Resources
Open Dharma has put together a range of resources to support your discovery and exploration of deep rest meditation. These are freely given, although if you would like to support the organisation or teachers with a financial gift please see the donations page.
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The curated pathways below can be followed in sequence, or you can use them to dip into for inspiration with your practice.
Begin to meditate
Step-by-step guidance to begin deep rest meditation–lying down, or however you can relax more easily and connect to life more simply.
Go further with deep rest meditation
Some favorite meditations and instructions to help you get into deep rest meditation and make it your own.
Work with mind-states
Learn to calm the alarm system, feel mind-states in the body, recognize mind movements including subtle mind-filters called vedana, and let mind-states rest in awareness.
Trust the open heart
Open to your heart's generosity: Feel what is important, love what you love, and let life pour to and through you for the good of the whole.
Meditate in movement & creativity
Experiment with movement, doodling, singing and other arts as ways to meditate–to connect and get into flow with life.
Meditate in nature
Take your meditation outside. Bring the wild into your meditation. Recover a sense of wonder. Know your connectedness to everything around you, and discover the non-dual nature of reality.
Library of talks & meditations
A library of talks and meditations to explore from Open Dharma teachers and friends. These have been recorded at a range of locations and retreats between 2006 and 2018.
