Advanced Meditation & Mindfulness training

Meditation has become a popular method these days in order to help calm the nervous system and develop concentration. While all of the practitioners at Seattle Trauma Counseling utilize mindfulness practices, Robert Espiau offers a unique meditation training that is much deeper than can be found in your average American yoga studio. Robert spent 6 years as a Buddhist monastic and has been teaching classical forms of meditation coming from formal Sufi and Buddhist training for over 35 years. Robert offers a unique, rare and in-depth training for those who are interested in entering into deep states of serenity called Jhana or Samadhi in Hindu and Buddhist practices.

Robert teaches Samatha and Vipassana meditation, which are two distinct forms of meditation practice that date back at least 2500 years. They were taught by the 1st Buddha and are the foundation of all Buddhist meditation systems. Anyone who has a classical meditation training from within a Buddhist monastic tradition will have training in these two methods.Almost any book on early Buddhist meditation will tell you that the Buddha taught these two types of meditation: Samatha and Vipassana. Robert also has formal training in the ancient Christian method of mediation called Hesychia as well as the nondual practices found within Advaita Vedanta.
Currently there are only a handful of teachers in North Amercia who teach Jhana/ samadhi practice and all of them require that it is learned in long silent retreat. Robert is one of a handful of teachers in the US that can show you to enter into states of Samadhi while living a normal life in the community.
Samadhi states are blissful states of concentration that allow one to access with much higher precision the healing of past causes and effects.
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