Walking Meditation is an anchor to be more alive, more curious, and more engaged, all the time.
I learned the practice of walking meditation in 2013 while residing at Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Monastery in France. Two years later, I introduced soft-sand walking meditations on Bondi, Australia's busiest beach, and extended the practice to other locations along the East Coast (Newcastle & Byron Bay) and the West Coast of the USA (San Francisco's stunning Baker Beach). In 2019, VC Firm Calibrate Ventures invited me to lead a guided walk and talk during their Founders Retreat in San Diego. In 2023, I am bringing the highly-regarded walking meditations to corporate offices, sporting teams, schools, and events all across Australia, as part of our workplace wellness and mental health offerings.
How are you in seemingly insignificant moments? Are you rushing off to something better? If you cultivate that habit, you’ll do it at the dinner table with your family, you’ll do it in the park with your child, you’ll do it at your desk at work, and you’ll miss out on life, again and again.
What You Can Expect from a Walk.
~An introductory Talk to learn Walking Meditation's why, what, and how.
~A guided group Walk
~A Sitting Meditation
Benefits for participants
~Learn to step outside the noise of endless thought and to-do lists, to reconnect with your body and calm your mind - so each moment is an opportunity to refresh and reinvigorate.
~Boost clarity and creativity. We breathe, we feel. In this spontaneity, curiosity, creativity, and thinking outside the box truly flourish.
~Learn to move from ‘doing mode’ to ‘being mode’ (Automatic pilot v conscious choice)
~Learn the concepts of Polyvagal Theory to reduce stress and work better.
~Use walking as a tool for peak performance and peak experience.
~Learn to walk as a vehicle to enrich your life.
We walk to work, around the office, to the Uber, and maybe even to a meditation class. Why wait until you get into class and why practice sitting meditation every day, if you don’t integrate it into your everyday life? Too often we sit and try to outthink our problems. This is difficult and tiring. We need to learn to step outside the noise for a moment, to reconnect with our bodies and calm our minds. So we can come out the other end feeling refreshed and reinvigorated.
We don’t wait until we arrive somewhere to be happy, we learn to be happy on the way.