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Entering The Stream
C$ 199.00
Continue your journey with Calm-Abiding practice beyond stage 4 (continual staying) to deeper, more powerful levels of attention and awareness.
January 13, 2025 through February 7, 2025
5 Talks and 17 practice sessions
Explore stages 5 through 9 of Calm Abiding practice
A Skills-training Approach
- Take control of your attention
- Discover mental clarity
- Grow your capacity to stay focused
"Meditation is a skill. Like any other skill, it can be mastered. But mastery requires practice and commitment. "
"These ancient teachings deserve a place in our world. I look forward to sharing these skills."
Entering The Stream
Enter The Stream of your meditation experience
Calm Abiding Stages 1 through 4 introduced the "ready state."
Meditation is Freedom introduced the practice of Calm Abiding and the experience of the ready state. Using the tools of paying attention (windshield/steering wheel/gas pedal) the meditator finds her attention ability to rest continually and comfortably where they choose.
Entering The Stream: Stages 5 through 9 of Calm touches the natural power and liveliness within.
Find the stream of naturally awake awareness within yourself.
As you meditate, thoughts, memories, emotions, physical sensations, and more flows through your awareness like a stream. Learning stages 5 through 9 of Calm Abiding Practice allows you to experience being alive with all of its ups and downs without being knocked off center.
6 Talks and 17 practice sessions
Each successive stage of Calm Abiding will be introduced by a meditation talk:
- Stage 5: Monday, January 13
- Stage 6: Tuesday, January 21
- Stage 7: Thursday, January 24
- Stage 8: Monday, January 27
- Stage 9: Monday, February 3
- Final session: February 7
Meditation talks are offered at 7 PM Atlantic / 6 PM Eastern / 5 PM Central / 3 PM Pacific time.
The talks and discussion that follow usually last 90 minutes.
Daily practice sessions offered twice each day - Monday through Friday - beginning on Tuesday, January 7
- Morning meditation practice: 8 AM Atlantic / 7 AM Eastern / 6 AM Central time
- 2nd meditation practice: Noon Atlantic / 11 AM Eastern / 10 AM Central / 8 AM Pacific time
Meditation talks and practice sessions are recorded + shared.
To support your learning, and for those who cannot attend live,
each presentation is recorded and shared as soon as possible, usually within 2 hours of the talk.
At least one meditation session is recorded and shared daily.
A Dynamic Balance
Resilience and strength
Your fundamental openness of heart-mind lends strength to your meditation practice.
Within openness, gentleness and strength come together as one.
Bamboo and Mountains
Your meditation posture mirrors the bamboo, upright, aligned, and resilient.
Your focus becomes like the mountain, steady and unmovable.
Brian Callahan leads Meditation Is Freedom.
About Brian
- Brian is an accomplished practitioner and teacher who had dedicated his life to the study and practice of meditation.
- For over 30 years, Brian has been leading meditation retreats throughout North America. In 2003, Brian completed a 3-year meditation retreat at Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. Pema Chödron invited him to stay on at the Abbey and serve as its executive director.
- With master's degrees in both Business and Divinity, Brian served in leadership roles in the non-profit sector and as an executive coach until 2015.
- Brian is the author of seven books, including two books about meditation
- Brian leads an online Dharma Community called Community Refuge that meets on Wednesdays
Contact Meditation Is Freedom
Reach out with any questions you have. The doors to our community are open to you, and we look forward to welcoming you soon.
"Selfie With Dinosaur"
taken at the Smithstonian museum in Washington, DC.
Fun is important too!
Meditation Is Freedom
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