Dr. Mary Gehring Rees
Mary Rees, PhD, a contemplative phenomenologist, is a graduate of Saybrook University in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry (PII) with specializations in Creativity Studies and Consciousness, Spirituality, and Integrative Health. She has been practicing contemplative awareness since 1975 and teaching contemplative practices and philosophies since 1989. Her focus now is not on how to meditate but on bringing meditation and contemplative awareness into all life experience. She is researching and consulting in creativity processes, human potential, and subtle levels of consciousness.
Embodied awareness and relational practice are central in her work. Her programs facilitate individual and group discovery processes with a focus on awareness of embodied consciousness, relational mindfulness, and emergent knowing. She is an independent researcher participating in initiatives for enhancing wisdom and integrity in ourselves and in scientific, academic, and other communal ventures.
In 2004 Mary published Being Prayer, a book about learning to live on the vital edge of unfolding experience based on her work and experience and a spiritual director/companion and dharma teacher. Her dissertation expands on that theme, moving into scientific focus: The Moment of Creation: A Meta-Model for Opening to Emergent Knowing in Science (2019).
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Courses and Retreats offered on dana basis: 1989 - present