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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of 22 September, 2025

Nirmala Werner

Nirmala Werner

We’re grateful to have Nirmala Werner guiding our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May they support and deepen your practice.

This week’s theme is: The Still Heart: Cultivating Equanimity in an Unsteady World

In a world marked by constant change, uncertainty, and emotional intensity, equanimity can seem like a distant ideal-or even a form of indifference. But in the Buddhist tradition, equanimity (upekkhā) is not cold or passive. It is the spacious, steady heart that knows how to stay open, grounded, and present with whatever life brings.

In this week we will explore equanimity as a deep source of inner freedom-neither detached nor reactive, but wise, loving, and awake.

Through daily reflection and embodied practice, we will ask:

What is true equanimity, and what is it not?

How can we meet change without losing our ground?

How do we love and let go-at the same time?

And how can we live with a still heart in a restless world?

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A heart as big as the world

September 22, 2025

Brama Viharas

September 23, 2025

Presence

September 24, 2025

Embodying equanimity

September 25, 2025

Steady as a tree

September 26, 2025

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