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Meditation Teacher Dharma Leader Spiritual Director Diagnostic Teacher Mary Rees is a Meditation Teacher and Dharma Leader in the lineage of the Thai Forest and Burmese monks. She is also a Spiritual Director trained (1988-1990) in a program offered through the University of St. Thomas and the Cenacle Retreat House, both in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leader Training program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California and has training to teach specific programs: MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) and Robert Fritz's Creating Your Life She has been teaching meditation since 1989, helping adults recognize and expand cognitive skills. She has extensive meditation teaching and practice experience and has worked with teachers from many traditions. Rodney Smith was her primary meditation teacher for sixteen years. She is currently working most closely with Marcia Rose and Sr. Mary Dennison.Mary has been teaching professionally since 1970, twenty of those years in public schools of Iowa and Texas as diagnostic teacher, educational diagnostician, and consultant. In these situations she created state of the art programs fostering student capacity through development of perceptual, cognitive, and meta-cognitive skills as well as creating realistically high expectations for students within the system. She holds a Master of Science degree in Specific Learning Disabilities, certification as an Educational Diagnostician (formal assessment), and has additional graduate hours in Christian Spirituality and Buddhist Meditation Theory. Meditations - Blog Mary's book: Being Prayer - Transforming Consciousness: Good News of Buddhist Practice Purchase this book online! Meditation Course on Media CD: Going Beyond what you Believe to be True - First Steps. Available online! Practice Book: Opening Space and Time - Establishing a Daily Practice. Available online! Professional Publications and Presentations: 2007 God and Constructions, Women's Journal (Publication of Brigid's Place, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX). Fall 2007, pp. 11-12. 2006 Why I wrote a book titled Being Prayer. Women's Journal (Publication of Brigid's Place, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX). Summer/Fall 2006, pp. 8-9. 2005 Transforming Consciousness, Becoming Prayer, Presence (Journal of Spiritual Directors International). June 2005, pp. 39-48. 2004 Transforming Consciousness: Spiritual Practices for Transforming Afflictive Emotions and Manifesting Wholesome Qualities of Mind. Presentation, Conference for Spiritual Directors International, April, 2004. 2001 Self-knowledge as a Path to Justice and Compassion, Presentation, Conference for Spiritual Directors International, April, 2001. |
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