Apr 24 2020 9 mins 10
This podcast is designed for you to listen to while on your walk. There are places where I suggest you pause the recording and it cycles and can be repeated so you can make it as long as you wish. This is the first in a series of podcasts that I'm delivering on the subject of mindful walking and walking meditation in collaboration with St Christopher's Hospice, whose good work is needed now as much as it ever has been. St Christophers are running what they called a step up for St Christopher's challenge where supporters are walking 5,000 steps per day to reach 50 million steps. To find out more visit this link: https://www.stchristophers.org.uk/stepup Walking meditation, like whole meditation, is thousands of years old. Once we've learnt to meditate in formal practice (sitting), any activity can become a meditation. Famously, Thich Nhat Hanh, The famous Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and activist, taught the dishwashing meditation. This practice is the technique that I use when I do a walking meditation. It consists of cycling through focusing on our breath, focusing on our feet, and open awareness. This cycling process assist the practitioner in staying present and allows them to have a varied experience rather than, for instance, just focusing on the sensation of the feet on the ground, or trying to stay present during open awareness. This is from a session I taught in the 2020 Meditation Online Course. Details are here: https://2020meditation.com/courses If the course isn't for you but you would like to contribute to keeping this service online then you can make a payment of any amount here: https://2020meditation.com/coffee Support the show (http://2020meditation.com/coffee)
