Meditation Is Growing Up And Not Growing Up Is Donald Trump
A student at the 2018 Summer Retreat asked if meditation can be guaranteed to make you calmer, more self-confident and stronger. His answer was an emphatic "No". Meditation helps us grow up and take o...
26 Jan 20195min
The Ego Is Not A Problem, Except The Fifth Bit
Alistair Appleton reveals that much of what we think about the 'ego' being a problem is wrong. Much of the ego is not a problem - just one aspect of it... Taken from the Summer 2018 Retreat on Holy Is...
19 Jan 20199min
How To Survive Families And Relationship Somatically
During a discussion in the Summer 2018 Retreat on Holy Island, Alistair speaks to a mother's worry that she has over-mothered her children and explores the way somatic practice improves relationships....
12 Jan 201913min
Crappy Thoughts are a Function of Tension
Exploring the interface of neurobiology and meditation, Alistair explores some of the 'koans of the soma', the nuts and bolts of our human bodies and how that affects our being. This is an extract fr...
4 Jan 201915min
Our Addiction to Busy-ness
In his opening comments to the 2018 "Being Still, Still Being" retreat Alistair outlines the neurobiological underpinnings of our obsessive busy-ness and how we need to work with that not against it. ...
4 Jan 201910min
SItting As A Tool For Not Exiting Life
Most of us exist in a frenzied haze of continual distraction from our real experience of life. The traditional posture of sitting meditation creates a framework that makes the distraction fade out, an...
15 Dec 20187min
Our Terror Of Stillness
Most of us are compulsive do-ers and actually afraid of being still and silent. Alistair explores the three interlocking states of being-enjoying-doing and how they can help us relax.
8 Dec 201812min
Introverts, Extroverts And The Blessing Of Being Uncomfortable
In an excerpt from the 2018 Summer retreat on Holy Island, Alistair explores some of the current thinking about introverts ruling the world and how discomfort can often bring wisdom.
1 Dec 20185min
