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Mindful
Meditation
(Mondays); 7:00pm - 8:15pm
(with Marcello Spinella, Ph.D)
Smithville Studio - by donation
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Mindful
Meditation
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 Mindfulness
Meditation is a technique for alleviating distress and enhancing
well-being by observing one's own thoughts, emotions, and
sensations with clarity and acceptance. This class is suitable
for beginners with no prior experience, covering the basics
needed for practice. It will also be useful to experienced
meditators as a setting conducive to meditation as well as
offering different meditation techniques to expand one's
repertoire. Brief descriptions of various techniques will be
given, along with periods of silent and guided meditation.
Current research is confirming traditional reports that
mindfulness benefits by reducing stress, anxiety, depression,
anger and pain, while enhancing concentration, calm, empathy,
sleep quality, and relationship satisfaction.
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Marcello Spinella,
Ph.D
 Marcello teaches
introductory Mindfulness Meditation (also called Insight
Meditation or Vipassana). He started fumbling his way through
meditation in the mid-1980s, but began practicing seriously in
2005 when he discovered Vipassana. He is a student of the
meditation teacher Shinzen Young and Ruth Sperber, one of
Shinzen's senior students. Marcello is a graduate of the City
University of New York and has trained in clinical
neuropsychology. He is now an Associate Professor of Psychology
at Richard Stockton College, where he has taught full-time since
1999. Marcello does research on mindfulness as a technique to
alleviate distress in conditions like addiction and pain, and to
enhance emotional well-being.
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