Conscious Resting: Participation Information
About the sessions
These free, live guided meditations offer a welcoming space for stillness, self-reflection and personal exploration.
Led by a qualified and experienced emotional therapist, the sessions may include guided visualisations, reflective exercises and invitations to explore feelings, memories or different aspects of ourselves, including experiences from earlier in life.
These practices can sometimes bring unexpected emotions or memories to the surface. While the sessions are informed by extensive therapeutic experience, they are offered as guided meditations rather than individual therapy or counselling, and are not intended to replace professional mental health support.
Your wellbeing and freedom of choice
Everything offered during a meditation is an invitation, never a requirement.
You are always free to follow the guidance in whatever way feels appropriate, adapt an exercise, simply listen, pause or leave at any time. There is no expectation to experience anything in particular or to share anything about yourself.
If you are currently experiencing significant emotional or psychological difficulties, particularly those associated with trauma, please consider whether this form of meditation is right for you. If you are unsure, you may wish to seek advice from an appropriate healthcare professional before participating.
As these are online group sessions, individual therapeutic support cannot be provided.
Above all, please be gentle with yourself and respect your own feelings, needs and boundaries.
How the sessions work
Each session takes place as a Zoom webinar, allowing you to participate privately, without appearing on camera or speaking.
You are welcome to join up to 15 minutes beforehand, when gentle music will be playing and there may be an opportunity for informal conversation through the chat.
The Conscious Resting guided meditation itself lasts approximately 30 minutes. During this time, there is no interaction via the chat, and you can simply relax and listen.
After the meditation, there is a further optional period of around 15 minutes when you are welcome to remain online and, if you wish, share thoughts or comments through the chat.
There is never any obligation to participate in these conversations.
Privacy and recordings
Your privacy is important.
The sessions take place in Zoom webinar format, so participants cannot see or hear one another, and the attendee list is not visible to other participants.
You may choose to send a chat message privately to the host or share it with everyone attending, depending on the chat options available. Please be mindful that messages shared with everyone can be seen by others in the webinar.
Only the guided meditation itself is recorded. The informal periods before and after are not recorded, and no participant names or chat contributions are included in the published recordings.
Recordings may be made available on this website for free listening or downloading, and may also be published on YouTube or other public platforms. Once published, recordings may remain publicly available indefinitely.
Your participation is entirely voluntary, and you are welcome simply to listen without interacting at any point.
