{"id":3902,"date":"2014-10-27T21:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T01:00:05","slug":"meditation-for-beginners-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/meditation-for-beginners-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation for Beginners Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Learn the basics of meditation and mindfulness<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Friday, November 14, 2014<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">7 p.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">College for East Asian Studies<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">343 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">$20 donation payable at the door.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This workshop will introduce basic meditation techniques including sitting and walking meditation and the usage of prayer beads (malas)\u00a0with a focus on proper alignment, breathing, focused attention, and an open attitude toward distractions. Additionally, students will be introduced to fundamental mindful eating practices. This class is designed for beginners and for those looking to refresh their practice.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit our New England Institute for Buddhist Studies at http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/dharmaquest\/meditation-for-beginners-class\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn the basics of meditation and mindfulness Friday, November 14, 2014 7 p.m. \u2013 8 p.m. College for East Asian Studies 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT $20 donation payable at the door. This workshop will introduce basic meditation techniques including sitting and walking meditation and the usage of prayer beads (malas)\u00a0with a focus on proper&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14016,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions\/14016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}