Why Meditate?

If you want to experience greater wellbeing, increase resilience to stress, and develop an authentic connection to yourself, meditation might support you.

The proposition is that we spend much of our lives lost in reactivity and habitual patterns that often perpetuate our suffering. By learning to pay attention in a non-reactive and non-judgmental way, we can debunk some of the self-referential rhetoric and reactivity to experience a greater sense of ease and connection.

Who is it for? Anyone. It’s secular, supported by science and if you are breathing, you can practice. We train individuals, teams and teachers. Feeling inspired? Reach out <3

What We Offer

Mindfulness Meditation Courses

We offer evidence-based training in Mindfulness Meditation (MBSR) as an 8-week course, and a weekend immersions that is suitable for busy people and frequent travellers.

The course is a thorough introduction to mindfulness meditation and mindful movement offered as a structured pathway to reduce stress, suffering and enhance wellbeing.

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Mindfulness at Work

We help organisations thrive, offering full-service wellbeing support including classes, bespoke mindfulness workshops and the renowned Search Inside Yourself program that has been integrated by numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Our growing list of clients include Abobe, Plista, Clue, Ableton, Zalando, Wooga, Qixxit and more.

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Meditation Teacher Training

Our trainings prepare meditation enthusiasts and mindfulness champions to become mindful leaders, ready to make a genuine difference in people's lives by delivering authentic, evidence-based meditation practices.

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Our Studio

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Situated on the edge of Görlitzerpark, The Dream Haus studio is Germany’s first contemporary meditation space. Dedicated to insight, contemplation and creativity, for learning to meditate and practicing mindfulness.

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Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh teaches Five Mindfulness Trainings on right actions (or ethics), the first training involves respecting life. In awareness of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, we work to protect all living things and this planet that sustains life.⁠
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This week has seen people gather across the world to engage in peaceful civil disobedience to compel government action on climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. ⁠
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Right action, together in community is the most powerful tool we have to make changes as a society. Needless to say, you know where to find us for the next few days. Because (peaceful) activism is our rent for living on this planet.⁠
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‘Be patient to all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in a foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then, gradually, live along some distant day into the answer.’ - Rainer Maria Rilke

P R A C T I C A L T I P⁠
For anyone arriving at a practice of mindfulness meditation, it is often accompanied by a self-imposed expectation that we must sit crossed-legged on the floor. This is the first of many opportunities we can utilize to soften the expectations that surround our practice, as this style of sitting can be quite inaccessible if you've not spent a lot of time on the floor in your adult life. ⁠ ⁠
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In our view, it is important that we create optimal conditions for the cultivation of sustainable practice. And this means allowing the blood to flow freely through your limbs as you sit. One way to action this could be by placing extra height under your seat. This could look like sitting in a chair or sitting on multiple objects (cushions, a stool, blocks). Additionally, crossed legs could have support under knees, or become a different shape altogether, such as the kneeling form even reclined. (however when tired the last one can often turn into a nap) ⁠
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Essentially, mindfulness meditation can look entirely different from the outside for each individual. And one of the wonderful things about this practice is that it can be adapted to and inclusive of all our unique needs. ⁠
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If you need assistance adjusting your seat, please comment below :) ⁠
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E M B O D I E D M I N D F U L N E S S ⁠
When asking ourselves to pay attention to our bodies and our physical experience it’s always important to recognise that there will be times when we feel sensations and times when we don’t. In mindfulness, the experiment is to notice what we notice, and to the best of our ability, move towards softening judgement about whatever that is. ⁠
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Knowing our sensations, or lack of sensations gives us the capacity to know how we feel and to understand what we may need moment to moment. And with the support of kindness and self-compassion, it may even become possible to hold both comfortable and uncomfortable information in our awareness while we explore it.⁠
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This is a concept we explore in our 8-week mindfulness courses. We'd love to hear about your experiences of embodied mindfulness.....⁠
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Peeling back - Some thought-provoking insights from Jon Kabat Zinn⁠
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“We all take ourselves too seriously because we believe that there’s someone to take seriously. That “me.” We become the star of our own movie. The story of “me”, starring, of course, me! And everyone else becomes a bit player in our movie. And then we forget that it’s a fabrication. It’s a construction. And that it’s not a movie and that there’s no “you” that you can actually find if you were to peel back.⁠
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Are you your name? Are you your age? Are you your thoughts? Are you your opinions? Are you your genetic inheritance?"⁠
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H E A R T F U L N E S S & C O M P A S S I O N⁠
Compassion and heartfulness are not only foundational elements of mindfulness and meditation practices, but equally powerful tools for developing emotional resilience, and expanding our world view. It requires taking a balanced approach to perceived negative events in our experience so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated.⁠
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We are born with functional neurological mechanisms that mean we view the world through judgements, memories and learned information. Therefore part of the process of developing compassion and expanding our perspective involves cultivating ways in which to respond to difficult situations, thoughts and feelings with kindness, empathy and understanding. This is a process of softening or letting go of these defensive standpoints and developing the ability to meet ourselves and others, just as we are, without suppression or exaggeration.⁠
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