Today, I am very pleased to introduce you to Anne-Marie Serre, an amazing woman with a BIG heart of service. She stepped up in so many ways over the year to be sure that we would be able to move forward with the second phase of the Albany Peace Project, especially when we needed it most! Anne-Marie tells how she she started meditation, she agonized through her 5 minute a day meditation practice…but started seeing substantial changes with even that small step!
She is now passionate about sharing these skills with others…including co-workers.
Maybe you can think about how you can incorporate meditation into your place of business? If you need help with that, please use the form below and we can brainstorm some ideas!
The New Numinous Schedule is now posted. More classes to be posted soon.
The Art Of Living Happiness Program, Sunday, February 1 at 2:00: Nikhil Jain, Faculty on the Art of Living Foundation, Doctoral Candidate in Nanotechnology
Radical Acceptance, Sunday February 8 at 2:00 PM, Tim Moon, MS, CASAC-T
Shamanic Reiki Journeying, Sunday February 15 at 2:00 PM, Derek Healey, Shamanic Practitioner
Seeking Source Saturday; Quantum Prayer, Saturday February 21 at 4:00 PM(Music, Message & Meditation) Bethany Gonyea and Pam Lunz Madina will be leading song
Numinous Classes support expenses for the Albany Peace Project.
If this meditation helped you, please consider donating to Numinous, sponsor of the Albany Peace Project by clicking on the “donate” button to the upper right of these words.
We would like to hear any comments, feedback or suggestions from you! Please use the form below.
Today I interview, my good friend and staunch Albany Peace Project supporter, Tim Moon. Who is such a good friend that he does not even mind when I call him the name “Steve” for no good reason!!!
As Tim immediately quips back, “I have been called worse!”
Tim encourages us to keep the camera rolling because it demonstrates his passion for “loving life on life’s terms” and practicing radical acceptance of all that transpires. Tim says, “Acceptance is the answer to all my problems.”
If you would like to hear Tim talk more about how radical acceptance can transform our lives, please attend the Numinous program on Sunday, February 8 at 2:00. Tim has a great sense of humor, and always has a way of getting us to laugh at any topic. More information can be found below.
Less than 4 Minute Video about upcoming Art Of Living Happiness Program At Numinous on 2/1/15
Quick 2 Minute Announcement About the 2015 Albany Peace Project Closing Celebration
The New NUMINOUS schedule is now posted. More classes to be posted soon.
The Art Of Living Happiness Program, Sunday, February 1 at 2:00: Nikhil Jain, Faculty on the Art of Living Foundation, Doctoral Candidate in Nanotechnology
Radical Acceptance, Sunday February 8 at 2:00 PM, Tim Moon, MS, CASAC-T
Shamanic Reiki Journeying, Sunday February 15 at 2:00 PM, Derek Healey, Shamanic Practitioner
Seeking Source Saturday; Quantum Prayer, Saturday February 21 at 4:00 PM(Music, Message & Meditation) Bethany Gonyea and Pam Lunz Madina will be leading song
Integrating Spirituality with Hypnosis for Weight Loss and Other Feel Good Goals: Sunday, March 15 at 2:00, Leslie M. Thornton, RN & Hypnotherapist
Numinous Classes support expenses for the Albany Peace Project.
If this meditation helped you, please consider donating to Numinous, sponsor of the Albany Peace Project by clicking on the “donate” button to the upper right of these words.
We would like to hear any comments, feedback or suggestions from you! Please use the form below.
I felt a real kindred spirit in Derek Healey. A 27 year old anthropology student at SUNY whose long term goal is to become Naturopathic doctor. Derek has been meditating since the age of 8, and has spent the last several years studying anything he can about healing. He was learning so much and feeling so encouraged from his endeavors he too wanted to share these understandings with more people.
Derek has been creating opportunities for people to be ‘love in action’ inviting people to participate in a wide range of service projects from a wild life sanctuary to a senior home. My favorite initiative of his is the “love letter project” which he will tell you more about in the video, and I hope to incorporate into the 2016 Albany Peace Project.
If Derek is an example of what the Dali Lama meant when he said, “Teach every child to meditate at the age of eight, and violence will end in one generation”. I believe it!! Derek is a stellar example of how meditation in young children can help foster open hearts of service and prolific creativity. To learn of Derek’s other projects, please visit: CompleteHealthCircle.com.
Less than 4 minute invite to the Art of Living Foundation’s Happiness Program at Numinous on Sunday 2/1
2 Minute Video Invitation To 2015 Albany Peace Project Closing Celebration this Saturday 1.31 at 1:00
The New NUMINOUS schedule is now posted. More classes to be posted soon.
The Art Of Living Happiness Program, Sunday, February 1 at 2:00: Nikhil Jain, Faculty on the Art of Living Foundation, Doctoral Candidate in Nanotechnology
Radical Acceptance, Sunday February 8 at 2:00 PM, Tim Moon, MS, CASAC-T
Shamanic Reiki Journeying, Sunday February 15 at 2:00 PM, Derek Healey, Shamanic Practitioner
Seeking Source Saturday; Quantum Prayer, Saturday February 21 at 4:00 PM(Music, Message & Meditation) Bethany Gonyea and Pam Lunz Madina will be leading song
Integrating Spirituality with Hypnosis for Weight Loss and Other Feel Good Goals:Sunday, March 15 at 2:00, Leslie M. Thornton, RN & Hypnotherapist
Numinous Classes support expenses for the Albany Peace Project.
If this meditation helped you, please consider donating to Numinous, sponsor of the Albany Peace Project by clicking on the “donate” button to the upper right of these words.
We would like to hear any comments, feedback or suggestions from you! Please use the form below.
As many of you know, I started the Albany Peace Project with SUNY professor, Dr. John Foldy. We worked behind the scenes a few years trying to figure out the best ways to approach this landmark project. Right before we were ready to go public and finally launch the first phase last year, Dr. Foldy was diagnosed with colon cancer and passed relatively rapidly the following spring. It was a totally unexpected turn of events. Not only did we experience the loss of Dr. John’s sense of humor in our lives, we needed to figure out how to proceed.
As usual, I was back to the Creative Source requesting guidance on this most unusual project. And, as usual, the Creative Source was already preparing for the needs of the project. I kept hearing about Dr. Karin Reinhold, a SUNY Mathematics Professor who was interested in working with the Albany Peace Project.
As I have gotten to know Karin, I have marveled at her presence in this project. She is an amazing pioneer and who has such a strong spirit. I have chuckled many times how I give her only basic details about about opportunities to promote the Albany Peace Project and she willingly shows up with such an open and “can do” spirit that makes me smile! This work is her heart’s deepest desire, as she would like to bring it to Buenos Aires, Argentina, her home country. I am hoping that Albany will come together in such a way that will inspire other cities to organize in a similar manner.
Less than 4 Minute video discussing the Art of Living Foundation’s Happiness Program at Numinous on 2.1.15
2 Minute Video Invite to 2015 Albany Peace Project Closing Celebration
It is our intention that the Albany Peace Project will inspire other cities, and it will transform into the Resonant Peaceful Cities Project. Buenes Aires…Here we come!
The New NUMINOUS schedule is now posted. More classes to be posted soon.
The Art Of Living Happiness Program, Sunday, February 1 at 2:00: Nikhil Jain, Faculty on the Art of Living Foundation, Doctoral Candidate in Nanotechnology
Radical Acceptance, Sunday February 8 at 2:00 PM, Tim Moon, MS, CASAC-T
Shamanic Reiki Journeying, Sunday February 15 at 2:00 PM, Derek Healey, Shamanic Practitioner
Seeking Source Saturday; Quantum Prayer, Saturday February 21 at 4:00 PM(Music, Message & Meditation) Bethany Gonyea and Pam Lunz Madina will be leading song
Integrating Spirituality with Hypnosis for Weight Loss and Other Feel Good Goals:Sunday, March 15 at 2:00, Leslie M. Thornton, RN & Hypnotherapist
Numinous Classes support expenses for the Albany Peace Project.
If this meditation helped you, please consider donating to Numinous, sponsor of the Albany Peace Project by clicking on the “donate” button to the upper right of these words.
We would like to hear any comments, feedback or suggestions from you! Please use the form below.
Today, I am talking with Anne-Marie Serre, an IT consultant who has been an amazing help to the Albany Peace Project! Anne-Marie has contributed in so many ways – we are extremely grateful for her infectious enthusiasm, her technical assistance, and her creative ideas. In this interview, Anne Marie discusses the APP Certified Meditation Leaders program she established with Jerry Petell. Together, they created a basic meditation leadership program that only requires two evenings of formal training, and some dedicated homework. With the benefit of Anne-Marie’s and Jerry’s decades of mindfulness experience, the program certified 18 (!) new meditation leaders this year.
You have seen some of those newly certified meditation leaders share the benefits of their training in our meditation series this year. We would always appreciate more leaders, and we welcome the opportunity to help our volunteers develop new skills and accelerate their personal growth. If you are interested in participating, please let us know!
As an IT professional, Anne Marie experiences a substantial amount of stress in her job, and her meditation practice helps her maintain a calm presence in difficult situations. She will be offering her best mindfulness techniques in a unique class, “Mindfulness for Busy People”, on Wednesday, January 20 at 7:00 at Unity Church of Albany. For more information about this special Numinous program, please view the details below the meditation.
In this meditation, Anne-Marie asks us to stretch a little. She asks us to pause and offer peace to those people we see in the newspaper who commit criminal acts, and that we may want to pass judgement on. She gently invites us to see our own light and darkness, so that we are more likely to see the dark and light in others.
I have never met a meditation I didn’t like! There are so many different approaches to meditation, and it can often be helpful for people to cultivate a wide range of meditation tools. Practicing different techniques offers meditators several options to choose from, depending on the circumstances they are facing.
Sometimes, a verbal mantra approach is needed to balance our brain, but at other times we may require a more sensory based approach. For some people, guided visualization works well to help reduce mental chatter, and for others pure silence does the trick. Each day, the winds of consciousness may guide us along our path differently. We can draw upon different meditation practices to to help with these changing situations, similar to the way a dentist selects a specific instrument for a particular procedure.
Pam Lunz Medina brings this topic to life in this interview. It is so much fun introducing you to Pam Lunz Medina today. Pam is such an exceptionally great human being. She will often spontaneously reach out to support the Albany Peace Project, because she is so passionate about the mission.
In this video, Pam discusses the upcoming 8 week meditation course that she is offering through the Yoga Lily, starting February 16. Her course would be a wonderful follow-up to the Albany Peace Project. During the program, Pam will be introducing participants to a variety of different meditation techniques.
Pam is so enthusiastic about the Albany Peace Project, she is offering an exclusive discount to APP meditators, to encourage participation in the second half of January! Participants who email each of the remaining daily meditations to discount@theyogalily.com , beginning January 15th, will receive 15% off of any Yoga Lily program. This generous gift to APP contributors works similar to another APP special benefit – the 10-30%% discount for a float-session at requiescent.com, which rewards meditators for each meditation they send to floatationmeditationdiscount@juno.com.
If these meditations have been of benefit to you, please consider donating to APP, to help continue to grow this project moving forward. There is still much work to do, and our efforts will have a measurably greater effect with greater support.
NUMINOUS LECTURE SERIES FOR JANUARY Programs are held weekly, on Wednesday evenings, at Unity Church of Albany, 21 King Ave, Albany, NY.
DONATION APPRECIATED OF $20 EACH SESSION.
Mindfulness For Busy People Anne-Marie Serre, IT Specialist/Corporate Meditation Leader Wednesday January 20 at 7:00 PM, Unity Church of Albany
This session will help you apply the transformative power of mindfulness to your busy life, helping you find the coherent calm space within you, as you focus yourself for whatever challenges you face.
Mindfulness is not mystical or magical, it is actually somewhat methodical. There are basic techniques you can use to broaden your perceptions at any moment, which enables you to resource a much broader palette of elevated feelings, including greater joy, clarity and sustained well-being.
As an IT consultant, Anne-Marie Serre, has had to hone her ability to stay calm under pressure. In this talk, she will share the best mindfulness techniques she has cherry picked to help us work gracefully under periods of intense stress. She will discuss how mindfulness techniques do not actually take any “time” at all, because brief periods of mindfulness actually improves focus, energy, efficiency and creativity all which yield greater results in less time.
Programs are held weekly at Unity Church of Albany, 21 King Ave, Albany
Challenging Our Agreements – How They Make or Break Us Bryce Pullano, IT Specialist Wednesday January 27 at 7:00 PM
One of the four agreements in the wildly successful book, The Four Agreements, by Don Miquel Ruiz, states “Don’t make assumptions.”
If we all took a moment to pause and consider how many assumptions we make in life, and how much these assumptions shape our destiny, we may become awestruck by their significance. These realizations have the potential to be so profound they inspire us to make permanent lasting change in our behavior that changes the entire trajectory of our lives.
In this talk, Bryce Pullano, will ask us to challenge our most basic social contracts, and how much we assume things that simply are not be true at all. He will help us expose these flimsy mirages for what they are, which helps us find the truth that we need to experience real-world growth. These non-truths are best eliminated so that we can proceed confidently in life with clear unwavering vision that sustains us in times of darkness. Come to this talk ready to challenge all areas of your life to mine new insights for positive change.
Spiritual Conversations For Men Facilitated by Glenn Hogue & Tim Moon, MA – CASAC Wednesday February 3 at 7:00 PM
Most spiritual programs are predominantly attended by women, which often causes women’s issues to be the focus of such programming. However, at NUMINOUS, we wanted to provide new programs that would specifically support Men’s spiritual discoveries as they do the significant work of pioneering how to blend ancient spiritual teachings with contemporary culture’s expectations of masculinity.
This is critically important work, as we seem to be in a time in history when all sorts of established paradigms are falling. The rugged individualism of the late 20th century is being challenged on all levels, especially in relationships. The traditional roles between male and female are also being blurred as well.
How do we maintain the integrity of our yang (masculine) energy while assimilating the gentler aspects of spirituality and still be effective in this world? How do we learn how to connect, while maintaining our individual authenticity and truth? Many of us have learned that we don’t need to do life alone, but we are unsure of how to skillfully include input from Spirit, women, and other men, without loosing connection with ourselves.
Learning how to skillfully partner, listen, and still assert our truth seems to be a huge piece of the mission of our generation of men. These Spiritual Conversations For Men will give us an opportunity to gain answers to the some of the most distracting questions of our lives. In a quiet environment, we can safely discuss what matters to us most, and obtain invaluable insights from other men who have grappled with the same questions. Through this exchange, we learn that we don’t have to do “life alone.” Also, we learn how good it feels to be supported and to provide the same meaningful support for others. These discussions offer us clarity and direction as we learn to connect, and yet still hold individual balance.
We are extremely fortunate to have Tim Moon, Counselor, and Fo Castle Owner/Operator Glenn Hogue facilitate these discussions. These two have over 55 years of combined spiritual understandings to chart this prosperous territory.
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Well….Today is the last new meditation leader we are introducing…but I can see why her interview was saved for last. It is because her interview does not suggest a closing of this work…but a continuation of it.
I always knew that as good as the opportunity of participating in the Albany Peace Project in January was going to be for many people, I also knew that February had the potential to be even better! Because the “side effect” of this work is massive creativity. After cultivating this level of self mastery for a month, people automatically feel more empowered start looking for new ways to express their broader understanding that is revealed through this work.
Through this work people often find dreams inside of them that they never new they had. They also may feel too shy or stuck in life’s responsibilities to pursue them. If you find yourself in that position, please meet Heather Loucks, a visionary, and founder of Quantum Communities. Heather has some land west of Albany that she is inviting people to come look at as incubator space to start pursuing their own dreams. It is her dream to help you with yours.
I am looking forward to checking in with her next year to see what creativity unfolds!
Heather Can be reached at: haloucks@gmail.com
2 Minute Video Invitation to the 2015 Albany Peace Project Closing Celebration Concert
Less than 4 minute video about The Art of Living Foundation’s Happiness Program offered at Numinous on 2.1 at 2:00.
The New NUMINOUS schedule is now posted. More classes to be posted soon.
The Art Of Living Happiness Program, Sunday, February 1 at 2:00: Nikhil Jain, Faculty on the Art of Living Foundation, Doctoral Candidate in Nanotechnology
Radical Acceptance, Sunday February 8 at 2:00 PM, Tim Moon, MS, CASAC-T
Shamanic Reiki Journeying, Sunday February 15 at 2:00 PM, Derek Healey, Shamanic Practitioner
Seeking Source Saturday; Quantum Prayer, Saturday February 21 at 4:00 PM(Music, Message & Meditation) Bethany Gonyea and Pam Lunz Madina will be leading song
Integrating Spirituality with Hypnosis for Weight Loss and Other Feel Good Goals:Sunday, March 15 at 2:00, Leslie M. Thornton, RN & Hypnotherapist
Numinous Classes support expenses for the Albany Peace Project.
If this meditation helped you, please consider donating to Numinous, sponsor of the Albany Peace Project by clicking on the “donate” button to the upper right of these words.
We would like to hear any comments, feedback or suggestions from you! Please use the form below.
