What we read.
At Phoenix we like to read all things relating to spiritual development – yoga, meditation, mindfulness.
The books we choose to study bring more clarity to our everyday lives, and enhance our ability to be compassionate towards ourselves and others.
Current Book
Start Where You Are
Author: Pema Chodron
About This Book:
Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart, from bestselling author Pema Chödrön. With insight and humour, she presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion towards others.
This book shows how we can ‘start where we are’ by embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives.
Pema Chödrön frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine traditional Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as: ‘Always apply a joyful state of mind’, ‘Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment’ and ‘Be grateful to everyone’.
Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover joy, well-being and confidence.
Timing
1:30pm to 3:30pm (end book session) – 3:30pm to 4:30pm (end afternoon tea)
Bring vegetarian/vegan food to share for afternoon tea.
Go to Phoenix Yoga Studios website.
