Meditating As Your Country Burns
with Tamara Salmen Tamara Salmen is the WCCM National Coordinator in Venezuela, a nation that has been in accelerating chaos for many years and has now reached a new level of suffering. Tamara is a paediatrician in Caracas who sees the impact on children and people hunting for food in the streets. She speaks with […]
Trauma and the Body
Vladimir Volrab with Giovanni Felicioni Giovanni Felicioni is a Yoga teacher, a certified Advanced Rolfer™, a Rolf Movement™ practitioner and a WCCM Oblate. He explains what trauma is for our physical bodies and what are the possible symptoms. How is body connected with traumatic experiences and how could we treat them? What is the contemplative […]
How to Practice Peace in a Divided World
with Sarah Bachelard & Michael Wood It seems obvious that a contemplative response to polarisation and violence will seek to enable reconciliation and peace. We often say that, because meditation creates peace in our own hearts, it contributes to the making of peace in the world. But is it only a matter of our own […]
Contemplative Christmas (Laurence Freeman and the Bonnevaux Community)
Christmas Vigil – 24 Dec at 10:30 PM (French time) ‘When all things lay in the midst of silence‘The vigil mass is traditionally a quiet celebration of the explosion of the nativity that happens in the midst of silence “when there descended down from on high a secret word.” Our celebration of the vigil mass […]
Introduction to Meditation in Times of Crisis with Vladimir Volrab
In this video Vladimir Volrab, WCCM National Coordinator for the Czech Republic explores the role of meditation in times of crisis starting off with his personal experience of the crisis. Vladimir reflects upon our outer and our inner world: “Our outside world is all of sudden limited, we find ourselves constrained and cannot travel or […]
The Contemplative Conscious Mind: A Conversation with Herman Van Rompuy
Herman Van Rompuy, lifelong Belgian politician, joins Laurence Freeman and the editorial board behind the WCCM Contemplative Through the Crisis Programme (Vladimir, Leonardo, Thomas and Sarah) in a conversation on the current pandemic crisis and all the questions it is challenging our society to address. The health crisis we’re living is more than just a health […]