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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Nov 27 – 1 Dec, 2023

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 “Longing for Belonging; Becoming Intimate with Expansion and Contraction”.

 

Although people are more connected than ever through technology, there seems to be a global trance of “not belonging”. In this week’s sessions we will explore how we separate from our own selves and from others, and above all how we can come home to all our parts and sink back into a sense of belonging.

Belonging to ourselves

November 27, 2023

Embodying identity

November 28, 2023

Mysterious wisdom

November 29, 2023

Interconnectedness

November 30, 2023

Sangha

December 1, 2023

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