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Unleashing our deepest potential through embodiment and community
A weekly drop-in practice space open to all, at any level of meditation or dharma experience and practice. Led by Singhashri and Balajit.
On break Dec 16 - Jan 27 - no class
2026 Theme: The four foundations of embodiment
Our theme for 2026 invites an embodied and relational re-formulation of the traditional Buddhist teaching on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness.
We are deeply conditioned to relate to our minds and bodies as separate but the reality of our experience is much more complex. Through the lens of embodiment, we will feel our way into the truth of the non-separateness of body and mind, softening any privileging of one over the other and opening to the reality of our existence. This reality includes the non-dual nature of awareness and what is arising in awareness as the totality of our moment by moment lived experience.
Together we will ask:
What’s actually happening in our direct, embodied experience?
How is it?
How am I with that?
What else is possible?
Loosening the dualistic frameworks we usually operate under has profound implications for how we relate to ourselves, others, our communities, and the world. Our exploration of the four foundations of mindfulness will include transforming our habitual ways of relating towards more creative, freer expressions.
Our Next Course
Feb 3 - Mar 3 (five weeks) - Sensitive to the body
The Buddha taught that moment by moment awareness of our direct experience offers a clear path to awakening. And in the Anapanasati Sutta (Mindfulness of in and out breathing) he invites us to develop sensitivity to this breathing body as the first step in awakening to who and what we truly are. Yet oftentimes it can be challenging to stay with our embodied experience.
Join us in an exploration of what it’s like to turn towards the aliveness of our bodies and how we can support a deepening into the wisdom that is awaiting us, just below the surface. How can this “being here” and “staying with” support us to more authentically and lovingly inhabit our own bodies and the collective body. How can we more fully show up for ourselves, others, our communities, and the world?
Please note: as of November 2025, you will need to re-register for any new Earth Touching Tuesday courses, due to us switching over to our new registration and donation systems. Please see below for more information. If you had previously registered for Earth Touching Tuesday’s you will need to re-register for this upcoming course.
Upcoming Courses
Apr 7 - May 5 Sensitive to feelings
As we descend more deeply into our bodies we will inevitably experience what is arising in the six senses as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. These three categories are what the Buddha referred to as vedena or feeling tone. A curious attending to the feeling tone of sensations can reveal to us habits of indulging, suppressing or ignoring experience. These habits are where we get stuck and often cause us and others suffering.
Join us in an exploration of the feeling tone of experience and the familiar habits that form in reaction to experience. These habits both get in the way of a more creative response to life AND offer us a way towards greater freedom when we are able to simply allow them to also be felt and known as they are, just like any other sensation.
Sept 1 - Oct 6 Sensitive to heart-mind
Description coming soon!
Nov 3 - Dec 8 Sensitive to reality
Description coming soon!
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Class format
The evenings usually go something like this. Once you register, you’ll get a weekly email with the plan for that evening. Come along when you can, stay for as long as you’re able, leave anytime.
7:00-7:05pm welcome and arriving
7:05-7:15pm arriving practice
7:15-7:45pm teaching input
7:45-8:00pm reflection on teachings individually and/or in breakout groups
8:00-8:10pm break
8:10-8:45pm meditation and enquiry
For other parts of the world, please use this handy time zone converter:
Dana
As of November 2025, we are introducing a new dana (donation) structure. Dana is outlined below in three levels (left to right) unwaged, student/benefits and waged.
This is to ensure we can keep running these classes as the Radical Embrace grows, and so you can save money across the year. Please give if you can, but only if you can. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Please see below for more information and if you have any questions, please reach out to Natalie our Operations Manager at natalie@radicalembrace.org.uk
Class Recordings
Here you’ll find a sampling recordings from past classes. Most classes follow a similar schedule including an arriving practice, mini-talks and a led meditation. Recordings may include background noise and begin and end abruptly.
More recordings can be found on Insight Timer.
Singhashri shares her practice of tonglen (witnessing suffering in the clear light of awareness where it is free to self-liberate) in light of the pandemic and current efforts towards greater racial justice.
A bit more on how tonglen can be practiced receptively, as a radical act of bearing witness when our natural inclination is to turn away.
Singhashri and Balajit share their personal explorations of the power of the imagination to support us in our efforts towards liberation.
Balajit and Singhashri share personal reflections on the practice of receiving blessings, particularly from other people in our lives. Talks followed by a led practice.
An introduction to the first four elements - earth, air, fire and water - and how practicing with them can support our efforts towards greater climate and social justice.
Continuing with the theme of the elements, we go more deeply into how we might relate to and practice with the space element.
A led meditation supporting an opening to and receiving of the space element.
Input and a led practice exploration our potential to awaken out of divided consciousness and the pain of “othering” into something much more free and expansive.
A rich exploration of the Lojong saying “Don’t be so predictable” that invites us to break out of conscious and unconscious habits of conformity into something much more spontaneous and free, and the implications of doing so for the liberation of ourselves, others and the world.