...my recollection is of the beauty of the coloured lights being unified with the pleasurable feeling of my relaxed body, of peacefulness and happiness.
...meditation helps me find a simplified attentive space in my daily life
…my deep sense that we do not use even a small percentage of our human potential
...as I walked slowly through the dark gloom I felt separated from the normal everyday
I felt that I had experienced the most important thing that I had ever experienced
When I started meditating... I had just split up with my partner & was finding it hard to cope
...you could almost hold the moment in your hand and magnify it and notice every detail
“What are the qualities of Samatha meditation?"
...grounded me in a feeling of peace I had not experienced previously
“What was it that made you want to meditate?”
Memories and recollections from a meditator
When I was about two or three I had a curious obsession
Driving in the dark - a CofE minister - living in Zimbabwe
There are a series of experiences from the time before I began...
What did we cry to greet at the first time?
...had the effect of awakening unexpected aspects of my self...
I saw a poster for a meditation class and went along: nothing dramatic...
Having dabbled with meditation practice through reading descriptions in books, I felt relieved, when...
It took me several years to pluck up the courage to go on a meditation week.
Withdrawing from chaos
I meditate early in the morning, and I find this good as...
I was caught in the middle of a major earthquake...
But I kept on going with the practice, and in one session foundmyself thinking...
A way may open gently - awareness, sensations flowing out
my legs ached and ached as the practice extended for longer than I was used to
...where I cease to be the observer and there is simply a “seeing”
I often feel refreshed and re-focussed on trying to live my life in a more compassionate way
I have earlier memories of lying in bed wondering about how space could go on infinitely...
The nature of the material meant that it penetrated deeply and participants’ responses to it took on the quality of the material
In-spire: breathe in - Contact with the body - Present in the moment
If ever I got upset about anything my dad would say, "You are just a little grain of sand in the whole universe”. I knew he was right...
On going down the black hole at Stockport Grand Central Baths
From the first practice, it was the stillness and the simplicity...
I’ve developed the strength and skill to confront things that have caused me pain...
I was ill in bed aged around seven or eight years old, completely absorbed in my body and feelings
...having the sense of being on a path with somewhere good to go has taken away much of the doubt
There was just this vague feeling that “something was missing.”
I remember lying in the long grass outside the boundary of a cricket pitch up on the moors...
find a breath - ride with it lightly - let it become subtler -simpler
My first contact with the practice at a meditation class was like contacting an inner space
A spring day in north London. A portacabin for a classroom. A bearded Canadian art teacher...
...it was magical to find a moments peace among the hurly-burly of life
The chaos of my life seemed to have a focus or fixed point and gradually from this...
So I closed my eyes as I went into a very still and quiet place. It was a miracle that all 3 boys kept quiet and no fighting occurred
I learn the craft of ‘breathing with awareness' - Deepening the well of my understanding
I realised that I could not distinguish between me, the chant, the sound of the gong or the other people in the room
I learned each stage of the practice and sat most days and began to slowly notice a change come about me
Whenever I reported, I was worried that anything I said would seem completely bonkers
Uncoiling the spring, while improving resilience...
It’s very open, teaches from the heart, presenting the teachings of the Buddha in a straightforward way...
The central core - A pillar strong - Moving then still - Flexible, soft, then firm...
What I liked about these teachings was learning the process of meditation through the various steps without having to accept the tenets of Buddhism
...my recollection is of the beauty of the coloured lights being unified with the pleasurable feeling of my relaxed body, of peacefulness and happiness. 
...meditation helps me find a simplified attentive space in my daily life
…my deep sense that we do not use even a small percentage of our human potential 
...as I walked slowly through the dark gloom I felt separated from the normal everyday
I felt that I had experienced the most important thing that I had ever experienced
When I started meditating... I had just split up with my partner & was finding it hard to cope
...you could almost hold the moment in your hand and magnify it and notice every detail
“What are the qualities of Samatha meditation?"
...grounded me in a feeling of peace I had not experienced previously
“What was it that made you want to meditate?”
Memories and recollections from a meditator
When I was about two or three I had a curious obsession
Driving in the dark - a CofE minister - living in Zimbabwe
There are a series of experiences from the time before I began...
What did we cry to greet at the first time?
...had the effect of awakening unexpected aspects of my self...
I saw a poster for a meditation class and went along: nothing dramatic...
Having dabbled with meditation practice through reading descriptions in books, I felt relieved, when...
It took me several years to pluck up the courage to go on a meditation week.
Withdrawing from chaos
I meditate early in the morning, and I find this good as...
I was caught in the middle of a major earthquake...
But I kept on going with the practice, and in one session foundmyself thinking...
A way may open gently - awareness, sensations flowing out
my legs ached and ached as the practice extended for longer than I was used to
...where I cease to be the observer and there is simply a “seeing”
I often feel refreshed and re-focussed on trying to live my life in a more compassionate way
I have earlier memories of lying in bed wondering about how space could go on infinitely...
The nature of the material meant that it penetrated deeply and participants’ responses to it took on the quality of the material
In-spire: breathe in - Contact with the body - Present in the moment
If ever I got upset about anything my dad would say, "You are just a little grain of sand in the whole universe”. I knew he was right...
On going down the black hole at Stockport Grand Central Baths
From the first practice, it was the stillness and the simplicity...
I’ve developed the strength and skill to confront things that have caused me pain...
I was ill in bed aged around seven or eight years old, completely absorbed in my body and feelings
...having the sense of being on a path with somewhere good to go has taken away much of the doubt
There was just this vague feeling that “something was missing.”
I remember lying in the long grass outside the boundary of a cricket pitch up on the moors...
find a breath - ride with it lightly - let it become subtler -simpler
My first contact with the practice at a meditation class was like contacting an inner space
A spring day in north London. A portacabin for a classroom. A bearded Canadian art teacher...
...it was magical to find a moments peace among the hurly-burly of life
The chaos of my life seemed to have a focus or fixed point and gradually from this...
So I closed my eyes as I went into a very still and quiet place. It was a miracle that all 3 boys kept quiet and no fighting occurred
I learn the craft of ‘breathing with awareness' - Deepening the well of my understanding
I realised that I could not distinguish between me, the chant, the sound of the gong or the other people in the room
I learned each stage of the practice and sat most days and began to slowly notice a change come about me
Whenever I reported, I was worried that anything I said would seem completely bonkers
Uncoiling the spring, while improving resilience...
It’s very open, teaches from the heart, presenting the teachings of the Buddha in a straightforward way...
The central core - A pillar strong - Moving then still - Flexible, soft, then firm...
What I liked about these teachings was learning the process of meditation through the various steps without having to accept the tenets of Buddhism