The Uncomfortable Pause

This is a three-day course for people who find stillness difficult, suspicious, or both. Each session is around ten minutes and works with a different flavour of restlessness that most of us spend our lives quietly avoiding. You won't be asked to clear your mind, achieve a state, or feel anything in particular. You'll just be asked to stay. On Day 1, we begin by looking at mental restlessness. The background noise, the thought loops, the ticker tape of things you should be doing instead of this. Rather than trying to quiet it, you'll get genuinely curious about what it's actually made of. Day 2 is one that lives in the physical body. The tension you didn't know you were holding, the energy that has nowhere to go. You'll work with physical sensation directly, tracking where restlessness lives and what happens when you actually pay attention to it instead of willing it away. On day 3, we look at the low-grade, unnamed feeling that something is off, the one that doesn't have a clear cause or an easy fix. You'll practice sitting near it without solving it, which turns out to be harder and more useful than it sounds. No meditation experience required. No particular beliefs needed. Just ten minutes and a willingness to be a little uncomfortable on purpose.