Introducing Soulful Reads: A Soul Sanctuary Book Club! Each month, we will meet to discuss a different book focused on promoting personal growth, transformation, spirituality and more! Join us for community and connection as we learn and grow together. Wine and light snacks provided.

Our selection for November’s book club is "Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Book is available for purchase on Amazon

We may long for wholeness, suggests Jon Kabat-Zinn, but the truth is that it is already here and already ours. The practice of mindfulness holds the possibility of not just a fleeting sense of contentment, but a true embracing of a deeper unity that envelops and permeates our lives. With Mindfulness for Beginners you are invited to learn how to transform your relationship to the way you think, feel, love, work, and play―and thereby awaken to and embody more completely who you really are.

Here, the teacher, scientist, and clinician who first demonstrated the benefits of mindfulness within mainstream Western medicine offers a book that you can use in three unique ways: as a collection of reflections and practices to be opened and explored at random; as an illuminating and engaging start-to-finish read; or as an unfolding "lesson-a-day" primer on mindfulness practice. Beginning and long-time meditators alike will discover in these pages a valuable distillation of the key attitudes and essential practices that Jon Kabat-Zinn has found most useful with his students, including:

• Why heartfulness is synonymous with true mindfulness

• The value of coming back to our bodies and to our senses over and over again

• How our thoughts "self-liberate" when touched by awareness

• Moving beyond our "story" into direct experience

• Stabilizing our attention and presence amidst daily activities

• Three fundamental mental factors that cause suffering

• How mindfulness heals, even after the fact

• Reclaiming our wholeness, and more

To join us for November’s book club, purchase your ticket and your own copy of the book. We ask that you read the book prior to our meeting and come prepared to reflect and discuss with the group.

Questions? Email us at events@soulsanctuaryri.com.