Episodes

  • Bonus interview: Shanti Gowans

    Bonus interview: Shanti Gowans
    Nov 2 2023
    Vipassana is a meditation practice which originated in India. The word 'Vipassana' can be translated from Sanskrit as insight. Shanti Gowans has been sharing Vipassana for decades in her work as a yoga and meditation teacher. In this conversation with Sarah Malik, Shanti shares her knowledge of Vipassana, how you can get started with meditation, and how a meditation practice has changed her life.
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    10 mins
  • Vipassana meditation 3: Calming the mind

    Vipassana meditation 3: Calming the mind
    Oct 30 2023
    Vipassana requires mindful awareness - observing your body, breath, feelings, thoughts and emotions. In this Vipassana meditation, teacher Shanti Gowans has you focus on calming the mind. Let your mind accept whatever catches your attention without becoming emotionally involved with it, and tune into the greater whole.
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    15 mins
  • Vipassana meditation 2: Breath like the wind

    Vipassana meditation 2: Breath like the wind
    Oct 30 2023
    Vipassana is a mindfulness meditation practice that works through self-observation, one of India's oldest meditation practices. In this episode of Great Minds, teacher Shanti Gowans takes you through a meditation on your breath.
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    17 mins
  • Vipassana meditation 1: Body like a mountain

    Vipassana meditation 1: Body like a mountain
    Oct 30 2023
    Join in a Vipassana meditation in this episode of Great Minds. Vipassana can be translated as 'insight'. It's a mindfulness meditation practice that works through self-observation. Your guide is teacher Shanti Gowans from Shanti Yoga. Take a seat for a relaxing and energising body scan focused on posture.
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    18 mins
  • Bonus interview: Wallace Lee

    Bonus interview: Wallace Lee
    Oct 26 2023
    Sarah Malik chats with Wallace Lee who has been your guide for the three Tonglen meditations in this season of Great Minds. Wallace is an instructor with Rigpa Australia, a network of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation centres around Australia. He speaks about what the practice of Tonglen involves, and how a challenging time in his life led Wallace to meditation.
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    11 mins
  • Tonglen meditation 3: Sending compassion to others

    Tonglen meditation 3: Sending compassion to others
    Oct 23 2023
    This Tonglen meditation is a visualisation focused on expressing compassion towards another person. When practicing Tonglen towards others, you are encouraged to take on others' sufferings, and give out happiness and wellbeing - reversing our habitual way of responding to discomfort. This sending and receiving is aligned with the breath.
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    18 mins
  • Tonglen meditation 2: Self-compassion

    Tonglen meditation 2: Self-compassion
    Oct 23 2023
    This episode is a guided practice of self-compassion. Instructor Wallace Lee shares teachings from the Tibetan meditation practice of Tonglen, which is based in the concept of giving and receiving, or sending and taking. Breathing in negative feelings and discomfort, and breathing out health, happiness, and wellbeing.
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    15 mins
  • Tonglen meditation 1: "Unsealing the spring"

    Tonglen meditation 1: "Unsealing the spring"
    Oct 23 2023
    In this guided meditation, Wallace Lee introduces you to a Tibetan meditation practice called Tonglen, which is based in the concept of giving and receiving compassion. This episode explores the theme of reconnecting to the love within us, unsealing the spring of love and compassion that is inherent and limitless in all of us.
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    16 mins