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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 Mar 10th - 31st - 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
Apr 7 - May 12 Sensitive to feelings
Led by guest teachers Maitrinita and Natalie Wagstaffe- find out more about us below.
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.
PLEASE NOTE: there will be no class on 14th April, so the dates are as follows: 7th, 21st, 28th April, 5th & 12th May.
Meet Your Guest Teachers
Maitrinita
Maitrinita has been exploring Buddhism and meditation since the mid-nineties and
was ordained in 2017. She is a trained Breathworks mindfulness teacher.
Maitrinita has often been on teams and co-led retreats and events for newcomers, regulars, families, and people of colour.
Originally from Bristol. She lives in South London with her teenage daughter and is involved with the Brixton Buddhist community.
Natalie Wagstaffe
Natalie Wagstaffe has been involved with Triratna since 2013 and is training for ordination. Over this time, she's supported many retreats and events, taught meditation at the London Buddhist Centre, and run courses for Breathing Space and the Fertility Network UK.
She loves exploring the intersection of creativity, myth, symbol and ritual in her practice, and outside of her role at The Radical Embrace as Ops Manager, she is an artist, coach and intuitive tarot reader.
Upcoming Courses
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.