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St. Joseph Family Center to offer meditation classes

By: Tracy Simmons

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February 11, 2015

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St. Joseph Family Center will be offering meditation classes later this month.

According to an announcement, attendees can learn the art of meditation and how to integrate the benefits of mindfulness into every day life.

Classes will be Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 24 and continuing through March 31. Each class will include a meditation on compassion, a short reading or quote, dialogue around the reflection and how to implement the lessons of the evening in one’s personal life. Class will end with a silent or guided meditation, according to the announcement.

Participants are invited for all any, or all evenings and all levels of meditation experience are welcome.

Cost is $10 per class or six classes for $50. Registration can be done online.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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