40-minute meditations: Thursday evenings

Habits of Happy People

Weekly classes during September  7.30 – 8.10pm

FEE: £23 (whole 5-week course) / £7 per class / free with membership

10 minute breathing meditation ¦ 15 minute practical instructions ¦ 15 minute guided meditation

A five week course – Happiness is much simpler than we think!

In this course you will discover simple meditation methods that will make you really happy.

You will understand through teachings and guided meditations how to cultivate the positive minds that not only make your life better, but are important for your mental health.

Of course, one of the best habits you can develop is a daily meditation practice that will help you to be happy each day, no matter what life throws at you.

You will discover how:

Meditation can help your happiness

To avoid the cycle of negative thoughts

To Improve your mental health with positive thinking

Everyone is welcome, each class is stand alone, so you can drop in to any individual class.

The course is taught by experienced meditation teacher Darren Vass and is suitable for everyone.

7th Sep – Forgiveness

14th Sep – Joy

21st Sep – Love

28th Sep – Contentment

5th Oct – Wisdom

Meditation and Mindfulness Toolkit

Weekly classes during October/November  7.30 – 8.10pm

FEE: £19 (whole 4-week course) / £7 per class / free with membership

10 minute breathing meditation ¦ 15 minute practical instructions ¦ 15 minute guided meditation

Would you like to be able to meditate effectively?

Meditation has many benefits from simply allowing you to feel more relaxed and less stressed, to being able to learn how to keep a positive, peaceful outlook on life regardless of circumstances. The results you experience from meditation depends entirely upon the effectiveness of your meditation technique.

In this 4-week course, Darren Vass will explain the essential elements of meditation, the ‘nuts and bolts’, that will help you understand how to improve your meditation every day.

There are 4 aspects of the mind that you will need to understand if your mind is to have the strength, power, and stability to meditate.

19th Oct – Motivate yourself to be happier

26th Oct – Focus and Feel Good

2nd Nov – The Secret of Mindfulness

9th Nov – Keeping the Mind Peaceful

The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

Weekly classes during November/December  7.30 – 8.10pm

FEE: £19 (whole 4-week course) / £7 per class / free with membership

10 minute breathing meditation ¦ 15 minute practical instructions ¦ 15 minute guided meditation

Love is the key to a happy and meaningful life. Which is why we want to make sure we are letting our love shine.

The more we are able to love others purely, the happier we will be, and the more all of our relationships will be fulfilling. But what does loving others ‘purely’ mean? So often in our loving relationships we also experience pain and conflict. This pain isn’t coming from our love, but rather from our attachment or ‘sticky desire’, which generally leads to false expectations and an inability to see the other person’s point of view.

On this course we will learn to distinguish clearly between love and attachment, and see how we can skilfully use our relationships to increase the former while decreasing the latter. In particular Darren will teach and guide a profound meditation on love that naturally enables us to our hearts more fully to others so that we empathise with them and how they see things.

Nov 16: The source of all of our pain

Nov 23: Living meaningfully with love

Nov 30: Love is your protector

Dec 7: Love without Pain

Teacher

Meditation teacher Darren Vass guides this course. Darren has many years experience of meditation and is on our Teacher Training Programme.

Meditation is becoming increasingly recognized as an effective means to reduce stress and improve our quality of life, however it also has much deeper and far-reaching benefits that have been understood by Buddhist practitioners for thousands of years.

The benefits of meditation include:

– Effective means to reduce stress & anxiety
– Improves mindfulness & concentration
– Promotes a more positive approach to life
– Aids relaxation and letting go of tension

Each class consists of two guided meditations and instruction. Anyone can practice meditation and everyone is welcome to attend.