The Mindfulness Society of Canada

Are We Always Acting?
2023-10-22 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Associate Instructor Susanna Fournier has been teaching acting for over 10 years. She will talk about the subtle and not so subtle ways we may be acting in our daily lives, explore notions of “authenticity”, and discuss how seeing ourselves as actors can help us experience the truth that the body and mind are non-self.

Dealing with Judgement and Opinions
2023-10-29 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Associate Instructor Rhonda will discuss how our mindfulness practice opens our minds and hearts to understand and deal with the inner and outer worlds where there is so much judgement, harsh opinion and divisiveness. Much will be revealed with some exercises as well.

Inside People's Minds - An Interview with Salima Pirani
2023-11-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
“What made you give up your thriving career and choose this path?” “What’s it like to be inside people’s minds all day?” “How can I make a big change in my life?” Tune in as our resident interviewer and Committee Chair Jenn speaks with Salima about life as a Reiki Master-Teacher, Mindfulness Instructor and Teacher of Psychic Awareness. You may be surprised what you hear. Curious? Email Jenn@themindfulnesssociety.ca and your question might be included!

Guided Meditations & Metta Thich Nhat Hanh Style
2023-11-12 09:30 - 10:15 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
On her journey to mindfulness, Dr. Rhoda spent years leading well-being circles and meditation groups, developing calmness and kindness based on her studies and retreats at Plum Village under Thich Nhat Hanh. To start your Sunday morning right, she will lead us in easy, calming and loving meditations, appreciating the body, breath, nature and life.

Mindfulness While Eating - With Associate Instructor Susie
2023-11-19 19:30 - 20:15 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Susie will delve deeply into the practice of mindful eating and how to be aware during mealtimes. Susie will share tips on cultivating a mindful eating practice to gain insights into yourself and reduce negative patterns. **We will do some mindful eating together. Please bring something to drink and one small item to eat (e.g. chocolate, cracker, or fruit).**

What Mindfulness Isn't - with Jess Koffman
2023-11-26 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Halifax) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Our Chairman has been providing tips on his Jess Koffman Facebook page recently (www.facebook.com/jess.koffman), helping us to faux teachers and teachings on mindfulness and it’s purpose. There are a lot of fluffy, pretty incorrect teachings our their folks – beware! Jess will go into details about his pointers, who and what to avoid, and take some of our questions as well.

You Are Not Your Body with Jess Koffman
2023-12-03 19:15 - 19:55 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Rather than listening talks about what you really are, rather than theories or ideas to believe about what you really are, rather than merely resonate temporarily with what sounds true to you, let’s do the far more effective work of examining the body, element by element, and see that there is no person in it. Join us as Jess takes us through a 35-40 minute contemplation of the truth regarding physicality.
This meditation will be the free portion of Jess’ meditation day, with 4 other meditations including Metta and mindful awakening. To join the whole day, for more info, or to get emailed about Jess’ classes, email jesskoffman@hotmail.com.

Let Metta Protect You, with Salima Pirani
2023-12-10 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Learn to harness this powerful “Weapon of Protection” that the Buddha shared almost 2,600 years ago. Vice Chair Salima will open with the origin story of Metta practice, followed by a guided Metta (Loving-Kindness / Good-Will) practice. Together, we will cool any anger, fear, anxiety or other impurities of the heart, laying the foundation for samadhi and peace of mind.

Mindfulness Over the Holidays with Dr. Rhoda
2023-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Dr. Rhoda will be finally teaching an evening mindfulness class from Thailand on her school break (7:30am Thai time)! She will prepare for the holidays with some tips for the sometimes fun, sometimes difficult times seeing our families and extended families. Join this very useful and beneficial send off to a fruitful new year.

Mindfulness 301: Lesson One with Associate Instructor Rhonda
2024-01-07 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
We have started a tradition in The Mindfulness Society of Canada. We begin the year with a free mindfulness course, taught each week by a different associate instructor! This year, year three, it will be six weeks with six different teachers! Each will use their own unique style and energy to bring these most beneficial teachings to you.
The mindfulness we teach is the practice to attain transformative and transcendent wisdom. And wisdom is the only way out of suffering. It is much easier than you may think. It just takes good teachers and regular practice to get unbelievable results. It is a very different mindfulness than the modern understanding of “mindfulness”, where it has been reduced to a meditative technique for temporary relief of symptoms of suffering, like stress, physical pain and lack of focus, rather than suffering itself. Join the classes, practice what we teach, and see for yourself that suffering in your heart disappears right in front of your eyes. See that you are not the body, not thoughts, not emotions, and you are not even the mindfulness that is aware of them!

Mindfulness 301: Lesson Two with Vice-Chair Salima Pirani
2024-01-14 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
We have started a tradition in The Mindfulness Society of Canada. We begin the year with a free mindfulness course, taught each week by a different associate instructor! This year, year three, we will have six weeks with six different teachers! Each teacher will their own unique style and energy to bring these most beneficial teachings to you.
The mindfulness we teach is the practice to attain transformative and transcendent wisdom. And wisdom is the only way out of suffering. It is much easier than you may think. It just takes good teachers and regular practice to get unbelievable results. It is a very different mindfulness than the modern understanding of “mindfulness”, where it has been reduced to a meditative technique for temporary relief of symptoms of suffering, like stress, physical pain and lack of focus, rather than suffering itself. Join the classes, practice what we teach, and see for yourself that suffering in your heart disappears right in front of your eyes. See that you are not the body, not thoughts, not emotions, and you are not even the mindfulness that is aware of them!

Mindfulness 301: Lesson Three with Associate Instructor Karen
2024-01-21 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada

Closed February 4th
2024-02-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto)

Mindfulness 301: Lesson Four with Associate Instructor Susie
2024-02-11 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada

Mindfulness 301: Lesson Five with Associate Instructor Susanna
2024-02-18 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada

Mindfulness 301: Lesson Six with Chair & Head Teacher Jess
2024-02-25 07:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada

We are closed March 3 & 10
2024-03-01 08:00 - 2024-03-09 17:00 (America/Toronto)
The Majority of the Board and Associate Instructors will be studying Dhamma with the Masters in Thailand for the first two weeks of March. Our Sunday Zoom events return on March 17th.

Mindful Metta with Head Teacher Jess Koffman
2024-03-17 20:00 - 21:15 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Metta is far more genuine and far more powerful when mindfulness takes the lead. Jess will use his unusual abilities in leading a metta meditation to make us feel welcome, loved, healed, while keeping us poised in self-reliance and development.

Learning from the Masters in Thailand with Salima Pirani
2024-03-24 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Fresh from her 7 weeks in Thailand, Salima shares her experiences: What the masters are like, how to know they are genuine, what she learned from them and how these learnings can help you.

Closed for the Long Weekend
2024-03-31

Coping with Illness and Aging - with Associate Instructor Rhoda
2024-04-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Dr. Rhoda will share her experiences in introducing mindfulness to her aging parents and how mindfulness can help people cope with the fear of aging, sickness and disease.

Mindful Yoga with Associate Instructor Karen
2024-04-14 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Everyone is Welcome. No experience necessary.
A Mindfulness Society First! A free yoga class – mindfulness style! Karen has been a yoga instructor for 12 years and in this class she will integrate the slow paced style of Yin Yoga with meditative awareness of the mind and body. You are welcome to follow along in the poses, or rest in the easy sitting pose or shavasna for the entire class if this is more suitable for you.

We are Closed April 21st
2024-04-21
Many of us at the MSC are unavailable and we will not be having programming on this Sunday. See you next week!

Metta Meditation with Associate Instructor Susie
2024-04-28 19:30 - 20:15 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
This month’s metta (universal love, kindness & forgiveness) meditation will be led by none other than our own Susie Kaplan 🙂

"Tales of Wisdom" with Associate Instructor Susanna
2024-05-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Susanna begins a new series called “Tales of Wisdom”. In a combination of story-telling, mindfulness practice, and instruction, Susanna will unpack stories from Buddhist history and the great masters to reveal their teachings. She’ll incorporate her own experiences to provide a valuable hour of mindfulness and wisdom for us.

We are closed for Mother's Day and Victoria Day Weekends
2024-05-12 - 2024-05-19

Breakthrough Pain & Discomfort with Associate Instructor Rhonda
2024-05-26 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Rhonda will discuss physical pain, and how we can improve our relationship with it using mindfulness and a better perception. She will also lead us in a gentle body and sensation awareness meditation, putting us on track to improve our physical and mental well-being.

10 Tips for an Easy Life with Head Teacher Jess
2024-06-02 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Jess is taking time out of his not busy schedule to share some of his simple secrets to a life of ease. He has put together some wise suggestions that will be helpful for everyone; not just for mindfulness practitioners. Jess usually teaches only the most profound purposes of mindfulness that not everyone can yet grasp. But on this rare Sunday, he will give valuable advice for all to enjoy!

Metta Meditation with Vice-Chair Salima Pirani
2024-06-09 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Zoom Meeting, Canada
Metta (Loving-Kindness, Universal Love) is one of the most sublime states available to humankind. It starts with self love and care, and ends with indiscriminate kindness in all directions, for all beings. Let’s work on it together, one step at a time for our own good, and the good of everyone we encounter.

Natural Truth (Dhamma) with Ajahn Song in Thailand
2024-06-23 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto)
A rare chance to learn with one of the great young masters in Thailand, Ajahn Song. Upon his deep realizations as a Buddhism monk, he was asked by Luangpor Pramote to become a teacher and share his learnings with the world. On this Sunday, it will be his second time sharing his understanding with The Mindfulness Society, and in the English language! He will give a talk, followed by answering questions from active practitioners regarding their regular and diligent practice within the principles that he and Luangpor Pramote teach.
