A four-week meditation course
An Introduction to Mindfulness and Insight Meditation
If your life runs on doing, doing, doing, and part of you wonders whether there's more, this is your invitation to pause. Over four Saturday afternoons you'll learn simple, grounded mindfulness and Insight meditation practices to settle the mind, befriend your feelings and reconnect with the joy of simply being. No experience needed. Come as you are.
You are a human being, not a human doing.
Four weeks to slow down, reconnect with your heart, and rediscover the joy of simply being.
Who it's for
For busy, driven, often tired people who want calm, and meaning too. Maybe you've tried an app that didn't stick. You don't need to be spiritual, flexible or calm to begin.
Please commit to all four weeks: each one builds on the last.
Come as you are.
Come and sit with us. Let the heart practices, forgiveness and living the practice in daily life deepen what you already know.
Let's practise together. Allow me to nourish you.
The lineage
The practices in this course come from Insight meditation (vipassana), part of the Theravada tradition of Buddhism, one of the oldest living lineages of meditation. They're offered in plain, everyday language, for people of any belief or none.
Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, two of the most respected teachers of Insight meditation in the West, lead the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), the two-year training I've been part of.
Your teacher
My working life has been shaped by many years of structured professional training and rigorous thinking. I bring that same care into my meditation practice and teaching: clear foundations, honest inquiry, and depth you can trust.
I grew up with another kind of medicine too: embodied practices of caring for our health, our family and our community, tending our qi, and using Chinese medicine to bring body and spirit into balance.
In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, I turned to meditation to recover from burnout. I stayed because of the joy and wisdom of the practice. It has completely changed how I live my life, and I've come to see that how we live, and everything we do, must be rooted in the heart. I hope to share that with you.
I've trained as a meditation teacher with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP), and I'm completing my certification with this course. I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training at Trika Kula Ashram, which generously hosts us, with Nataraj and Vishnudev, whose teachings are rooted in the Siddha Yoga lineage of Bhagawan Nityananda and in the meditation teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
I know what it is to run on doing. I'd be honoured to sit with you as we find our way back to being.
The journey
We begin by settling into breath and body, open gently toward the heart, and finish by carrying the practice into everyday life. Each week builds on the last.
Arrivingsettling in
Feelingmeeting emotions with kindness
Tendinglistening to the heart
Living ittaking it home
Not every session will feel calm, and that's part of the practice. Whatever arises is welcome.
At the heart of the practice
It opens in moments of love and wonder, and it tightens around grief, fear and loss. Neither is wrong. This is simply how a living heart moves.
Here we practise staying present through both. Instead of bracing against pain or pushing difficult emotions away, we meet them with kindness. We breathe with them, and we let them be felt.
Each time we stay with what is hard, the heart learns it can hold a little more. Over time it grows spacious enough to hold deeper sorrow, and deeper joy, gratitude and abundance too.
So come as you are, and let yourself feel all of it. No feeling is unwelcome here.
Beyond the cushion
In ways you haven't before: a kinder inner voice, with body, mind and heart coming back together.
Being here for your life as it happens: ordinary moments feel richer, with a little space before you react.
Hard emotions come and go without taking over the day.
Rest as recovery, and fuel for your body and soul. Permission to simply be.
When your own cup is full, you have more to give the people you love.
More focus and effectiveness, and more creative ways through problems.
Everyone's experience is different. Four weeks is a beginning, and these changes grow with a steady daily practice, even ten minutes a day.
A Saturday session
Your contribution
This is a four-week journey, and the group stays the same throughout so trust can grow. With 8 places in the room and a small online group, the circle closes after the first session.
$350
in person, for the full four-week course. $250 online.
If you'd like to give more, it helps keep concession places open
Work exchange
In person only: about 10 hours at the ashram across the course, in place of payment. Two places, and it goes directly to the ashram. Get in touch to arrange.
$200
concession in person, $150 online. For students, people on low income and carers.
Not sure yet?
Come to the first session. If it's not for you, let me know within 48 hours and I'll refund three-quarters of your contribution.
Families, or if cost is a barrier, please get in touch. Your contribution supports my teaching and the ashram that generously hosts us.
Questions
Yes. The course is designed for complete beginners.
That's normal, and welcome. You can sit, lie down or move. Learning to be with a busy mind is part of the practice.
No. Insight meditation comes from Buddhism, and it's taught here in plain, everyday language. Come as you are, whatever your beliefs.
Yes. Every session runs live, in the room and online at the same time. The address and joining link will be sent to your inbox when you book.
Mostly no. Our sessions include personal sharing, and we keep the space private. As part of my meditation teacher certification, I'll record about 30 minutes of one session: my teaching and a guided meditation, with the camera on me. Group sharing is never recorded, the recording is only for my teacher trainers, and I'll ask for your consent beforehand. You're welcome to sit out of view, or keep your camera off online.
The course is four weeks together, and the circle closes after the first session so trust can grow. Not sure yet? Come to the first session, and if it's not for you, let me know within 48 hours for a 75% refund. Already have a practice and would like to join for part of the course? Please get in touch.
In person: $350 for the full course, or $200 concession for students, people on low income and carers. Online: $250, or $150 concession. Two in-person work-exchange places are available: about 10 hours of volunteering at the ashram across the course. If you book in person and need to join online for a week, the price stays the same. Families, or if cost is a barrier, please get in touch.
They may, and that's welcome. We meet them gently and at your own pace. You can always pause, open your eyes or step out, and there's time after each session to talk.
Four weeks is a beginning. The practice keeps unfolding long after the course ends.
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