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Registration Open for Spring Retreat with Joel & Michelle Levey

December 29, 2015 Sheva Baggetta

Luminous Ground is hosting internationally renowned meditation teachers Joel and Michelle Levey in Toronto for a five day retreat. This retreat will help develop the fundamentals of meditation both on and off the cushion, cultivate deeper wisdom, compassion, resilience, clarity, and joy. Both beginner and experienced meditators are welcome! Click here to register. About Joel & Michelle: Joel […]

Interview with “State of Mind” Podcast

November 25, 2015 Paul Baranowski

An interview Paul did with a local Toronto podcast called “State of Mind”.

Muse is Meditating

November 24, 2015 Paul Baranowski

Originally posted on the REALthings Meditation Blog, on November 20, 2015 By Julie Jarvis In October [REALthings] launched a partnership with InterAxon, a brain-sensing technology leader based out of Toronto that has invented a headband named Muse to measure the brain’s signals and encourage a daily meditation practice. It’s pretty radical stuff and a great tool for our culture of digital […]

The Three Levels of Mastery

November 24, 2015 Paul Baranowski

Originally posted on the Muse blog on October 14, 2015. Jet Li is a martial arts legend who mastered kung fu and all eighteen arms of wushu (saber, spear, sword, halberd, axe, battle-axe, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, talon, trident-halberd, cudgel, long-handed spear, short cudgel, stick and meteor hammer). He has starred in many films […]

Dedication

September 30, 2015 Sheva Baggetta

This past summer I had the chance to attend a Vajrayana retreat with Meditation Teachers Joel and Michelle Levey. A major retreat take-away for me was the dedication practice. After each guided meditation, mindfulness talk or activity we would take a moment to dedicate the fruit of our practice to the liberation of all sentient […]

Gathas: Mindfulness Verses

September 8, 2015 Sheva Baggetta

It was great exploring gathas(a.k.a. “mindfulness verses”) with LG a couple weeks ago. Gathas are small verses or poems which we use to help us in our mindfulness practice. Usually we learn them and recite them silently to ourselves whilst we engage in different activities, such as washing the dishes or riding on the subway. For […]

Welcome to the LG bLoG

May 21, 2015 Paul Baranowski

A few people have asked to be able to post about there meditation experiences, so we have set up this blog so they can do just that. If you want to join in, email paulbaranowski@gmail.com and ask for an account!