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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 May 19th - August 25th - 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
Sept 1 - Oct 6 Sensitive to heart-mind
Our heart-mind is the seat of awareness that perceives and knows directly all of what is coming and going in moment-by-moment experience. Practice supports us to begin to familiarize ourselves more and more with this awareness that is ever present, but often obscured from view.
Slowly, we learn to loosen our attachment to the sensations and perceptions arising within awareness and open to the liberating qualities of awareness. This isn’t simply a mental process, but can also be worked on and felt directly through a deepening sensitivity to the energy body.
As the body softens, so too does the mind. We become more sensitive to what is here. This sensitivity supports a steadier “being with” and “attending to” experience as it comes and goes, which can lead to more joy and pleasure - a natural “gladdening” of the heart-mind. Now at the threshold of insight, we can feel the potential for liberation and we long to go further still…
Join us in an exploration of the sensitivity, steadiness, joy, and liberation that comes from a relational and embodied attending to our heart-minds. What implications might this have on our relationship with ourselves, others, our communities, and the world?
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Upcoming Courses
Nov 3 - Dec 8 Sensitive to reality
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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.