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Bhavana Community

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a 501c3 non-profit


Practitioners of Mindfulness and Yoga


Cultivating Skills to Live in Harmony for the Benefit of All Beings



Bhavana Community

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a 501c3 non-profit


Practitioners of Mindfulness and Yoga


Cultivating Skills to Live in Harmony for the Benefit of All Beings



Special Programs in May and June

Vinyasa Yoga with Naomi Alberts meets weekly on Tuesdays from 9:00 – 10:00AM.

 

Bhakti Yoga with Claudia Spinelli meets weekly on Fridays from 8:00 – 9:00am.


Join Rhea Colmar and Lori Pusey on three sequential Sunday afternoons,  June 8th, 15th, and the 22nd, from 1 - 4 for a thought-provoking dive into Navigating Conflict with an introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Registration is required.


Awakening Joy Book Study will start May 18th at the Center on Sunday mornings as the topic for the next series of dharma talks.  


Stoke your Manifestation Fire  This workshop with Heather Balent will be May 21st at 4:30p at Porter's Neck Yoga (106 Marshall Ct Unit 120, Wilmington, NC 28411). 

We Cultivate Mindfulness First

Mindfulness in Yoga and Meditation

We offer a variety of programs designed to support you on your yoga and meditation path.   From introductory courses to advanced workshops, our programs are designed to help you deepen your practice.

Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Our community of experienced mindfulness practitioners and facilitators are committed to helping you learn to respond more skillfully and creatively to life's daily challenges.  Mindfulness allows you to embrace and learn from life's challenges.

Bhavana Means Cultivation

 Yoga Sutras II.33  

vitarka-bâdhane pratipakæa-bhâvanam

  

I first met the word bhavana in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, way before I could have imagined becoming a yoga teacher, much less someone who would be sharing dharma.  A client gave me Satchidananda’s translation when she moved away.  I was surprised when I got to Book II, verse 33, and Patanjali says “When disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite [positive] ones should be thought of.  This is "pratipaksha bhavana.”  Here, in a collection of teachings from 2000 years ago, is what amounts to the basic principle of  cognitive behavior therapy. Where have we been all these years?  

So I went to find out where we got lost.


Glenn Wallis, author of a translation and compilation of sutras called Basic Teachings of the Buddha, emphasizes the word’s agrarian heritage.  "One of the Buddha’s favorite metaphors for the practice that we refer to as “meditation” is bhavana, “cultivation.”  He certainly had in mind the ubiquitous farms and fields of his native India when employing this image. Thus, unlike “meditation” or “contemplation,” the Buddha’s term is musty, rich, verdant.  It smells of the earth.  The commonness of his chosen term – it would have resonated with a farmer – suggested naturalness, everydayness, ordinariness.  The term also suggested hope: no matter how fallow it has become or damaged it may be, a field can always be cultivated – endlessly enhanced, enriched, developed – to produce a favorable and nourishing harvest."  Wallis (2007)  (Pg. 150)

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Bhavana Community of Coastal Carolina

106 Marshall Court, Wilmington, North Carolina 28411, United States

(910) 520-6846

Our Community Center and Yoga Studio is located at: 

106 Marshall Court, Unit 120 

Wilmington, North Carolina 28411

(just behind Bayshore Dental Excellence at 7643 Market Street)

Phone: Text or Call (910) 520-6846

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