The Middle Way Society was founded to promote the study and practice of The Middle Way. The Middle Way is the idea that we make better judgements by avoiding fixed beliefs and being open to practical experience. We challenge unhelpful distinctions between facts and values, reason and emotion, religion and secularism or arts and sciences. Though our name is inspired by some of the insights of the Buddha, we are independent of Buddhism or any other religion. We seek to promote and support integrative practice, overcoming conflict of all kinds.
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.
At this time of international backlash against gender equality, Nina Davies uses Feminist/ Middle Way Philosophy to interrogate the evidence and suggest how to respond. Nina Davies is an experienced meditation and guided enquiry leader with an interest in feminist and continental thought. After leaving a long career in social care, she trained as a CBT Hypnotherapist. This video was recorded from Zoom at the Virtual Festival of the Middle Way, 19th April 2020.
Peter Afford is an experienced Focusing teacher and a psychotherapist with an interest in neuroscience. He is the author of ‘Therapy in the Age of Neuroscience’. www.peterafford.uk
