The thing is that meditation is about your relationship with yourself.
There is a part of the brain that’s function is to watch after and listen to the feedback of the body and how it is working. The brain does it all the time and it can be conscious so that you are aware of the feedback and know that there are parts of the body that need healing. You have to have that witnessing part of the brain active while you are doing stuff in the world to get the conscious feedback as it comes from the stimulation of whatever happens to you.
Meditation practice strengthens that ability. Then noticing the feedback can become an automatic part of how you live.
So then you can be glad when you are up to your thighs in mud, because your reaction to that; angry, scared, excited, stimulated, lets you know how much part of the flow of life you are or if you are holding.
It becomes more feedback and all feedback becomes welcome.
Meditation Days
Meditation is a state of consciousness, of connection to what we truly are, a state of beingness beyond the personality, where our knowing is available to us at a far deeper level than thinking.
How to get there? The answer is you learn by doing it. There are millions of techniques for making yourself available for it to happen, but as it's not doing, but being that's required, experience is the only teacher. My job is to be present and be in meditation myself, opening the door so that you can find your way in. I can give helpful hints about how to relax and allow, and how to navigate past the obstacles we put in our own path. They're usually survival strategies and they need to be loved and understood, not fought.
Why meditate in a group? The answer is an image: Above the palace of the god Indra is a net which spreads infinitely in every direction and dimension. At each junction of the net is a multi faceted jewel. Each jewel infinitely reflects the jewels around it. It is an image that gives us a sense of both our individuality and our connectedness to the all.
When we each direct our consciousness inside, and we are meditating together, the result of that connectedness is that we all benefit from the joint capacity for meditation. We can get in faster and deeper and the energy field is shared, so we have access to the transpersonal, to centeredness, to source.
On our days together we will practice a variety of techniques, active and still. There will be time for sharing and reflection.