Falling In Love With Presence

Falling In Love With Presence

Freeing Yourself From Identification With Thoughts

Six Week online course starting Saturday 31st January 10:30 - 11:45

The course is open to anybody interested in the theme. No prior experience is necessary. The session are informal and the course is experiential in nature. There is a maximum of 8 particpants.

There is anlother course of the same theme running alongside on Saturdays. You can swap days if you need to miss any sessions. All sessions ae recorded.

Course: Falling In Love With Presence Freeing Yourself From Identification With Thoughts

Overview: This six-session journey invites participants to turn inward, to rediscover the simple, radiant presence that is always here. Through direct experience, guided reflection, and simple practices, we explore the nature of thought, the illusion of self, and the effortless ease of being at home in presence awareness.

Session 1 – Coming Home to Presence

Theme: Freeing Yourself From Thought

Summary: We begin by recognising presence — the still, aware space beneath all thoughts and feelings. Instead of seeking something special, we learn to rest in what’s already here.

Practice: Guided meditation: “Resting as Awareness” Sensing the body and breath without trying to change anything

Reflections For Home: What happens when I stop trying to improve this moment? How does it feel to simply be?

Session 2 – Freeing Yourself from Thoughts

Theme: Seeing thoughts for what they are

Summary: Thoughts don’t ask permission to arise; they are not chosen and cannot be stopped. But they can be seen. In this session, we learn to watch thoughts appear and dissolve, without identifying with them.

Practice: Meditation: Watching the river of thought Writing exercise: “If I’m not my thoughts, what am

Reflection For Home: Can a thought define me? What is aware of the thinking?

Session 3 – Meeting the Sense of ‘Me’

Theme: Exploring the illusion of self

Summary: The sense of ‘me’ appears as a bundle of thoughts, sensations, and memories. We inquire into what we take ourselves to be, not intellectually but through quiet observation.

Practice: Guided inquiry: “Who am I when I’m not thinking about myself?” Silent sitting with the felt sense of being

Reflections For Home: What happens to the ‘me’ when I look for it directly? Is awareness personal or impersonal?

Session 4 – The Art of Allowing

Theme: Relaxing resistance and opening to what is

Summary: Presence doesn’t resist experience. We learn to welcome everything — sensations, emotions, and thoughts — without grasping or pushing away. This is where presence begins to flower as love.

Practice: Open awareness meditation: letting everything be as it is Body awareness and emotional release through soft attention

Reflections For Home: What changes when I stop resisting what’s here? Is peace something I create, or something I notice?

Session 5 – Living Presence

Theme: Bringing presence into daily life

Summary: Presence isn’t confined to meditation; it is life itself. We explore mindful living — walking, listening, and speaking from awareness rather than from the conditioned self.

Practice: Walking meditation: being the space in which walking happens Mindful listening and speaking exercises

Reflection For Home: Can I sense effortless presence in the middle of ordinary activity? How does life unfold when I don’t interfere?

Session 6 – Falling in Love with What Is

Theme: The heart of presence — relaxing into the ocean of presence

Summary: In our final session, we rest deeply in being. Presence is revealed not as a dry state of awareness but as living, loving stillness — our true home.

Practice: Silent sitting: “Nothing to change, nowhere to go” Gratitude reflection on the journey of awakening

Reflections For Home: What does it mean to fall in love with presence? What do I need to let go of to fall in love with presence?