About RAIN Meditation
RAIN is a compassion meditation that helps us skillfully relate to emotional pain that arises in everyday life. It was developed by Vipassana teacher Michele McDonald (and popularized by Tara Brach) to buoy us amidst difficulties.
RAIN is a compassion meditation that helps us skillfully relate to emotional pain that arises in everyday life. It was developed by Vipassana teacher Michele McDonald (and popularized by Tara Brach) to buoy us amidst difficulties.
Practicing Together
This online meditation practice group, or sangha, treats everyday experiences as opportunities for growing in awareness and compassion. Both are natural and yet can be made more internally accessible, creating a softening effect on frustration, discomfort, and disconnection, and blossoming into a new way of seeing the world, and of being.
This online meditation practice group, or sangha, treats everyday experiences as opportunities for growing in awareness and compassion. Both are natural and yet can be made more internally accessible, creating a softening effect on frustration, discomfort, and disconnection, and blossoming into a new way of seeing the world, and of being.
“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
Each 90-minute monthly group session will include a dharma talk, meditation, and sharing/listening. Through repeated practice, we can overcome self-abandonment through self-acceptance, and overcome a sense isolation through the wisdom of interdependence.
Practice Group Details
Practice Group Details
- Six months of group sessions, optional "meditation buddy" meetings, and journal prompts.
- Mindful Group Guidelines will be discussed; care will be taken to ensure confidentiality.
- Dharma talks and guided meditations will be recorded and distributed; personal shares will not.
- Participant fee: $120.