Moving into Meditation is a practical yet fresh guide to integrating mindful yoga and embodied meditation, in a 12-week format.
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Started
1. Mindful Yoga and Embodied Meditation
2. A Little Bit of Yoga History
3. When, Where, and What to Practice
Part 2: The Program
Week 1: Inhabiting Your Body
Week 2: Exploring Your Body in Action
Week 3: Getting to Know Your Breath
Week 4: Cultivating Your Breath
Week 5: Taking Your Seat: Going Deeper into Seated Meditation
Posture
Week 6: Not Just Standing: Exploring Standing and Walking
Meditation
Week 7: Befriending Our Bodies, Befriending Our World: The Art of
Metta in Motion
Week 8: I Love It, I Hate It: Exploring the Realm of
Feeling-Tones
Week 9: Coming Home to Our Hearts
Week 10: The Storytelling Mind
Week 11: Suffering and Freedom
Week 12: Impermanence and No Separate Self
ANNE CUSHMAN has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1983 and yoga since 1986 and teaching their integrated practice since 1997. Her essays on the intersection of spiritual practice with daily life have been widely published, appearing in the New York Times, O- The Oprah Magazine, Yoga Journal, Tricycle, and the Shambhala Sun. A former editor at both Yoga Journal and Tricycle, she has presented at and directed multiple conferences at Kripalu, including "Yoga and Buddhism" and "The Yoga of Parenting." Since 2000 she has taught yoga and meditation on over fifty retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, where she is the codirector of the Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training Program.
“A clear and wise book to help you open your body, heart, and mind.
Anne invites you to integrate yoga, meditation, and love into a
seamless whole.”—Jack Kornfield
“What does yoga have to do with mindfulness, and how might we bring
the two together? How can mind training affect how we feel and help
us disidentify from habits that cause us so much self-inflicted
suffering? In Moving into Meditation, Anne has gifted us with a
comprehensive yet concise blend of the vast wisdom traditions of
yoga and Buddhism, offering not only weekly doses of essential
methods for transformation but also stirring stories that highlight
each practice. This book has everything anyone would need to
inhabit an integrated, heart-centered practice and will be of
immense benefit to yoga enthusiasts and meditators alike. I cannot
recommend it enough.”—Sarah Powers, author of Insight Yoga
“For all those meditators who feel the lack of embodied presence
and those yoga practitioners who yearn for more awareness and
lucidity, this book offers the solution. Anne Cushman draws on her
own journey into the heart of these two traditions and guides us
with evocative writing and powerful yet accessible teachings and
practices. In Moving into Meditation you’ll find a wonderfully
crafted program that will bring you deeply into your own spiritual
journey.”—Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True
Refuge
“With a light touch and her characteristic humor, Anne draws us
into her own life story as she leads us into mindful exercises with
simple clarity and kindness. There is never a dull sentence! In
Moving into Meditation there is no rigidity or expectation—as is so
often experienced in public classes—but rather the sense of time,
space, freedom, and encouragement to explore your own needs. She is
not offering a well-trodden path; she is drawing from her own life
and practice, where yoga and meditation flow together into the same
river of awareness. This is a book of valuable guidelines that will
provide inspiration and encouragement to even the most seasoned
practitioner of yoga and meditation.”—Angela Farmer, yoga pioneer
and creator of The Feminine Unfolding, Inner Body Flow, and other
videos
“Gently humorous, deeply insightful, and always practical, Anne
Cushman helps us go straight to the heart of our own basic goodness
amid the messiness of our everyday lives. I can’t wait to share
Anne’s insight with the women I teach. Her willingness to share her
own life journey will give us all the confidence we need to come
home to ourselves in a loving, nonjudgmental way.”—Linda Sparrowe,
author of The Woman’s Book of Yoga and Health
“Anne Cushman’s Moving into Meditation is more than a
book. It is an entire program for cultivating a mindful
relationship with the body. In the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
teaching, the Buddha says to begin with awareness of the body.
Anne’s book provides a pathway for establishing a body-based
meditation practice that is in accordance with this instruction.
Very specific and well organized, this book allows you to establish
a mindful yoga practice at your own pace. For those who struggle
with body challenges, it offers specific heart meditation practices
to bring about change in how you relate to your body. The amount of
detailed information in this book makes it a reference within
itself.”—Phillip Moffitt, author of Dancing with Life and
Emotional Chaos to Clarity
“Anne Cushman’s new book is a rich meal indeed. Cushman is one of
the most talented writers in the contemplative world today. Her
prose is elegant and engaging, vibrating with intelligent life
force. But beyond that, she has digested the histories of the yoga
and Buddhist traditions so fully that she is able to make a
stunning and seamless integration of the two—and to give us an
unparalleled explication of why, indeed, they are not two
traditions, but one. As if that were not enough, she weaves all of
this together into a practical, useful, inspiring, accurate, and
comprehensive twelve-week program of study and practice. Wow! This
book should soon be on the shelf of every meditator and yogi who
aspires to a full embrace of practice and of life.”—Stephen Cope,
author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
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