Mind-Body-Spirit Practices
Meditation Drop-ins & Courses
Guided Group Meditations
We offer weekly group guided meditation sessions that are open to drop-in (single session) enrollment. These are approximately 40-minute sessions, involving opening and closing check-in, breathwork, and a 20-minute guided meditation. Themes of guided meditations will vary from week to week, with a focus on increasing a sense of centeredness, grounding, and nurturing.
All levels of experience welcome!
See below for the monthly schedule of guided meditation offerings:
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First Wednesdays 12pm & 7pm EST
In this guided Loving-Kindness Meditation, you’ll be gently led through phrases and visualizations designed to awaken compassion and deepen your sense of connection. Sometimes called Metta, this practice is rooted in the simple yet transformative act of sending goodwill to yourself and others. By opening the heart in this way, we can create more space for ease, empathy, and coherence in daily life.
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Second Wednesdays 12pm & 7pm EST
In this practice, you’ll be guided through a slow, mindful scan of the body, inviting awareness to each area from head to toe. The body scan supports deep relaxation, release of tension, and fosters a sense of grounded presence, offering an accessible path to reconnection with yourself.
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Third Wednesdays 12pm & 7pm EST
Drawing inspiration from Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Pebble Meditation, this guided practice uses imagery from nature to cultivate qualities of calm, stability, and spaciousness. You will be invited to connect with grounding elements of the natural world, supporting both inner balance and a deeper sense of presence. -
Fourth Wednesdays 12pm & 7pm EST
This practice invites you to connect with inner resources — qualities, memories, or images that provide steadiness and support. Through guided visualization and intention-setting, you’ll cultivate clarity, fortitude, inspiration, and a meaningful anchor to carry into the week ahead.
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1st & 3rd Fridays 7 pm EST
In this guided Liberatory Embodied Resistance Meditation, we will cultivate a communal space to connect with ancestral lineages of strength and root into practices of collective care. Through rhythm, breath, silence, and radical imagination, we’ll reflect on what we are experiencing in our local neighborhoods, broader communities, and around the world, including the struggles and pressures that wear on our bodies and spirits. Together we will nurture visions of liberatory futures. This practice reminds us that tending to our spirits in community is itself a radical act of resistance and hope. One that sustains us as we move together through difficulty and toward possibility.
Mindfulness Meditation Course
Sundays, September 21st-October 12th | 9am-10:15am EST
We offer a 4-week Mindfulness Meditation course facilitated by Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Dharma Moon Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Jesse Asch-Ortiz. This course provides supportive training in Mindfulness Meditation practice techniques, with encouragement for sustained practice in your own ongoing wellbeing. The group setting uniquely offers a community forum for shared discussion, contemplation, and practice. Learn more about the course curriculum below:
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Four 75-minute group classes, providing foundational instruction on mindfulness meditation rooted in traditions of practice
A supportive, trauma-aware learning environment facilitated by a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Dharma Moon Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
Exploration of themes related to mindfulness to deepen personal relationship to practice
Weekly group meditation practice
Opportunities for group discussion
Optional access to monthly community meditation sits following the course (Sangha)
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Beginners new to mindfulness
Returning meditators seeking grounding and clarity around practice
Anyone curious about bringing an increased sense of presence into daily life
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Each class includes a 20-minute group mindfulness meditation practice
Week One (September 21st):
What Is Mindfulness? Taking Your Seat
Learn the foundations of mindfulness and how body and breath create a stable, kind beginning to practice.Week Two (September 28th):
Developing Awareness & Observing the Mind
Learn to work with the body and mind to notice thoughts, feelings, and sensations as they occur with a sense of mindfulness.Week Three (October 5th):
Gentleness, Precision, & Letting Go
Learn and discuss three foundational attitudes towards the mind with application towards practice and daily life. Contemplation meditation practices will also be learned and explored.Week Four (October 12th):
Being With Your Thoughts & Everyday Integration
Revisit themes and reflect upon movement throughout the course, with emphasis on sustaining practice in everyday living.*Course material and arrangement subject to shift slightly as to best meet needs of the group.
The meditation practices we share at Resonant Spaces draw upon both contemporary mindfulness approaches and traditional Buddhist and Zen teachings that have been carried forward across histories of intergenerational practice. We recognize with gratitude the teachers, lineages, and communities whose wisdom inspires our offerings. While these sessions are adapted to meet the needs of our global community, we remain committed to honoring the roots of these practices and holding them with care and respect.
Pricing & Donations:
In line with other services at Resonant Spaces, these Meditation Offerings are also available on a sliding scale to provide fullest access to services. Please use the contact form at the bottom of the page to inquire about sliding scale rates. Additionally, in alignment with our values of community care and justice-oriented work, 10% of all proceeds from the Meditation Offerings will be donated monthly to a rotating community organization or charity of choice. This month’s proceeds will be donated to World Central Kitchen.
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