Dr. Miles Neale

Spiritual Bypassing: When Practice Becomes Escape

milesneale — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:36:37 +0000

Spiritual bypassing, a term coined by John Welwood in the early 1980′s, is a tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, addictions, traumatic wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks. Based on his clinical observations, Dr. Neale discusses some of the most common ways that Dharma students and yogis avoid their inner conflicts. He also provide some recommendations about how we can use meditation, yoga and psychotherapy as courageos encounters with, and emotional correctives for, our most challenging experiences. Recorded live at Go Yoga in Brooklyn.

Spiritual Bypassing: When Practice Becomes Escape

milesneale — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:51:40 +0000

Go Yoga, Brooklyn, April 29, 2012

Emptiness, Karma, and Ethics in the Yoga Sutras

milesneale — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:06:27 +0000

In this weekend retreat, Dr. Neale explores the relationship between emptiness, karma, and ethics – three essential insights that lead to liberation. Using the classical text Yoga Sutras as a guide learn how reality is ultimately open potential, how actions (karma) driven by misperception (avidya) cause us to experience reality in particularly unpleasant ways, and how following prescriptions for ethical living (yama and niyama) can serve as the foundation for a happy life. Recorded live at the Interdependence Project.

Awakened Heart: The Indo-Tibetan Psychology of Compassion

milesneale — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:50:21 +0000

The Gradual Path to Awakening (Lam Rim) is marked by three major realizations: Renunciation, Compassion and Correct View of Reality. In this set of four classes we explore the second realization, the heart of compassion that seeks Awakening for the benefit of all beings. Dr. Neale exposes the science and positive psychology that makes pro-social emotions such as love and compassion not just lofty spiritual goals but biologically innate potentials that can be athletically cultivated for the purpose of sustainable happiness and civilized living. Lectures are supplemented by group practice of role-modeling visualization adapted from the classical Tibetan style combined with contemplations on the Eight Verses of Mind Training (Lojong). Recorded live at the Tibet House.

Meditation Toolkit: Cultivating Wellbeing, Altruism & Inspiration

milesneale — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:12:19 +0000

In this practice-oriented workshop Dr. Neale provides a sampler of Nalanda Institute’s three core meditation techniques of mindfulness, mind-clearing and visualization. Through basic instruction, short guided sessions and Q&A, experience a taste of wellbeing, altruism and inspiration that each technique … Continue reading →

What Buddhist Psychotherapy Really Is, by Dr. Miles Neale, What Meditation Really Is Blog, January, 2012

milesneale — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:37:28 +0000

Mindfulness Meditation: Buddhist & Clinical Applications

milesneale — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:07:01 +0000

A significant body of research exists on the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation to access the mind and brains capacity for healing, learning and neuroplasticity. In this workshop, Dr. Neale guides you through the practice of mindfulness meditation, and present its … Continue reading →

Making Life Meaningful: The Indo-Tibetan Psychology of Renunciation

milesneale — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:13:09 +0000

The Gradual Path to Awakening (Lam Rim) is marked by three major realizations: Renunciation, Compassion and Correct View of Reality. In this series of four classes, Dr. Neale discusses the themes of the Four Mind Turnings of the Preciousness of Life, Death, Causality, and Conditioned Existence that serve as the basis for the development of renunciation towards compulsive living. Lectures are supplemented by role-modeling visualization adapted from the classical Tibetan style. These themes and their corresponding realization serve as a prerequisite for the next installment of classes that focus on the Awakened Heart of compassion. Recorded live at the Tibet House.

Essence of Tibetan Buddhism: The Three Principal Paths

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:00:18 +0000

In this four-class Buddhist Studies Series Dr. Neale distills the essence of Tibetan Buddhism based on the classic 14th century text Three Principal Paths (lam-tso nam-sum) by enlightened yogi-scholar Je Tsongkhapa. Explore the meaning of Renunciation, Bodhicitta, and the Correct View, the three realizations one achieves on the path to awakening. Series begins with the Tibetan approach to visualization meditation through instructions of the six preliminary practices rehearsed during each subsequent class.

Essence of Yoga: Foundation, Practice, Goal

milesneale — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:17:58 +0000

In this four-class Buddhism and Yoga Series Dr. Neale distills the essence of Yoga through excerpts from the classic 2nd century text Yoga Sutras by Master Patanjali. Explore how the path of Yoga views the nature of suffering and its causes, and how it offers a range of contemplative practices and lifestyle recommendations that lead to the ultimate goal of freedom.

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Class 1: What Assails Us – The Five Afflictions (Kleshas).
Monday, January 31, 2011
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Class 2: Ethical Foundations – The Five Restraints (Yamas)
Monday, February 07, 2011
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Class 3: Ethical Foundations – The Five Observances (Niyamas)
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Yoga & Meditation Workshop – Mindfulness Meditation and
the Four Immeasurables
Sunday, February 20, 2011
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Class 4: Final Integration (Samadhi)
Monday, February 21, 2011
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