Meditation Workshop

Join us for this special one-day program designed for both beginning meditators and anyone who would like to refresh and deepen their meditation practice. The workshop will include short talks, practice sessions and discussion. The Aligned Center in Irvington is an inspiring loft space overlooking the Hudson River.

The practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation is simple and yet rich and nuanced. Its full depth can best be understood in the context of in-person group practice and instruction. This workshop offers participants a full day to explore the practice, allowing room for deeper discussion and understanding.

WMC presents mindfulness-awareness meditation in the tradition established by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who emphasized an evolving "path" of meditation that cultivates insight into our basic goodness without bypassing our very human imperfections and blind spots. Trungpa Rinpoche was a highly accomplished meditation master, scholar, translator, poet, and artist. He taught extensively in North America during the 1970s and 80s, authored dozens of books based on hundreds of talks given on a remarkable array of topics, and directly influenced an entire generation of meditation practitioners and teachers.

Gene Bobker met Trungpa Rinpoche as a student at University of Colorado the summer of 1971. She attended the 1974 Seminary and became a meditation instructor in 1976. In the late seventies she became a teacher at the New York Shambhala Center and also served as director of the center from 1977 to 1982.  In 1982 she staffed the Bedford Springs Seminary, and later served as Practice Department coordinator in New York. She has been teaching at Westchester Meditation Center for ten years. 

WMC is dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion. Everyone is invited. Differences and unique perspectives are embraced.

If you have any questions, please email westchestermeditationcenter@gmail.com.