Have you forgotten that you are undeniably part of all that is? Take a dive into the body, but not simply the body as we usually perceive of it. Instead we'll experience our body as a portal to realising our interconnectedness with all that is. From this place we'll practice holding the complexities, difficulties and irksome feelings that are often around for us. You didn't arrive here in isolation, but intricately enmeshed in the web of life.

Resting In Interconnectedness.MP3

Do you experience yourself as small and constrained a lot of the time? Let's journey into this smallness and then practice unfolding the envelope of our being from the inside. Can we wonder our way towards a vast shimmering reality that is more mysterious and intelligent than we can grasp? We don't need to be someone else or get somewhere else to connect with this. Instead our own personal present moment messiness is the doorway.

Unfolding the Envelope Of Our Being.MP3

Have you ever noticed that where you rest your awareness in the body changes your experience and perception? This practice plays with this. It also guides us to rest and relax enough to allow our attention to open out into something more 'being' based than 'doing' based. Attention turning into awareness through somatic exploration and gradual opening.

Exploring Awareness Through The Body.MP3

First we will settle our mind, body and heart into being, by using the sounds of life happening around us as a support. Gradually moving into tender-heartedness and softening our presence. Then we will use the metaphor of a bud in the heart to experience whether we feel open or closed, and whether opening might be possible or whether opening to the closedness is more kind today.

Opening to the Closed Bud of our Heart.MP3

Universal love? Oneness? Have you ever wondered what people are on about when they talk about these experiences? This practice guides us right from our present moment experience which may feel like a messy human reality, to opening up to universal love experientially. The line from a poem by Danna Faulds is our linchpin for this 'Sometimes practice becomes simply a matter of bearing the truth'.

The Heart that Radiates Love.MP3

Cultivating a soothing spacious way of being, alongside letting whatever struggles or distractions you have right now be just as the are. Is it possible to do both? Yes it is!

Rocked By The Breath, Embraced By Awareness.MP3

Pain is not set in stone. The experience of it can shift if we work with how we are holding ourselves from the inside. This practice may be especially helpful for a time when you are experiencing physical pain, but it may ease emotional pain too. It does ask you to feel the pain, so is perhaps most suited to low to medium level pain rather than overwhelming pain.

Bringing Tenderness to Pain.MP3

Feeling grumpy, moody or yucky? It happens to us all! Often when you feel like this the last thing you'd like to do is sit down to be with yourself. Better eat another piece of chocolate cake in front of the TV. But what's really going to make you feel better about yourself - avoidance, or having the courage to face yourself, even when you're at your most messy? This practice will help you to accept yourself in the midst of the yuckiness and peel away the layers of shame, so that you are able to remember the potential you hold in your heart. After beginning with being with the raw feelings without blame we will move on to use visualisation to reconnect with our inner essential goodness.

Meditation for a Bad Mood.MP3

Drop down into the heart and experience your inner world and outer world from this wholly different seat of perception. Inspired by Rumi's poem The Silkworm we contemplate the potential of our heart - to bring warmth and comfort, to give love, to act in a sacred way in the world. Rumi's words speak directly to the heart, bypassing thinking with their wonderful genius.

Meditation in the Raw