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We live in a society where stress and distress have become the norm. Our Jewish tradition offers us frameworks and tools to choose a different path, a path of more clear-eyed, open-hearted, wise living in relationship with ourselves, each other, and the Divine.
Carrie Watkins, a Center for Small Town Jewish Life rabbinical student apprentice, has been leading meditation circles across Maine over this year. Each session combines guided, silent meditation with song, Jewish learning, and time for mindful group reflection. Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve never meditated or have had a rich practice for years.
Carrie Watkins is a practitioner, organizer, and teacher of Jewish Meditation. A fourth year Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College, Community Manager for Or HaLev, and Rabbinic Apprentice for the Center for Small Town Jewish Life, Carrie has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for startups, on silent retreats, for teenagers on backcountry trips, from her living room, and from other peoples’ living rooms, for the last 7 years. A systems thinker with a Master in City Planning from MIT, Carrie is attentive to the ways meditation and mindfulness can bring healing both our own internal systems and to the communal, societal, and ecological systems of which we’re a part. Carrie has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and is in her third year of the Gates of Awareness: Jewish Meditation Teacher Training program.
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400 Deering Ave, Portland, ME, United States, Maine 04103
