Wingspan Meditation Circle

+ an invitation to join the Winter-Spring Wingspan Meditation Circle

Title: Wingspan Meditation Circle
Description:Weekly guided meditation practice with Wingspan clients and friends
Dates: Wednesdays, March 25 – May 20
Time: 3:00 – 3:15 ET
Format: Zoom
Cost: Free!
Register Here

Great news, beautiful humans. You are invited to join the winter-to-spring installment of the Wingspan Meditation Circle.

For those who haven’t been before, it’s a weekly gathering purpose-driven humans who meet over Zoom on Wednesdays at 3pm ET for 15 minutes of guided meditation.

That’s all! No experience with meditation needed. In fact, you don’t even have to believe in the benefits of meditation. You don’t even have to meditate to get the benefits of this practice.

I think one of the most powerful benefits a meditation practice comes from the act of stopping what you are doing and choosing to not do anything for a beat.

Permit me a digression.

On a road near my home, there are new traffic cameras at two intersections, installed by the county (or the city? I’m always a little confused by the jurisdictional split) to make those intersections safer. You see, historically, those stop signs weren’t particularly commanding. Cars cutting through the neighborhood routinely blew through them. Even my husband – an otherwise cautious driver – admitted to usually doing the California Roll through those stop signs, slowing down a bunch, but never coming to a complete stop.

Let’s be real, it’s hard to stop – at stop signs or in life. It’s Newton’s First Law that says, “An object in motion stays in motion.” We get accustomed to routines and to the pull of “getting there,” and it’s less comfortable to be an object at rest. When I choose to stop, my inner board members start chiming in:

• You won’t make it “there” in time!
• You can’t be trusted to start again.
• The secret to getting what you want comes from the hustle and grind, not the rest.

In my own experience, these fears are not substantiated.

• You won’t make it “there” in time! Often, the power of a pause gives me the mental clarity and focus to actually finish more quickly.
• You can’t be trusted to start again. This is just bananas. When have I ever not kept going? I get out of bed every morning, don’t I?
• The secret to getting what you want comes from the hustle and grind, not the rest. This perspective doesn’t understand my creative process. My best ideas emerge from the in-between places – in the shower, on a walk, laying in bed.

Nevertheless, those parts of me still get noisy. So I have to practice stopping – on purpose – to create new neural pathways (inner stories and patterns) around rest, in small and big ways.

How do I practice stopping? Breaking to use the bathroom. Eating lunch away from my desk. Leaving a party early. Even that moment in a presentation when I pause to breathe or make eye contact is a stop.

If this resonates, there are many, many ways to practice stopping. You can definitely think of a few.

And, if you can’t think of one, or if a mid-weekly, joy-filled, guided-meditation-anchored Zoom is the kind of thing you’d like to do, register for this session and practice stopping with us.

We all are moving down this highway of life, so why not pull over to enjoy the view with one together? Wingspan Meditation Circle starts Wednesday February 4th and continues through the end of May. Register and come every week or or drop in whenever you can. Hope to see you there!