'8 Steps to Stillness' Learn to Meditate course

Description

Interested in finding out how to quieten the mind and develop a practice of meditation? This course offers many practical tools to enable you to experience the benefits of meditation.

Meditation methods are almost although not quite all concentration methods that replace idle thoughts. Examples are breath awareness or mantra. However, meditation is not the method: Meditation is stillness of mind. Meditation is what happens when the method falls away. And ideally, the meditator learns to take the peace of meditation into daily activity, not just the formal sitting times.  This program helps you establish a meditative way of life.

You will be encouraged to establish a practice that you can continue independently without the necessity of aids or props or becoming reliant on a guide. However, it is also recommended that you find a group of like- minded people to sit with from time to time, as the company of others reinforces your motivation to keep your practice up.

No previous yoga or meditation experience is required to do this course, and you don't have to sit on the floor either (unless you want to).

For those who have attended the Learn to Meditate course, enhance your practice with the Sunday morning meditation sessions that include meditation theory, readings, discussions etc. as well as ongoing practice in still mind meditation.