Across the Thursday evening online practice sessions, we return again and again to the foundations of meditation as a living practice and an ongoing relationship. Rather than approaching meditation as a performance or a project of self-improvement, we explore what meditation is pointing toward, why we practise, and what genuinely supports depth over time — including intention, simplicity, steadiness, and tenderness.

These sessions gently address common misunderstandings that keep practice stuck in the head, while offering a grounded framework for working with techniques as doorways into presence rather than ends in themselves. Through consistent practice, reflection, and dialogue, understanding is allowed to mature organically. Meditation is approached experientially: something we enter, taste, and learn from directly, week by week, as it begins to inform both our inner life and the way we meet the world.

Meditation changes our relationship with mind. We’ll explore the complex interplay of attention, thought, emotion, and the subtle mechanics of patterning, including how different states of consciousness arise and what they reveal.

Rather than pathologising the mind or trying to “get rid” of thoughts, we learn to recognise mind as an appearance within awareness, and to meet it with discernment and friendliness.

We’ll explore how meditation can support somatic healing and inner integration, while also touching on dreamwork, symbolic process, and states of consciousness. We’ll be equipped to recognise how unconscious material is experienced through the body, and how meditation can create space for meaningful dialogue between psyche and soma.

The emphasis is on meditation as a lived, whole-person practice — one that includes body, imagination, and the deeper layers of the inner life.

A non-dual path still needs a body that feels safe enough to be here before going deep.

This session brings meditation down into the lived terrain of sensation, breath, and nervous system regulation, supporting practitioners to recognise the difference between presence and dissociation, steadiness and suppression. Led by Dijan Albayrak (C-IAYT yoga therapist and international meditation teacher), the session draws on Polyvagal Theory and Carolyn Spring’s Trauma Traffic Light framework to help teachers recognise how autonomic states shape attention, emotion, and capacity for meditation.

Participants will learn to identify signs of regulation, activation, and shutdown, and explore simple somatic interventions that support safety and presence in practice.

Dijan also bridges modern nervous system science with yogic models of embodiment and prana, offering a coherent framework for contemplative teaching.

Here we enter the heart of the non-dual undercurrent: the direct investigation of who we are. Self-inquiry is introduced as a gentle, precise practice of turning toward the one who is aware, and recognising the witnessing presence that remains unchanged throughout experience. We explore how to rest as awareness without spacing out, and how inquiry can be lived as intimacy rather than analysis. This is not philosophical debate. It’s an invitation to taste the simplicity of being, and to let insight arise naturally through attention that is quiet, curious, and sincere. For many, this becomes a turning point in practice, where meditation shifts from doing to recognising.

This workshop explores the relationship between attention, breath, energy, and vitality, offering a practical understanding of how prana can support stability, depth, and joy in meditation. We’ll work with breath and energetic orientation in a way that is embodied rather than conceptual, learning how to sense when practice feels dull, scattered, over-efforted, or naturally alive. Prana also helps bridge stillness and daily life: when energy flows cleanly, presence becomes easier, and practice begins to spill into the way we walk, speak, and relate. This session is both grounded and luminous, offering tools that feel immediately useable.

Mantra offers a different doorway: devotion, resonance, and the steadying power of sound. In this session we explore mantra as an embodied practice that gathers attention and heart, quietens the surface mind, and opens a felt sense of inner alignment. Rather than treating mantra as exotic or overly technical, we approach it as a lived method: how to practise, how to listen, how to let repetition become intimate rather than mechanical. Mantra can be deeply supportive for those who struggle with mental noise, and it can also reveal the non-dual dimension in its own way, when sound and awareness begin to feel less separate. The emphasis is on direct experience, simplicity, and genuine connection.

Meditation doesn’t only happen in stillness. This masterclass explores shakti as the living intelligence of life itself, and how meditation can become an ongoing relationship with movement, sensation, creativity, and inner unfolding. We look at how energy expresses in the body and psyche, how to stay in contact with it without getting swept away, and how to work with intensity in a mature way. For practitioners and teachers, this brings vital nuance: how to recognise when “energy” is insight, when it is activation, and when it is simply life asking to be felt more fully. The invitation here is to let practice become alive and spacious, with joy as a natural by-product of honest contact.

Meditation ripens in relationship. This masterclass brings the practice into the human realm: communication, intimacy, boundaries, empathy, and the messy beauty of being with others. We explore compassion as presence in action, not as a personality trait or a performance of kindness, and we learn how relational awareness becomes both a mirror and a teacher. This session supports the integration of non-dual insight with the heart, so that realisation expresses as care, steadiness, and sincerity in everyday life. For those who wish to teach, it also cultivates the essential capacity to hold people with sensitivity and respect, and to guide groups in a way that is attuned, warm, and real.

karma Yoga is the practice of offering action itself — letting life move through us without grasping at outcomes or identity. In this session, we explore karma yoga as living meditation: meeting each moment, task, and relationship as an opportunity to rest in presence, humility, and love.

We look at how subtle motivations shape action, how attachment and resistance create contraction, and how service becomes liberating when it arises from inner stillness rather than obligation. Karma yoga, in this sense, is an expression of non-dual insight in daily life — action flowing from being, without a sense of a doer. The invitation is simple and radical: to allow life to act through us, and to discover freedom not by withdrawing from the world, but by participating in it wholeheartedly.

Teaching methodology is woven throughout the weekly evening sessions and integrated gradually, so that teaching skills develop organically alongside personal practice.

Rather than learning rigid scripts or formulas, participants learn how to craft and deliver guided meditations that are clear, responsive, and inspiring.

We explore how to find and trust an authentic teaching voice, how to speak from direct experience, and how to guide with confidence without over-explaining or performing.

Practical topics include recognising common challenges and misconceptions that arise in meditation, and responding skilfully in real time. Facilitation skills are developed through informal practicums, feedback, and reflection, supporting teachers to hold groups with steadiness and warmth. The emphasis throughout is on teaching as a natural, relational practice that grows out of presence rather than technique alone.