About Time

Are we limited by time? What does it mean to accept that time is always flowing through us? Is there part of our experience that is timeless? This series of meditations, reflections and enquiries will help you to know - in your own experience - some of the answers to these questions.

Session 1: Presence (18th Jan)

One of the hall-marks of meditation practice is to let go of recursive loops of thought and shift focus to something in the present moment. Typically, we use body sensations and breath as an anchor for our tendency to get lost in abstraction and thought, and whilst this may seem very simple, it’s not very easy and we may find ourselves quickly frustrated with the level of pre-ocupation and distraction we experience.

We’ll spend time normalising this and offering some simple-yet-profound ways to harness more focus and relax out of self beratement.

Watch the full zoom recording here or pick from the practices or talk to listen individually.

Session 2: Thoughts About Time (25 Jan)

Building on the practices from session 1, we’ll take time to notice our thoughts, feelings and perceptions about the movement of time during our practice.

Typically, we may experience thinking as a hindrance to meditation, yet by reframing our relationship with thoughts, we can befriend the mind and know what may be taking us away and disrupting our presence.

Explore first hand what drives restlessness, pre-occupation and why we may drift from being present centred.

Watch the full zoom recording here or pick from the practices or talk to listen individually.

Session 3: Deep Time (1 Feb)

Our ancestors - whilst facing many challenges in their lives - didn’t know what it was to always be ‘watching the clock’. Our sense of limitation through time is natural and intrinsic, yet we can also experience “Deep time”: a state where we’re simply allowing time to flow through us.

When we’re no longer bound up with getting it all done and having it all figured out, we can relax into a deeper sense of time.

Watch the full zoom recording here or pick from the practices or talk to listen individually.

Session 4: Timelessness (8 Feb)

The deepest insight we might come to through this practice is that part of our experience is timeless.

As we relinquish control, let everything be natural and rest in deep time, a natural unfolding of this fundamental and primordial aspect of our perception reveals itself.

We’re no longer trying to be present, but centred in presence.

Watch the full zoom recording here or pick from the practices or talk to listen individually.

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