WHO ARE YOU BEING IN Your ONE PRECIOUS HUMAN LIFE?
A note from Jan:
Thank you for visiting my site.
If you are wanting more info on GROUNDING In Times of Uncertainty
or Completing Your Week
please scroll down to Classes page.
Living and Working Well
is a resource of encouragement and support
for you, and for those you love and serve.
Jan Cook offers guidance in mindfulness, meditation, embodied communication
and body-mind centering® in three structural formats:
Engaged instruction and practice within a class setting, and learning circles.
Focused personal mentoring.
Spacious pace in workshops and retreats.
Classes
Jan is organizing a new form of gathering to learn together with each other.
She recognizes the deep capacity everyone has to find an authentic practice that supports, nourishes, challenges, and transforms our collective awakening.
Beyond teacher/student, spiritual guide/ seeker and therapist/ client: we are all in this together.
Drawing from teachings of resilient
Activism and Embodied Refuge,
and Pema Chodron’s current offering:
A Way Through Darkness
Each participant will deepen and
Find refuge in their path.
11/4-12/16 (no class 11/26) 12:45-2pm
Wednesdays | First Unitarian Church
Free
Beginners welcome
Please plan to attend at least 6 to 7 classes
ABOUT THE CLASS
Having felt the tension she, her friends, students, and colleagues are under these days, Jan has organized a learning circle to explore and be nourished by the regenerative refuge that lives and breathes within our human and beyond human kinship.
Steeped in somatic and spiritual practices, she looks forward to a learning circle of shared support and inquiry.
She will also be sharing from her current studies with Pema Chodron on the Path of the Spiritual Warrior.
How do we reconnect and deepen practices we already know?
How do we adapt to these times in our bodies, breath and heart/mind?
TO REGISTER AND SAVE YOUR SPOT PLEASE EMAIL: fubf.groups@gmail.com
Donations/Dana/Fees
Jan is now offering payment for her meditation classes on a donation basis.
There is a suggested tuition for Body-Centered classes, as well as fees for Private, and Semi Private sessions.
No one is turned away for lack of funds and your contributions make a difference.
PERSONAL MENTORING
“Jan Cook possesses a unique blend of knowledge, insight, compassion, and warmth. I always leave feeling more in-tune with myself and with the the world around me. Her presence has allowed me to deeply access my own intuition, and my potential for growth. You would be hard pressed to find a more gifted teacher, mentor, and guide.”
-Dr. Peter Thompson, Personal Development and Performance Coach
Private and Small Group Sessions
SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
For years people have come to Jan for this gentle and honest guidance,
to focus on what is most important and yet sometimes inaccessible in
their everyday life. Through deep listening and helpful inquiry,
you can illumine, articulate and integrate your deepest longings.
BODY MIND CENTERING®
Through personally effective embodiment practices,
you will learn from the inside out how to connect with your body’s
natural intelligence, and and re-pattern your stress response.
The result is a deep wellspring of renewal and capacity for clarity,
creativity, and resilience in the face of whatever comes your way.
PREPARING FOR SURGERY
Based in Peggy Huddleston’s Prepare for Surgery Heal Faster™
From her personal experience of childhood illness,
Jan has experienced Open Heart Surgery twice in the last 11 years.
The foundation of Peggy’s approach was invaluable for her preparation,
surgery, rehabilitation and recovery. She is now certified by Peggy
to facilitate you in your own personal journey to reduce anxiety,
use less pain medication and heal faster.
ABOUT JAN COOK
MS.Ed, Registered Somatic Educator and Therapist
Jan has explored, practiced, and mentored others through the experience of transformation for 40 years.
In her career of designing and facilitating leadership and organizational effectiveness programs, Jan saw the cost of stress and personal and collective trauma on her own and other’s lives. She became keenly aware of how stress could diminish one’s ability to contribute their gifts. She sought the best teachers and programs in somatic awareness and became certified as a somatic educator and therapist.
She founded Living and Working Well to coach, guide and support people facing the challenges and mind-body stress of deeply committed and purposeful lives. Her 12 year participation in the Program of Dance and Movement at the University of Rochester has recently opened an opportunity to bring this work to social activists on and off campus for a pilot in Resilient Activism.
In light of her calling for deeper awakening on her own spiritual path, she immersed herself in study, retreat, and practice within Buddhism, which is still the center of her life.
Jan has a reputation for listening deeply and guiding clients on their unique journeys with grace, clarity, humor, and steady encouragement.
JAN’S Credentials and APPROACH TO MEDITATION:
Jan Integrates the depth of Himalayan and
Southeast Asian Buddhist traditions with modern psychology, somatics,interpersonal neurobiology and the arts.
In 2008 she was ordained as a Buddhist dharma teacher by Anam Thubten Rinpoche , with whom she continues to study and receive guidance She is honored to be a Mitra/mentor and student with Lama Willa Blythe Baker, Lama Liz Monson and Natural Dharma Fellowship. Over her many years of study, she has been especially been influenced in retreats, empowerments, and live teachings with H.H. Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Tara Brach, Elisabeth Mattis-Nymgal, Stephen Batchelor, Lama John McKransky, Lama Rod Owens, and Garchen Rinpoche.
Most recently, she has participated in a 3 year program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies called Writing for Liberation. She continues to integrate artistic expression as a form of spiritual practice.
Classes integrate practical teachings, deep focus on daily practice, and loving support for students to connect with their own lineages and inner wisdom within the context of the bodhisatvha path.
She also integrates mindful awareness practices and self-care within a secular social justice context through embodied communication and peace circles.
JAN’S Credentials and training in Somatics and BODY- MIND CENTERING®:
Body-Mind Centering® is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. Jan has been a student and teacher of this work for 35 years, studying with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Mark Taylor,Emily Conrad, Susan Harper, Caryn McHose, and many colleagues and teachers on the leading edge of embodiment. She currently is continuing additional study after a 6 month training in Trauma Informed Somatic therapies.
She integrates embodiment at all levels of her teaching and facilitation. Students and clients are more able to:
- Connect with your body’s natural intelligence from the inside out.
- Discover your new adaptive capacity to move through your life with more freedom and ease.
- Re-pattern your stress response for clarity, confidence and resilience.
- Express and create through newly found space and ground.
- Enjoy a more powerful, loving, and respectful relationship with your body and the world of which it is a part.
- Rest at a cellular level
Listen to the audio file below for a sample of Jan’s Meditation Practice
Listen to the audio file below for a sample of Jan’s Embodiment Practice
