Meditation Australia Online Summit October 31st

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We are delighted to bring you our first ever online Summit with an amazing group of presenters!

Lorin Roche'Spontaneity and Playfulness in Meditation – meditation is part of our survival instincts'

Lorin Roche began meditating in a physiology lab at the University of California at Irvine in 1968, and immediately fell in love with the practice and its benefits to body and perception. He soon became involved in training subjects for the research which included interviewing meditators who seemed to be thriving both in their meditation practice and in their daily life. For the last 50 years Lorin has been teaching a body-based approach to meditation, infused with insights from Tai Chi, Gestalt, Jungian thought, Joseph Campbell, Aikido, and Ida Rolf. Lorin feels that all these disciplines contain insights that are vital to developing a healthy meditation practice for people in Western Bodies. Roche is the author of Meditation Made Easy (Harper 1998) and The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to the Yoga of Wonder and Delight (Sounds True 2014). Lorin and his partner Camille Maurine are the authors of Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace (Harper 2001).

Paul Bedson'True Meditation: resting in the awareness of your True Self'

Paul Bedson has been teaching meditation at the Gawler Foundation for 20 years.
Together with his wife, Maia, he has been facilitating meditation retreats and healing retreats for people dealing with cancer, MS and other chronic illnesses.
He teaches Mindfulness-based Stillness Meditation (MBSM), which is a synthesis of mindfulness meditation, Buddhist Vipasana meditation and
the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta (non-duality). In his 20 years at the Gawler Foundation, Paul has also trained many hundreds of meditation teachers to teach MBSM.

David Michie'Tranquil or traumatized?
Being an effective Thought Manager is key!
We all tend to attribute our feelings to external events, but the way we manage our thoughts is far more important. In this presentation, David Michie describes the transformational practice of mind-watching-mind meditation – why it matters, what it is, and how it is the most transformational practice we can do!'

David Michie is the internationally best-selling author of The Dalai Lama's Cat series, and The Magician of Lhasa, as well as the non-fiction titles Buddhism for Busy People, Buddhism for Pet Lovers, Mindfulness is Better than Chocolate and Hurry Up and Meditate. His new spiritual thriller, The Secret Mantra, which explores the healing power of meditation, has just been published (October 2020).
In 2015 he established Mindful Safaris to Africa, combining wildlife viewing and meditation sessions in journeys to unexplored places, outer and inner.
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Maia Bedson30 minute practice of Mindfulness-based Stillness Meditation

Maia has been a meditation teacher and Lifestyle Medicine facilitator at the Gawler Cancer Foundation for over 20 years.
She is passionate about sharing the gifts of meditation and the healing qualities of cultivating presence – our authentic 'first nature'!

Hazem Omran'Connection and the inner life.'

Based in Melbourne, Hazem Omran is Meditation Australia's first – and hopefully not last! – Sufi member. He began teaching meditation in 2003 at the age of 23. He runs not-for-profit Sufi Path Group and is a Ford Asia Pacific Mindfulness Ambassador."I began practices in the Sufi tradition after meeting my Teacher, Shaykh Nazim, a Master of a Sufi Path called the Naqshbandi Way – or Tariqa in Arabic. It is a tradition that stems from Arabia and evolved in Central Asia".

Katie UnderwoodTUNE IN & CHILL OUT (30 mins)Katie Underwood is a certified Meditation Teacher, Massage Therapist, Sound Healer, Reiki Practitioner, Multi-instrumentalist, Vocalist, ARIA-nominated & APRA Award-winning Recording Artist & Mother of twin girls. She has been working in the Wellness industry for over 10 years and the Music industry for over 35 years. Her passion is empowering people to enhance self-healing with regular meditation, healing sounds & strong social connections, online and in person. A prolific music producer, Katie has produced three meditation music albums in the last three years – Madrigal, Journey to Mantra & Awaken – and is currently working on her next album.Patti McBain'Valuing Connection : Talk & Meditation'

Patti was initiated into meditation in Perth, while in early high school in the 70's and became a teacher in the 80's and taught in the USA, Canada and Australia. She feels she has experienced and gained so much from her own practice, from teaching and training teachers—both what to do and what not to do. She now has a yoga and meditation studio in the northern suburbs of Perth. She loves living by the ocean, driving electric and running her studio and charging her car mostly from solar power.

Jason Siff'A Breath of Fresh Air'
What it is like to open up to the full range of your inner experience in meditation. Not relying on guided meditations, meditation techniques, a teacher, or tradition, the breath of fresh air comes from within.

Jason Siff is the author of "Unlearning Meditation: What to do when the instructions get in the way" and "Thoughts Are Not the Enemy" (Shambhala Publications 2010 and 2014). He created "Recollective Awareness Meditation" as a viable form of Vipassana Meditation when he was a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the late 1980s. He has taught workshops and retreats in Australia since 2005 and lives in California, where he mostly teaches individual students