Applying mindfulness practices to our everyday experiences can help us generate more joy and ease in life just as it is. In this virtual class, we will practice mindfulness, enjoy guided meditations, explore concrete ways to apply mindfulness to life's challenges, and share in small and large groups.
Join me for a New Year’s Eve mindfulness workshop where we will reflect on where we have been and where we are going. We will develop clarity on our deepest intentions for ourselves and our lives and how we wish to show up in the world as we move into a fresh new year. There will be some silence, some talking, some sharing, and some journaling.
In this end of year workshop, we will turn inward to become aware of the habit energies we would like to leave behind for the new year and the new habits we would like to cultivate. Through guided meditation, journaling, and sharing, you will discover what wants to come forward in your life and begin to move in that direction. A wonderful way to start anew in 2024! No experience of any kind needed.
ONLINE MONDAYS (four weeks)
In this four-part workshop series, we will learn techniques for mindfully speaking and listening that will allow us more ease in everyday conversations and improve our ability to communicate with ourselves and other people. Our practice will be founded on self-understanding and self-compassion, mindfulness, Focusing, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
ONLINE
Has living with cancer changed your outlook on life or created more fear or anger?
Has it affected your relationships?
Did you know that there are practices that can help you find more ease and happiness even while living with your illness and while in treatment?
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is often hard and can be shocking and confusing. Mindfulness practices can help us see past our initial fears and open us up to the many conditions for happiness still in our lives. Practicing with a community will help us create lasting positive changes and provide a safe place to share our challenges, insights, and joys.
ONLINE / IN PERSON HYBRID
I invite you to a special gathering to kick off Circle Yoga's 20th anniversary weekend. Since 2003 when I founded Circle Yoga, mindfulness has been at the foundation. Come join to experience mindfulness practices with me and celebrate 20 years of the Circle Yoga community. All are welcome!
ONLINE
Join me to practice applying mindfulness concepts to our real lives. Each meeting we will enjoy a guided meditation, teaching and discussion of the challenges and insights we have with practicing mindfulness in our everyday lives, and time to meet and share with other participants in break out groups and in the full group. No experience in yoga, meditation, or mindfulness is required.
In this 75-minute workshop, you will be guided through a mindfulness meditation on your transition from 2022 to 2023. Then, each participant will pull a short piece of Thich Nhat Hanh’s writing out of a vessel to serve as guidance for the new year. There will be time to reflect on the reading — first on our own and then with the larger group as we discern its meaning for our life.
In this class we will learn and study the Buddhist teaching on the Eight Awarenesses of the Great Beings. This sutra (teaching verse) was highly regarded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and covers a wide range of what the Buddha taught and how to apply that to our everyday lives.
In an effort to reduce financial barriers, we are offering Sliding Scale Pricing on select Circle Yoga programs. The Reduced Rate is for those experiencing financial hardship, the Standard Rate is our usual fee that covers costs including teacher pay, and the Pay It Forward Rate helps cover fellow students who need to pay less. If you need to pay less than the Reduced Rate, partial scholarships are also available.
In this workshop we will explore how to transform suffering using the interrelated tools of Focusing and Mindfulness. We will also contemplate the insights of interbeing, impermanence and samsara/nirvana as a way to understand the world. Together we will consider the relationship between healing our own suffering and supporting the healing of others, using readings from current and ancient Buddhist practitioners. In addition to Monday online classes, each person will have a 1-hour one-on-one session with Annie, virtually or, if schedules and locations align, in person. No prior experience with meditation or mindfulness is needed.
In this end of year workshop we will turn inward to listen to our deepest aspirations and intentions for the new year.
Through guided meditation, journaling, and sharing, you will become more aware and gain clarity into what wants to come forward in your life and how to move in that direction.
I'll be joining Circle Yoga teachers for a special virtual series where we will explore yoga and mindfulness practices that can help you balance your nervous system during turbulent times like these. Each session is recorded, so join for the live event or watch on demand. Full series is $165, individual classes are $30 each.
Thursdays weekly, 4:30-6pm Eastern, from Sept 23 thru Oct 27.
I'll be teaching on Oct. 7.
Are you looking for a mindful community of friends?
Do you wish you had a meditation practice?
Do you experience conflict in relationships?
Would you like to be more accepting of your life as it is?
Are you looking for practices to help you find more ease and happiness in your life?
The Buddha’s teachings are all about suffering and how to put an end to our suffering. We do this by learning how to understand and accept the truth about ourselves and the world. The practices taught by the Buddha can bring more joy into your life and provide insights about the challenges that you face.
I created this 3-month program to offer you time to learn some of the basic teachings of the Buddha and time to practice in a welcoming community in person and online. We practice in less challenging environments like this one in order to be prepared for the more challenging moments in our lives. This class will be a refuge where we work on our practice over time and support each other’s transformations.
I am hosting a free chat based on my book on mindful eating.
Several people have mentioned that they are struggling with eating habits during the pandemic. So, I am offering a FREE 1-hour conversation on mindfulness and food over Zoom.
You are welcome to join whether or not you read the book!
JOIN ANYTIME IN MARCH OR APRIL
Do you struggle with feeling overwhelmed and anxious and may not know why?
Do you get angry looking at the news?
Do you experience conflict and resentment in relationships?
The Buddha’s teachings are all about suffering and how to put an end to our suffering. We do this by learning how to understand and accept the truth about ourselves and the world. The practices taught by the Buddha can bring more joy into your life and provide insights about the challenges that you face.
This 12-week workshop will help you notice a difference in your daily life, finding more clarity and ease in facing daily challenges. Over time these teachings can help you to be a kinder, more open, generous, and compassionate human being.
In this 8-week class, we will learn about and deepen our understanding of mindfulness, and how to use mindfulness to settle in more deeply to our practice. When we settle deeply we experience more rest for our nervous systems and we gain needed insights into ourselves and the world. Will include guided meditations, mindfulness topics and teachings, and sharing. No experience of any kind needed.
In this end of year workshop we will take time to explore what you have been wrestling with recently and what next steps feel right for you in 2021. We will have a guided meditation practice, journaling, and sharing. No experience of any kind needed.
Do you ever feel unsure about how you can be part of the healing of our planet? Do you wonder how to combine your practice of yoga, meditation, or other spiritual practices with social justice in ways that develop genuine solutions to injustice?
A six-week series on Thursdays.
Readings of short stories/koans from Buddhist teachers and writings (ancient and modern), silent contemplation, and meaningful discussion.
A five-week series on Mondays.
Readings of short stories/koans from Buddhist teachers and writings (ancient and modern), silent contemplation, and meaningful discussion.
Dear White Women,
I have been studying racial awareness for some years, and most recently with Catrice Jackson and her teaching in particular has been radically transformative. We all know that this is the time for doing this work, and it's work we need to do for the rest of our lives. You can do this.
A weekly meditation practice on Mondays.
This is currently scheduled to take place at Circle Yoga which is closed. If Circle Yoga isn't open by April 6, the class will move to online.
A 6-week series where we will meet on Thursdays during this time. You will learn basic mindfulness concepts and practices from the tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh - practices that will bring more joy and inspiration into every moment of your life.
Join me for a mindfulness and relaxation class online to help us care for ourselves and settle down during a time where we may need relief from Coronavirus news and social isolation.
The class will have a short sitting meditation, mindful check-ins and deep relaxation. I will share some mindfulness tips to support your practice as well.
I will be doing a talk about my book, Things I did when I was Hangry: Navigating a Peaceful Relationship with Food, with the Mind Oasis Book Club.
The final video call of our Women series will be a dharma sharing format, and will allow you to share your feelings, thoughts, impressions, etc., about the inequalities and injustices of gender bias and need to empower women.
Announcing speaker Vanessa Rochelle Lewis In this webinar series we will focus on the need to empower women, and the inequalities and injustices of gender bias. You are invited to join the third webinar of our Women series, led by Vanessa Rochelle Lewis: performance artist, educator, and Faerie Goddess Mermaid Gangsta for the Revolution. Vanessa is from South Central Los Angeles and loves to be silly, whimsical, imaginative, weird, loving and sensual in public – every chance she gets…
SPEAKER: Sunu P. Chandy
Director of the National Women’s Law Center and social justice activist.
Sunu Chandy is the Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and works with all of the Center’s teams in their work to address and present sex discrimination in many contexts.
Sunu is a powerful advocate for women’s empowerment and you won’t want to miss her stories on the legal fights she’s led against the inequalities and injustices of gender bias.
Annie will join Washington Mindfulness Community to guest lead the sangha at the Buddhist Vihara. She will lead a meditation and dharma talk and sharing, focusing on the topic of embracing and loving every part of who we are.
Workshop led by Annie Mahon
If you tend to doubt your actions, worry if you made the right decision, or replay conversations in your head to see if you said the right things, this workshop is for you. We will use mindfulness practices to help us get to know our self-doubting parts without believing it and gain the ability to see our actions through a clearer lens. Even if self-doubt is not your go-to, these practices can be used for transforming other challenges such as self-judgement or self-sabotage.
$35.00 — Circle Yoga Member Fee
$40.00 — Circle Yoga Non-Member Fee
