The Meditation Course Podcast

Mindful Communication stems from mindful listening. Mindful listening is opening our awareness to all sounds, language or otherwise. Learn more in this recording of a live guided meditation class.

A ten-minute talk and 30 minutes of meditation is the first full class of the Avoiding Burnout series I’m currently teaching in my in-person Meditation classes.

This is a class on Meditating on Emptiness. You may have heard about meditating on emptiness. Or you may have experienced it. Meditating on emptiness is a key part of Buddhist practice and is something that every meditator experiences at some point on their meditative journey.

In this class, I outline a strategy for those struggling to find the time, energy and focus for a regular sitting meditation practice.

A sleep meditation of Yoga Nidra, which is the ancient Yogic practice of exploring meditation and sleep. Yoga Nidra is often taught as a body scan that helps you drift off. More appropriately, it is an exploration of sleep states.

My meditations of Yoga Nidra, which is the ancient Yogic practice of exploring meditation and sleep. Yoga Nidra is often taught as a body scan that helps you drift off. More appropriately, it is an exploration of sleep states.

In this 40-minute meditation session I guide practices that help us to recover our mental energy.

A talk on recovering mental energy

In this live recorded guided meditation class, I explain how our energy can be drained from us and how we need to build boundaries that stop our energy from being depleted.

An explanation of how mindfulness brings happiness and some guided mindfulness meditations to support the training.

”Unfortunately, it is a bit of a binary thing. Either you develop the skills to recover your attention from the largely unwanted and unhelpful, repetitive, persistent thought patterns. Or you become a slave to a narrative that you’ve adopted in your mind.”

Learn how to use the Breath to intervene in the persistent, repetitive and unhelpful mind loops.

This is the second class I taught on imposter syndrome in September 2022. Imposter Syndrome is not feeling good enough for something you are qualified for through experience or knowledge. Imposter syndrome is almost universal. In this class, I explain what Imposter Syndrome it comes about and which practices we can use to neutralise it.

The neutral spot meditation is an ancient practice designed to help meditators to sit with uncomfortable emotions and, over time, become comfortable with them.

This is an introduction to Stress Management, Resilience and Mindfulness.

In this class we explore the fundamentals of connection with questions and practices designed to answer them.

Guided meditation class on the topic of Presence, Mindfulness and Resilience. Presence is our natural state of calm awareness. We must train our minds to experience it with mindfulness meditation.

I explain how using the foundational meditation technique of focusing on the breath works to build our resilience. We then practice following the breath and we also do two noting practices that are essential mental training to build resilience.

Interoception is the sense of the internal state of the body. High interception is associated with high resilience in a number of studies. Key meditation practices help us build interoception and therefore, resilience. Talk and Meditations.

An exploration of the nature of change in the modern world and a journey into opening our awareness in meditation.

Now is the time to learn resilience. ”Don’t wait until you are about to jump out of the plane to weave your parachute!” - Jon Kabat-Zinn.

In which Robert introduces the listeners to the present moment and the connection thereof through a portal. Robert also describes the process of being drawn into the narratives that saturate our lives in the modern world. Robert then teaches the practices that help us to become aware of the process of being drawn into these narratives.

From a class taught on Sunday, the 29th of June 2022.   In this class, I investigate thought and I teach Eckhart Tolle's Inner Body Meditation from his book, The Power of Now.

Session 1of the Understanding the Mind Series starts at the foundation of our experience. The Witness of our mind and our experience

Understanding Stress is the first class in the 7 Steps to Resilience and Stress Management Series. This class was taught today in Bromley. I am running this series as a free one-week online event to support #stressawarenessmonth in the UK.