when we’re experiencing dukkha meditation can be the last thing we want to do. but it’s those moments when meditation can be most transformative.

The format of this workshop is very simple:

We’ll try out 3 different meditations, each around 20 mins.

Welcoming all experience -

All kinds of thoughts, sensations, and feelings will arise. Some we won’t want to experience, yet that resistance and rejection can strengthen those painful feelings. In the first meditation, we’ll create as safe a space as possible to welcome everything that’s happening.

Recognising the struggle -

Worry and anxiety are part of our day-to-day experience. Life is uncertain, and amid that uncertainty, there’s a struggle going on between our worst fears and our greatest hopes. Anxiety is the natural outcome. Just recognising the existential situation we are in can be liberating.

Relaxing the struggle -

Uncertainty is not a problem that needs to be solved, and anxiety, our response to that uncertainty, is not the enemy. When we commit to facing uncertainty, we can practice being more and more comfortable with the openness of life.

A note on anxiety: these meditations are ways of working with human, existential, anxiety of the sort we all experience. Extreme anxiety can also have hormonal or neurological causes, in which case these meditations might not be appropriate.

The workshop takes place on Zoom and we’ll spend most of the time meditating, so set up a comfortable seat.

I’ll share the recording afterwards so that you can revisit the meditations. If you sign up and can’t make it, you’ll get the recording too, but do be there live to practice with us if you can.

Cost £5.00 - drop me a line for a free code if money is tight.