know of.
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