ELESA COMMERSE Meditation: The Art and Practice of Being Present for Your Life Date: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 Time: 10am-1pm Price: $30 ($40 after Sep 21) Location: Moksha Riverwest Printable Flyer

One of the most difficult things we can do in life is to show up - to be fully present - for ourselves and for the people we love and care about. So many times, at the end of the day, we say, "Where did the time go?" Years can go by in this manner. Your precious life is worth fully inhabiting. Learn how to become present for your life through the art of meditation. In this three-hour session you will learn specific techniques that will help you be more of who you say you want to be in the world.

Come prepared to learn:

• How to sit comfortably to meditate
• How to achieve a state of the deep calm through mindful breathing
• How to work with thoughts as they arise while meditating
• How to access greater peace and joy throughout your day
• How to recover your flower nature when life leaves you feeling wilted
• How to be more compassionate with yourself and others
• How to integrate specific meditation techniques into your daily life that help you live from a place of intention

Elesa Commerse is a beloved meditation teacher, known for her ability to demystify the practice and facilitate breakthrough experiences on the journey to authenticity. She has been teaching since 1977 and has been meditating for as long as she can remember (even though she didnÁt call it that).

Elesa is the founder of National Meditation Month (May) and is the Director of Wisdom Training for the Tias Little Teacher Training program in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A graduate of the Temple of Kriya Yoga Meditation Teacher Training Program, Elesa holds two certificates in Advanced Yoga Studies for completing Donna Farhi's yoga teacher training program. Her website is www.thedeepcalm.com

"Elesa Commerse teaches from a place of deep acceptance that, for all her students, offers a profound healing. Her teachings are steeped in loving kindness and generosity. Her language, sensitivity, chanting and poetry touch places in our being that are so hard to reach, they nourish the innermost chambers of the heart."

- Tias Little, author of The Thread of Breath, River Flow and Freeing the Bird of Prana

"Elesa Commerse has been teaching meditation for my yoga teacher trainees and during my recent Women's Yoga Retreat, in New Zealand. Her teaching utterly transforms people. She is an exceptionally gifted and warm teacher who demystifies meditation in a way that makes it accessible for ordinary people facing the extraordinary challenge of leading a peaceful life."

- Donna Farhi, author of Yoga Mind, Body and Spirit; The Breathing Book; and Bringing Yoga to Life