Meditation
Zen Center
123 park street, beverly, ma 01915
Website
The Zen Center was established in 2012 to make the teachings and practice of meditation freely accessible to a a diverse population across the North Shore of Boston and regionally throughout New England. After two years in residence at St Andrew's Episcopal Church in Marblehead, we secured a dedicated space for practice in Beverly where we continue to offer ongoing opportunities for the study and practice of Soto Zen Buddhism. The foundation of the Zen Center is built on the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha's teachings. Our primary practice is zazen - just sitting. We sit zazen to express our true nature, bright and awake. We offer a sanctuary to those who wish to find connection, purpose, and equanimity in the midst of our busy, complex human lives.
Sahaja Yoga Meditation
Sahaja Yoga Meditation (or simply Sahaja Meditation) is a unique method of meditation created by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi in 1970 that has since spread all around the world. It is a simple and spontaneous technique that is accessible to the average person who is seeking in a spiritual path. Sahaja means effortless or spontaneous and Yoga means connection. Meditation is the state of thoughtless awareness, where the everyday activity of the mind ceases, yet one remains peaceful and aware. The traditional purpose of all meditation techniques is to give us a connection or Yoga with the inner peace and silence that exists deep with in each of us. Sahaja Meditation gives us the ability to use the power already within us to effortlessly and spontaneously achieve a peaceful state of balance, well being and self-knowledge. Read more....
Meetups, locations, and schedules (click the links below):
Salem Meditates Meetup
Boston Meditation Free Classes
Sahaja Meditation, find a class near you
North Shore Meditation & Energy Healing Community
This Meetup group is for anyone who is curious about Energy Healing Modalities such as Meditation, Energy Healing, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Guided Imagery, and Intuitive Development.
Transcendental Meditation North Shore
Address: 100 Cummings Center, Suite 428 J
Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (978) 338-6171
North Shore Center For Mindfulness
Wenham Location:
72 Grapevine Road
Wenham, MA 01984
Gloucester Location:
1091 Washington Street,
Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: 978-515-7648
Insight Meditation Center - Newburyport
443 Middle Street
West Newbury, MA 01985
Phone: (978) 499-0325
North Shore Medical Center (NSMC) Services
NSMC Wellness and Integrative Medicine classes and services are taught by trained complementary medicine practitioners. These classes and services promote optimal health and healing of mind, body and spirit.
The following classes are managed by NSMC Wellness and Integrative Medicine.
Please call 978.825.6557 with questions.
NSMC Outpatient Services, Danvers
NSMC Union Hospital, Lynn
Yoga for Chronic Pain Mondays at 3:30 p.m. (10 weeks)
Yogalates Fridays at 5 p.m. (10 weeks)
Tai Chi Wednesdays at 6 p.m. (10 weeks)
Yoga with Nancy Long Tuesdays at 5 p.m. (10 weeks)
Yoga with Nancy Long Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. (10 weeks)
Yoga with Nancy Long Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (10 weeks)
Yoga with Nancy Long Thursdays at 5 p.m. (10 weeks)
NSMC Salem Hospital, Salem
Yoga with Dot McKeen Wednesdays at 5 p.m. (10 weeks)
The following classes are managed by individual departments.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction call 978.354.2670 with questions
Childbirth education classes call 978.354.3909 with questions
The Art of Living
AOLF offers numerous highly effective educational and self-development programs and tools that facilitate the elimination of stress and foster deep and profound inner peace, happiness and well-being for all individuals. These programs, which include breathing techniques, meditation, yoga, and practical wisdom for daily living, have helped millions around the world to completely transform their lives.
Recovery Groups
Refuge Recovery
A Buddhist Path to Recovering From Addiction
Refuge Recovery is a Buddhist-oriented path to freedom from addiction. This is an approach to recovery that understands: “All individuals have the power and potential to free themselves from the suffering that is caused by addiction.” We feel confident in the power of the Dharma, if applied, to relieve suffering of all kinds, including the suffering of addiction. This is a process that cultivates a path of awakening, the path of recovering from the addictions and delusions that have created so much suffering in our lives and in this world.
Refuge Recovery is a systematic approach to training our hearts and minds to see clearly and respond to our lives with understanding and non-harming. You are entering a way of life that may be familiar to some and foreign to others. In the beginning some of it may seem confusing or counter-instinctual, and some of it is. But you will find that with time, familiarity and experience, it will all make perfect sense and will gradually become a more and more natural way of being.
Meditation Apps
Headspace
One of the more popular, if not most popular, mindfulness and meditation apps on the market, Headspace takes you through a multitude of meditation techniques for a variety of situations and issues. If you're looking for a way to start meditating, this app gets you there.
After an on-air nervous breakdown viewed by millions of million, Good Morning America news anchor, Dan Harris embarked on a personal journey of self discovery and with the help of meditation. What makes this app a bit more compelling, is that Harris self medicated and admits to his own struggles with drugs and alcohol. His initial publication was his book on meditation, "10% Happier", followed by his podcast of the same name, and then his most recent book, "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics." And finally the "10% Happier App."
While this is true of all of his media, Harris' podcast and app are rich with interviews, discussions and instructions by some of the most respected meditation teachers on the planet.
Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Recovery
EIGHT STEP RECOVERY
Eight Step Recovery is an alternative recovery program to the 12 step program of Alcoholic Anonymous. It uses the Buddhist teachings to overcome addiction. Eight Step Recovery, cofounded by Dr, Valerie Mason-John M.A (hon.doc) and Dr. Paramabandhu Groves Ph.D., is a set of mindfulness teachings outlining a suggested course of action for recovery from addiction, stinking thinking, negative mental states, and compulsive and obsessive behaviours.
Buddhism and Recovery - Kevin Griffin
Kevin Griffin is best know as the author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps (Rodale Press 2004) He has published four other books: A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery (Hay House 2010), Buddhism & The Twelve Steps Workbook (One Breath Books 2014), Recovering Joy: A Mindful Life after Addiction (Sounds True 2015), and Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World (One Breath Books 2018). An audio version of One Breath at a Time was released in 2017.
A longtime Buddhist practitioner and 12 Step participant, he is a leader in the mindful recovery movement and one of the founders of the Buddhist Recovery Network. Kevin has trained with the leading Western Vipassana teachers, among them Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, and Ajahn Amaro. His teacher training was as a Community Dharma Leader at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Marin County, CA.
