De Meditatie Podcast van Meditatie.Amsterdam

Deze periode van onzekerheid en snelle veranderingen vraagt om 'her-stellen'. Repositioneren. Je weg vinden. De omstandigheden van het nu vraagt om aanpassing, tijdelijk of voor sommige dingen wellicht voorgoed.  Dat optimaal te kunnen doen vraagt om innerlijke rust, helderheid en balans. Precies waar meditatie je naartoe brengt. Over hoe dat werkt en hoe dat te doen, gaat deze opname. ...

Today's podcast is a live recording of one of my meditation evenings and today you will find out more about how to get started with meditation, what different kinds of meditations are, what makes meditation different from an exercise and what posture you should meditate in. A lot of useful info to get you started. And if you are more experienced already, a good refresher and maybe some new in...

Today we go back a bit to when I had my live meditation evening, which I hope to continue quickly now when things normalise again with the Corona situation. In this meditation evening, we dove deeper into the subject of meditation and emotions. How can practicing meditation help you with handling your emotions better and being less tossed around and taken over by them, is a relevant subject right...

Deze periode van Corona kenmerkt zich door sociaal afstand te bewaren. Een mooie metafoor voor wat we met meditatie leren ten aanzien van onze emoties en gedachten. Niet om ze te verdringen of vermijden, maar om ze beter te kunnen waarnemen en begrijpen. Meer daarover en een daarop gerichte meditatie in deze podcast.

Meditatie heeft zeer veel en uiteenlopende positieve effecten, wat al tientallen eeuwen blijkt uit de praktijk en ook bevestigd wordt door modern wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Wat is jouw doel om te mediteren? Wat is het dat jij hoopt te verkrijgen door jezelf mentaal te trainen met meditatie? Helderheid hierover hebben heeft een aantal voordelen en daarover gaat deze aflevering van de podcast vanda...

This podcast part of my free Corona toolkit, which you can find at https://meditatie.amsterdam/en/covid-19-2/  From what I hear and see around me and experience in my own life right now, these times of physical distancing and till 11. of May the closed schools and childcare, are extra challenging for kids and mainly the parents. Next to their own job, often from home now, they have to manage their...

Deze podcast is onderdeel van mijn gratis Corona toolkit., die je kunt vinden op https://meditatie.amsterdam/covid-19/  Van wat ik hoor en zie om me heen en ervaar in mijn eigen leven met een dochter van bijna drie op dit moment, zijn deze tijden van fysieke afstand en tot 11 mei gesloten scholen en kinderopvang, extra uitdagend voor de kinderen, en zeker de ouders. Naast hun eigen werk, dat ze nu...

Especially in these insecure times, our moods and how we feel can change quickly. And we can select or choose a meditation that specifically fits that every time again. Thats where I built my Corona toolkit for. But is it useful always? That question will be answered in this podcast.  And the guided meditation will let you experiment with how to use different aspects of your attention to aim it at...

This podcast is part of my free Corona toolkit, which you can find at https://meditatie.amsterdam/en/covid-19/ This podcast I created for people that have the Corona virus and the meditation is tested and got positive feedback of people that actually went through this and had problems with their lungs and were short of breath. This meditation probably won't work for everybody but does for man...

Deze podcast in onderdeel van mijn gratis Corona toolkit, die je kunt vinden op https://meditatie.amsterdam/covid-19/ Deze podcast heb ik gemaakt voor mensen die ziek zijn van het Corona virus en de meditatie is gecreëerd in overleg met en met feedback van mensen die dit hebben doorgemaakt en problemen met de longen en benauwdheid hebben gehad. De meditatie zal niet voor iedereen werken, maar voor...

Deze podcast is onderdeel van mijn gratis Corona toolkit., die je kunt vinden op https://meditatie.amsterdam/covid-19/ In de huidige omstandigheden kan ik het belang van een sterk immuunsysteem niet vaak genoeg benadrukken. Want of je ziek wordt van het Corona virus en in welke mate, wordt beïnvloed door hoe sterk je immuunsysteem is, het vermogen van je lichaam om er tegen te vechten. Het is niet...

In these times I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to have a good functioning immune system. Because if you become ill and how strong the symptoms will be, is influenced by the 'fitness' of your immune system. That determines how strong your body is to fight the virus. It is for a reason that mainly the older, sick and weak part of the population, is where it leads for the bigg...

In this new episode of my meditation evening online, I will go deeper into how beneficial it is to do your meditation practise regarding the challenging times that come in everybodies life. Why it is, as Jon Kabat Zinn said it, important to work on your parachute before you need to open it.  Because it is often more challenging to meditate in restless times and to keep a routine when your daily sc...

The governement emphasises the importance of social distancing and isolation right now and that can be very challenging. We are for the most used to being externally focused. To be confronted with your inner world, especially now in times of restlesness, can be all but easy.   This episode and guided meditation is aimed to help you with that.

In this time where the COVID-19 virus is affecting our lives and state of mind, I want to contribute with some extra meditations to keep your system optimally calm, fit and engaged. This episode of my regular meditation evening I recorded at home and want to share openly to anybody that might benefit from it.  I hope it helps you as well and wish you all the best.

There is a lot of info out there about the corona virus and I am not an expert, a medical specialist or scientist. As a meditation trainer I can add something useful to the topic that is covering the worldwide news right now though and hope to help in reducing the chances of having this, or any form of flu-ish diseases at all. Meditation can not only help by reducing the stress and worries around...

This edition of my weekly meditation evening, we dove into the subject of the probably biggest distraction during your meditation session: thoughts. What to do with them? Can we stop them? How do we make sure that they don't ruin our practice? The answer to these and more questions you will find in this episode, in which I also answer a question about what meditation can do for (social) anxie...

No, it is not airy-fairy! :-) Of all the different 'meditation objects' or things you can focus on during your meditation, one of my favorites is energy. Something that we all work with on a daily basis and can't see but can experience. Meditation is an ideal way to discover it. In this episode you will learn how this is all but airy-fairy and energy is very concrete and recognisabl...

Sounds and noise are one of the hardest things to deal with during your meditation. You can shut your eyes, but not your ears. In this live recording of my weekly meditation evening, I go deeper into how to deal with noise and unwanted sounds during your meditation. You will learn how they can be less of a distraction and even help during your session. There is of course also a guided meditation t...

This is a live recording of one of my workshops and here I go deeper into how meditation fits perfectly in our daily life and modern society and it helps to deal with stress and mental overstimulation. Meditation realy can become your daily mini holiday if you do it right and how that works, you can find out in this episode. The sound quality is a bit less than I normally want to present my podcas...

Are meditation and religion linked? How do they go together? Find out in this episode.  In this live recording of my meditation evening you will of course also find a guided meditation again. For more info about meditation and live training, go to https://meditatie.amsterdam/ . Here you will also find the info about my weekly meditation evening if you would like to attend it.

Meditation practice is most commonly done on a meditation pillow. It is not restricted to that though. In this episode of my podcast there is a meditation on the bike. Try it yourself! Do you prefer this meditation in Dutch? Go to my website at https://meditatie.amsterdam/meditatie/audio-meditatie/. You will find the Dutch version here as well. Enjoy!

In deze aflevering een live opname van een van mijn wekelijkse meditatie avonden. Tijdens deze interactieve avonden is er ruimte voor uitleg over meditatie, de achtergronden en uitdagingen en voor vragen vanuit de groep. Met praktische uitleg, tips en gerichte instructie worden de deelnemers op weg geholpen hun eigen beoefening verder te optimaliseren. Dit alles rond uiteraard een geleide meditati...

Yoga and meditation came to the Western world from Asia. They are close connected in philosophy and goals, but both have a different approach. What the overlap and differences are in my vision, I got into at the workshop I gave for a nice group of people at Sento in Amsterdam at their venue for the international yoga day this year.  As always there wasn't just a talk and there was a practical...

In deze aflevering een live opname van een van mijn wekelijkse meditatie avonden. Tijdens deze interactieve avonden is er ruimte voor uitleg over meditatie, de achtergronden en uitdagingen en voor vragen vanuit de groep. Met praktische uitleg, tips en gerichte instructie worden de deelnemers op weg geholpen hun eigen beoefening verder te optimaliseren. Dit alles rond uiteraard een geleide meditati...