An 8-Week Meditation Training in Applied Zen Buddhist Mindfulness, Vipassana + Brahmavihara Heart Practice.

The Mind is an Ocean, provides a comprehensive, immersive hands-on online container to train in the ‘Art of Meditation’.

This foundational and experiential step-by-step program will teach you everything you need to feel confident and competent in creating and maintaining your own personalised Vipassana practice to do anywhere on your own.

No Matter What the Changing Condition, I am at Peace

Zen Meditation is a training in transcending every transient wave of experience to find a deep sense of unmoving inner peace + freedom within that does not depend on any external changing circumstances.

What is Vipassana?

Vipassana is one type of Zen Meditation, like Samatha Breath Awareness or Brahmavihara Heart Practice. It is roughly translated as ‘Insight Meditation’.

Vipassana is the realisation that the waves of human experience, of impermanent self-limiting narratives, emotional reactivity, stress, pain, fear, ecstasy and anger, come and go, but true freedom and peace lie within the realisation that our true nature is that of the boundless, non-attached witness - the loving ocean of awareness that can hold all the waves of life, gently, compassionately, without identification.

Amongst all these waves of life, there is you, the unmoving space that is aware of each change as it comes and goes.

This is the practice of clear-seeing or Vipassana.

what will I learn?

this course is for you if you…

  • You have been on + off meditating with guided meditations, classes or meditation music for a while now, but are now ready to fully commit to making meditation a regular habit and lifestyle choice.

  • You want the theoretical and experiential-based training to transition you from ‘being guided’ to ‘being well-versed’ in the tools and techniques to navigate your own solo and personalised meditation practice.

  • Such as inability to:

    • Focus and become still + non-reactive
    • Let go of control and attachment to thoughts
    • Let go of cycles of clinging and aversion
    • Let go of self-judgement and criticism
    • Let go of striving, doubt, confusion + frustration
    • Work with anxious thought patterns
    • Work with challenging emotional intensity, numbness, dissociation or pain in the body

  • You are a spiritual or wellness practitioner or enthusiast (e.g. Meditation, Yoga, energy healer, sound healer, body worker, counsellor, coach, psychologist, community or holistic health worker, etc.) with some grasp of any various meditation method already, who wants to specifically study and master the traditional Zen Buddhist way of Vipassana + Dharma principles to weave into your personal practice or even professional practice.

  • You seek a practice that does not rely on any external tools like using objects, reciting mantras, controlling the breath, moving the body, or tries to fix or alter your experience in any way but fundamentally shifts your relationship to it.

  • You are ready to be guided in cultivating and sustaining the daily habit of practice, which is an integral part of transitioning from ‘doing’ meditation to ‘being’ meditation.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

8 weeks x 90min LIVE Zoom Workshops

Weekly Guided Meditation Home Practices

1 x 60min private 1:1 Meditation Mentoring session

Each class consists of:


Weekly Guided Meditations

You will be asked to commit to a 42-day home meditation program using weekly 15-30 min guided recordings

mindfulness is…

In Zen, the word ‘Mind’ in mindfulness refers not just to the mind, but to Heart-Mind Consciousness. It represents an equal balance of love + wisdom, and acceptance + awareness to make pure loving presence.

To have a ‘Mind like an Ocean’ means to purify your presence to embody the mindful clarity and non-attached qualities of water, so that you can live in flow with all of life.

refining presence…

Water is about refining our presence to awaken to who we really are. We go from a muddy, coarse mind to a clear, refined mind that is free from mental reactivity and suffering.

+ be like water

The Way of Water teaches us to be still, lucid, fluid, nurturing, healing + formless just like the Ocean of Pure Awareness. We will explore each of these qualities in each module of the course.

TRAINING SYLLABUS

  • Welcome
    • Course Structure Overview
    • Setting Wise-Heart Intentions

    The Course Journey + Transformation
    • How to ‘Be Like Water’
    • ‘The Waves + the Ocean’
    • Summary of Modules

    Mindfulness Foundations
    • What Mindfulness is and what it is not
    • The Art of Meditation: Benefits + Purpose

    Home Practice
    • PBB: Pause, Breathe + Be Aware

  • Mindfulness of Breath: The Breath as a Portal to Presence

    Focus on the breath. Be here, calm and unmoved.

    Mindfulness of Breath
    • Settling the wandering mind
    • The breath as an anchor to grounded presence
    • Releasing control of reality + mental restlessness

    What is Samatha?
    • Samatha Breath Awareness Technique
    • Zen Meditation Posture

    Establishing a Home Practice

  • Mindfulness of Thoughts for Mental Clarity, Perspective + Insight Wisdom

    Let go of critical over-thinking and narratives. You are the lucid observer.

    Vipassana
    • Filtering out mental impurities, reactivities and delusions through ‘clear-seeing’ or ‘insight’ meditation

    Non-Attachment of Thoughts
    • Past, Present + Future: Anxiety and Depression
    • State of Observation: You are the witness

    Emptiness
    • Law of Relativity + Subjectivity

    Limiting Beliefs
    • Over-thinking, narratives and releasing repetitive thought patterns
    • What is the story I am telling myself?

  • Mindfulness of Body Sensations and Emotions for Freedom + Flow

    Let go of attachments and emotional reactivity. Come back into the river flow of life.

    Somatic Perception
    • Dissociation + embodied presence
    • Developing sensation awareness and sensitivity
    • Tracking sensations

    Impermanence and the River Flow of Life
    • Transcending Aversion + Clinging, Resistance + Desire
    • Emotional reactivity, aversion + dissolving resistance

    Practicing Non-Attachment of Sensations
    • Leaning back or leaning forward
    • Adding fire to fire/reactivity to reactivity
    • Hotel vs. Guest

  • Metta + Compassion Heart Practice for working with discomfort

    Melting our resistance to ‘what is’ with the 4 Seeds of Love.

    Cultivating Wise Compassion
    • Mindfulness vs. Compassion
    • When is it wisest to not face what’s hard and be kind?

    Befriending our Inner Landscape
    • Working with resistance to challenging feelings
    • The Ocean of Love: Dissolving the 2nd arrow of resistance
    • Widening out Window of Tolerance
    • Resourcing through Metta + Compassionate Heart Practice

    5 Resourcing Techniques using Brahmavihara Heart Practice
    • The Brahmaviharas: Metta/Lovingkindness, Karuna/Compassion, Mudita/Joy + Upeksha/Equanimity
    • What is Resourcing?
    • Cultivating a felt-sense of connection, strength, safety and care
    • Developing non-judgmental, non-fixing and non-rejecting presence

  • Somatic Awareness Integration Meditation for regulating challenging emotional overwhelm, stress + pain and meeting our unmet needs

    How to navigate anxious triggers, old wounding patterns, deep pain + unprocessed trauma.

    What is Trauma?
    • Trauma + The Nervous System
    • Maladaptive coping strategies
    • Metabolising and transforming stuck fear-response

    Somatic Awareness Integration Meditation
    • The importance of Resourcing
    • Titration + Pendulation

    Uncovering + Meeting Our Unmet Needs
    • Investigating underneath: What is my unmet need?
    • Nurturing with compassionate presence

    (Module 4 + 5 compliments what is studied in the Re-Mothering the Inner Child Within 1-Day Immersion)

  • Resting in your natural presence for eternal inner peace

    You are the formless, boundless Ocean of Awareness. Open to all. Attached to none.

    What is your True Nature?
    • Transcending duality + Non-self
    • Remember who you are: Formless, infinite, natural presence

    Equanimity + Unconditional Acceptance
    • ‘The Ocean and the Waves’
    • Non-reactivity + emotional freedom
    • Walking the Middle Way

    Practicing Open Awareness
    • Resting as Natural Presence
    • Violin Energy Resonance: Attuning to infinite acceptance + peace
    • The Art of Doing Nothing: ‘Wu-Wei’ non-doing, non-striving + impartiality

  • Establishing an intuitive & fluid personal Meditation practice

    How to integrate it all together for Daily Mindful Living and sustained practice

    Integration
    • What is the goal of meditation?
    • The Story of the Lotus: Non-Striving vs. Skilful Means
    • Daily Habit Creation

    Course Summary
    • When to Use What?
    • The Art of Mindful Living
    • Basic DIY Meditation Recipe
    • What is the ultimate goal of spiritual practice?

    Closing Ceremony
    • Course reflection + future intentions circle

Testimonials

What sols have said about The Mind is an Ocean:

ENROLMENT

Next Course Dates

23 MARCH - 11 MAY 2023

  • Weekly on Thursdays

  • 7-8:30pm AEDT

  • Online Zoom

  • Intake opens 27 Feb 2023

  • Application cut-off 19 March 2023

2025 [Date TBC]

  • 4-Day Retreat OR 8-Weeks Online

Private Groups

For Private Groups, Women’s or Meditation Circles, Corporate Groups of 10+ people:

Please email us for date availabilities and special group discounts.

SAVE MY SPOT

  1. Please fill in the ‘Application Form’
    This form will allow us to see if your needs are aligned with the program. Upon acceptance you will receive an email link to proceed with payment.

    Please ensure you are available for all 8 classes before signing up. Read ‘I missed a class, will they be recorded?’ for more info.

  2. One Time Payment of:

EARLY BIRD

$450 AUD

(GST incl.)

GENERAL

$550 AUD

(GST incl.)

MEET YOUR TEACHER

meditation mentor

group + 1:1 intuitive energy healing space holder

Zen Buddhist Dharma, Vipassana + Compassion Meditation Teacher

Somatic Resourcing + Integration Facilitator

Channeled Activation Meditation Ceremonies

Vibrational Plant Medicine Consultations

Sensitive Sol + Inner Child Healing

Heart Consciousness Wisdom Keeper

JASMINE (she/her) | IG: @solflowerseeds

Jasmine’s dharma is one of service as a direct conduit for Divine Unconditional Love, bridging the seen and unseen realms through channeled meditation transmission and vibrational translation of higher levels of consciousness.

Jasmine has spent the last 9 years cultivating the Art of Vipassana meditation, studying alongside nuns at her Mahayana Zen Buddhist Monastery. She continues her deepening of dharma and somatic heart-based therapy with a 2 year-long meditation teacher certification with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s MMTCP Awareness Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jasmine works as a space holder calling you to remember how to hold unconditional loving space for all layers of your being, welcoming all lost, messy, hurt parts of you back home to your heart. Through her connection with Kwan Yin, she guides you to unlock the sacred processes of compassionate shadow reclamation and integration, uncovering and meeting your inner child’s unmet needs. Her embodied transmissions are informed and infused with Metta + Equanimity granting you the heart resources of safety and deep nurturing to face your inner wounding patterns, transforming them and loving them back into wholeness.

She weaves her personal life experience as a Sensitive Sol with her studies and passion in Zen Buddhist Dharma and Vipassana, Tao Philosophy, Pranic Healing (chakra clearing + balancing), somatic energetics (body-awareness energy healing), sound healing + plant spirit channelling.

Jasmine, after her namesake, has a distinct resonance with flowers and their vibrational essence wisdom medicines. She connects individuals with the earth’s guidance and alchemical space holding these plant spirits wish to impart to us on their earth walk alongside our spiritual journeys.

FAQs

  • This is a program for meditation practitioners with some experience already in Vipassana or other meditation methods but who want to go deeper into their personal study of Zen Dharma + Vipassana. Although we start right from the start with Breath Awareness to get the basics right and learn them thoroughly, we go deep, fast.

    So beginners in meditation are welcome, but please be mindful to the possible extra commitments needed to keep up with each week and the daily practice requirements, as each module builds onto the next and we pack a lot into a short amount of time.

  • Students are expected to attend every live class as each module was designed to build upon the last.

    Your live presence in group discussions and exercises will prevent you from falling behind and allow you to receive personalised guidance and adjustments and peer support in order to maintain a regular habit of practice.

    Access to module recordings is not guaranteed as this is a LIVE training.

    Students who miss a module will be contacted and considered on a case-by-case basis for access to recordings. Upon sufficient reasonings, module recordings will be available for a period of one week up until the next week’s class.

    All weekly guided meditation recordings and Powerpoint slides will always be available after each class. They are yours to keep and study.

  • • 12hrs of 90min weekly LIVE Zoom classes

    • 2-4 hours per week self-study
    (15-30min daily guided meditation practice + 5 min self-inquiry exercises)

    • Approx. 34hr time commitment

  • Our Refund Policy

    Please Note
    • Cancellations UP TO 12 March 2023 will receive FULL payment refund
    • Cancellations AFTER 12 March 2023 will receive HALF payment refund
    • Cancellations AFTER 19 March 2023 WILL NOT receive a refund

  • No, this is a program for those who want to go deeper into their own personal study of Zen Dharma + Vipassana.