Sitting Meditation: Metta – Kindly Awareness, also known as Loving-Kindness Meditation (30min)Pauses for this practice can be 60 seconds for Session 7 Intention – Practising kindness to ourselves, the whole of our experience, and others and all of humanity.Attention – Connecting with our experience with kindness, noticing how it feels

Sitting Meditation: Open Awareness with a focus on the Awareness of Thoughts Introduction: In the formal sitting meditation practice, we are taking a seat right in the middle of our lives. We are intentionally bringing ourselves into a direct and intimate relationship with the present moment and what is arising

Sitting Meditation: Open Awareness. Awareness of EmotionsIntroduction: Our inner life can become fascinating if we practice mindfulness of emotion in the Body. If we ever become bored during this exercise, label it “bored.” Boredom always changes to something else when we linger with it long enough, without prejudice. There’s often

Introduction to the sitting meditation – Awareness of body and breath Intention – Practice waking up to automatic pilot. Allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without getting caught up in them Attention – The breath, the body, the sensesAttitude -Non-striving, non-judging, allowing the experience to be as it

Intention – Practising waking up to automatic pilot, befriending the body as we gather our scattered minds into the senses.Attention – Practising bringing the attention back, gently turning towards our experience at this moment.Attitude – Curiosity, openness (beginners mind) acceptance and kindness. Settling into a comfortable seated position. The spine

Script for ~30min MBSR Mindful Movement.This is a key practise of MBSR. Other guided MBSR meditations I offer are:Bodyscan, 3-Step Breathing Space, Awareness of BreathMindful movement can be practised standing, lying down, seated or a combination of these.This particular guided mindful movement practice focuses on doing the meditation seated, which

The steps of the Breathing Space I am guiding you through are 1. Gathering/ grounding in the present moment 2. Exploring what is here 3. Opening up to engage with the world againIn the Taking a break – Taking a breath guided meditation I am offering a longer (14 min)

Awareness of Breath – or mindful breathing is an essential practice in the MBSR curriculum.It is a calm, non-judging awareness, allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go without getting caught up in them.Intention – To practice waking up to automatic pilot and coming to our senses.Attention – The breath,

Guided meditation with explanations. This is a variation of the “the breathing space” meditation which is taught in MBSR. The steps I am guiding you through are 1. Gathering/ grounding in the present moment 2. Exploring what is here 3. Opening up to engage with the world again Intention –