Friends,
This retreat is about not being the only weirdo in the room.
In fact, everyone here will be the weirdo in the room, including your two teachers.
Just like there’s been a small revolution in meditation spaces where people of color get to practice together and discover shared experiences and insights, we’re hoping to do something similar here for neurodivergent folks.
You can come from any background, any age, any gender identification or non-identification - any anything.
What unifies us is the sense that our brains are wired a little differently… and that difference has brought both real challenges and real creative opportunities.
If that resonates with you, we’d love to practice together.
July 16–19
Link in bio for details.
#Neurodivergent #Neurospicy #MeditationRetreat #Mindfulness #CreativeHealing
This week’s Home Base post and meditation is on cultivating a mind that dwells … nowhere.
“It’s been a couple of years since I’ve guided a Don’t Know Mind meditation on Home Base. Adapted from Zen teachings, this is still my favourite practice for dealing with uncertainty in work, in relationship, in life. It pairs well with what I think of as the core scientific attitude, the honest skepticism of continually learning from new evidence, of staying with the open question.”
Read more & listen to the guided meditation here:Â /p/unseize-your-certainty
Enjoy Jeff’s meditations at homebasewithjeff.com
How meditation and emotional healing works, by Sarah Barmak:
1. Meditating miraculously shifts difficult feelings
2. Difficult feelings return, hello mud
3. Grudging acceptance of your neurotic patterns brings a little more well-being
4. Therapy addresses what meditation can’t
5. Meditate some more
Quote from “Becoming a Connoisseur of Your Own Neurosis” posted on Home Base. Find it here: /p/process-stuck-emotions-rain
Our topic this week is one we’ve circled around quite a bit at Home Base. Many of us come to meditation because we’re dealing with emotional pain of some kind. The practice holds great promise: the potential to lessen our pain in the moment, and, more radically, to transform some of the deep patterns that keep us stuck in our emotional reactions in the first place.
What exactly can we expect from meditation here? What’s reasonable?
Read more here:Â /p/process-stuck-emotions-rain
This post also includes a live guided meditation on noticing and accepting and investigating our emotions (RAIN), from the early days of Jeff’s teaching.
#rain #homebasewithjeff
It’s trusting that just being aware has its own kind of power, even if the effects are subtle at first.
Enjoy Jeff’s meditations at homebasewithjeff.com
In this week’s episode of the Do Nothing Project, Jeff experiences joy. He attempts to articulate why he is experiencing joy, out on the water with his four-year-old on a kayak, sea lions bellowing, white puffy clouds. The smell of bilge. Then: enjoying the community, slightly buzzy meditation, mystery humming all around. Attempts to articulate such things are not successful. Doesn’t matter. Feeling good to be here with everyone 💛
Watch the full episode here: /p/dnp-joy-sunshine-mystery
#donothingpropect #meditation
This week on Homebase, Jeff gets a bit Buddhist-y and expounds upon the subtle art of noticing interference.
Read the full post and listen to the guided meditation here: /p/powerful-meditation-teaching-awareness (direct link in bio)
#homebasewithjeff #jeffwarren
Meditation is the practice of remembering there is only this moment.
And the closer you get to the moment, the less there is of it. The less there is to be oppressed by, or to fear, or to try to control. It’s very freeing.Â
Enjoy Jeff’s meditations at homebasewithjeff.com
You already know how to sit and exist. You’ve done it before – on park benches and fire escapes and wharfs and that one time outside your high school formal when you sat and smoked a cigarette on the cement stoop and nothing needed to be any different than it was. Anytime you’ve found yourself sitting somewhere, not doing much, but also not wanting to be anywhere else. That’s the beginning of meditation (and some would say the end of it, too). No need to make it into a thing that you have to get “right.” Most of it is just sitting, existing and being a body.
Enjoy Jeff’s meditations at homebasewithjeff.com
In this week’s episode of the Do Nothing Project, Jeff talks about … practice! The unsexy steadiness of it, the day in and day out of staying with it - not the promise of getting fixed or total transformation, but the thing that helps you be ever-more available for what’s happening and what wants to happen in your life.
Watch the full episode here: /p/dnp-the-drum-beat-of-sanity
#donothingpropect
This week on Homebase, Jeff shares his “Junior Cult Leader’s Guide to Beginner Meditation”.
Feel free to share with would-be meditators in your life, and / or use for your own junior culty purposes!
Read the full post and listen to the guided meditation here: /p/beginner-meditation-guide (direct link in bio)
#homebasewithjeff #jeffwarren #meditation
After years of teaching, I’ve found the most important factor in making meditation accessible is an attitude of no-big-dealness.
A casual attitude disarms the mind’s tendency to think it needs to get everything right.
Enjoy Jeff’s meditations at homebasewithjeff.com
