Healing Body, Speech and Mind
Thursdays 7-8.15 pm MT Aug 27 to Sep 17; In Person in Cranbrook and Online via Zoom
Are you feeling out of touch with your body? Carrying tensions you can’t quite name? Struggling to express what you really feel—or even to know what you feel?
In these distracted, fragmented times—with too much screen time, too many demands, and not enough space—it’s easy to become disconnected. Our bodies hold stress we don’t notice. Our emotions go unexpressed. And underneath it all, unconscious beliefs quietly shape how we live.
Join us for a four-week evening series exploring a gentle, organic pathway to healing—moving from body, through emotions, to the deepest patterns of the mind.
No experience necessary—complete beginners welcome.
The Journey
Week 1: Healing the Body
It’s easy to live from the neck up. Our bodies carry the tension of our lives—stress, posture, rushing, worry—often without us realising. This first session invites us to come home to the body. Through simple, grounded practices, we’ll learn to reconnect with physical sensation, release what we’re holding, and rediscover the body as a place of refuge rather than something to manage.
Week 2: Healing Speech (Emotions)
Once we feel more settled in our bodies, we have space for what lives beneath the surface. Many of us were never taught how to acknowledge, process, or communicate our emotions. This session offers gentle approaches to emotional clearing and healing—inviting both deep honesty and self-compassion. We’ll explore how to feel fully without being overwhelmed, and how to allow acceptance where there has been resistance.
Week 3: Healing the Mind (Beliefs)
When our emotions become more peaceful, we can begin to see the deeper patterns—the mental views and beliefs that drive our stress and keep us stuck. Many of these are only partly conscious. This session brings gentle, penetrating awareness to these hidden structures, creating space for more liberating and life-giving beliefs to emerge.
Week 4: Integration and Practice
In our final session, we bring the three dimensions together. We’ll review the practices, address questions, and explore how to carry this healing work into daily life—not as a project to complete, but as an ongoing relationship with body, heart, and mind.
Details
Time: Thursdays, 7:00–8:15pm MT
Dates: August 27, September 3, 10, 17
In Person: Mountain View Therapeutics, 14A 13 Ave S #204, Cranbrook, BC V1C 2V3
Online option: join via Zoom; recordings available
Cost: Pay-from-the-heart (Dāna). Suggested range $20–50 per class. You are welcome regardless of what you are able to offer.
What to Expect
Each session includes:
- Guided meditation and embodiment practices
- Teaching grounded in Buddhist wisdom and 35+ years of practice
- Reflection and group dialogue
- Tools designed to carry into daily life
The atmosphere is warm and welcoming—come as you are.
Your Guide
Duncan Cryle has practiced meditation and Buddhist Dharma for over 35 years in the Namgyal lineage with Qapel and Catherine Sensei. He was a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004 and a resident since 2018. Duncan has been teaching for over 20 years—with Awaken in Toronto, Despertando no Brasil (“Awakening in Brazil”), and through Clear Sky’s Integrating Mindfulness program. Through the intense work of living in intentional community—navigating conflict, collaboration, and collective decision-making—he’s learned firsthand what it takes to heal and to stay whole in fragmented times. He also spent many years in senior business roles pioneering workplace mindfulness, and now consults with nonprofits and mission-driven organisations on building mindfulness, resilience, and trust.
