Starting on Tuesday 1 August at 8am CEST (6am UTC, 4pm Melbourne) I’m going to be doing a fortnightly (once every 2 weeks) session focusing on exploring different aspects of conscious experience through meditation.
We’ll explore a different one of the senses each week and also have the opportunity to practise doing some phenomenology (putting our experience into words).
If you’re still fairly new to meditation and have found the current Tuesday sessions a bit too technical or advanced this may be a good place for you to start.
If you’re a more advanced meditator then you should still find these explorations of value despite possibly working at a different layer of the perceptual onion that is our experience.
The format will be similar to previous sessions yet a bit shorter (1 hour in total). The sessions will be hybrid, available in-person for anyone at the Monash Centre of Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS) and online for everyone else.
General format:
- Preparatory (concentration) meditation (~20 min)
- Go over any questions or comments (~5 min)
- Meditation focused on investigating that week’s sense gate. (~20min)
- Time for people to share how the meditation went for them (anyone can freely opt out of talking about their experience if they wish), in a group of max 3-4 people (5-10 min)
- Final 5-10 min discussion
To start we’ll do hearing (August 1st), feeling (August 15th), seeing (August 29th) and then mental (inner) imagery (September 12th). After that depending on interest we may continue into proprioception, mental (inner) hearing and beyond. These are still going to be drop-in sessions, so if you’d like to attend one but not another that isn’t a problem.
Finally, in September Teodora will resume a bi-weekly Tuesday 8pm CET (6pm UTC) session that will alternate weeks with these 8am CET (6am CET) European morning sessions.
Similar to the evening sessions, the day prior to the session an email will be sent out with the Zoom link and some info on what we’ll be covering that day.
