What it is: Long Holds Practice - Awareness on What Surfaces with Cidākāsa & Vicāra Meditation

Join Andy for a grounding and introspective practice designed to reveal what lies beneath the surface of stillness. Through Long Posture Holds, we’ll create the inner space for distractions, emotions, and unconscious patterns to gently arise — not to resist them, but to witness them with compassion and awareness. To close the workshop, Andy will guide us through an opportunity to journal our experience. 

Guided by the principles of Cidākāsa (the space of pure consciousness) and Vicāra (inquiry and contemplation), this session invites you to rest in the vastness of awareness itself. As thoughts and sensations emerge, we practice separating from identification — “I am not my thoughts” — and begin to meet ourselves beyond the noise of the mind.

This practice cultivates witness consciousness and encourages the experience of emptiness not as absence, but as the spacious ground through which true connection and self-recognition unfold.

"Emptiness becomes the bridge between what we are not and what we truly are."

Friday, Nov 21 | 6:30p - 8:30p at O+A Saint Paul | Price: $20 O+A Unlimited members | $25 non-members