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The links below offer different online meditation opportunities:
online groups, and recorded teachings with meditation times. |
At the top of the page are regular, live meditation groups where you can join with others weekly or more to be supported in your meditation practice.
Lower down the page you can access some teaching on meditation that includes a meditation period. Although there is now no 'live' group with these links, accessing the recordings can be a good way to refresh and develop or deepen your meditation practice
Regular, 'live' online meditation groups
People often ask if it is better to meditate alone or in a group. In fact, they are like the two sides of a coin. Meditation is solitary in the sense that I can’t meditate for you and you can’t meditate for me. But people can and want to meditate with others. Meditation groups can be a way into the deeper experience and meaning of meditation by connecting personal experience to community. In a group each person both gives and receives encouragement. ‘It is giving that we receive’. During Covid, many meditation groups formed online and are continuing, as people have appreciated the opportunity to meditate with others across the world.
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Silence Space
Seeds of Silence hosts two on line meditations spaces for silence-based prayer. Every Monday: Lunchtime Silence Space, 1-1.40pm. Every first and third Monday of the month: Evening Silence Space, 6-6.40pm. We hear a short reflection from a contemporary version of the Psalms, then spend 25 minutes in shared silence before a closing reading. Those who gather have a variety of practices of silence: we do not come from just one tradition. |
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WCCM's monthly, in person meditation times
Silent Saturdays 11am-3pm, Monthly, Meditatio Centre, Myddleton Square, London EC1R 1XX A series of Saturdays especially to support your meditation practice but also to offer a time of community and friendship. During these sessions we will meditate 3 times and, in between, we will reflect with one another about our experience and learn a bit more about meditation both practically and spiritually. Of course we then also will have the opportunity to enjoy refreshments and lunch together. |
Cost: donations
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Earth Crisis: Climate and Ecology
Weekly, Thursday at 7pm, UK time WCCM are starting a new, weekly online meditation group to offer unity and support to those seeking this in relation to the environment. There will be a time of meditation followed by sharing together. For more information email Jane Greenlees via the button link. |
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Evening Centering Prayer Group
Mon-Fri 8.30-9pm, led by Sr Anne Dunne, House of Prayer All are welcome to join in this Centering Prayer Group each evening of the week. Please join in silence and stay on 'mute'. There will be a few short lines of a Psalm, Scripture, or other spiritual writing followed by silence for 25 minutes. Passcode: cprayer (case-sensitive) |
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WCCM in person meditation group
1-1.30pm, Monday-Tursday, weekly, Meditatio Centre, St Mark's Church, Myddleton Square, London EC1R 1XX All faith lineages welcome to join with us. No need to contact us in advance: you can just turn up. But it can be helpful to know how many to prepare the space for! Fore mor info ab0ut these sessions please email Kate using the email address that clicking the button will link you to. |
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Weekly 11th Step Recovery Meditation Group
8-9pm UK time, Tuesdays A weekly gathering for those who are engaging in meditation as the 11th step in a 12 step addiction recovery programme, hosted by WCCM. For more info about the group contact Linda Kaye, WCCM's International Contact for 11th Step Recovery, by clicking here. |
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WCCM On line meditation groups
Online groups have multiplied considerably during Covid. It is easy to find a WCCM 'Christian Meditation' group in your own language and time zone to share in times of meditation, develop your practice and find support with other meditators from this mantra-based tradition. Most meditation groups are run at no charge. |
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The Meditation Chapel:
(primary on line meditation for Centering Prayer) In this on line meditation chapel you can meet together with people from all over the world for regular meditation at a time that's convenient to you. There are groups whose practice of silence is based in the WCCM 'Christian Meditation' teaching, or Centering Prayer practices and 'Jesus Prayer' groups as well as meditation spaces from different faith traditions. |
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Recorded teachings with meditation times
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Virtual Sit Meditations and Teaching
Watch the replays of Fr Richard Rohr's Lent teachings on this link Are you looking for a meditation practice? In Lent 2023 Fr Richard Rohr, founder of the Centre for Action and Contemplation, offered a weekly teaching series of meditations. You can watch the replays of these sessions and use the meditation time to support your own practice in these virtual sits. |
Cost: free
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14 session WCCM meditation course
led by Fr. Laurence Freeman Each is introduced with a teaching by Laurence Freeman on one of the Fruits of the Spirit that we experience in the course of our regular practice. Each session contains a 20-minute meditation period, concluded with a short scripture reading. The final session is a review of the stages of the journey of meditation. Watch and listen on WCCM+ - the WCCM online teaching platform. |
Cost: free
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