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Online meditation: Weekly Sit - a 40-minute session from The Sharpham Trust
Develop or maintain your meditation practice by sitting with us
Summary
Duration: 40 minutes, including 30-minute sit - run weekly
For those with any meditation experience, or none
Short periods of silence
We offer an online meditation session every week, guided by one of our wise and compassionate leaders, to help you develop or maintain a meditation practice.
We invite you to sit with us, in gentle community, and experience our type of mindfulness and contemplation, wherever you are.
Overview
Our weekly online meditation sessions, or sits, happen every Tuesday at 7pm and are 40-minute sessions:
a 30-minute meditation with 5 minutes either side.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others - Harriet Goldhor Lerner
During this online sit, you'll get:
- a moment to pause from your everyday life
- the opportunity to be part of a supportive group of fellow meditators
- meditation led by experienced Sharpham Trust teachers and retreat coordinators
Who is this for?
This online sit is for people with all types of meditation experience, from beginner to experienced - anyone who would like to connect with their practice in the supportive company of others.
To get the most out of this session you will need a room or place in your home where you will not be distracted by other people or sounds.
To join you will need to be fully available for the duration of the session, helping to create a greater sense of group coherence with less distraction for your fellow meditators.
Technical requirements
We will be using the online application Zoom to meditate with each other.
To use Zoom you will need a computer or a phone with a speaker and camera. Full instructions will be sent with each Online Meditation Alert or you can access them here.
You can also download the Zoom app here to familiarise yourself with it and make sure it meets your system requirements.
Cost
This online sit is by donation or free.
Donations go towards paying the meditation leader - many of whom are part-time and self-employed.
Make a Donation
Session recordings
Many of you have asked us to record and share these meditations, so our sessions will be recorded, edited by The Sharpham Trust and put online for people to access, accessible here: www.sharphamtrust.org/resources
We're only recording audio, not video, and any post-meditation discussion will be edited out and will not be used.
Your participation in the session is taken as consent for us to do this.
Schedule
The session will begin at 7pm on Tuesdays. Please be prompt.
Each session will incorporate a 30-minute sit, with enough time on either side to settle in.
| Sep 29 | Nadia Abdel-Karim | Cultivating equanimity |
| Oct 6 | Colette Power | Deep rest |
| Oct 13 | Uz Afzal | Exploring joy |
| Oct 20 | Nadia Abdel-Karim | Expansive heart |
| Oct 27 | Colette Power | Body scan |
| Nov 3 | Ethan Pollock | Kindness with difficulties |
| Nov 10 | Lynne Holmes | Cultivating a kind heart |
| Nov 17 | Tasha Bassingthwaighte | Bringing awareness into ordinary moments |
| Nov 24 | Philip Anderson | Body and space |
| Dec 1 | Nina Jankelson | Breathing |
| Dec 8 | Uz Afzal | Exploring equanimity |
| Dec 15 | Amanda Tyler | Compassion |
| Dec 22 | Nadia Abdel-Karim | Opening to receive experience - what's here now? |
| Dec 29 | Lynne Holmes | Reflecting kindly |
| Jan 5 | Colette Power | The heart's intention |
| Jan 12 | Lucy Chan | Self-compassion |
| Jan 19 | Philip Anderson | The Vedana |
| Jan 26 | Tasha Bassingthwaighte | Balancing the heart and mind |
| Feb 2 | Nina Jankelson | Rest |
| Feb 9 | Lynne Holmes | Cultivating equanimity |
| Feb 16 | Ethan Pollock | Breathing through the body |
| Feb 23 | Uz Afzal | Our true home |
| Mar 2 | Philip Anderson | Impermanence |
| Mar 9 | Nadia Abdel-Karim | Grounding - a wood element practice |
| Mar 16 | Ethan Pollock | Working with thoughts |
| Mar 23 | Tasha Bassingthwaighte | Belonging to the Earth |
| Mar 30 | Lynne Holmes | Meeting each moment with kindness |
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Costs
These sits are given free or by donation.
When you donate, you're helping us to maintain these sessions and put on retreats and courses, with options for those of low income.
If you can, please donate to help support the work of The Sharpham Trust here
At the heart of the Sharpham Trust ethos is our desire to build a more mindful, compassionate and environmentally sustainable world.
We connect people with nature and foster mindfulness and well-being through our programme of retreats, mindfulness courses, outdoor learning and the arts.
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