Meditation Groups
"The Tibetan word for discipline, tsultrum, literally means ‘acting appropriately’. The purpose of discipline is to simplify our lives. Discipline is a way of clearing our minds, preparing the ground, and creating the right environment, or a way of being that is conducive to positive and happy states of mind."
Sogyal Rinpoche.
You can enter the class at any level, including no previous experience. You would be required to practice patience with the process, as it is a highly skilled discipline, in spite of what appears to be simple instructions.
The Meditation practiced in these groups are a blend of Buddhist skillful supports and deep relaxation. The class commences with mindfulfulness. With this mindfulness the awareness of what is happening within is accessed and used as an anchor, a prelimary . One of the first impacts of practicing mindfulness can be the capacity to move out of the overly stimulated state of activity into the calm restful state. Here we let the mind settle.
“Mindfulness can happen without meditation, but meditation cannot happen without mindfulness”
Sogyal Rinpoche
We then move to Shamatha, the stilling of the mind, the training of remaining undistracted and stable. Many helpful tools are offered to assist this stabilization. What is able to arise from there is Vipassana, clear seeing. The dawning of wisdom, which allows us to simplify our lives, now that this state offers clarity and discernment. It allows us to live in a complex world with a state of inner simplicity. The perfect marriage for these times. All of this is known as the “sitting practice”.
The class then moves to a “lying down practice” of deep guided relaxation, using the relaxation of the physicality to unravel deeply held patterns and habits of stress and contraction within the body and mind. Often when there is tension or pain in the body, we react by tensing elsewhere as a coping mechanism. The full body relaxation can undo these patterns. This brings greater rejuvenation and ease and ability to live more freely and spaciously within. Stillness in the body enhances the mindfulness and concentration, so they all work together to enhance the process.
The final stage of the class is a “Loving Kindness Practice”, which is the generating of a greater capacity to undo the negative habitual patterns and beliefs, and linking into more joyful, loving, compassionate states of being. With this, negative states lose their power to disturb the mind.
Beverley has a background in Tibetan Buddhism since 2000 and has trained as a hypnotherapist since 1989. She has facilitated meditation at the Rigpa Buddhist centre and with Australian Graduate School of Management, and various other classes in meditation since 1993.
You are held with steadiness and skill. No prior Experience required. Everyone is Welcome.
Sogyal Rinpoche.
You can enter the class at any level, including no previous experience. You would be required to practice patience with the process, as it is a highly skilled discipline, in spite of what appears to be simple instructions.
The Meditation practiced in these groups are a blend of Buddhist skillful supports and deep relaxation. The class commences with mindfulfulness. With this mindfulness the awareness of what is happening within is accessed and used as an anchor, a prelimary . One of the first impacts of practicing mindfulness can be the capacity to move out of the overly stimulated state of activity into the calm restful state. Here we let the mind settle.
“Mindfulness can happen without meditation, but meditation cannot happen without mindfulness”
Sogyal Rinpoche
We then move to Shamatha, the stilling of the mind, the training of remaining undistracted and stable. Many helpful tools are offered to assist this stabilization. What is able to arise from there is Vipassana, clear seeing. The dawning of wisdom, which allows us to simplify our lives, now that this state offers clarity and discernment. It allows us to live in a complex world with a state of inner simplicity. The perfect marriage for these times. All of this is known as the “sitting practice”.
The class then moves to a “lying down practice” of deep guided relaxation, using the relaxation of the physicality to unravel deeply held patterns and habits of stress and contraction within the body and mind. Often when there is tension or pain in the body, we react by tensing elsewhere as a coping mechanism. The full body relaxation can undo these patterns. This brings greater rejuvenation and ease and ability to live more freely and spaciously within. Stillness in the body enhances the mindfulness and concentration, so they all work together to enhance the process.
The final stage of the class is a “Loving Kindness Practice”, which is the generating of a greater capacity to undo the negative habitual patterns and beliefs, and linking into more joyful, loving, compassionate states of being. With this, negative states lose their power to disturb the mind.
Beverley has a background in Tibetan Buddhism since 2000 and has trained as a hypnotherapist since 1989. She has facilitated meditation at the Rigpa Buddhist centre and with Australian Graduate School of Management, and various other classes in meditation since 1993.
You are held with steadiness and skill. No prior Experience required. Everyone is Welcome.
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There is 1 class per week AT THE LIVING ROOM yoga Centre in Coogee. Sydney, N.S.W
Sunday 7.00 - 8.00 pm
Cost: go online to living room coogee and see the different options for classes.
You can use the pass system at the centre which is inclusive for all Yoga, Pilates and Meditation classes.
Where: The Living Room
Level 2, 62 Carr Street, Coogee (above Barzura Café)
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There is 1 zoom class per week.
Thursday 7-8pm.
Contact Beverley for info on how to access that class.
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Sunday 7.00 - 8.00 pm
Cost: go online to living room coogee and see the different options for classes.
You can use the pass system at the centre which is inclusive for all Yoga, Pilates and Meditation classes.
Where: The Living Room
Level 2, 62 Carr Street, Coogee (above Barzura Café)
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There is 1 zoom class per week.
Thursday 7-8pm.
Contact Beverley for info on how to access that class.
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