LAH Daily Life Awareness - Opening to the Elements Working with Difficult Emotions

This practice group starts in Spring 2026 with the first session happening on Tuesday 3rd March 6:00 - 7:30pm (UK).

The weekly sessions will be from 6.00pm - 7.30pm(UK) on Tuesdays.

Daily Life Awareness is one of the Living the Awakened Heart practice streams, working with awareness of body, speech and mind. It is ideal for those looking to bring formless meditation into daily life.

The practice stream runs over one year in three cycles: Awareness of Body, Speech and Mind.

"Just as the earth and the other great elements including space,  Eternally nourish and sustain limitless beings in many ways,  May I become the source of nourishment and sustenance  For all beings in all the realms of samsara,  Reaching to the ends of space,  Until they all attain nirvana".  Santideva 

Everything which manifests is composed of the five elements--space, water, earth, fire and air--which can be seen as inherent qualities of the awakened heart, as Buddhas. This includes our everyday experiences of the land, lakes, wind and sky, but also more subtle aspects of our being--our senses and the qualities of our experience. As we work with the difficulties of our lives, we can receive nourishment from the rich solidity of earth, the refreshing clarity of water, the dancing heat of fire, the bracing vitality of the air and ever-yielding space. At the same time, our emotional and conceptual difficulties can also be understood as distorted expressions of the elements.     We will take a two-pronged approach: exploring the klesas and daring to turn towards what we are finding difficult in our lives and also making a relationship with the elements and allowing them to support us and loosen our stuck places. By opening in both directions, we hope to bring the bodhisattva aspiration alive in our everyday lives.

This is a Living the Awakened Heart practice stream, not a study or reading group. Sessions will be 90 minutes. Please only register if you:

1 Have worked through the themes of Discovering the Heart of Buddhism at least once.

2 Are able to commit to a regular practice during each of the cycles. This group will work best if people can commit to attending as many sessions as possible.