Vinny Ferraro has been practicing meditation since 1993. He has studied with several renowned spiritual teachers including Ajahn Sumedho and the Dalai Lama. In 1998, he spent a year sitting bedside with the dying through the San Francisco Zen Center Hospice Program, as well as experiencing "A Year to Live" practice (based on the book by Stephen Levine). He has taught meditation to incarcerated youth and adults and is currently the head trainer for MBA, The Mind Body Awareness Project. Vinny also leads workshops for youth in schools internationally for a non-profit organization called Challenge Day. He is a Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader and has been teaching the weekly Friday night insight meditation group Urban Dharma in San Francisco since 2004.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of why it's so hard to bring the love home to ourselves
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We look at the different doorways that we enter the dharma through and reflect on what would be a stretch for us personally.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore the essential nature of love and how it makes all things possible.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We explore the power of perspective. To give shape to our experience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sitting with the cost of not forgiving and the opportunity to do something different in this moment.