Vipassana at Home hosts online meditation courses designed to fit within daily life.
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10-Day Basic Course
Vipassana at Home runs regular introductory 10-day meditation courses covering the basics of Vipassana meditation and how to practice within your everyday life.
The course is designed to fit within your everyday life. You will participate in two daily one-hour guided meditations and three live talks over the course period. If you are new to Vipassana or have fallen out of practice, this course is a basic introduction and refresher.
Twice Daily Meditation
With Guided Meditations.
One hour in the morning.
One hour in the evening.
To do in your own space & time.
Live Talks
Covering the principles of Vipassana meditation and how to practice within everyday life.
These will also be recorded.
Additional Support
Drop-in live Q&A sessions.
Whatsapp Group and option to message the instructor privately.
The course is donation-based. These are gratefully accepted at the end of the course.
Course Content
The 10-day basic course emphasises the practice of Vipassana meditation. The practice is where we truly get to know ourselves.
By the end of the course you will have a basic understanding of how to practice the technique on and off the cushion and how to start to bring it into your daily life.
Day 0 →
Day 5 →
SAMATHA MEDITATION
A technique to settle, calm & concentrate the Mind in preparation for Vipassana.
VIPASSANA MEDITATION
Developing insight through direct experience into the nature of Mind & Body.
Within each guided meditation we practice 30 minutes walking meditation, 30 minutes sitting meditation and a few minutes of Metta (loving-kindness).
The Vipassana meditation technique taught in this course is in the Mahasi Noting style. We use mental noting with labels to develop awareness of Mind and Body at the present moment.
The course is conducted fully online and designed to fit within your normal everyday life. All you need is a quiet space to meditate two hours daily, whenever suits your schedule best.
Vipassana means to see clearly. It is also known as insight meditation.
What do we practice to see clearly?
Mind and Body at the present moment.
Mind and Body is the moment-to-moment happening of bodily sensory experience and the perception, feeling, volition, and consciousness. In other words, it is our entire experience of Self and World.
We practice to be aware of Mind and Body as it is, without interfering. We practice not to struggle, resist, change, maintain, hold or manipulate, developing mere awareness and equanimity with every experience.
Over time, we learn to recognise and be free from harmful thought, speech and action. We discover our own unique spontaneous and effortlessly wholesome art of living.
Vipassana is the technique that Buddha practiced to gain his awakening 2500 years ago. While traditionally practised in Buddhist contexts, it is a scientifically rigorous and non-sectarian meditation technique which is why it has gained so much recent popularity in the West.
The Side Effects of a good Vipassana Practice
Freedom and Happiness
Over time, the practice calms the hindrances and behaviours that stand in the way of happiness and freedom to be who we are.
Improved Relationships
Transforming how we relate to our self and others. As we become more kind and understanding of ourselves it naturally flows over to those around us.
Effortless Non-distraction
Directing your mind intentionally, there is less worry, rumination and distraction. We become more fully present with work, leisure and others.
Your Facilitator
Reimar was raised in Germany. Growing up, he loved high intensity sports and holds a Taekwondo Black-Belt. Through these he first experienced states of high clarity, flow and presence.
At 18 he moved to Australia to study and work in Economics & Finance. Stress, anxiety and a lifelong struggle with eczema led him to discover Vipassana Meditation through Goenka retreats. Feeling early benefits, he dedicated himself to practice daily and in retreats alongside his full time corporate job and teaching Yoga.
During COVID, he moved to Thailand, to explore meditation. There he also met other embodiment practices such as contact improvisation and somatic free-diving.
Now, he practices primarily Mahasi-style Noting Vipassana. He studied intensively with his teacher, Ajahn Puttar from Wat Sopharam in Thailand for many months, where he regularly returns.
He believes in a balanced and integrated approach that calls for full engagement in life.
Inspired to share the benefits of Vipassana, he founded vipassanathome.org in 2021.
Limited participants to maintain quality of support.
Registrations close the day before course starts.