Stillness Meditation (Tuition & Practice) Ringwood

Stillness Meditation is a natural process of profound mental rest, experienced afterwards as calm, ease, and sometimes deep tranquillity. This approach follows the work of the late Dr Ainslie Meares MD DPM and is taught as a practical, learnable skill that develops over time. It is not about effort or belief — it is about direct experience.

Imagine tension, anxiety, fear and pain reduced or gone. Better coping means a better life. These goals can be approached and met in a simple, efficient way by relearning a natural human ability. A simple and natural skill that improves over time. It does not happen all at once but sooner than you think. Firstly, experiencing the mind's own natural mechanism of rest and calm. Secondly, allowing the calm feelings to flow into daily living. 

It's something quite remarkable with a plain name - deep mental relaxation - Stillness Meditation. But, the effects are anything but plain. Calm, peace of mind, tranquility sometimes even serenity or bliss. When you know Stillness for yourself, you will truly agree that words like those fail to describe it.

Quite simply, one relaxes and experiences a slowing of mental activity. Eventually, the mind profoundly rests in Stillness. Afterwards, a feeling of calm - even more than calm - is felt. The presence of a skilled trained teacher helps the group (or individual) pass into Stillness. Some shift earlier and this helps the others progress towards Stillness too. Afterwards, one feels a release of tension, anxiety and the rest. 

Stillness comes from a place where words do not live. Teaching involves few words. Instead, people are offered touch (head & shoulders). People too sensitive for touch are offered hands that reach out but do not quite touch (hover hands). Touch and hover soothe and calm in a way that words cannot. Absence of touch & hover are offered, but people choose touch or hands reaching out into hover.

First, details are provided, all questions answered but the biggest answer is the experience of Stillness itself. 

Benefits:

• • • • Cope better with stress, anxiety & pain.

      • Sleep better, more energy & creativity.

      • Thrive with enhanced resiliance.

      • Better concentration & clarity.

      • Patience & less aggression in relationships.

      • Greater self-confidence. 

      • Enriched inner life & aesthetic awareness.

      • Live “in the moment” & find contentment.

      • Help for nervous & psychosomatic illness:

        1. 1. Fear panic, phobias OCD etc.

           2. Psoriasis, eczema, dermatitis, asthma.

           3. High blood pressure.

           4. Bowel disease & gastric ulcers.

           5. Insomnia, headaches & migraines.

           6. Palpitations nervous tension & shakes.

           7. Chronic pain or chronic illness including cancer. 

           8. Other conditions may be helped.

Note:

- Always know the cause before treating symptoms with meditation, 

     see your medical doctor, if needed. This applies to hypnosis and other methods too. 

- Stillness Meditation is self help, complementary to medical treatment.

- Individual response can vary. 

- Correct daily practice enhances a better response.

Meditation - Private & Small Group Tuition

• Taught in physical presence at Ringwood Studio and external local venues.  Utilisation of external venues depends on prices set by venue which may affect availability, from time to time. 

• Classes are small (less than 10) to ensure quality learning experience ie. no one gets left behind. 

• Classes generally follow school terms. From time to time holiday events may be held.

• Solo, duo or trio private tuition is an option, for those on the waiting list, when classes are full. These arrangements reduce fees paid by participants who team up with 1-2 friends.