Registration
The webinar is free of charge – no payment is required
Who can attend this event?
Anyone
Translation
There will be translation in multiple languages.
When I suffered from panic attacks, my father taught me: “You have to make friends with your panic.” And so I really tried to welcome my panic and be present with my panic. When I did this, although the symptoms of panic were still there, they were held by awareness. Eventually, my panic and I became very good friends.
Overview
Most of us are familiar with the pounding heart, shortness of breath, dizziness, and other physical sensations that accompany anxiety. In meditation we learn to use these symptoms – as well as any of the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral sensations that can occur in our bodies – as supports for awareness. By holding these experiences within awareness, we develop a new relationship with our anxious minds – one that is characterized by openness, flexibility, and ease. This webinar is an opportunity to learn how to meditate with anxiety and other difficult feelings directly from Mingyur Rinpoche, a world-renowned meditation teacher who himself suffered from panic attacks as a young man and now calls them one of his greatest teachers.
Schedule Program
The schedule will include:
- Introduction session with Tergar Instructors
- Teaching and guided meditation with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- Q&A session
Benefits
The benefits of meditation include “robust and substantial reductions in symptoms of anxiety,” according to a study published in British Journal of Clinical Psychology. Meditation has also been shown to be effective for managing physical pain, reducing symptoms of stress, developing greater empathy, and improving our ability to focus.
In this webinar you will learn how to:
- use formal meditation practice to start making friends with anxiety and other challenging emotions
- begin and sustain a daily meditation practice
- apply the techniques of meditation in everyday life to find inner stability and calmness in any situation
This webinar is part of Tergar’s Joy of Living program, a series of in-depth courses that encompasses three progressive levels – Calming the Mind, Opening the Heart, and Awakening Wisdom – designed to guide participants step-by-step through cultivating their natural capacity for awareness, compassion, and insight.
My Panic Story
Thank you for your interest
This event happened on June 27.
We invite you to take a look at more events with Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar Instructors.
About Mingyur Rinpoche
In his approach to teaching meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health – making the practice of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.
Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.
As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.
