Creating a Whole Life Practice
Online course
with Nathan Glyde
Thursdays and Mondays, 2 February – 23 February
This course is suitable both for people who are new to meditation and also for more experienced meditators who would like to refresh their practice. Please join us.
Teachers
NATHAN GLYDE has been practicing and studying meditation since 1997, and sharing teachings on retreats since 2007. In 2004 he co-founded SanghaSeva whose retreats emphasise wisdom and compassion in ecological and humanitarian service.
Listen to one of Nathan Glyde’s Talks given at Gaia House on 15.12.20: Anattā and Mettā (Duration 45:31)
Description
“Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts”
Lao Tzu.
Meditation is the step-by-step fulfilment of wisdom awakening. Wholesome fulfilling intentions can be enacting through the entirety of our life.
This three-week course will invite our meditative practice into the heart of our lives. Participants will be invited to practice 3 times a day, starting with simple 5-minute sessions that will be gradually expanded through the course. By the end, we will have incorporated three types of practice (insight, brahmavihārās, samādhi) into each of the four postures (sitting, walking, standing, reclining), tasting the creative freedom available to us all in every moment.
Schedule
All times shown are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm — main practice session
8.00 pm – 9.00 pm — optional question and answer session
On the following evenings:
- Thursday, 2 February
- Monday, 6 February
- Thursday, 9 February
- Monday, 13 February
- Thursday, 16 February
- Monday, 20 February
- Thursday, 23 February
Using Zoom
This online course will use the Zoom platform. For support with learning how to use Zoom, please click here to read the guidance we’ve put together on our website. Please read the first section, ‘Using Zoom’, before registering.
Enquiries
If you have any questions regarding this course, you can send an email to info@gaiahouse.co.uk.
Dana/generosity
None of your registration fee goes to the teacher. Gaia House teachers rely on the generosity of students for their livelihood. There will be an opportunity to make a dana offering to Nathan at the end of the course.
Click here to read more about the practice of dana.
To offer dana to Nathan, please go via Nathan’s website: https://www.dependentorigination.org/support/
You can use PayPal, international credit or debit cards, and bank transfer. You may also offer dana via the Gaia House website by clicking here. Please click on Teacher and then specify that your donation is for ‘Fulfilling Intentions ’ in the notes section on the checkout page.
Dana can also be offered to Gaia House. To make a donation please click here. Your support is greatly appreciated and helps us to continue offering the teachings of the Dharma from our centre in Devon and online.
With deep appreciation for your generosity.
Well-being and silent retreats
This is a silent retreat: apart from during individual or group meetings with the teachers you will be invited into silence for the duration of the event.
Before you book, please read these guidelines about mental well-being and silent retreats:
Meditation retreats can be very nourishing; however, as they require sustained meditation practice, they also need some stability of psychological health. If you have recently (within the past year or so) experienced significant trauma or psychiatric illness, or if you are currently experiencing acute emotional distress such as serious depression or anxiety, it may not be the best time for you to participate in a retreat. The teachers might not be able to give you the kind of individual psychological care you need at this time. A setting with more opportunities for interpersonal engagement may be more appropriate.
- If you are currently under the care of a mental health professional, please discuss your attendance with them. You should be in a relatively stable period of mental well-being and have adequate psychological resilience.
- If you have any questions about this, please contact Laura using the email address, retreatmanager@gaiahouse.co.uk
Registrations for this course are now closed. To see our other online offerings, please click here.