On October 19 from 1 to 5pm, Meditation Sampler: An Experiential Half-Day Retreat will be led by Deanne Mincer and Beth Prins Leas in West Redding. The workshop is an exploration of meditation that will provide you with tools to make positive changes in your meditation practice and your life.

This half-day retreat at the The Redding Center for Meditation is designed for everyone from the avid meditator to the novice and anyone in between. Mincer and Leas will combine their more than 70 years of meditation experience to lead a day filled with meditation in many forms, including mindfulness, chanting, walking, laughing, mantra meditation, whirling, sleeping meditation (yoga nidra), and even a chocolate meditation. The workshop is $75 per person.

Deanne Mincer, a teacher, author, energy healer, meditator and mystic, will soon release her CD, “Divine Love: A Unique Yoga Nidra Experience,” and her book, The 52. Beth Prins Leas, the founder and director of the Total Life Care Center in Norwalk, has been a healer, teacher, meditator, tarot reader and writer for over 2 decades.

Location: The Redding Center for Meditation, 9 Picketts Ridge Rd, West Redding. For more information, email [email protected] or call 203-856-9566. To register, visit BethLeas.com/Retreats.html. See ad, page 19 and Community Resource Guide listing, page 75.