Please join Mountain River Sangha this Sunday for thirty minutes of silent meditation, followed by a fifty minute dharma talk, and concluding with fellowship and refreshments. We meet weekly in Bristol at the Open Sky Studio (8B Main Street, above Cubber's Restaruant) from 10:00am to 12:00m.

Mountain River Sangha is a non-denominational gathering of practioners from various Buddhist-based and secular mindfulness traditions and all experience levels. Beginners are welcome.

This Sunday we welcome guest teacher Manny Mansbach. Manny teaches Insight (Vipassana) Meditation with Vermont Insight Meditation Center in Brattleboro, VT, in Bellows Falls, VT, and elsewhere in New England . Manny's dharma talk is titled "The Art of Letting Go."

Manny Mansbach has been practicing and studying Buddhism since 1981, and began as a somatic and mindfulness-oriented psychotherapist in 1989. He teachers Insight (Vipassana) meditation and offers counseling and consultation for individuals, couples and organizations. In the last decade, Manny has been on several extended silent meditation retreats, and has practiced and been on pilgrimage in India, Tibet, Nepal, Burma and Thailand. For his entire adult life, Manny has been keenly interested in nurturing and facilitating the connections between transformative inner work such as meditation and therapy, relational practices based in skillful communication, development of wholesome community, and nonviolent social transformation.

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