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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Apr 29 – 3 May, 2024

Nirmala Werner

Nirmala Werner

We’re fortunate that Nirmala Werner has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions. To find out more about Nirmala, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s topic is Mindfulness of the nervous system: transforming fear, struggle and separation into love and connection.

 

We humans are social animals and need each other to feel safe and secure, to grow and to nourish ourselves. How can we live with a sense of connection, loving-kindness, and inner family?
Our meditation practice allows us to take a break between stimulus and response. When we come into contact with our loved ones, we all too easily lose the inner freedom we think we have achieved and avoid our difficulties, also called spiritual bypassing.

 

This week we explore what supports us to react flexibly to the internal and external world, to relax and to allow closeness and real intimacy. We will look into the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, including harmonizing the body formations and nervous system to meet our difficulties with gentleness.

Finding our path

April 29, 2024

Befriending our nervous system

April 30, 2024

Joy and relaxation

May 1, 2024

Aware in relationships

May 2, 2024

The power of co-regulation

May 3, 2024

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