March Loving-Kindness Meditation & Reiki: A Monthly Offering for Compassion & Community
Mon, Mar 16
|Bradford
Evergreen Healing Arts | Guided by Tara Mahady & Micayla Jean | By Donation - Half of donations benefit the Kearsarge Food Hub’s Food Security Program
Time & Location
Mar 16, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Bradford, 11 W Main St, Bradford, NH 03221, USA
Guests
About the event
Loving-Kindness Meditation: A Monthly Offering for Compassion & Community
Evergreen Healing Arts | Guided by Tara Mahady| By Donation Half of donations benefit the Kearsarge Food Hub’s Food Security Program!
Once a month, we gather at Evergreen Healing Arts for a practice known as Metta, or Loving-Kindness Meditation, a form of meditation that dates back over 2,500 years to the time of the historical Buddha in ancient India.
In the earliest Buddhist texts, Metta is one of the qualities of heart cultivated for liberation: loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Metta Bhavana was taught as a method for dissolving fear, softening aversion, and expanding the field of care beyond the self to include all beings, regardless of kinship, belief, or background.
This is the meditation of friendliness, of offering goodwill... first to oneself, then gradually outward: to a loved one, a neutral person, someone we experience challenges with, and eventually, to all beings everywhere.
This ancient practice…