The Blessing Bowl
A special loving-kindness meditation with Peggy Rowe Ward & Tamara Cress
Join us online for this loving-kindness practice with Peggy Rowe Ward, senior Dharma teacher, author and co-founder of the Lotus Institute, and Midnight Path faculty and trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, Tamara Cress.
In this practice, we will pair silent meditation with grounding, resourcing and offering names—of people, animals, plants, minerals, and communities—to receive the light of our loving-kindness. Together, shaping and molding a communal blessing bowl to hold our prayers for compassion.
Loving-kindness, or metta, is one of the ten paramitas we’ll explore in our upcoming course, Midnight Path. This free, donation-based meditation offers a sneak peek—an appetizer—to the deeper journey we’ll embark on later this month in the course.
Wednesday, April 9
6–6:30 am PDT | 9–9:30 am EDT
Online via Zoom
Recording is shared with members and everyone who registers. Attend live for the deepest transmission of the teachings. Lotus members do not need to register.
Registration
Peggy Rowe Ward (she/her), co-founder and director of education at the Lotus Institute, is a world renowned spiritual teacher, educator and author of Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships. For over 30 years, she has been dedicated to supporting the healing and transformation of all people through retreats, spiritual direction, university courses, talks and more. Peggy offers a path of deep insight that enables her students to discover and embody their most creative and authentic selves.
Tamara Cress (she/her) is a trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, life coach and speech-language therapist. She is a nomadic yoga teacher, who brings mindfulness based practices to community spaces including schools, churches, support groups,community centers, football fields and family reunions. Her teachings help people connect to their inner wisdom and to each other through fun, movement, stillness, and the breath. As a teacher of yoga nidra,Tamara understands the transformative power of rest, joy, community and compassion to renew, recharge and restore us.