Cultivating the Seeds of Presence

Register Now for the ALIA Intensive 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser Cultivating the Seeds of Presence with Gaylon Ferguson Our blog post this week features Naropa University faculty and ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive faculty Gaylon Ferguson walking us through the practice of engaging directly with fear and stress in an excerpt from his book Natural Bravery.  Cultivating is actually growing something...the seed of wakefulness must be planted and given the warmth and light and moisture. That's the practice of mindfulness, which allows the seed to grow and become strong that doesn't wilt in the face of challenges...  Watch More Join Gaylon for Engaging the Differences that Divide Us: ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive and strengthen your capacity to lead fearlessly in challenging situations. June 22-25, 2017 | Tacoma, Washington » Learn More Gaylon Ferguson, Ph.D., is Core Faculty at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. He received a doctorate in cultural anthropology from Stanford where he was Fulbright Fellow to Nigeria, after which he taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of two books:  Natural Bravery: Fear and Fearlessness as Direct Path of Awakening and Natural Wakefulness: Discovering the Wisdom We Were Born With. Early Bird Pricing Ends May 1 - Save 10% Register Today Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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Natural Bravery

Register Now for the ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive 47*DURvyzblz.72 View this email in your browser Stepping Beyond Inflation and Deflation with Gaylon Ferguson Our blog post this week features Naropa University faculty and ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive faculty Gaylon Ferguson walking us through the practice of engaging directly with fear and stress in an excerpt from his book Natural Bravery.  Welcoming is, essentially, not struggling, not fighting our experience. Welcoming is peace, not a way to peace but the way itself.  I have, sometimes, misunderstood inner peace as what will be there when I finally arrive at a state beyond emotional turbulence. Instead, this fearless peace is making friends with turbulence, spaciously accommodating it, letting be...  Read More Join Gaylon for Engaging the Differences that Divide Us: ALIA Summer Leadership Intensive and strengthen your capacity to lead fearlessly in challenging situations. June 22-25, 2017 | Tacoma, Washington » Learn More Gaylon Ferguson is an acharya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala International Buddhist community. After studying meditation and Buddhist philosophy with Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa in the 1970s and '80s, Ferguson became a Fulbright Fellow to Nigeria and completed a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology at Stanford University. After several years of teaching cultural anthropology at the University of Washington, he became teacher-in-residence at Karme Choling Buddhist Retreat Center until 2005, when he joined the faculty of Naropa University as a faculty member in the religious studies and interdisciplinary studies departments in Boulder, Colorado. Get the early bird pricing today - 10% off!! Register Today Copyright © 2017 Naropa University - Institute, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you've attended a Naropa University event in the past or visited eNaropa.org Our mailing address is: Naropa University - Institute 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, Co 80302 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list