Jess Huon, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne (2025)

17/09/2025

Everyone welcome to Breathing as Neighbours.

An afternoon of Metta (loving kindness) practice and listening circles in Melbourne/Narrm, to meet ourselves meet the times. Saturday 20th Sept, Ceres, Brunswick.

Link in bio above. We’d love to see you. Let’s circle up together.

15/09/2025

Everybody welcome… activists, professionals, parents, the exhausted, burnt out, the inspired…to this afternoon of Metta (loving kindness practice) and listening circles, to meet ourselves and the times.

Do you want to cultivate a refuge in your body - a visceral, spiritual home - to support you to respond honestly and congruently to life?

When everything feels so urgent, it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause...

Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection, this sustaining tap root to inspiration.

So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm.

Together, through an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices we ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what’s happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader context.

Together, how might we make room for our differing or colliding views - whilst at the same time also settling and being nourished by a deeper dreaming that practice points us towards?

To cultivate regenerative seeds - growing corridors of aliveness that can flow within and through the body - and beyond.

Not to exit. But to enter and act from a deeper place.

Let’s gather to be nourished by a day of metta. This starts with you - as we resource ourselves, we can become a resource for others.

12/09/2025

...When everything feels so urgent it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause. . .

🌿 Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection that can emerge when we slow down, even for a moment - this sustaining tap root to inspiration. 🌿

It’s quite rebellious to actually like yourself in a culture that can gain from your sense of lack.

Let’s take the power back. So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm..…

Every-one welcome for an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices, where we will pause and ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what’s happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader world context.

Breathing as Neighbours - Sat 20th Sept, 1-5pm, Ceres, Brunswick. Booking link in bio above.

12/09/2025

I’m deep in the process of writing talks for The Collective Well - Heart. We’re a month into this intensive program, and I’ll be emerging out to teach more on the heart next Saturday 20th Sept - an afternoon of metta practice with Melbourne Insight Meditation.

Really looking forward to being in person, anyone in the neighbourhood or beyond is welcome, come on down.

Breathing as Neighbours:

Location: The Learning Centre, Ceres Environment park, Roberts st, East Brunswick

Date & Time: 1-5pm, Saturday 20th September

Cost: $50 + Dana for teaching

👆🏼Book via link in bio

10/09/2025

You are warmly invited to Breathing as Neighbours - an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practice and listening circles, to meet ourselves and the times.

Sat 20th Sept, 1-5pm, Ceres, East Brunswick.

Do you want to cultivate a refuge in your body - a visceral, spiritual home - to stay alive to what matters to you, even when the heat is on?

When everything feels so urgent, it can almost feel shameful to stop, to pause - to gently lay your hand on the ground, on the trunk of an old gum, on yourself or on another.

🌿 Yet we need this deeper pulse of connection, this sustaining tap root to inspiration. 🌿

So that we can resist, as the Buddha said, spiraling down and around cycles of harm, fuelled by aggression, greed and delusion…

Join us for an afternoon of metta (loving-kindness) practices, where we will ‘warm the ground’ by sitting with the people directly in front of us, within the spaces between us… seeing what emerges together.

Space for quiet and space for utterances - personal experience, what's happening right now - in your body, your home, and also our broader context - these escalating world events.

Everybody welcome - activists, professionals, parents, the exhausted, the burnt out, the inspired…

Let’s gather to be nourished by a day of metta. This starts with you - as we resource ourselves, we can become a resource for others.

Details:

Location: The Learning Centre, Ceres Environment park, Roberts st, East Brunswick

Date & Time: 1-5pm, Saturday 20th September

Cost: $50 + Dana for teaching

👆🏼Booking via link in bio

29/08/2025

We are excited to have some dates in the diary for upcoming retreats!

A series of urban day retreats in Melbourne, and a Women’s Retreat on the Great Ocean Road.

Bookings will be coming soon.

19/08/2025

Join us on Monday the 1st of September for a Monday night meditation & Dhama talk at CERES Brunswick.

13/08/2025

The Collective Well Heart is underway - three month intensive exploring heart empowerment.

You can still slip in this week if you’d like, before we close the practice doors Friday. Payment plans available.

Link in bio above.

11/08/2025

I returned to the Atisha centre, the Gelug tradition, where I first took refuge (where I first went as a young person to Nepal). The Atisha centre is here in Victoria, Bendigo. It was healing to return with many of you, to teach here, to be so cared for, to feel the power of good intent almost everywhere you look.

This monastery sits next to the Universal Stupa of Compassion, a crazy wild actualised dream of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (plans originally written in the dirt) - these two loved Lamas who crossed mountains from Tibet into India, and were living in exile - who generously gave me, and many many others these teachings. These teachings, once protected high up on the Himalayan plateau, now being drawn down to so many be these powerful Dharma practitioners.

Thanks for having us Atisha. So much good intent, power of cultivated there, as a force for good.

This Mahayana tradition - ‘this great view’ acknowledges our inter-being, the depths of our entanglement on/with each other - how dependant we are on each other, and on so much else - water, earth.... We don’t practice for ourselves alone.

These teachings on the heart from this tradition, will inform this round of The Collective well. We’ve opened the course last Sunday but allowing a few more in, if you want to book in by tonight, if any one still wants to join us...

04/08/2025

Life is pressing harder on all of us, even if you are deeply practiced.

Is now your time to take your practice to the next level? Is now your time to awaken the power of your heart?

The Collective Well - Heart begins August 10th - a three-month mentorship where Buddhist wisdom meets modern life.

You’ll explore the most powerful force for healing - the deep well of your own heart. Learning to stay open without being overwhelmed, to respond to these times with discernment and love, to find what is uniquely yours to do.

Live sessions with Jess, powerful guest teachers, community support, all recorded for those who can’t attend.

We don’t practice for ourselves alone - this is the essence of the Heart’s Teachings. Practice ripples out into your life. Do it for yourself, but also for the people around you. Do it for all of us.

Enrolment closes August 6th. Payment plans available.

03/08/2025

None of us can do everything or be everything. We need each other to fill in the gaps. No wonder Chenrezig, the Tibetan deity of compassion, was multi-armed.

We are so excited about the power and congruence of year’s lineup of guest teachers for The Collective Well - Heart.

🔥We've just confirmed our final teacher - revolutionary of the heart Jeannie Zandi, who’ll be joining us from the US, talking about bringing love home.

🔥She joins Kylie Marjambi, joining us once again from her Great Grandmother's and Great Grandfather’s land on Githabul Ngarakwal country, teaching on caring for the next 7 generations

🔥And Zohar Lavie and Nathan Glyde, from Israel and England, joining us following a dharma action in Palestine, to talk about heart in action.

All these guest speakers have dug so deep, attending to their inner life, and are also bringing fresh action through in their own unique ways. Coming from very different places into this collective heart.

Bookings close on Weds 6th August and we start Sunday 10th. Full info on guest teachers and the course at the link in bio.

📷 1. Kylie Marjambi 2. Jeannie Zandi 3. Nathan Glyde and Zohar Lavie

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