Join Tara Mulay and Devin Berry for practice and discussion via this online session hosted by Delaware Valley Insight and the Unitarian Society of Germantown.
This program is appropriate for both new and experienced meditators — all are welcome. The class is being taught over two sessions, 2/24 and 2/25. Register for each session separately if you'd like to attend both (strongly recommended), but you are welcome to attend one and not the other.
Please add delawarevalleyinsight@gmail.com to your address book to ensure you receive any communications for the event. If you have any difficulties joining the zoom or registering for a DVI class, please reach out to the email above or call Steve Ellis @ (215) 626-2929.
Dana (Generosity) will be well received and shared with Tara and Devin to support them in offering this program.
Class Description: We will use this practice period to explore mindfulness of the body, including the full awareness of breathing. In the process, we will cultivate greater openness of heart, compassion and wisdom. Our aspiration is to know the direct experience of breath, body, and heart as refuge.
“When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it is of great fruit and great benefit. When mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, it fulfills the four foundations of mindfulness. When the four foundations of mindfulness are developed and cultivated, they fulfill the seven factors of enlightenment. When the seven enlightenment factors are developed and cultivated, they fulfill true knowledge and liberation.”
– the Buddha
Teacher Bios
Tara Mulay: Tara Mulay teaches and mentors Insight Meditation practitioners to refine their mindfulness practice, both on the meditation cushion and in daily life. Her practice and teachings stem from the lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw, and she has gratefully drawn influence from many other teachers within and outside of the Mahasi lineage, including Howard Cohn, Kamala Masters, Gil Fronsdal, Joseph Goldstein, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, and Ayya Anandabodhi. Tara practiced criminal defense law in California for over 20 years. In 2016 she co-founded the San Francisco Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Insight Sangha. In the spring of 2019, she relocated to Western Massachusetts and served as the Interim Guiding Teacher of Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts from 2020-2021.
Devin Berry: Devin Berry has been an Insight meditation practitioner since 2000. He has a passion for daily life practices, exploring long retreat forms of practice and the Buddha’s liberative teachings. He has been trained and empowered by Insight Meditation Society to teach. Devin counts many influences on his practice and teaching. He has gratitude for receiving direct mentoring from Lyn Fine, Larry Yang, Andrea Fella, Carol Wilson and Joseph Goldstein. He shares the influence of his teachers' mentors including Thich Nhat Hanh, Manindra-ji, Dipa Ma, Ajahn Chah, Mahasi Sayadaw, Sayadaw U Pandita and Sayadaw U Tejaniya.
Devin co-founded the teen sangha at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. He founded a weekly kids mindfulness group in Berkeley, while teaching some of the first mindfulness programs in schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the years, Devin led Wilderness overnight camps for kids and teens, Rites of Passage programs for young men, summer day camp and a camp for boys. Having started 30 plus years ago as an advocate for marginalized youth on the streets, in recovery from exploitation, Devin is now retired from youth work.