Weekly Meditation Classes

Meditation for Mental Well-Being & Self-Care
With Kadam John McBretney, Resident Teacher of Heruka KMC
Mondays 7.30 - 8.45pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
Mental health and well-being are important for everyone and it’s important to know what you need to do to look after your mental well-being.
Learning how to prevent unhealthy habits of mind and develop and maintain deeper levels of inner peace, relaxation and happiness are essential to well-being. They can be simply practiced on your own at home and in daily life.
Buddhist meditation not only brings about these benefits, it also enables you to understand and train your mind to remain happy and peaceful regardless of your circumstances.
In these classes our Resident Teacher, Kadam John McBretney who has more than 25 years' experience in teaching meditation, will explain clearly how to gain control of your mind, and he will guide meditations so you can improve your mental stability and well-being. You will discover how you can:
- Protect your mind from stress, anxiety and mental pain
- Develop a self-care practice for your mind
- Learn meditation techniques to enhance your sense of well-being
The classes are in-person and suitable for all levels. Everybody welcome.
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
London NW11 8ES
Mondays 7.30 - 8.45pm
Dates:
20 Feb - 27 Mar 2023 (6 weeks)
Prices:
£10 a class
Free for members

Modern Buddhism - The Path of Compassion and Wisdom
With Ralph Sueppel
Tuesdays 7.30 - 8.45pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
Although we want to be happy all the time we do not know how to do this, and we are always destroying our own happiness by developing anger, negative views and negative intentions. Happiness and suffering are states of mind and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind. Through meditation we can gain profound realizations through which we can solve our daily problems of delusions and accomplish the real meaning of human life.
These in-person classes are suitable for all levels.
Everybody welcome.
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
London NW11 8ES
Dates:
21 Feb - 28 Mar 2023 (6 weeks)
Prices:
£10 a class

Meditations for a Kind Heart
With Mark Furman
Wednesdays 12.30 - 1.30pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
A kind heart is a special mental attitude that cherishes other people at least as much as we cherish ourself. It is grounded in the common sense thinking: 'Just as I wish for happiness and not suffering, so does everyone else. In this respect we are all exactly the same.'
As Geshe Kelsang Gyatso says, "A good heart always gives good results."
These in-person classes are suitable for all levels. Everybody welcome
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
London NW11 8ES
Dates:
22 Feb - 29 Mar 2023 (6 weeks)
Prices:
£6 a class

Cultivate Good Habits with Meditation
With Sandrine Fanjek
Thursdays 10.30 - 11.30am
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
In these classes both beginners and more advanced meditators have the opportunity to explore and understand methods and practices of modern Buddhism that cultivate good mental habits such as contentment, inner peace and calmness through meditation.
Everybody welcome!
Address:
Heruka KMC
11 Woodstock Road
London NW11 8ES
Thursdays 10.30 - 11.30am
Dates:
23 Feb - 30 Mar 2023 (6 weeks)
Prices:
£6 a class

Meditation in Vietnamese
Với Ni Sư Kadampa, Kelsang Phachog
With Kadampa Buddhist Nun, Kelsang Phachog
Sundays 4 - 5pm
At Heruka Kadampa Meditation Centre
Khoá thiền nhằm giúp thiền sinh học cách để phát triển tâm bình an và hạnh phúc nhờ vào thiền định.
Khoá thiền giảng dạy về các giáo huấn và thiền định của Phật, và giảng giải làm cách nào áp dụng các giáo huấn của Phật vào giải quyết các vấn đề của cuộc sống hàng ngày của chúng ta.
Mọi người đều được chào đón!
Chiều Chủ Nhật hàng tuần 4-5 PM
Phí: 5£/buổi
Có thể đặt trước hoặc thanh toán khi đến
Google customer reviews
"Heruka Centre ticks all the boxes. Meditation, peaceful environment, lovely garden, warm kind people, great food and if you want more they do day courses and retreats. Highly recommend."
Andy Levy
"Practical meditation guidance in a peaceful space. Pretty garden, friendly faces and tasty food at the weekend courses!"
Emily Danby
"Heruka Centre is a very blessed and peaceful environment. Learn to meditate with authentic Wisdom teachings. Highly recommended. Try it, you'll like it!!"
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How does Kadampa meditation help?
Modern life is challenging and if we lack the inner resources to control our mind, we will inevitably find life stressful and difficult to manage, giving rise to feelings of anxiety, irritation and even loneliness and depression. This can make us feel unhappy and helpless, and it can also have an impact on our relationships as we become less able to cope constructively with disagreements and differences in our views and wishes.

Kadampa meditation gives us the solution. The meditations taught, and the teachings which help us to understand what to meditate on, give us techniques to understand where our unhappiness and problems are coming from and how to change them. Not only this, but over time, we will learn to transform difficult situations into opportunities for growth and development, so that instead of feeling powerless when faced with a difficult situation, we will come to welcome difficulties into our life as they provide the actual means with which to bring about positive change and spiritual development. In this way, peace and happiness will become our daily experience, and we will approach life with a new confidence and sense of purpose.
"If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and unpeaceful we will never be happy, no matter how hard we try to change the external conditions."
How to Transform Your Life by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso.
Everyone is welcome
"Happiness is a part of the mind that experiences inner peace, or peace of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions."
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso