I personally started with meditation 10 years ago by reading a book from the Aikido master Tohei. It was good enough that I continued the practice from time to time.
Two and a half years ago I started attending group for somatic-psychoeducation regularly. It’s a framework developed by a Frenchman called Danis Bois. The interesting thing about Danis is that even being accomplished in teaching meditation and bodywork he thought that a lot of the esoteric crowd was too dogmatic and close minded so he went to university studying academic pedagogy. He’s now a professor at a Portuguese university.
I learned a lot in those 2 1⁄2 years. When I read the book that supposed to be an introduction into the method half a year into it, I couldn’t do much with it. Now the book makes more sense. I do know from experience that the process isn’t easy. This year I think I got a grasp about what Buddhist might mean when they say Karma and how Karma fits into a framework where everything is to be supposed to be accessible through direct experience.
If you can find someone doing somatic-psychoeducation I recommend it, but quick Googling shows nobody in Norwich.
As far as the Indian tradition goes, they do something called Satsang. Good satsang teachers usually have a kind of charisma that the average person can perceive and that’s impressive to some people who do feel emotions naturally. If you aren’t neurotypical get a neurotypical person along to see whether they feel the charisma. A teacher without his own spiritual experience who just reiterated what he read somewhere won’t have that charisma.
If you can find a good Satsang session sitting in and asking questions with a goal of trying to predict answers, might be a good way to learn the framework even if you don’t completely take it for yourself.
I personally started with meditation 10 years ago by reading a book from the Aikido master Tohei. It was good enough that I continued the practice from time to time.
Two and a half years ago I started attending group for somatic-psychoeducation regularly. It’s a framework developed by a Frenchman called Danis Bois. The interesting thing about Danis is that even being accomplished in teaching meditation and bodywork he thought that a lot of the esoteric crowd was too dogmatic and close minded so he went to university studying academic pedagogy. He’s now a professor at a Portuguese university.
I learned a lot in those 2 1⁄2 years. When I read the book that supposed to be an introduction into the method half a year into it, I couldn’t do much with it. Now the book makes more sense. I do know from experience that the process isn’t easy. This year I think I got a grasp about what Buddhist might mean when they say Karma and how Karma fits into a framework where everything is to be supposed to be accessible through direct experience.
If you can find someone doing somatic-psychoeducation I recommend it, but quick Googling shows nobody in Norwich.
As far as the Indian tradition goes, they do something called Satsang. Good satsang teachers usually have a kind of charisma that the average person can perceive and that’s impressive to some people who do feel emotions naturally. If you aren’t neurotypical get a neurotypical person along to see whether they feel the charisma. A teacher without his own spiritual experience who just reiterated what he read somewhere won’t have that charisma.
If you can find a good Satsang session sitting in and asking questions with a goal of trying to predict answers, might be a good way to learn the framework even if you don’t completely take it for yourself.