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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of April 22, 2024

Milla Gregor

We’re fortunate that Milla Gregor has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. Click here to find out more about Milla and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s theme is “Breath, Body, Connection and Reflection

 

Breath, body and connection are areas of practice that come up again and again in Buddhist teaching. We’ll explore them in different combinations, and reflect on how they can support your meditation practice and your wider life, with all their opportunities for relationship, engagement and embodied presence.

 

For those who are interested, Milla mentioned the teachers Leigh Brasington and Ethan Nichtern this week. Other important teachers in her life are Martin Aylward, Martine Batchelor and Lama Rod Owens. More information about Milla can be found in her bio here.

 

How the breath and the body can connect us with ourselves, one another, and some Buddhist ideas

April 22, 2024

Working with the breath to settle, soften and connect

April 23, 2024

Working with the body to settle and connect, including both long and quick body scan practices

April 24, 2024

What kinds of connection? Thinking about boundaries in practice and our wider lives, both of which are made of embodied relationships

April 25, 2024

Developing our connected nature: metta as a way to explore internal and wider relationships

April 26, 2024

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