One-to-One
Vipassana Guidance
Personal guidance for your meditation practice, whether you're getting started, working through a difficulty or ready to go deeper.
Vipassana is a skill, a practice, an art and a way of being. Sometimes it's an active practice and sometimes a conscious letting go. Much of it can be learned from books, courses and recordings, but at some point most of us need someone who can look at our practice with us. One-to-one guidance offers exactly that, in three different forms depending on where you are.
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Reimar Wen Shen
Teacher - Vipassana at Home
What brings people here
A practice that keeps slipping. You've meditated on and off for years, or you know you want to sit, but the habit never quite holds.
Unsure whether you're doing it right. Doubts about technique, hopping between methods, or something arising on the cushion you don't know how to work with.
Sitting daily, but stuck. The practice is regular, yet it has gone flat, mechanical or quietly plateaued, and you sense there is further to go.
No one to ask. You learned on a retreat or from a course and have practised alone since. Questions pile up with nobody to bring them to.
None of this means you're doing something wrong.
Vipassana is best learned in an iterative feedback cycle between teacher and student, practice and life, understanding and experience.
When that cycle is missing, practice tends to drift, stall or stop. Getting it going again is often what makes the difference.
Three ways to work together
All sessions are 60 minutes by Zoom video call.
One-Off
Single Session
One-off deep dive into a specific question or sticking point
90 EUR
Focused Sessions
Weekly, for 6 weeks
Starting, rebuilding or working through a struggle
€480 (6 × €80)
paid upfront
Ongoing Mentorship
Every two weeks,
open-ended
For an established, regular practice. Long-term guidance.
80 EUR
per session
Single Session
€90 · one session · book directly
A one-off consultation for when you have a specific question, a sticking point, or simply want an experienced pair of eyes on your practice. We look at what's happening and what's getting in the way, and I give you a clear, targeted recommendation for where to go from here.
Depending on what's useful, we might do some out-loud noting together, you might report on your practice in detail, or we might talk through deeper themes coming up on the cushion or in your life. Afterwards I send you a short written follow-up with my recommendation.
Six Focused Sessions
€480 · six weekly sessions · begins with a free discovery call
Six sessions of deep but framed guidance, for when you need more than a single conversation but not an open-ended commitment. This works well if:
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you're working through a particular struggle in your practice
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your practice has slipped and you want to re-establish it
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you don't have a regular practice yet and want help getting the momentum going
In the first session we set a clear focus. Over the following weeks we build a practice that fits your actual life, and work with whatever comes up as you sit. If you're new to Vipassana or starting again, Focused Sessions can run alongside the 30-Day Foundations Course: the course gives you a daily lesson and practice, and our sessions give you personal guidance on what comes up.
Ongoing Mentorship
€80 per session · every two weeks · begins with a free discovery call
Long-term guidance for practitioners who already have a regular, established practice and want to go deeper. We refine technique, see more clearly what's actually happening in your experience, and move through the layers of insight, from solidity, tightness and fixed ideas towards openness, awakeness and freedom. Alongside the cushion, we look at how the practice lives in the rest of your life.
Because this works on what's already there, it's only offered to people with a regular sitting practice. If that isn't you yet, Focused Sessions are the place to start.
Not sure which fits?
Roughly: if your practice keeps slipping or hasn't started yet, look at Focused Sessions. If you're unsure whether you're doing it right, or have one specific thing to look at, a Single Session is often enough. If you sit regularly and feel stuck, or have no one to bring your questions to, Ongoing Mentorship is made for that.
If you still can't tell, book a free discovery call and we'll work it out together. And if you'd simply like to practise with others, the free Sunday community sit and the free practical guide are always open, with no commitment.
Words from the Community
“I’m less reactive and more present in my body and my life.”
Working with Reimar and the Vipassana practice itself have changed me and how I am in the world. I’m less reactive and more present in my body and my life.
Things no longer have to go well because I’m better at being with what is.
Stephanie
New York
“Unhurried, reflective, valuing words and silence.”
I admire Reimar’s ability to be open to learn from his students, to be in a listening posture with deep respect.
I enjoy the pace of our time together — unhurried, reflective, valuing words and silence.
Francine
Canada
“More of a space for self-discovery than a direction.”
Reimar is a clear and welcoming guide, fluid and patient — a guide who is more of a space for self-discovery than a direction.
Each time we meet I feel he is truly there for me with kindness and calmness, creating the conditions for my progress.
Andrea
Italy
How we work together
Whatever the format, we start from where you actually are and how you're already practising. What pulls you to sit shapes what's useful to work on: connecting with something deeper, becoming a clearer presence for the people in your life, deepening self-knowledge, or finding steadiness regardless of circumstance.
I generally work with the technique you already practise rather than replacing it with mine. Where it helps, I might introduce Mahasi noting, Goenka-style body scanning, the micro-motor body scan, walking meditation, open awareness or non-dual approaches. This isn't a fixed curriculum; it depends on what would actually serve you right now.
In the background I'm working with the three core skills of Vipassanā: stability, clarity and equanimity. Alongside them sit the four foundations of mindfulness and the layers of insight. These help me see which part of your experience, and which skill, needs attention at your current stage.
A session usually holds some meditation together, so we can look closely at what's happening on the cushion; some theory that speaks to where you are now; and something to continue with afterwards, on the cushion or in how you carry the practice into daily life. For some people the work also becomes more somatic, bringing the body and movement into practice. There's always room for whatever questions, difficulties or new directions come up.
The pace is unhurried. I'm less interested in telling you what to do than in asking the questions that help you see your practice clearly for yourself, so obstacles can be met with clarity and kindness rather than more effort. People who have worked with me often describe our sessions as more of a space for self-discovery than a set of directions.
What qualifies me as a guide?
A lifelong commitment to meditation. For over a decade I have kept an unbroken daily practice. I have spent over 200 days in intensive silent retreats in the Goenka and Mahasi traditions, including a continuous 3-month stay at Wat Sopharam monastery in Northern Thailand. Today I sit 1–2 hours a day and regularly attend retreats.
Passionate about guiding others. From my early days guiding meditation in university groups, yoga classes and even corporate lunch breaks, I have loved sharing the fruits of practice. Today I teach somatics and movement improvisation, host long-format containers for artistic research and embodied inquiry, and guide others online through Vipassana at Home. Through these modalities I have learned to convey mindfulness through embodied presence, not just words.
Experienced teacher and guide. Since 2021 I have taught through Vipassana at Home, guiding students one-to-one and teaching group courses. I am a trained Embodiment Coach and am currently in a 5-year training in non-dual approaches to Vipassana with Michael Taft of Deconstructing Yourself. I'm also committed to continuing to face my own shadows, and work regularly with an IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapist.
Living a fully engaged life. Having lived in a monastic setting, I know how to go deep. But I choose to live fully in the world, in relationship, work and family life. As a father, partner, community-builder and performing artist, I approach practice as something woven into a full life. Above all, I am committed to a never-ending journey of learning.
Testimonials
About cost, and getting started
About cost.
One-to-one work takes a different kind of energy from teaching a course or a group sit. It's sustained, personal attention, and as a father with limited time I need this offering to be properly paid. That's why, unlike my courses, there are no scholarships for one-to-one guidance. If cost is a genuine barrier for you, mention it on the discovery call and we'll look honestly at what might work, including whether a course or the free Sunday sit could serve you just as well for now.
Getting started.
For a Single Session, choose a time and book directly. For Focused Sessions or Ongoing Mentorship, we begin with a free discovery call. Come with a sense of your current practice: what you're working with, how often you sit, and what's drawing you to look for guidance now. If it feels like a good fit on both sides, we'll agree on the format and begin.
Book a single session
Pick a time that suits you and pay when you book.
Email me directly if none of the times suit you.