Let's Practice Together with Carol Cano - August 10, 2025
Description
Let’s Practice Together
Seeing Clearly, Resting Deeply: Contemplating the 32 Body Parts with a Tranquil Breath
with Carol Cano
Sunday, August 10th from 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
About the Session:
These times call for us to expand our individual and collective capacity to navigate uncertainty, instability, and complexity. By practicing deeply together, we strengthen our ability to meet these challenges with resilience and presence.
This guided meditation blends the calming breath of Ānāpānasati with the traditional reflection on the 32 parts of the body. Beginning with the fourth step of breath meditation—tranquilizing the bodily formation—we allow the breath to soften the body, quiet the nervous system, and ease the mind into stillness.
From this spacious presence, we gently contemplate the body—not as self, but as a collection of natural elements. This practice reveals the impermanence and impersonal nature of the body, helping release attachment and fostering inner clarity.
Held in compassion, the session closes by radiating kindness to ourselves and all beings who share this human experience.
Ideal for those seeking stillness, insight, and a deeper connection to the truth of the body.
About the Series:
Throughout 2025, we will gather one Sunday a month online as a community of curious practitioners to explore the timeless wisdom of the Buddhadharma and mindfulness/Insight meditation. In each session, we will cultivate presence, deepen our meditation practice, and engage in shared reflections and inquiry. Together, we cultivate a collective heart-mind-body—a living, interconnected field—spacious enough to hold and transform whatever life brings our way.
Let's Practice Together offers a space for meaningful dialogue—an opportunity to ask questions, explore personal and collective experiences, and learn from one another. We welcome sincere and committed practitioners of all levels and backgrounds to join us on this collective path of discovery and connection.
Sessions will be recorded and shared with all registrants. During the session, practitioners who don't wish to be recorded may offer their questions and reflections in the chat.
Dates for 2025:
Sundays from 10:00 - 11:30 am PT
August 10
September 7
October 12
November 16
December 7
Reciprocity Contribution:
We gratefully welcome donations of any amount that feels meaningful to you. Your donation at registration directly supports Braided Wisdom's ability to continue cultivating spaces of healing, learning, and collective care. Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability to contribute.
Additionally, we invite you to engage in sacred reciprocity with our dear teacher Carol by offering dana, a gift of heartfelt generosity in gratitude for her wisdom, which supports her continued sustainability and helps keep these ancient, liberatory teachings alive.
Carol would like to donate her dana to Braided Wisdom. If you would like to send dana, you can use this link.
Setting the Container:
We request participants attend the whole program to respect the container of the group and the teacher.
At Braided Wisdom, we strive to cultivate an online space that supports connection, presence, and collective care. While we invite participants to have their cameras on to help nurture a sense of community, we wholeheartedly honor that there are many reasons someone may choose otherwise. We encourage you to meet yourself where you are, and if any needs arise around this, you’re warmly invited to reach out to us at info@braidedwisdom.org.
Please note, there is a possibility the session may go over 15 minutes. It would be great if you can stay, and we understand if you need leave at 11:30 am PT.
About Carol Cano
Founder / Executive Director / Lead Teacher
Carol Cano, M.A., began her practice over 30 years ago at Wat Kow Tahm in Thailand and has actively engaged in building communitites and teaching Dharma internationally. She is a Teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a core teacher and former board member of East Bay Meditation Center. Carol co-founded Philippine Insight Meditation Community in the Philippines.
Her unique teachings are deeply grounded in Basque, Native American and Buddhist influences that braid the Dharma along with Indigenous wisdom and Earth-based practices. Her psychology background gives her a unique view into the human condition, which helps her hold community in a compassionate and confident manner. Carol reminds us to keep grounded in our hearts as we uphold spiritual ideals and encourages us to remain balanced within the demands of modern life.
Nimali Jayasinghe
Moderator
Zoom Link:
An email with the Zoom Link will be sent out the day before, the morning of, and five minutes prior to the program beginning. Please search for info@braidedwisdom.org and check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the Zoom Link.
You will need to sign-in to your Zoom account before clicking the zoom link, and be sure the name on your zoom proflie is the same one you used to register for the program. We can only admit those who are on our attendance list. Thank you for understanding.
This program registration is for the Let's Practice Together - Seeing Clearly, Resting Deeply: Contemplating the 32 Body Parts with a Tranquil Breath with Carol Cano, Sunday, August 10 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (Pacific Time).
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.