Reflective Meditation
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Reflective Meditation evolved in the U.S.A. as a secular expression of the Insight (Vipassana) tradition, grounded in early Buddhist teachings and informed by Western psychology.
The Buddha’s teachings on dependant arising underpin this approach. Reflective Meditation is an effective way to explore, experiment and learn through looking into our experience. Through understanding and care towards our inner and outer world, we grow in the dharma and in life. It encourages meditators to include the full range of their inner experience: thoughts, emotions, sensations, and bodily awareness within a receptive kind and curious attention. After each meditation, practitioners take time to reflect and journal, describing what unfolded and the process of meditation itself. Through gentle dialogue with teachers and peers, these reflections become a shared inquiry that deepens understanding, compassion, and ethical clarity. This integrative approach supports a meditation practice that is both personally meaningful and grounded in everyday realities. |
Our Teachers
Anna Markey was introduced to Buddhist practice in India in 1983. She took teachings from a variety of Tibetan teachers and attended retreats there with insight teacher, Christopher Titmuss, the same year. She has practised insight meditation ever since. Anna also practised for a number of years with a Zen group in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, in the Burmese Mahasi method of practice with Patrick Kearney and also within the Recollective Awareness approach with Jason Siff. She now teaches reflective meditation in collaboration with a cohort of teachers in the states and Australia. Anna is interested in using this gentle, wise and transformative approach to dharma to develop one’s relationship to our world in ways to foster resilience in the face of change and to foster an activist life in response to the polycrisis we are now facing.
Tina Gibson is a skilled Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher, Teacher Trainer and Mentor, having taught alongside the creators of the program and in many different countries.She has been practicing Reflective Meditation (RM) for many years and brings warmth, ease and gentleness to the way she lives her life and teaches meditation and RM retreats.
Tina delights in the ocean, being in nature, drawing and playing with her grandchildren. Oh, and co-teaching / learning alongside Anna!!
Her ongoing interest is in supporting people to recognise, build and strengthen resources to be with uncertainty. To foster greater wisdom and compassion to respond to a world in crisis. Animals, plants and minerals all dearly needing humans to be awake, courageous and caring.
Tina delights in the ocean, being in nature, drawing and playing with her grandchildren. Oh, and co-teaching / learning alongside Anna!!
Her ongoing interest is in supporting people to recognise, build and strengthen resources to be with uncertainty. To foster greater wisdom and compassion to respond to a world in crisis. Animals, plants and minerals all dearly needing humans to be awake, courageous and caring.
Nelly Kaufer and Linda Modaro creatively collaborate, evolving Reflective Meditation. Both Linda and Nelly founded Buddhist meditation communities: Linda Sati Sangha and Nelly Pine Street Sangha. They co-authored Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindess and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company in 2023. Nelly Kaufer is the author of three books and a licensed psychotherapist, integrating Buddhist psychology into her clinical orientation and providing continuing education to mental health professionals. Linda Modaro began teaching Buddhist meditation in 2008. Prior to that, as an Acupuncturist and a master of Qi Gong, she created a best-selling, four-part instructive Qi Gong video series called Discovering Chi.
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Reflective Meditation:
Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company
#1 New Release on Amazon in 2023
With its innovative narrative format, Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer’s Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company sets out a conversation that comes from their deep and heartfelt care for meditators. A unique, witty and compassionate conversation between authors and reader, Nelly and Linda’s voices are deeply rich, genuine, and touching, resonant with the feminine experience. Gorgeously written, amid their dialogue the reader is invited to creative craft their own meditation practice, as well as getting a sensitive and intelligent overview of basic early Buddhist teachings. |
