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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of 26 May, 2025

Milla Gregor

We’re delighted to have Milla Gregor leading our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May these sessions support and deepen your practice.

This week’s theme is: Being Grounded: Five+ Ways

What is it, to feel grounded, for you? Contact with the earth, with fundamental interrelatedness, your body, values or lineage; with the histories of the land? What’s the opposite of being grounded? We’ll explore such ideas, grounding our reflections in embodied meditation practice.

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What is groundedness for?

May 26, 2025

What is groundedness for? Where might we ground? What are the qualities of a useful place to ground?

Giving the monkey mind an apple

May 27, 2025

Giving the monkey mind an apple – practical tools and tips for finding steadiness in our practice (counting, gathas)

Grounding in our fundamental interrelatedness

May 28, 2025

Grounding in our fundamental interrelatedness. Gratitude and connection with teachers, lineage, peers, supporters, friends, and all our various sanghas.

Making 'the shift'

May 29, 2025

Making ‘the shift’ – finding the somatic signature of groundedness and its opposite in our bodies, playing with moving between them deliberately as a form of practice, and within meditation practice

Creating your own grounding/ steadiness gatha

May 30, 2025

Creative gathas shared by the sangha in the chat on Friday 30th May

Nadia Abdel-Karim

Settling in, I become grounded, like a mountain

Being grounded, I feel fearless

Being grounded, courage can emerge

Now, I can stand in harm’s way of evil forces in this world

 

Caz Sheldon

Settling in I become grounded like great tree roots

Catherine Thompson

Settling in I become grounded like deep water

 

Golo Föllmer

Settling in, I become grounded, like a warm rock in the sun

Being grounded, I feel connected inside and outside

Being grounded, confidence in me and others can emerge

Now, I can approach the day with a smile

… what a wonderful thing to do, thank you!

 

Caz Sheldon

Being grounded I feel I am Earth

 

Victoria Peake

Settling in I become grounded like a mountain. Being grounded I feel rooted

and settled

 

Henry Wilcox

Settling in, I become grounded, like a tree,

Being grounded, I feel rooted to the ground,

Being grounded, spaciousness can emerge,

Now, I can be free.

 

Kathy

mountain solid I can relax I can sit, wait, be.

 

Ines Hughes

Like a rock in a river

Feel safe and secure

Spaciousness can emerge

Become connected to all things

 

Victoria Peake

Being grounded opens to all can emerge. Now I can breathe fully and be

present

 

Harriet Thistlethwaite

Like a swan landing on the nest

I feel homecoming

And can rest secure

 

Caz Sheldon

Being grounded I feel I am Earth; Now I can just be.

 

bec gee

Settling in, I become grounded, like slowly growing roots.

Being grounded, I feel held.

Being grounded, space can emerge

Now, I can notice.

 

Caz Sheldon

Grounded – roots; Earth; Just be.

 

Gerta Stenfert

Moutain, heavy, trust, live easily, free and with joy

 

Laura Stahnke

Settling in I become grounded

 

Clive Martinez

My simpler gatha:

Breathing in I feel supported by the ground

Breathing out I feel connected.

Supported; connected.

 

Catherine Thompson

Settling in I become grounded like deep water,being grounded I feel I am

dropoing to unfathomable depth,being grounded I feel stilness can emerge,Now

I can have deep rest.

 

Hannah Baker

Like a stone nestled in the earth, connected and present, i open up beyond

myself, alive

 

Laura Stahnke

like an oak rooted to the earth, being grounded I feel restored and renewed,

being grounded strength can emerge, now I can smile at life

 

Sally Howard

Settling, the oak

Rooted and Stable

Lightness can emerge

Now, calm, feel free

 

Laura Stahnke

Settling in I become grounded like an oak rooted in the earth, being grounded I

feel restored and renewed, being grounded strength can emerge, now I can

openly smile at life!

 

Adina Malveklint

Settling in, I become grounded, like a rock on a flat surface

Being grounded, I feel connected with my bones

Being grounded, I am entering the world

Now, I can rest in myself

 

Emily West

One with the earth,

Secure,

Freedom emerges,

Now I can fly

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