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Learn and Teach Meditation. Awaken the mind. Our vision is a qualified meditation teacher in every town and suburb in the world

We would love to see everyone learn the art of mental stillness. Only then can the world be truly at peace.

30/10/2026

Meditation tomorrow morning. Online. Free. 9am Adelaide time. All welcome.

skillfulmind.net/zoom

29/10/2026

Counting the breath gets dismissed as a beginner technique. It's one of the most reliable things we teach.

Count to ten on the out-breath. Lose count, start again at one. The counting isn't the point. The point is that you know the moment your attention slips, which plain breath-watching doesn't tell you.

Plenty of very experienced practitioners come back to it.

28/10/2026

Tonight. Wake Up: Foundations, 7:30pm Adelaide.

In the hour I'll help you find the root of one pattern that keeps pulling you back into the same unhappiness, and we'll start letting it go, live in the session. Free, on Zoom, no experience needed.

8pm Sydney and Melbourne, 5pm Perth.

Register and the Zoom link comes straight to you. Can't make it live? Register anyway and the recording comes to you.

skillfulmind.com.au/wake-up-workshop/?src=fb-found-3

28/10/2026

In the last week or so, I've been looking at my teaching material. I want to make it as practical and approachable as I can, for beginners and experienced meditators alike.

I'd love to hear from you. Which teachings in Skillful MIND have been the most transformative in your life?

27/10/2026

Tomorrow night. Wake Up: Foundations, 7:30pm Adelaide.

One hour on what you actually need in place to wake up the mind. Free, online, no experience needed. Ask questions or just listen.

Can't make it live? Register anyway and the recording comes to you.

skillfulmind.com.au/wake-up-workshop/?src=fb-found-2

27/10/2026

Meditation doesn't improve in a straight line, and expecting it to is why people quit.

There's usually an early stretch where it goes well. Then a long flat patch where nothing seems to happen. That flat patch isn't failure. It's where the coarse stuff has settled and you haven't yet learned to see the finer stuff, so it feels empty.

If you're in it, keep your sits short and regular and don't push harder. It passes.

27/10/2026

Most people who want to wake up start in the wrong place. They go looking for the big experiences first.

The big experiences rest on foundations. A mind that can settle. Honesty about what drives you. A practice that holds when life gets busy. Get those in place and everything else has something to stand on.

That's Thursday night. Wake Up: Foundations. One hour, free, online.

Thursday 29 October, 7:30pm Adelaide.

skillfulmind.com.au/wake-up-workshop/?src=fb-found-1

24/10/2026

Ask people what they want and most will say some peace. Some rest.

Then they sit down to meditate and within a minute the mind is saying it can't stand doing nothing.

That restlessness runs deep in all of us. It is possible to get rid of it, and that's the kind of thing we look at in Wake Up: Foundations. One hour, free, on Zoom. Thursday 29 October, 7:30pm Adelaide time.

https://skillfulmind.com.au/wake-up-workshop/

23/10/2026

A sapphire is rare because of what it takes to make one. Huge pressure, a very long time, and the right ingredients in the right place.

That's why I called our 2027 mentoring group the Sapphire group.

It's one of very few groups in the world dedicated to a single aim: awakening the mind. Relaxation and stress relief come along the way. The aim is awakening.

For a year you practise every day, meet the group every week, and sit down with me one-to-one twice a month. We start from your Awaken Map, so we work on where you actually are.

It runs on donations. You decide what it's worth.

If you've been practising for a while and you know there's further to go, this is a rare opportunity. It's a small group, so places are limited.

https://skillfulmind.com.au/mentoring/

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