The Art of Meditation Part 2

Meditation Series: Placement, Analytical & Visualisation (Part 2 of 3)
(Important please read all details below)
Join us for a three-part meditation series exploring three powerful and complementary styles of practice. You're welcome to attend just one session, but we'd love for you to join all three — each one builds on the last.
Spaces are limited, so please only RSVP if you're able to attend — this helps us plan properly for everyone.

Why meditate?
Meditation is a simple but powerful practice to bring into daily life. Research has linked regular practice to:

• Enhanced overall well-being
• Reduced stress
• Improved emotional regulation
• Better memory and attention span
• Increased gray matter density in brain regions tied to learning, memory, and emotional regulation
• Stronger regulation of the brain's "default mode network" — linked to less mind-wandering and rumination

(Fun fact: a well-known Massachusetts General Hospital MRI study found measurable structural brain changes in long-term meditators!)
The Series
🗓️ Part 1 — Saturday, 22 August: Placement Meditation
We'll practice placement meditation and explore how to build a simple daily habit — just 5 minutes morning and evening. We'll cover the common pitfalls in meditation and how to overcome them, and you'll experience a real sense of deep calm by the end of the session. Alan has taught this program for many years, and students have seen significant benefits from this simple practice alone.
🗓️ Part 2 — Saturday, 26 September: Analytical Meditation
Combining analytical meditation with placement technique, we'll explore how to reshape our "internal operating system" to cultivate love, compassion, and emotional balance. Alan will show how we do this style of meditation naturally which generates disturbance in the mind already -here we will use the technique to settle and expand expand the mind instead.
🗓️ Part 3 — Saturday, 24 October: Visualisation Meditation
We'll use visualisation techniques to complement and deepen the analytical practice, expanding the mind and revealing its remarkable spaciousness. We'll explore how cultivating love and compassion develops a unique quality of mind.

Short break in the middle of the session
We'll take a short break

Your Facilitator-Alan Carter
Alan personally has clocked up in excess of 10 000 hrs of meditation through daily practice and long term solitary and group retreats. He has led two one month group retreats. He has been teaching meditation classes in various locations in Australia and New Zealand for 20+years.

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