In this session on active somatic meditation, Darren Gibbs shares techniques that will enable you to experience meditation directly – and direct meditation experientially. Darren Gibbs is a Certified Clinical Somatic Educator and with over twenty years experience of teaching embodied practices throughout the UK and internationally. For more about his work, see http://http://activesomatics.co.uk/. This session was recorded on Zoom from the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, 18th April 2020.
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Yogic meditation with Tony Wilmot
A session of yogic meditation led by Tony Wilmot, yoga teacher, at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way.
Tony Wilmot has been practising Yoga for 30 years and qualified as a British Wheel of Yoga teacher in 2000. Styles taught are Ashtanga Vinyasa & Hatha Yoga. His teaching is influenced by traditions of many to including Dru, Iyengar & Satyanada Yoga. His meditation is grounded in Zazen (silent sitting) and vipassana in the tradition of Goenka.
Because there was a technical problem with the first few minutes of the original recording, Tony has kindly recorded a separate introduction that forms the first three minutes of the video. The chair is Julian Adkins.
Education, mindfulness and the Middle Way – Katherine Weare
Prof. Katherine Weare explores some key learning about cultivating mindfulness in education, including the messy challenges and joys helping ‘fix it’ educators begin with themselves, and to see the links between inner work and the system change they rightly demand. Prof. Katherine Weare is internationally known for her varied work on mindfulness and contemplative approaches in education, including recently heading up two policy major networks, keeping a handle on the empirical evidence base, writing an inspirational book with Thich Nhat Hanh and teaching mindfulness to local secondary school teachers.
This talk took place over Zoom at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way on 19th April 2020, and is followed by questions from the audience.
Meditation Session with Vishvapani
This meditation session was led over Zoom by Buddhist mindfulness teacher and author Vishvapani Blomfield at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, on 19th April 2020.
The MWS Podcast 146: Katherine Weare on Happy Teachers Change the World
Our guest today is Katherine Weare who is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter where she is working to develop and evaluate mindfulness in schools programs. Katherine is a dedicated mindfulness practitioner herself as well as a qualified mindfulness teacher. Her overall field is social and emotional learning and mental health and wellbeing in schools. She is known as an international expert on evidence-based practice and has conducted several definitive reviews and led programmes which have informed policy and practice in many countries. She is the author of several books including Promoting Mental, Emotional and Social Health: A Whole School Approach, Developing the Emotionally Literate School and most recently Happy Teachers Change the World: A Guide for Cultivating Mindfulness in Education which she co-wrote with Thich Nhat Hanh! and will be the topic of our discussion today
MWS Podcast 146: Katherine Weare as audio only:
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