Led Meditations

A collection of guided meditation practices of varying lengths to support going deeper into our direct experience and discovering the freedom that can be found there.

Please forgive background noise, as these are recorded live and minimally edited.

Engaging the energy centres - a 25 min practice beginning with sensations where the body meets the earth and moving up the body into the belly, heart, throat and crown, exploring sensations, thoughts and emotions along the way.

Tonglen: giving and taking - a five min intro followed by a 30 min practice of tonglen. In the boundariless, open space of awareness we gently turn towards, meet and transform suffering into relief, ease, and freedom. This practice supports us to not turn away from our own and others’ suffering, instead trusting in awareness as a doorway to liberation.

Sitting with human complexity - a 30 minute practice of equanimity. Opening to our own suffering and joy and that of others. Holding it all in a broad, open, loving awareness.

Grounding in stillness and space - a 30 min meditation starting with feeling the ground beneath you, opening to sounds and then dwelling in the qualities of both stillness and space available to us at any moment.

Resourcing ourselves with pleasant sensations - a 20 minute practice in recognising, opening to and familiarising ourselves with pleasant sensations when we are caught up in difficulty, as a way to nourish and heal.

Opening to the six senses - a 30 min practice in grounding in what’s happening now in our direct experience. This meditation can support us when we’ve gotten caught up in rumination, worry, or fear to simply return to present moment awareness and the life that is flowing through us all the time.

Breathing with Feelings - An 18 min practice for when you are having feelings. Particularly difficult ones. Starts with breath and body awareness and moves into sensations, thoughts and emotions. Ends with resourcing ourselves with pleasurable sensations and resting back into open awareness

Express body scan - a 45 min practice, best done lying down if possible. Beginning with listening to the sound of bells and a rain maker, and moving into body awareness. This practice can provide as much restorative healing as a full nights sleep!

What supports awareness - a 17 min practice exploring the conditions available to us right here, right now that can support awareness. This is a great meditation to do at the beginning of an extended period of practice of before a life event where you want to be particularly present and available to yourself and others.

Body scan into breath awareness - a 35 min practice that begins lying down with an emphasis on direct sensations throughout the body and then moves into a seated mindfulness of breathing. Ideal for when the mind is particularly busy!

Being with body and breath - A 30 minute practice that begins with a head to toe body scan and then gently transitions to breath awareness. A great way to start or end your day!

Surrendering to earth and sky - a luxurious 40 min meditation practice that starts lying down and connecting with earth, sky and body and ends in a seated mindfulness of breathing.

Enjoying the Mindfulness of Breathing - a 35 min led practice from the second evening of a 4 part series on Anapanasati, or Mindfulness of Breathing, at the West London Buddhist Centre. Here I invite you to open to the enjoyment of embodiment through breath awareness.

Opening to energy - a 20 min practice inviting an exploration of energy in the body as we get more and more absorbed. Absorption naturally supports a freeing up of energy that we can enjoy and fully. This allowing in helps to habituate the mind to become more and more sensitive to sensations of opening, expansion and joy.

This unfolding life - a 40 min practice that encourages us to open to our experience of life as its unfolding. We begin with a lying down body scan, using the breath to help bring awareness to different parts of the body, and then moves into a seated practice.

A happy mind is a concentrated mind - a 20 min practice from the second evening of a 4 part series on Anapanasati, or Mindfulness of Breathing, at the West London Buddhist Centre. It doesn't take long to focus the mind and find the ground of stillness that is always available to us when we remember.

Sitting with our painful parts - A 30 minute practice to do when you know there is a part of you that is hurting and needs some tender, loving care. Starting with some grounding and breathing, and then gently beginning to turn towards our pain, can bring a relief and also insight into our own habits around our suffering.

Breath awareness into choice-less awareness - a 30 min meditation inviting us to begin from the heart, move into the breath and then widen out our awareness to include a broad, open acceptance of all that is arising and passing in our direct experience.

Resting in experience meditation - a long, luxurious 40 min practice of open awareness using the six sense and getting curious about our habits of relating to experience by either wanting, not wanting or not being so sure about what’s actually happening.

Breathing into open awareness - a 30 min practice that takes you from breath awareness, through noticing sensations, thoughts and emotions and into the open space of awareness where all experience can simply arise and pass away.