A 10 day commitment to be with yourself.
Vipassana at Home is a 10 day meditation course designed to fit within daily life.
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The course introduces participants to the vipassana meditation technique over the course of 10 days.
Participants will meditate every morning and evening using 1-hour pre-recorded guided meditations.
These are further aided by five online discourses in which participants can also ask questions.
It is expected that the participants have a quiet and comfortable space to meditate and to fully commit to the 10 days so that benefits can be experienced.
The course emphasises the practice of meditation. Two hours of meditation per day will help you become established in the technique.
The meditations will be supplemented with theory discourses to help you understand the principles at work in your meditations.
By the end of this course, you will have an understanding of how to practice these techniques for yourself and apply them to your daily life to improve interpersonal relationships, manage your emotions and stress levels and engage with life more fully.
Live zoom sessions during the course will be at the following times:
10AM (Melbourne) Saturday & Sunday on both weekends
7PM (Melbourne) on Wednesday
These will also be recorded for participants in other time zones.
Mindfulness of breathing to focus and calm the mind.
To reduce reactivity and see experience with more clarity.
Loving-kindness to foster gratitude, wellbeing & love.
Neuroscientific perspectives on why these techniques work.
Learn how to apply these techniques in your everyday life to overcome harmful emotions and behaviour.
Vipassana, also known as mindfulness meditation, means to see clearly.
In this style of meditation we train ourself to observe our reality with clarity, concentration and equanimity.
Our untrained way of seeing can be extremely biased by our patterns of reacting and perceiving, colouring our view of the world and creates an unnecessary feeling of struggling through life.
The vipassana technique has been around since the time of the Buddha (450BC) and while traditionally practiced in Buddhist contexts, it is a completely non-religious tool to train our minds just like Yoga.
Reimar Scholz is passionate about meditation practice.
He completed his first Vipassana retreat in 2018.
Since then, he has been a committed practitioner, attending nine 10day+ retreats and practicing 1-2 hours daily for the majority of which he was also working in Investment Management with Vanguard.
He has not missed a day of practice since his first retreat and is committed to this practice for the rest of his life.
Vipassana meditation has changed his life for the better. It changed his relationship to himself, to others and to life, feeling more at ease and peace. One of his life purposes is to help share this technique and teach from his own experience.
While being a dedicated practitioner, he believes in a balanced and integrated practice, that calls for experiencing and partaking in life fully, off the cushion.
He is passionate about exploring the body through movement, being an avid yoga practitioner and teacher, contact improvisation dancer, rock climber and free-diver.
The live zoom discourses are designed for an Australian participant (10AM Melbourne on weekends, 7pm Melbourne on Wednesday). All discourses will also be recorded and shared in case you cannot attend the live sessions. There will also be the option to have a European time zone Q&A session.
Yes the course is designed so that you are able to participate.
Guided meditations are shared the day before and you can fit them into your morning and evening routine. Lectures are live and outside of standard working hours. The lectures will also be recorded.
If you are in reasonable physical and mental health and are sincerely and genuinely interested in trying out this practice, meditation is not difficult.
It all depends on the commitment you bring to the 10 days and if you are open and willing to apply yourself patiently and diligently, you will surely see tangible benefits
Traditionally this technique is taught over 10 days as each day a new step is introduced. To give this technique a fair trial and be able to practice on your own, committing to the full 10 days is highly recommended.
You are free to message the instructor at any time if you need guidance or support or even reach out for 1-on-1. We also organise a Whatsapp group for you to share and connect with other participants. During live sessions, you will also have time for Q&A.
This course is for anyone who wants to be introduced to Vipassana meditation or go deeper into their practice. Not everyone has time or opportunity to attend a full 10 day Vipassana course, especially now with centers closed due to COVID.
This is a beginner friendly course. If you have never meditated before, have had a casual relationship with meditation or have even attended a vipassana retreat but want to stabilise and reinvigorate your daily practice, this course is for you.
Offering our courses for free allows us to pass on the Vipassana teachings to those who need it, whatever position they are in. Donations go towards operational costs and to help support the teacher.
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