Introduction to Meditation
Event Details
Online
8th Jan – 26th Feb 2025
7pm – 8:30pm, every Wednesday
FREE
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Introduction to Meditation
Get 2025 off to the perfect start with our New Year Series, starting 8th January, online.
For the New Year we are going virtual and doing our signature 8 week series online. Once you register for the series you will get an email the day before class with the Zoom link for that week’s session. The sessions will be recorded, and after being edited to remove any personal information of those who attended live, the recording will be made available online until the following week.
In addition – and this is part of the benefit of doing this online, we are going to post a new meditation every morning at 8am. Many of these will be live if you can join, or available online soon after it ends. They will vary in length, starting relatively short at around 15-20 minutes, but by the end of the series they may stretch to around 30 minutes. These will stay around for 24 hours only.
Practical – It’s more than just stress relief
We know that most people come to meditation just to feel a bit better. The world is increasingly stressful and often overwhelming. Record numbers of people are looking for mental health options. Meditation can help. With a 30 second practice we can help you start to feel better.
BUT – we also believe meditation is much more than just a relaxation device. It can help every aspect of your life. Health, happiness, career, academics, athletics, relationships, creativity, joy, love, clarity, focus, concentration and much, much more are all improved. Do yourself a favour for 2025. Don’t make some lame New Year’s Resolution that won’t stick. Commit instead to come along to this eight week course and learn something that will stay with you forever. Oh yes, and by the way, it’s FREE.
Come to one of them, all of them, or as many as you can make. If you’ve never meditated before and you come to the fifth class, you’ll be fine. Nevertheless, the classes do build on each other so the more you come to, the more you’ll get out of it.
What to Expect
Many meditation classes basically invite you to sit down, watch your breath, tell you to return your attention to the breath when you get distracted. And then they let you sit with that for twenty years to try to work it out.
We don’t do that.
Our approach is different because we go into the detail. You’ll know precisely what you’re trying to do and how to do it.
We are going to help you see how your mind works, explain why it works that way, why sometimes it works for you but often it works against you, and then how and why meditation can help you develop a new relationship with your own mind.
We aren’t religious, though we are borrowing from all the world’s contemplative traditions in finding techniques that work.
Our philosophy is what we call ‘real world meditation’. That is to say that we’re not dogmatic about a style or tradition. We’re going to cover many different types of meditation with a view to the practical benefits for modern life, in the real world.
The goal is to help you find the best meditation practice for you. Something you like, you find easy enough, and that you can come back to, on your own, whenever you want or need it.
