Course Title: Deep Diving Spiritually into the Interplay of Self & Nature as Guided by David I. Rome & Karen Armstrong
Instructor: Dr. Jerry Webster
Brought to you by Odyssey
June 12, 2024 - July 17, 2024 (5 Sessions)
Wednesday, 6:30PM ET - 8:30PM ET
Virtual via Zoom
Course Description: In David Rome’s work Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense To Solve Problems, Effect Change & Liberate Life, Rome details how we can use the wisdom of the body, an embodied knowing, as a tool to embrace our lives more fully. Rome explains techniques such as focusing, developed by psychologist Eugene Gendlin, as well as well as his own grounding in mindfulness/awareness Buddhist practices, to help us access the body’s felt sense. This felt sense can help us integrate and navigate both personal and shared experiences that we encounter in our lives. Karen Armstrong’s work, Sacred World: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with Our natural World, reverses the lens. Here Armstrong, an expert spiritual historian on a wide variety of religious perspectives and bestselling author of The History of God, turns her gaze more outward than inward, focusing upon the healing connection needed between ourselves and others and the natural world.
Meditation Instruction and close reading of Rome’s and Armstrong’s text will be integral parts of this class. There will be some experiential exercises using varied awareness practices from both texts.
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