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Health and well-being company Humana Inc. will host a series of free community events starting in March at Tacoma Mall to educate Tacoma area residents on health and wellness.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
o 10 a.m.: Crafting: Laminated gratitude bookmarks
o 11 a.m.: Protein: Are you getting enough?
o 12 p.m.: Healthy snack demo: High-protein recipes
o 1 p.m.: Positive thinking: When life gives us lemons
o 2 p.m.: Bingo
Prajnaparamita is the female Buddha of profound wisdom. The empowerment is a blissful guided meditation through which we receive wisdom blessings directly from Prajnaparamita’s enlightened mind, empowering us to experience deep healing and real inner progress. In the empowerment and ensuing commentary, Gen Kelsang Wangpo will teach the Buddhist tantric practice known as self-generation. Applying this brief practice to our own life will draw us ever closer to the enlightened qualities of wisdom, love, compassion, and joy.
We all have the potential for these enlightened qualities. To fulfill our potential we need to develop profound wisdom that realizes the true nature of things. We also need to receive the inspiring blessings of the enlightened beings, the Buddhas. The meditations of this blessing empowerment will help us to transform in this meaningful way.
Typically we view ourselves in a very fixed way, relating to this sense of self as if it were our true nature. This view can make us feel that we can’t change, improve, or become a better person. Our limitations seem an intrinsic part of our nature (“it’s just who I am”).
Buddha’s teachings reveal that all our suffering and unhappiness arise because of this completely mistaken view. Following the profound wisdom we gain in the empowerment and corresponding self-generation practice we can discover our true nature and realize that the only limitations we have are the ones created by our minds of confusion. Our limitations are illusory and self-imposed. Training in Prajnaparamita’s wisdom clears this confusion, allowing us to discover and experience our true nature – an enlightened nature.
Everyone is welcome.
$55, pre-registration is available
Schedule:
Registration 9 – 10 am
Empowerment 10 am – 12 pm
Lunch 12 – 1:30 pm
Commentary 1:30 – 3:00 pm
Break 3:00 – 3:30 pm
Commentary with Practice of Yoga of Great Mother Prajnaparamita 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Health and well-being company Humana Inc. will host a series of free community events starting in March at Tacoma Mall to educate Tacoma area residents on health and wellness.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
o 10 a.m.: Crafting: Decorate picture frames
o 11 a.m.: Diabetes: Why sugar matters
o 12 p.m.: March birthday social
o 1 p.m.: Sugar: The not so sweet truth
o 2 p.m.: Bingo
Love is the supreme medicine. In Buddhism, love is a mind that wishes others to be happy, a mind that has immense good qualities, a mind that is perfected with practice both in and out of meditation. By relying on the instructions of the great Geshe Langri Tangpa, who explained how to easily train in loving-kindness, we will strive to improve our own experience of this supreme medicine.
Join us as we navigate the path that leads to personal and universal freedom and happiness. We will learn how to tap into our love, overcome obstacles to our love, and increase our capacity to love more deeply and broadly. We can all benefit from these teachings.
Everyone is welcome regardless of experience.
About the Event
Imagination is a powerful tool for visualizing desired outcomes. Imagining an assembly of Buddhas in what is called the Field of Merit gives us an opportunity to develop a unique relationship with these holy beings, bringing about extraordinary personal transformation. This practice is the basis of many Buddhist rituals for purifying negativity and accumulating positive energy, or merit. Come learn how to have meaningful and transformative experiences simply by developing the power of imagination.
This course, led by Gen Khedrub from Seattle and Gen Wangpo from Olympia, provides an opportunity to hear different perspectives on Buddha’s teachings and enjoy coming together with others in the Pacific Northwest community of Kadampas. Everyone is welcome to stay for the two-hour Offering to the Spiritual Guide practice that starts at 3:30pm.
About the Teachers
Gen Kelsang Khedrub, a Western Buddhist monk, is the Resident Teacher at Kadampa Meditation Center Washington in Seattle. He has been studying and practicing Kadampa Buddhism under Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s guidance for many years. His heartfelt teachings are presented with clarity and humor that make them accessible to everyone. Through his kindness, humility and deep understanding of Buddha’s teachings, Gen Khedrub provides an inspiring example of a contemporary Buddhist practitioner we can follow.
Gen Kelsang Wangpo is the Resident Teacher at Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Center in Olympia and Tacoma, and is a close disciple of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. He presents Buddha’s teachings with warmth and clarity and is appreciated for his loving kindness and his inspiring example of a modern Buddhist practitioner.
Cost
$35, includes a delicious vegetarian lunch ($20 for supporters of Kadampa Meditation Center WA and Tushita Kadampa Buddhist Center).
Retreat Schedule
Session 1 – 9:00-10:15am
Session 2 – 11:00am-12:15pm
Lunch – 12:30-1:30pm
Session 3 – 1:45-3:00pm
Offering to the Spiritual Guide – 3:30-5:30pm
You need to give blood. It’s been too long — just about a year, you think. You certainly have a pint to spare, a pint whose red cells will be replenished at the rate of 2 million EVERY SECOND.
The Cascade Regional Blood Services hosts a blood drive program titled “Give Blood Get Beer” — a program where if you donate a pint of blood you will receive a pint of beer. Cascade Regional Blood Services blood drives enable local restaurants and pubs to support our community’s blood supply in a unique and fun way. Peaks and Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop, and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District, will host A Give Blood Get Beer blood drive 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7.
But getting back to the Peaks and Pints’ point, you need to give, not just because you’re in the mood or because Cascade Regional Blood Services will give you a pint of beer at Peaks and Pints craft beer bar. No, you need to give because lives are on the balance awaiting your donation. Lest that sound like your blood is something special, it’s no more special than Peaks and Pints or your sister’s or the blood of the guy sitting next to at Peaks and Pints. But it’s blood, and it’s rich with possibility and with life. There’s no substitute for blood. If people lose blood from surgery or injury or if their bodies can’t produce enough, there is only one place to turn — volunteer blood.
Never given blood? Consider these tips. …
Drink a lot of water beforehand, and be sure to eat a healthy meal. Think iron-rich foods.
Talk. Peaks and Pints turns into quite the chatterbox when we give blood, probably because it takes our mind off liquid being siphoned from our veins. Bless the patient technicians, whom you’ll ask about their families, their jobs, the weather. We suggest you just start naming off the possible craft beer you’re going to drink at Peaks and Pints with your beer voucher.
Hang in the Blood RV as long as you need. Load up on those snacks. If you feel light-headed, tell someone.
Ready? There’s a sign-up sheet at Peaks and Pints, or just show up Sunday afternoon, April 7.
PEAKS AND PINTS GIVES A DAMN: GIVE BLOOD GET BEER, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, April 7, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, April 9
• 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. Walking group
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. SilverSneakers® fitness demos
• 10 a.m. Crafting: No-sew sock bunny
• 11 a.m. Habits of happy people, with Bradley Wooten
• 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Gratitude table: Brain games and coloring for relaxation
• Noon How Feelings Affect Food Choices, with Lori Hutson
• 1 p.m. Brain games
• 2 p.m. Healthy snack demo: Fruit parfait
This class is intended for all persons needing certification for Pediatric and/or Adult First Aid CPR and AED, and the one you need to respond to both Infant/Child and Adult Medical emergencies.
The Humana pop-up location will offer free health and wellness classes that are open to anyone in the community, such as healthy snack and smoothie demonstrations, crafting classes, diabetes education, and SilverSneakers® Fitness Program demonstrations. Customer service representatives will also be available to answer questions on Humana health plans.
Tuesday, April 23
• 8:15 – 9:15 a.m. Walking group
• 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. SilverSneakers® fitness demos
• 10 a.m. Crafting: Worry beads and stones
• 11 a.m. Nutrition: Gluten-free for me?
• 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Gratitude table: Brain games and coloring for relaxation
• Noon Healthy snack demo: No-bake gluten-free coconut almond bars
• 1 p.m. Birthday social
• 2 p.m. Bingo
DINE OUT. END HIV.
Join us for the 25th Anniversary of Dining Out For Life® in the South Puget Sound!
For a full list of participating restaurants: diningoutforlife.com/southsound
Dine out at one of the South Sound’s most generous restaurants and a portion of your bill will be donated to support people affected by HIV in our community. It’s the tastiest good deed you’ll do all year!
Enter to win the door prize a $500 Alaska Airlines gift certificate!
IG: instagram.com/diningoutforlife_southsound/
PCAF-WA.ORG
Where: Participating restaurants throughout the South Puget Sound
When: April 25th (all day)
Contact: wgalindo@pcaf-wa.org / 253-722-0711