Talks August 19, 2024 | 1 hour 29 min 36 sec

What We Can Learn from Comfort, Discomfort, and Overwhelm

Sally Armstrong

Turn directly to your experience—know it and name it—and this will give you an avenue to a deeper peace and freedom that resistance or avoidance can ever possibly do. This is the heart of our mindfulness practice.

Sally Armstrong

Sally Armstrong

Residential Retreat Teacher

Sally Armstrong began practicing meditation in India in 1981 and started teaching in 1996. She is a Stewarding Teacher at Spirit Rock. She has led Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program and Advanced Practitioner Program. She regularly teaches on concentration, metta and the long retreats at Spirit Rock and IMS.

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