InterPlay & Mindfulness

Connors John McConville and Chinh Nguyen

Oakland, CA

Second Wednesdays • 7:10 - 8:30 pm • Nov 9, Dec 14, Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 11, May 9

Every second Wednesday of the month, Chinh Nguyen and Connors McConville will lead a class exploring how the forms of InterPlay prepare and inform the body for sustained concentration, body-calm and inner peace.
The effects of InterPlay and Mindfulness help a person stay present and open to one''s immediate experience while preparing one''s heart and mind to take in the good.
Chinh has been a long time practitioner in the Plum Village, Soto Zen and Shambala traditions and Connors has been a long-time practitioner of Vipassana Meditation. Chinh and Connors are both Interplayers.

Cost: $15 or use your multiple class card

Registration/Information: Call the Body Wisdom Office at 510/465-2797 to register in advance. Participants welcome at the door as well.

Venue

InterPlayce

2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)

Oakland, CA 94612

www.interplay.org

InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways. Click here for a map.

Leaders

Connors John McConville

San Francisco, CA Connors (John) McConville, MDiv, LMFT, Certified InterPlay Leader

Connors McConville is a long time Interplayer and WING IT! member. He was certified as an Interplay Leader in 2000.

Connors has worked as a dance teacher, dance-maker and dance performer in the Bay Area (Shawl-Anderson Dance Center), Kolcata, India (Oxford Mission and USIS-Kolcata) and for a period of ten years in Bangkok, Thailand at the International School Bangkok and at Chulalongkorn University.

Connors is a somatic psychotherapist (MFC 47398), a spiritual director and a hospice spiritual care counselor. He sees private clients in San Francisco.

Connors was a Jesuit seminarian for 14 years. As part of that training he worked as a missionary in Thailand from 1974 – 1978 and formally studied Buddhism and Vipassana (meditation) at Wat Suan Dok in Chiangmai and Wat Bowonniwet Vihara in Bangkok.

Connors is a certified Thai Massage Therapist (Nuat Boran) having received over 500 hours of training in Thailand and a body alignment expert, having taught for a number of years with Lissa Renaud at the Actors’ Training Project in Oakland, CA.

Connors is presently creating a ballad opera for children with composer, John Craig Cooper, entitled Around the Greenwood Tree. The central theme is multileveled: a lesson in love and sacrifice, a lesson in making peace with enemies, and a lesson in environmental health & sustainability. Find more about the opera at http://www.paramitaproductions.org/

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Chinh Nguyen

Chinh Nguyen is an InterPlay Leadership Program graduate and has given his soul to InterPlay for a long time. He is part of the team playing with dirt and plants in the InterPlayce sidewalk garden and has been enjoying arranging flowers and greenery that come from it. Chinh studies Ikebana with Alice Tarkeshi at the San Francisco Shambala Center. He believes that flower arranging can be playful, satisfying and fun even if you haven't done much of it.

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