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A Contemplative Focusing-oriented Zoom Gathering
March 15, 1:00 – 1:30 pm EST
with Ellen Korman Mains
author of the award-winning memoir
Buried Rivers: A Spiritual Journey into the Holocaust
To the chagrin of her parents—Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust—Ellen became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart. Decades later, on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, an experience on a German train sent her on a series of life-changing journeys to Poland to explore the meaning of basic goodness after the Holocaust, and her own family history. January 27, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and 15 years since that 2005 train ride.
As nationalism and other threats increase around the planet, how do we acknowledge and hold space for an event as monumental as the Holocaust? Is healing possible? As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, Ellen will offer some personal and historical context for this gathering, including her journey since January of 2005. This gathering will include a guided meditation to help us connect with grounded presence, to create an environment of safety, and to invite ancestral support. Breakout groups will allow us to share our direct experience.
“We, the living, are the body of our ancestors, and in our bodies we carry all the tears they could not cry during their lifetimes. And when we allow their tears to be cried through us, something is being made whole between the generations . . .”
-The Tears of the Ancestors: Victims and Perpetrators in the Tribal Soul, by Daan van Kampenhout
“If we go underneath the overwhelming emotions and touch into physical sensations, something quite profound occurs in our organism—there is a sense of flow, of “coming home.”
-In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma & Restores Goodness by Peter Levine
Please join us!
Email EllenKormanMains@gmail.com to RSVP and receive the Zoom link.
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