

How Has My Meditation Practice Changed Since Becoming a Father?
What a decade of silent Vipassana retreats didn't teach me: how fatherhood turned inward practice into constant, unavoidable presence.
Reimar
Sep 226 min read


What is Somatic Practice?
What somatic practice means, how it compares to meditation and exercise, and its key principles - rooted in Western and Buddhist traditions.
Reimar
Aug 286 min read


The Layers of Insight: Five Stages of Vipassana Awareness
The five layers of insight — from full distraction to open, spacious awareness — adapted from Michael Taft's Stack Model for everyday Vipassanā practice.
Reimar
Aug 264 min read


The Core Skills of Vipassana Meditation
The three core skills of Vipassanā meditation — Stability, Clarity and Equanimity — and how they develop insight together.
Reimar
Aug 245 min read


From Momentary Insight to Living Insight
Explore how Vipassanā insight moves beyond meditation into everyday life—integrating non-self, psychological growth, relationship, embodiment and a healthy sense of self.
Reimar
Aug 165 min read


A Somatic Approach to Insight Meditation
Explore how Vipassanā insight moves beyond meditation into everyday life—integrating non-self, psychological growth, relationship, embodiment and a healthy sense of self.
Reimar
Aug 73 min read


A Framework of Conscious Experience: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
What are the Four Foundations of Mindfulness? A clear guide to Satipaṭṭhāna - body, feelings, mind and mental objects - and how Vipassanā practice actually uses this framework, from a teacher's perspective.
Reimar
Apr 96 min read


We're All a Little Synaesthetic: How Practice Shapes the Way You See the World
We tend to think of synaesthesia as a rare neurological quirk. It's closer to a spectrum everyone sits on somewhere - and what you practise for years builds the particular lens you end up seeing through.
Reimar
Sep 285 min read


The Predicting Brain: A Predictive-Processing View of Vipassana Meditation
A predictive-processing model for understanding Vipassana meditation: how perception, self and world are constructed moment to moment, and what deconstructing that construction actually reveals.
Reimar
Sep 2511 min read


How to Practise Vipassana Meditation at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide
A simple step-by-step guide to your first Vipassana sitting at home, and to building a daily practice that lasts.
Reimar
Sep 258 min read


The Modular Mind: Insight, Integration and the Many Parts of Us
What evolutionary psychology, Culadasa's sub-minds and IFS parts work all agree on: the mind is many, and meditation is how we see and integrate them.
Reimar
Sep 247 min read


The Micro-Motor Body Scan: A Somatic Vipassana Practice
Somatic practice works with our body's own intelligence - attention, sensation and movement - as a doorway to Vipassana insight and awake awareness. The Micro-Motor Body Scan is the practice Vipassana at Home uses to deepen somatic attention, the first of the three stages of the Somatic Insight Training. The Micro-Motor Scan is inspired by the Body-Scanning Vipassana meditation practice in the tradition of S.N. Goenka where meditators spend many hours moving their attention s
Reimar
Aug 285 min read


Meditation and the Sense of Self: What Brain Scans Show
What happens in the brain when meditators let go of the self? Three studies on the default mode network, layers of self and nondual awareness.
Reimar
Jun 307 min read


Samadhi: Concentration, Embodiment and Insight Meditation
Exploring Samadhi — concentration and unification of mind — through Buddhist meditation, embodiment, dance improvisation and everyday flow states.
Reimar
May 77 min read


Goenka Body Scanning: The U Ba Khin Vipassanā Technique
Goenka body scanning is a deep, body- and feeling-based practice - working with kāya (the body) and vedanā (feeling-tone, particularly bodily sensation) - that cultivates remarkable sensory clarity. It's one of the most widely practised techniques within Vipassanā meditation today: taught on the ten-day courses offered worldwide through dhamma.org, and originating in Burma, passed down through Ledi Sayadaw, his lay disciple Saya Thetgyi, and Sayagyi U Ba Khin, who founded the
Reimar
Jan 175 min read


Mahasi Noting: A Practical Introduction
A practical introduction to Mahasi-style noting - the anchor, the labels, walking and sitting practice, and how it compares to other vipassana techniques.
Reimar
Dec 1, 20256 min read


From Student to Teacher: Progetto Zenit and Vipassanā in Italy
One of the beautiful things about teaching meditation over a longer period of time is seeing where students take the practice themselves. I first started working with Stefano, the founder of Progetto Zenit, several years ago. In fact, he was my first long-term one-to-one meditation student. At the time I was still living in Thailand and spending an extended period practising and living at Wat Sopharam, a small Vipassanā monastery in Northern Thailand. Stefano and I began meet
Reimar
Aug 24, 20253 min read


Relational Vipassanā & Phenomenological Dialogue | Andrea Galvan
One of the people I have particularly enjoyed watching develop as a practitioner and teacher over the years is Dr. Andrea Galvan, psychologist, meditation teacher and founder of Fenomenologia Dialogica. Andrea first started working with me while I was living and practising in Thailand and he was completing his Master’s studies in psychology. Like Stefano from Progetto Zenit, he was one of my early long-term one-to-one meditation students. From the beginning, Andrea struck me
Reimar
Jan 25, 20253 min read


Flow state and Mindfulness Meditation
Flow state, a state of optimal human functioning. When we are riding the wave of experience. Decisions make themselves as if on their own, with no doubt. There is trust and surrender in the moment. We are trusting the unfolding. Fully engaged yet not attached to any particular result or outcome. The non-doing in doing. Effortless Effort. To some extent we have all tasted this experience. Maybe in an activity you love to do where you "lose yourself" in it. For some it is playi
Reimar
May 19, 20233 min read


Walking Meditation
Walking meditation is a great complement to our sitting meditation practice. We can utilise walking meditation to balance the tendency for s

Reimar
Oct 31, 20224 min read