The Snowglobe Project: settling your world one breath at a time

Awareness Series Part 2: One focus, one thought practice

In the second part of this Awareness practice series, Simon Heale guides you through honing and holding focus during practice on a single place and sensation and how something insignificant can be so significant. How our grosser distractions can diminish into the background: thinking, feelings and the body.

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Awareness Series Part 1: Cultivate a deeper awareness within and without

Awareness is the heart of insight practice, it is the bedrock of a settled mind, it is a cornerstone of a meaningful life. When we have awareness we have choice. In this practice Simon Heale guides you through the fundamentals of developing more awareness and how to just sit with it. This is the first part of his Awareness Series.

The Snowglobe Project for Mental Health Awareness Week: Episode 5 Being Alone with our experiences

In this last episode for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale looks at the issue of being alone, our reactions to it and how we can cultivate a new relationship within our sitting practice to be with it in a more flexible and perhaps healthier way. How to hold an emotion with curiosity and expansiveness, to accept the sensation and not get caught up in the stories.

Not easy but worth the try.

Snowglobe Project for Mental Health Awareness Week: Episode 4 The Settling Practice

In part 4 of this series of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through his 'trademark' settling practice, putting together the various processes already explored this week: body, breath, thinking and now taking charge in settling these all down.

Snowglobe Project for Mental Health Awareness Week: Episode 3 Watching Thinking

In part 3 of this special week of short meditations for Mental Health Awareness Week, Simon Heale guides you through 18 minutes of watching how our thoughts come and go, and how to be with them in a better and more helpful way.

Mental Health Awareness week: Meditation for Tuesday - Breath as Anchor

In this short practice, Simon Heale guides you through how to access the body and breath as the anchor for your attention, to get a break from the to-ings and fro-ings of the mind.

Part 2 of the Mental Health Awareness week series

Settle with Simon: Mental Health Awareness Week: Day 1 practice

To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, meditation teacher Simon Heale guides you through 12 minutes of a settling body based practice, to ease you into the week.

Each day this week he will publish a new short practice. so subscribe and share this with everyone you feel could do with a calm start to the day.

Settle with Simon Special Episode:Meditation on Loss and Compassion

In this special and short meditation, Simon Heale guides you through ways to be with your loss with open, soft and compassionate hands. How to honour the value of your feelings as well as the inevitable memories of that which has been lost. To find a way to settle into loss.

This episode is in memory of Revi, a 19 year old gift of life. Thank you boy for being such an amazing force of life.

Settle with Simon: Ep 38 The Settling Practices

In this wonderfully calming episode, mindfulness teacher Simon Heale, guides you through two practices to help settle the body and mind. One is a short practice for daily, more immediate use and the other is the longer practice which can be used daily but is more realistically a weekly one to use.

These sessions are recorded from Simons weekly online meditation classes.

Enjoy and subscribe to get the next episode: Homecoming Practice

Settle with Simon: The Festive Practice, a gift for myself

In this meditation practice, Simon Heale guides you through a calming feast of festive treats for yourself to nourish and feed your body and mind and perhaps even your spirit.

Part of the Snowglobe Project, Settle with Simon aims to settle your worls one meditation, one breath at a time.