2:00 to 3:30 pm
CoreTraining: Building the Foundation for Meditative Living
with Dan Rotnem
In person and via Zoom
CoreTraining is a transformative program designed to help individuals develop self-mastery, emotional intelligence, and mental strength through purposeful living. The program features 12 practices–6 meditations and 6 mindfulness exercises—that blend ancient wisdom with modern psychological insights. Dan will lead a 90-minute hybrid session on the first Sunday of each month, focusing on a different CoreTraining practice. This system empowers you to unlock your highest potential and navigate life’s challenges with clarity, purpose, and authenticity.
CoreTraining suits people seeking to integrate spiritual growth with emotional intelligence and practical life skills. Its focus on identity, co-creation, and transformative practice creates a system that supports stress reduction, self-transcendence, and comprehensive personal growth and empowerment.
The twelve practices are divided into six modules, each containing one meditation and one mindfulness practice. Each practice is effective on its own and can be engaged with by beginners and advanced students alike. You do not need to attend all sessions to “keep up” or benefit.
Participation in all sessions is not required.
April 6, 2025:
Choosing
Trailheads is a transformative mindfulness exercise that helps you break
free from reactive patterns and make intentional choices in the face of
impulses. In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll explore how thoughts, emotions,
and impulses drive your behaviors and learn to identify whether these impulses
align with your highest values. Through mindful awareness, you’ll practice
allowing impulses to arise without immediately acting on them, giving you the
space to assess whether they are skillful or unskillful. This process empowers
you to step out of automatic responses—like impulsive speech or
defensiveness—and choose actions that align with who you want to be. By the end
of the session, you’ll have practical tools to navigate life’s challenges with
clarity and purpose, helping you to choose the right “trailhead” every time.
Join us to transform your responses and unlock the power of conscious
decision-making.
The Zoom link will be provided prior to the program to all those registered and from whom we have received payment.
Dan Rotnem is a mindfulness teacher, dharma teacher, and master martial artist who guides people to transform their lives through self-awareness, emotional mastery, and purposeful living. His goal is to make his teachings practical, relatable, accessible, and life-changing for everyone. Dan combines ancient wisdom, from Alchemy to Zen, with modern ideas from psychology, neuroscience, and somatics. He has a BA and MA in Chinese from The Ohio State University, a BA in Metaphysics, and is working on a Ph.D. at the University of Sedona. Dan created CoreTraining and is writing a new Dao De Jing translation and commentary called Weaving the Way.
Registration:
If you would like to register for this or any of our programs, there are several easy ways to do so.
You may:
• click the "Register" link located at the bottom of this page
• call 724-964-8886 to speak with a member of our friendly staff
• complete and mail a printable registration form along with your payment to:
Villa Maria Education and Spirituality Center
2067 Evergreen Road
P.O. Box 424
Villa Maria, PA 16155
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