What Is Reflective Meditation?
Reflective Meditation is grounded in early Buddhist teachings and informed by Western psychology. Our practice evolved out of the Insight (Vipassana) tradition. This secular expression encourages meditators to include the full range of their inner experience: thoughts, emotions, sensations, and bodily awareness with a receptive, kind and curious attention.
After each meditation, practitioners take time to reflect and journal, describing what unfolded and the process of meditation itself. Through gentle dialogue with teachers and peers, these reflections become a shared inquiry that deepens understanding, compassion, and ethical clarity. This integrative approach supports a meditation practice that is both personally meaningful and grounded in everyday realities.
Our Offerings
We invite you to bring your experiences with activism into your meditation; holding them in the conditions of Kindness and Curiosity.
Wednesdays | 9am to 10am PT
We would like to share our Reflective Meditation practice with you as a refuge, and a time for daily connection, by offering an open meditation group.
DAILY | 9am to 10am PT
Cultivate awareness and introspection through gentle movement, meditation, and self-reflection with Tai Ji and Reflective Meditation at King Gillette.
First Sat. 10-11:15am
For Those Seeking a Kinder, More Realistic Meditation Practice
- Have never meditated before
- Believe that they cannot meditate
- Are at an impasse or want more from their meditation practice
- Value honesty, inquiry, and independence
- Want to meditate with others
- Wish to discover new ways to engage with the dharma
Reflective Meditation:
Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company
Listen, Learn, and Stay Connected
Agreements for Participation
Autonomy
- right to control the direction of your learning
- speak with self honesty and self regulation to foster understanding between us
- use care, curiosity, and flexibility while meditating
Respect
- treating different kinds of experience equitably
- treating each other equitably
- holding what we hear and observe with care and confidentiality
- acknowledge that there will be differences of opinion
Fidelity
- self honesty, being truthful with yourself
- keeping your commitments to yourself and your development
- acknowledge there may be resistance to practice and self care
Contribution
- your experience and presence matters to us
- we offer our teachings with a suggested supportive donation so we can continue to teach Reflective Meditation to anyone who has an interest