How to Rewild Your Meditation Practice

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Meditation can be a tool for liberation or a way to unconsciously reimprint the psyche with systems of rigidity, domination, and control. We can rewild our meditation practice through a fierce, soft spaciousness that honors the biodiversity of earth, body, mind, and spirit.

Join Sara Granovetter, a mindfulness-based psychotherapist and core CIIS faculty in the East West Psychology program for a workshop exploring rewilding your meditation practice. Through experiential exercises, novel meditation forms, journaling, discussion, and some radical counsel, learn to unwind the subtle layers of psychic oppression that slip in through the back door of your practice.

Sara guides participants to explore what it means to radically do less and try less, shifting into a posture of profound listening to our earth-bodies. In allowing the earth to meditate upon us, we open ourselves to the wild psyche’s exquisite, polyphonous song. Participants will leave with a meditation practice less concerned with taming the mind and more devoted to meeting the heart in its full, untamed aliveness.

Meet the Host

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Sara Max Granovetter, Ph.D., LMFT, is a core faculty member in the graduate department of East-West Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She received her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. from CIIS in 2021. Her research explores how nonhuman animals serve as traumatic-numinous mirrors for contemporary human psyches. A practicing mindfulness-based psychotherapist, Sara’s clinical practice, pedagogy, and research weave together analytic psychology, Buddhism, ecopsychology, and posthumanism.

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