Adult Programs 2008

How to Cope with Chronic Pains and Arthritis by Darlene Cohen - Coming Soon!


Darlene Cohen, M.A., LMT, earned her graduate degree in physiological psychology in 1966 and began sitting at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1970. She was ordained as a zen priest in 1999. While living at Green Gulch Farm, Zen Center's temple in Marin County, she developed rheumatoid arthritis, which had also plagued her mother. This painful and crippling disease led her to explore the potential of her meditation training to address chronic pain and catastrophic situations. In 1980 after receiving her certificate as a massage and movement teacher from Meir Schneider, the reknown Israeli self-healing teacher, she began instructi
ng people with chronic illness in various meditation and concentration practices, many of them involving comforting movement.



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Author Reading and Discussion
Nov 5 - Cara Black, Mystery Writer

Crafts
Oct 4 - Papel Picado - Mexican Papercutting for Everyone
Dec 6 - Holiday Wreath Making

Health
Sept 10 - How to Cope with Chronic Pains and Arthritis
Oct 8 - Climate Change Slideshow