Course Description

Make a commitment today to join Cal Cates in a year-long exploration of life, authenticity, deep, spiritual decluttering and clarity inspired by Stephen Levine’s introspective book, A Year to Live.  

Spend November 2020 to November 2021 deeply connecting with what’s most important in your life. Loosen your attachment to things that don’t serve you. Forgive yourself and others and get down to the truth that none of us are guaranteed a single additional moment in this life.  Meditate, soften your resistance, create and wonder. 

Join your fellow humans for two meetings each month (one large group and one small), weekly writing prompts, inspired readings and the guidance and community to support you in living life as though each day is truly your last. 

You will be held by Cal and your classmates as you enter as fully as you’re able into a 12-month journey of discovery and greater freedom from the things that hold you back. Some of us may not even have a year to live. Now is the time. 

Course curriculum

    1. Course Description

    2. Getting Ready for A Year to Live

    3. About the instructor

    4. Participant Roster AYTL 2020-2021

    1. Soft Belly Meditation

    2. Fear Contemplation

    3. The Act of Dying Meditation

    4. Tara Brach's Sky-Like Mind meditation

    5. A Meditation on Life in the Body

    1. Meditation and Nature Practice: Month One

    2. Week 1: November 2-8 (Daily)

    3. Week 2: November 9-15 (Daily)

    4. What's a Reunion Group?

    5. Reunion Group Question prompts

    6. Week 3: November 16-22 (Daily)

    7. Week 4: November 23-29 (Daily)

    8. Poem #1: Monday, November 23

    9. Poem #2: Tuesday, November 24

    10. Poem #3: Wednesday, November 25

    11. Poem #4: Thursday, November 26

    12. Poem #5: Friday, November 27

    13. Poem #6: Saturday, November 28

    14. Poem #7: Sunday, November 29

    1. Month 2 Zoom Meeting

    2. Meditation and Nature Practice: Month Two

    3. December Reunion Group Prompts

    4. Week 5: November 30-December 6

    5. Week 6: December 7 & 8

    6. Week 6: December 9 & 10

    7. Week 6: December 11 & 12

    8. Week 6: December 13

    9. Week 7: December 14-20

    10. Week 8: December 21-27

    11. Week 9: December 28-January 3

    12. A Sidenote

    1. Meditation and Nature Practice: Month Three

    2. January Reunion Groups

    3. Month Three Zoom Meeting (sort of)

    4. Week 10: January 4

    5. Week 10: January 5 - 10 The Stone Ritual

    6. Week 11: January 11 - 17 What Forgiveness is not and The Steps

    7. Week 12: January 18-24 Tell the Story

    8. Week 13: January 25 - 31 Release and Renew

    1. Meditation and Nature Practice: Month Four

    2. February Group Meeting Video

    3. February reunion groups.pdf

    4. Week 14: Life Review

    5. Week 15: Life Review

    6. Week 16: Life Review Continued

    7. Week 17: Life Review

About this course

  • $120.00
  • 110 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Facilitator

Instructor & Executive Director Cal Cates

Cal has been teaching and developing curriculum for massage therapy courses focused on hospital-based practice, oncology massage and end of life care since 2007. Their experience in clinical practice in hospitals around the US has informed their teaching style greatly. Cal is clear that massage therapy is healthcare and feels a personal commitment to inviting students to consider themselves as integral to a whole person healing process. Their favorite thing about teaching healthcare providers is the ability to blend nerdiness and authenticity to create opportunities to be more effective, more human and more flexible.

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