The Meditation Course Podcast

These are the real-life skills you need to practice if you want to get back your mind and your life.

This class is a collection of short and easy to learn tweaks and practices that will help us to regulate our stress.

There *is* a difference between what we perceive and what we believe. It is easily demonstrable with some simple exercises that we will do today. The modern Mind is enslaved by the thoughts that result from how you feel. Learn how to break the cycle...

All of humanity is now part of a global Consumer Society. This all comes with a cost. The cost is the loss of Happiness and Connection. In this class, I explain how this happens and offer a personal solution through meditation and the daily practice of awareness.

In this class, taught in person in Bromley, I explain how Mindfulness Meditation differs from the most popular meditation practices. I then teach some practices designed to help us sit when we are feeling emotionally uncomfortable.

In this meditation-only episode, I teach three practices for recovering depleted energy.

What is Self-Care? What is Mindfulness? How does Mindfulness help us to care for ourselves to support us in helping others? In this class, I teach some very basic meditations from the perspective of supporting our self-care.

How meditation can help us to become closer to the reality of our experience.

A short (five minute) talk on mindfulness and compassion and 25 minutes of gratitude meditation. A class from the meditation course at https://meditationcourse.live.

In this class i discuss the healing process then teach some Present Moment practices that are regenerative meditations.

This is a combination of the most frictionless ways to experience the passage of the present moment combined in a single meditation. Taught in the Sunday evening meditation class on 5 September 2021 of The Meditation Course at https://meditationcourse.live.

An Appreciation Meditation from our Sunday evening meditation class on 29 August 2021.

In this class I explain how important compassion and self-compassion are to personal growth and recovery and teach compassion and gratitude meditations that enhance compassion in our minds and lives.

Either you use technology, or its uses you. In this class, I cover some benefits of technology for meditators and show how our basic mindfulness meditation practices can help us to re-focus our attention away from the on helpful narrative that the media wants us to subscribe to.

In this class I explain how important it is in our modern world, and for our modern minds, to learn how to calm the mind. I teach some light touch inner focus meditation to help us witness thought as part of the noting practices.

A talk and meditations on the subject of developing a healthy mind.

Learning to calm the mind and relax the body so we can work with the busy mind.

This class is focused on body meditations and working with difficult feelings by connection to the body.

About the 6-week course and why you should join us.

A class on emotional regulation, emotional resilience, wellbeing and meditations that helps us to work with difficult emotions.

10 minute talk and 30 minutes of meditations. In this class I explain the relationship between meditation, sleep, and energy. I categorise energy as being cognitive, emotional, physical, or spiritual. Meditation is an excellent source of all energy. In this class we do energy meditations.

For historic reasons many mindfulness meditation teachers don't teach the body scan as a relaxation exercise. I do. It is immensely popular. This class was our first Sunday evening class at the mansion at 7 pm UK time.

In this class, I start from this sense of connection to nature and how we are taught, in our culture, to believe that we are separate. I then teach a set of the basic practices that are designed to help us calm our minds. I order them in order of efficacy for new meditators.

And exploration of connecting to nature through the experience of the present moment.

An insight into how awareness of the present moment leads to awareness of the many cycles of life that we exist within.