“Meditation is about orientating ourselves to what is. When I sit down to meditate, I’m not trying to stop what is going on. I am trying to come into relationship with what is going on." Karen Beetle, LMHC, is a therapist and mindfulness teacher in private practice in Albany, NY. She discusses how, in this time of uncertainty, we can incorporate mindfulness and meditation into our practice and our own lives.
“Meditation is about orientating ourselves to what is. When I sit down to meditate, I’m not trying to stop what is going on. I am trying to come into relationship with what is going on."
Karen Beetle, LMHC, is a therapist and mindfulness teacher in private practice in Albany, NY. She discusses how, in this time of uncertainty, we can incorporate mindfulness and meditation into our practice and our own lives.
Bio:
Karen Beetle, LMHC, is a therapist and mindfulness teacher in private practice in Albany, NY. She has been practicing meditation since 1995. Since 2006, she has been teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - the highly researched eight week intensive introduction to mindfulness meditation developed by Jon (CABET Zen) Kabat-Zinn. She has taught mindfulness to therapists, graduate students, community groups, and young people in the Capital Region for the past fifteen years. She continues to deepen her practice by sitting annual retreats and offering day-long and wilderness mindfulness practice opportunities.