Published: Feb. 9, 2020

The Contemplative Resource Center (CRC) is a network of faculty, staff and students that links diverse initiatives across campus related to contemplative practices. The CRC facilitates opportunities for inner reflection and embodied experience to support holistic health and well-being, and resources for contemplative practices and pedagogy, community building and support on campus. Learn more about the Contemplative Resource Center.

Chill Time Healing Yoga

When: Every Tuesday 12-12:50pm, March 3-April 28
Where: CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Bldg.
Who: For faculty, staff and students at no charge.  Class is limited to 20 participants each day.  Come early to grab a spot

Come enjoy a yoga for everyone amongst the fossils at the CU Museum Paleontology Hall. Whether you are old, young, flexible, stiff, or “don’t do yoga”, this is a practice for you. A special opportunity for the CU community to be led on an inward journey into movements and poses designed to soothe the nervous system and stimulate your natural healing response.  Through deepening into awareness of sensation in the poses, you discover where in the body/mind there are blockages; where you may be blind.  Resting in these uncomfortable places reminds the nervous system that all is okay, bringing consciousness into the tissues of the body that need attention.  The body/mind remembers how to move in a way more in line with optimum function and more ease. Here there is no perfect pose, instead we adapt the pose in a way that does not excite the nervous system, allowing the natural healing power within to be awakened. Based on Kaiut yoga, this is a practice for the modern world. 

Please wear comfortable clothes (work clothes are fine as long as they have some flexibility, i.e. avoid skirts or tight pants) and bring a yoga mat if you can.

Facilitated by: Susanna Drogsvold

Register for Chill Time Healing Yoga 

If registration is full, please contact Susanna.Drogsvold@colorado.edu to discuss options for attending. 


Beginning Meditation with Tim Wadsworth

When: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM 
Where: UMC Room 386
Who: Open to Faculty, Staff and Students. 25 people per session.

Register for March 4th Session

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When: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM 
Where: UMC Room 417
Who: Open to Faculty, Staff and Students. 25 people per session.

Register for March 11th Session

Are you interested in experiencing the many benefits of meditation? This is a short class (2 sessions) for those looking for an introduction to or refresher class on Vipassana or Insight Meditation (one of the oldest forms of meditation in the Buddhist Tradition). No previous experience is necessary. While the class will include a little discussion of Buddhist Philosophy to put the practice in context it will be focused on secular techniques of meditation. 

Tim Wadsworth is a professor in the Department of Sociology and has been practicing meditation for over 30 years.