Embodying Mettā: Somatic Approaches to Lovingkindness & the Four Elements
Deepen your mettā practice and discover how mindful awareness of the body highlights our connection to nature and inspires wise action.
with Dawn Mauricio
This course explores the Buddha’s teaching of mettā (lovingkindness), one of four “divine abidings” of the heart, and the meditations on the four great elements. With a focus on embodiment in both practices, we will explore several doorways into the cultivation of mettā, emphasizing the centrality of the body in our practice, and then bring this somatic approach to the deep insight practice of meditation on the four elements.
Reflections from Past Participants
What You'll Practice
- Diverse pathways for accessing mettā
- Body-based approaches for cultivating lovingkindness
- Movement practices that awaken heart qualities
- Ways to infuse daily life with mettā
- How lovingkindness supports wise response
This Course is for You if:
- You’re struggling with traditional mettā practices
- You want to bring mettā into daily life, even in moments of difficulty
- You question if you’re “doing it right”
- You want to soften self-judgment and binary thinking around being “good” or “not good enough”
- You want to learn the meditation on the four elements
What You Receive
8 hrs of video teachings
3 hrs Guided meditations
Readings, Self-Inquiry, and Integration Practices
Live Community Question & Response sessions
Interviews with Founding Insight Meditation teachers
Lifetime Access to Course
Course Syllabus
- Practice: Radiating Mettā in Your Body
- Practice: Moving toward Mettā
- Understanding the Four Brahmavihāras
- Practice: Relaxing Your Effort While Sending Mettā
- Practice: Limitless Mettā
- Practice: Infusing Mettā into Your Movements
- How Mettā Clears the Path for Wise Response
- Practice: Guided by Love
- Introduction to Four Elements Practice
- Practice: Finding the Elements in Movement
- The Four Elements & Satipaṭṭhāna
- Practice: Awareness of the Elements in Meditation
- Practice: Cycling through Each Element
- Somatics & Insight Practice
- Practice: Visualizing Our Interdependent Future
Meet The Teacher
Dawn Mauricio
Embodying Mettā: Somatic Approaches to Lovingkindness & the Four Elements
Dawn Mauricio (she/her), a Filipina-Canadian, has been practicing and studying Insight Meditation since 2005. She has graduated from the first teacher development group of True North Insight, and Spirit Rock’s Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training, Dedicated Practitioners’ Program, and 4-year Retreat Teacher Training. She teaches with a playful, dynamic, and heartfelt approach People of Color and folks of all backgrounds. Dawn leads daylongs, retreats, multi-year programs, and workshops in Canada and the US for Spirit Rock, True North Insight, and Sacred Mountain Sangha. Dawn is a co-founder of the True North Insight BIPOC practice group, serves on the guiding teachers council of True North Insight, and the leadership council for Sacred Mountain Sangha. She is also the author of “Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners”.
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Payment Plan
- Guided meditation sessions with master teachers
- Hear inspiring stories from decades of teaching
- Apply mindfulness to daily challenges
- Insights from Buddhism's influential teachers
- Live Q&A with teachers
- Lifetime access to recordings
11 weekly payments of
$99
Full Payment
- Guided meditation sessions with master teachers
- Hear inspiring stories from decades of teaching
- Apply mindfulness to daily challenges
- Insights from Buddhism's influential teachers
- Live Q&A with teachers
- Lifetime access to recordings
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$999
- Scholarships are very limited and reserved for those who are truly experiencing financial hardship. Click here to apply.
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