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(Virtual Event) Meditation for Health and Wellness

Thursday, July 18 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join Dr. Matthew Raider for this fascinating workshop. Dr. Raider is a geriatrics physician with over 40 years of meditation experience, exploring and demonstrating the latest and most astonishing discoveries into the preventive, healing, and pain-relieving effects of meditation. He will teach a simple, yet effective meditation technique.  As a result of incorporating meditation into our lives many other health benefits are derived. The program will include a meditation sitting and questions and-answers

Presenter: Matthew Raider received his M.D. degree with honors from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1979. He had a clinical practice for 42 years during which time he was the medical director of several health care facilities in central CT. Dr. Raider has been active in teaching geriatric medicine and has helped coordinate the geriatrics curriculum for medical residents at Middlesex Hospital in CT. He still is actively involved in teaching residents, medical students and nurse practitioners. Dr. Raider has had a long interest in meditation going back over 50 years. He is also a contributing author to “Meditation as Medication for the Soul” by Rajinder Singh. Dr. Raider has a particular interest for the health benefits of meditation and he has lectured extensively in hospitals and libraries in the U.S. and Canada as well as at the United Nations fairly recently.

Please register; Zoom links will be sent out before the event.

Details

Date:
Thursday, July 18
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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AFPL Adult Programs
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860-673-9712 ext 4
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avonref@avonctlibrary.info
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