Yoga Nidra is a type of meditation that can help us access the hypnagogic state. This state is the transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep. Practicing Yoga Nidra can make it easier to move into this state and therefore help us achieve rest. To practice Yoga Nidra, find a comfortable and relaxed seated position with your back free and your head balanced. The goal is to enter and stay in the hypnagogic state while maintaining awareness of the warm, comfortable feeling that comes with it. ...
Mar 12, 2023•25 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Mindfulness is the undistracted awareness of the experience of the present moment. Mindfulness meditation is a set of ancient practices now supported by a mountain of scientific study that we use to gain that experience of mindfulness. There are many barriers, distractions and dead ends that can divert us from our path of acceptance and connection to all of the experiences of the present moment, internal and external. By connecting to the entire body, we are able to minimise physical and emotion...
Mar 10, 2023•28 min•Season 11Ep. 5
The body and mind are deeply connected. The ancients had a concept of the body-mind which is the combination of thoughts, emotions and drives that influence our choices and actions. This leaves us with a psychophysiological state that can be unhelpful and is sometimes difficult to shift. We can find ourselves 'in a mood' and subject to a combination of autopilot behaviours and mind loops. We all need to build a toolkit of practices we can use to intervene in these processes. To coin a phrase, we...
Mar 08, 2023•37 min•Season 11Ep. 4
This article and podcast are from a class taught as part of The Meditation Course - Four live online classes each week for the same price as a weekly Starbucks latte. We all have a voice in our heads, and that voice tells a story. I call this voice the Inner Narrative. Our Inner Narrative can become unhelpful, destructive or self-destructive. It can weaken us instead of strengthen us. Thought has what I call momentum. Over time, our Inner Narratives can become more intense. It can fixate on one ...
Mar 04, 2023•35 min•Season 11Ep. 3
This Meditation is taken from the Deepening Course which is a course for committed meditators. See the end of this description for the link. There are a five different main areas of focus for our awareness. There is mind wandering and awareness of the body. These are what are called Inner Phenomena. With mind wandering, our single awareness has been captured by an inner narrative. There is autopilot and external awareness. These are external phenomena. In autopilot, we are generally repeating ac...
Mar 02, 2023•41 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Dear friends, I hope that you are in high spirits and good health. Thanks for your wonderful response to my message about supporting my podcast. I shall be making some changes to the format of the podcast so that I can deliver more meditations. Starting from this week, I will only put the meditations themselves online. To listen to the talks, please subscribe to the meditation course at https://meditationcourse.live. This will enable me to publish a podcast with the absolute minimum of audio edi...
Mar 02, 2023•1 min•Season 11Ep. 1
A three-minute message from Robert about the future of the podcast and how you can help me continue to deliver high-quality content.
Feb 26, 2023•3 min
An episode where I teach a set of practices to enable frictionless connection to our physiology in the present moment.
Feb 23, 2023•34 min
In this class, taught in February 2023 and part of a series on the inner narrative, I explain the process that we apply to calm the inner narrative and I explain how it is not a process of distraction.
Feb 15, 2023•39 min
An explanation of the nature of narrative, how it is so deeply embedded in all human culture, and the first insight into how the cultural narrative finds its way into our minds.
Feb 09, 2023•36 min
Learn the mindfulness practices you can integrate into your daily life and discover the power of group meditation.
Feb 05, 2023•35 min
A recording of a class on body-focused meditations creating a foundation to process uncomfortable emotions. In this class, we continue learning the practices we need to process difficult emotions.
Jan 30, 2023•39 min
In this class, I teach how to be present and find fulfilment right here and right now by reconnecting to the present moment and to nature.
Jan 15, 2023•50 min
Mindfulness is the undistracted awareness of the experience of the present moment. To experience mindfulness, therefore, we need to experience the present moment free of the endless distractions of the modern world. In this class, I teach you how.
Jan 07, 2023•51 min
In this intensive 22-minute class, I focus purely on a small set of practices that you can use to regulate your stress and your emotions. The workshop is an introduction to my popular one-day dealing with difficult people training class I have been teaching since 2016. This audio was recorded from a 90-minute workshop I ran on Thursday, 22 December 2022, for members of The Meditation Course.
Dec 23, 2022•21 min
Equanimity is balance, harmony and composure under pressure and stress. Learn how mindfulness meditation brings equanimity
Dec 13, 2022•39 min
In this class, I explain my experience with meditation students: the beginners, those returning to Meditation and the committed students who have found a set of practices they can maintain.
Dec 12, 2022•40 min
Mindful Communication stems from mindful listening. Mindful listening is opening our awareness to all sounds, language or otherwise. Learn more in this recording of a live guided meditation class.
Dec 07, 2022•43 min
A ten-minute talk and 30 minutes of meditation is the first full class of the Avoiding Burnout series I’m currently teaching in my in-person Meditation classes.
Dec 01, 2022•40 min
This is a class on Meditating on Emptiness. You may have heard about meditating on emptiness. Or you may have experienced it. Meditating on emptiness is a key part of Buddhist practice and is something that every meditator experiences at some point on their meditative journey.
Nov 27, 2022•41 min
In this class, I outline a strategy for those struggling to find the time, energy and focus for a regular sitting meditation practice.
Nov 24, 2022•40 min
A sleep meditation of Yoga Nidra, which is the ancient Yogic practice of exploring meditation and sleep. Yoga Nidra is often taught as a body scan that helps you drift off. More appropriately, it is an exploration of sleep states.
Nov 19, 2022•30 min
My meditations of Yoga Nidra, which is the ancient Yogic practice of exploring meditation and sleep. Yoga Nidra is often taught as a body scan that helps you drift off. More appropriately, it is an exploration of sleep states.
Nov 19, 2022•39 min
In this 40-minute meditation session I guide practices that help us to recover our mental energy.
Nov 14, 2022•40 min
A talk on recovering mental energy
Nov 14, 2022•12 min
In this live recorded guided meditation class, I explain how our energy can be drained from us and how we need to build boundaries that stop our energy from being depleted.
Nov 05, 2022•53 min
An explanation of how mindfulness brings happiness and some guided mindfulness meditations to support the training.
Oct 13, 2022•54 min
”Unfortunately, it is a bit of a binary thing. Either you develop the skills to recover your attention from the largely unwanted and unhelpful, repetitive, persistent thought patterns. Or you become a slave to a narrative that you’ve adopted in your mind.”
Oct 06, 2022•38 min
Learn how to use the Breath to intervene in the persistent, repetitive and unhelpful mind loops.
Sep 26, 2022•38 min
This is the second class I taught on imposter syndrome in September 2022. Imposter Syndrome is not feeling good enough for something you are qualified for through experience or knowledge. Imposter syndrome is almost universal. In this class, I explain what Imposter Syndrome it comes about and which practices we can use to neutralise it.
Sep 23, 2022•59 min
