Episode Details

In this meditation, I guide you back to the foundational form of the practice.

These “recovering the form” episodes are a good place to begin if you are new, and an essential way to return and renew if you have been practising for some time. Like any skill, meditation deepens through repetition, and returning to the form helps to build steadiness and ease.

We begin by settling gently into posture, allowing the body to soften and the breath to move naturally. From there, awareness deepens through simple imagery, breathing as if through every part of the body, releasing tension, and resting more fully into the present moment.

As the practice unfolds, we are reminded that we are more than the body, more than our thoughts and emotions. We return to a deeper centre of awareness, resting in stillness, light and presence.

This meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, helping you return to the foundations of breath, awareness and inner steadiness.

Chapters

 00:00 – Introduction

00:17 – A place to begin and renew

00:38 – Returning to the form

01:00 – The bell

01:28 – Ritual gesture

01:45 – Sitting with gentleness

02:10 – Inviting the body into meditation

02:57 – Breathing through the whole body

03:20 – Releasing stress and tension

03:32 – Breath as vapour

04:45 – Breath as golden light

05:05 – The still pool of the body

05:58 – Breathing in and out

06:05 – I have a body, but I am more than my body

07:45 – I have thoughts and emotions, but I am more than them

08:15 – Moving to the centre of being

08:40 – Resting in stillness

08:56 – I am I

09:12 – Choosing to meditate

09:30 – Breathing in and out

10:40 – Returning to the room

10:55 – A moment of gratitude

10:59 – Closing bell

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