Name: Cultivating Stillness of Mind
Start: 2026-01-24T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 582 East Hillside Dr. Suite 1, Bloomington, IN, United States, Indiana 47401

Cultivating Stillness of Mind
This workshop series is for anyone curious about starting or reinvigorating a daily meditation practice.
Each session will include lecture, gentle asana, meditation, time for reflection and questions and optional homework. We will examine various styles of meditation including sitting, standing, and walking meditations. We will also explore strategies for making your meditation practice unique, meaningful, and sustainable.
This workshop series is an excellent foundation for beginners as well as having enough content to interest more experienced practitioners. While it is encouraged to do all the sessions, folks dropping in will be supported with recaps of material previously covered. Please dress comfortably as we will engage in gentle movement.
Session One: Finding Your Meditative Seat We will explore seated meditation from the yogic lens of Śrī Vidyā Tantra and the lineage of the Himalayan Masters. Participants will learn what even is a ‘meditative seat’. Then, we will work with different access points to and variations of this more commonly recognizable, sitting style of Yoga meditation.
Session Two: Rooted, not Rigid We will review information from session one and introduce a few more concepts surrounding seated meditation. We will start a survey of standing and walking meditations that have developed out of various Chinese Qi Gong practices.
Session Three: Stillness in Movement After reviewing key concepts from the first two sessions, participants will commune to construct and walk a Labyrinth. Thus introducing (or perhaps reintroducing) folks to a meditation style stemming from Western mystical traditions.

Facilitated by Liz Cobb:
I am a student of yoga for over twenty years, becoming a teacher in 2019. My post-lineage offerings are rooted in the Mysore-style yoga presented to the world by Tirumalai Krishnamacharya mainly through the teachings of T.K.V. Desikachar. I share meditation as illuminated by the Himalayan Masters and Śrī Vidyā as instructed by my teacher Tracee Stanley. I also have formal Sanskrit education through the Dhar India Studies Program at Indiana University. Another inspiring embodiment modality that informs my teachings is Wu Xing (the Five Phases) qigong.