Rabbit Hole

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Sensory Experience the Third: I Done Goned Away MEDITATION: Just Note Gone GROUP PRACTICE: I have no idea Something awesome and gaseous I made up that day. Maybe we’ll talk about some of the bullshit out there around ENLIGHTENMENT and ohhh STREAM-ENTRY and trying to get somewhere. Cause you can / can’t! […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Ok things are getting a big bubbly and vibratory, wow dude you were right; MEDITATION: Sensory Experience Part Deux: Flow; GROUP PRACTICE: But can I flow in a group With other people looking at my crooked teeth? This one will be a walking practice – a group moon-walking practice. For reals. How smooth can you […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: I am hard MEDITATION: Sensory Experience 1: Solid and Liquid; GROUP PRACTICE: Tough gal / guy tickle fight. Words tickling via a conversation about your STUPID LIFE STRATEGIES. Strategy will battle strategy for cage match domination, and guess what? Softness and love wins. Haha.

TEACHER: Jeff Warren and Degan THEME: Grrr…. Couple Battle! How to Not Scupper Your Every Kind of Relationship; MEDITATION: Down and Dirty with the Emotional Body, Part Deux; GROUP PRACTICE: In relationship, there are folks who do the walking. Sometimes, walking right over you. And there are folks who do the door matting – sometimes, door matting right under you! And then there […]

TEACHERS: Jeff Warren and Degan THEME: My Emotional Body Wants to Run Away and/or Punch you in the Face! MEDITATION: Down and Dirty with the Emotional Body, Part Un; GROUP PRACTICE: Exploring the Assertiveness Continuum A big line crosses the room – at one end, passiveness, at the other, aggressiveness. Somewhere in the middle (or maybe it’s orthogonal) is healthy assertiveness. Using various playful social […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Boundaries MEDITATION: Boundary self-space yo-yo machinery GROUP PRACTICE: Yes it’s true – your boundaries are dysfunctional. Too rigid. Too porous. Too superball springy, so that huggers bounce off you and end up hugging the random person behind them. Or maybe your boundaries are super healthy, in which case you can show me what that looks like, cause I have […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren and Avi THEME: Devotion 4: Ye Gods! MEDITATION: Deity Yoga GROUP PRACTICE: Inter-Personal Adventure Psyched to welcome my new friend Avi Craimer, a smart and rigorous Toronto-based meditation teacher with an interest in the devotional side of practice. This is rare in the West, where there is much more emphasis on dry “attentional skill” training. Check […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Devotion 3: Giving Up MEDITATION: Stop Trying GROUP PRACTICE: Let’s All Surrender So much to explore on the interconnected themes of devotion, love and surrender. For the group practice, we’ll go inside using a form of contemplative inquiry designed to activate our intuition-rich anti-search engines. As the cliche goes, this one is about accessing your […]

TEACHER: Jeff and Scott THEME: Devotion 2: Kung-Fu Self-Hugging or Loving the Entire Vibrating Body Backwards in Stillness and in Motion MEDITATION: I Love the Feeling of Having a Body GROUP PRACTICE: Yoga Magic OG’s Scott Davis will work his yoga magic as we move very slowly and deliberately into accessible and archetypally-charged postures, feeling the wonder and grace of each pose. Man […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Reality / Unreality MEDITATION: Melting into the Dream of You GROUP PRACTICE: Mini Lucid Dreaming workshop In my other life I wrote a book about dreaming and waking, and, like many before me, I became enchanted with the alternate reality known as lucid dreaming. Excellent for celebrity sex and super power rehearsal, obviously, but oh so much more. […]

TEACHER: Jeff and James THEME: The Beat that my Heart Remixed MEDITATION:  Your body is a tuning fork for cosmic symphonies. GROUP PRACTICE: We’ve done this before, and it is always good. After focusing your sensitive little heart, we’ll pull out the blankets and bolsters and spill onto the floor as James and Jeff guide you through […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Punching Right Through the Gates of Your Face MEDITATION: Silent Illumination GROUP PRACTICE: Dharma Combat Oh yes this will be good. Already I am so happy about this that I may not even show up. So for the meditation we’ll do a dead-simple Chan (Chinese Zen) practice called Silent Illumination where we’ll get all steeped in foreverness. Then what? We fight. Yeah, that’s […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Gettin’ Rigour MEDITATION: Vipassana-style noting GROUP PRACTICE: Partner Noting We start the month with a bit of disciplined practice. Basic insight noting. Object: the breath – a fine object with an auspicious lineage, for under the Bodhi tree the Buddha apparently rode his breath all the way to enlightenment, whatever that means. Of course this was only after a pitched psychic battle with the armies of Mara – ie. sloth, […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Challenge MEDITATION: Into the Underworld! GROUP PRACTICE:  These are all the ways I suck, and this is what it feels like to talk about my suckage with you. This week we take our medicine. We learn how, in TS Elliot’s words, “to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.” It’s arguably […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Breakthrough MEDITATION: Moving Ever-closer to The Now GROUP PRACTICE:  Time bandits So as I said, breakthrough is gonna look different depending on the person. For some, it might be a glimpse into the constructed nature of sensory reality, for others an energizing kundalini shock, for others still a sudden insight into […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Effort MEDITATION: Dog on a Bone Concentration GROUP PRACTICE:  Lucid Dreaming mini-workshop Everything starts with concentration. The ability to focus, to stay on task. In meditation you learn the things you once thought were boring – like breathing – are actually fas-ci-na-ting when you concentrate on them. That’s because when the discursive mind settles, there’s […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: Lighting in a Bottle MEDITATION: Verve and Vitality GROUP PRACTICE: Activate 5: Activating This last week, we finalize the details of each initiative and share them with the larger group. We’ll explore how to energize the language of caring with an automatic writing exercise, empowering each other to unleash our store […]

TEACHER: Jeff THEME: Hidden Assumptions MEDITATION: Patterns of Inner Activation GROUP PRACTICE: Activate 4: Service is Edge-Riding We’ll continue to flesh out the details of our potential new initiatives, but this week we’ll also mindfully explore what hidden assumptions we may be bringing to the table. One of the big lessons from the development scene […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: The Big Picture MEDITATION: Grounding and Expanding. GROUP PRACTICE: Activate 3: Choosing and Consolidating Ok we’re starting to build some momentum here. We’ve shared stories and potentially identified some key areas to explore. Time to consolidate our creativity and focus in on a few concrete initiatives, either one you personally share […]

TEACHER: Jeff Warren THEME: The Stories We Tell MEDITATION: Into the Heart GROUP PRACTICE: Activate 2: Connecting to our Personal Motivation To prepare for this session, try to think about a challenge you faced or an experience you had that really affected you and might hint at an activate direction you’d want to go. Maybe […]