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Jaime Glasser


Jaime Glasser


I feel so grateful to be able to give back to the Palouse MBSR program. After a lifetime of spiritual and meditative inquiry this MBSR program was truly the scaffolding I had searched to hang all these investigations on. This program gifted me the big outline to understand what I was looking for; a structure I was trying unsuccessfully to build myself.

I began mindfulness experimentation when my mother took my brother and I to TM (Transcendental Meditation) classes when I was 16. I practiced that for many years, using a mantra to meditate twice daily for 20 minutes. It helped calm me I think, but still I searched. I attended another mindfulness course about 20 years ago and was taken with the huge new landscape of meditation I was introduced to. But, this was a strict interpretation of practice. I was discouraged because though I could see how valuable this could be for my life, I was always getting in trouble because I could not sit still.

I could access this flow state doing my art or exercising, but I wanted to engage in this other- mindedness more often. I found Palouse MBSR with a path all mapped out to study. I took 10 months to complete the program but I learned so much from all the references. I certainly discovered the more I learned and practiced the more I wanted to learn and practice.

I really love these meetings because we can ask questions about learning to practice.. Whether in the first “week” of the course or a graduate, we can always relate, and learn about mindfulness experiences from each other. Even though we come from different cultures from all over the world, at different stages of our lives, with different challenges we can relate to each other and belong to this community together.

Each of the hosts facilitate unique sessions, we all share from the MBSR perspective of awareness. The focus of my hours is offering a guided meditation, (mostly Lovingkindness), with stories from teachers, poetry and some pet stories thrown in. I am grateful to share and always gratified to see how we can empathize with each other, and discover our commonalities and learn from our differences. Oh, and please know you are welcome to sit, stand, jump, or dance ! Move any way you want!

You can contact Jaime through the Contact page.

Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
     - Parker Palmer

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you may not even know about.

You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
     - Jon Kabat-Zinn

When all that we understand of self and world comes together in the center place called heart, we are more likely to find the courage to act humanely on what we know.
     - Parker Palmer

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . . even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness.
     - Thomas Merton

You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
     - Rumi

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
     - Martin Luther King

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our changes are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
     - Mary Oliver

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Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other.
     - Parker Palmer

You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you may not even know about.

You are never alone.
And you already belong.
You belong to humanity.
You belong to life.
You belong to this moment, this breath.
     - Jon Kabat-Zinn

When all that we understand of self and world comes together in the center place called heart, we are more likely to find the courage to act humanely on what we know.
     - Parker Palmer

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed by the realization that I loved all those people . . . even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness.
     - Thomas Merton

You are not a drop in the ocean,
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
     - Rumi

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
     - Martin Luther King

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our changes are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves – we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.
     - Mary Oliver

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