Steal These Meditation Ideas
Part of the CEC’s mission is to inspire people around the world to create their own quirky, self-lead meditation communities. To that end, we’d like to share these short descriptions practices we’ve lead over the years.
“This is the greatest moment of your life …and you’re missing it!” – Fight Club
Oliver: Day after day we move through our lives going about our usual routines. Often bored with the “same ‘ol, same ’ol”, we look forward to exciting future adventures without noticing the tiny miracles all around us. The strange and amazing is contained in each moment and we can tap into it!
Erin: The quest for insight can be a heady endeavour. Tonight we’ll take the practice out of our heads and see what the body has to teach us, asking our bodies “what are you trying to tell me?” and waiting patiently for answers.
Oliver: Knowledge can be given, insights are earned. But do they come exclusively from within us? How does the outside world help us find our own answers? Do we even know it’s happening? Tonight we explore the subtle relationship of our inner and outer worlds.
Kevin: Concepts can help us with our practice when they help us attune to our experience, yielding deeper knowing, or insight. ‘Impermanence’ (or ‘flow’) is familiar to many of us, at least as a concept. Tonight we will explore what it means in experience and how it can transform what we ‘know’ of our inner world.
Jude: We’re going to do some old school mantra practices tonight, with a few mantra options (a more traditional and a less traditional option).
