How can you find freedom right where you are? How to find ease in the midst of the storms in the mind? How do we find freedom from the tangle of difficult emotions? In this series of three evening workshops, we will learn and experience Jungian psychological tools and the Buddhist practices of mediation that help us find clarity in the midst of our lives. Through wisdom stories from the Buddhist traditions, clinical case examples, silent and guided meditations, breath work, writing and working with symbolic images, we will be exploring grasping, anger, and delusion consecutively in the weeks and looking at how to work with them and their antidotes of love, compassion and wisdom. When we look clearly and spaciously into these emotional states we can see their patterned nature and find freedom. You will come away from these evenings with practical contemplative tools to work with in your everyday life.

About the facilitators:

Koshin Paley Ellison is a Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He is a founder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective and in private practice, where he sees individuals, couples, and groups. Koshin is currently a Jungian Analyst Candidate at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. Koshin is a senior student and novice Soto Zen Buddhist priest under Roshi Enkyo O’Hara, at the Village Zendo.