The class
A Learn to Meditate class
Four weeks. Eight sessions. A practice that becomes yours.
This is a structured 4-week class, not a drop-in. We move through a deliberate arc together — body, breath, mind, heart — with each week building on the last. Attending consistently matters because the cohort moves as one.
Who this is for
People who have never meditated, and people who have started many times and stopped. Both are the same person as far as this course is concerned.
It's for you if you've tried an app and found it didn't hold, or if you've read about meditation for years without ever quite beginning, or if something in your life has become heavy enough that you're finally looking for a way to sit with it.
It is not a retreat, and it isn't therapy. It's eight evenings of learning a practical skill in a small group, with someone to ask when it doesn't work.
The shape of the commitment
- 8 live sessions, 45–60 minutes each
- Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:00 PM PT
- Plus 3–5 minutes of daily practice between sessions
- Total time: roughly 8 hours over 4 weeks
Four weeks, one arc.
Week 1
Arriving in the body
Where every meditation practice begins. The body is the only thing happening right now, and learning to land in it is the first skill.
Week 2
The breath as a tool
The most portable practice you'll learn. Something you can carry into a meeting, a difficult conversation, a sleepless 3 AM.
Week 3
Meeting the mind
The week most people find hardest, and the week the real practice begins. You'll learn what to do with all the noise.
Week 4
Opening the heart
The oldest practice in every meditative tradition, and the antidote to the inner critic that runs most of our lives.
What a session is like
We start on time and finish on time — 45 to 60 minutes.
I usually begin by asking how the week's practice went, and anyone who wants to answer does. Then I teach one thing: a posture, a way of working with the breath, something to do when the mind won't settle. Then we practise it together, guided, for ten or fifteen minutes.
Afterwards there's time for questions — and the questions are the part most people find they didn't know they needed. Is it meant to feel like this? Why is it harder now than it was in week one? What do I do when I can't stop crying?
Then you close the laptop and it's Thursday evening again.
You won't be put on the spot
You can keep your camera off, and some people do the whole four weeks that way.
Nobody has to speak. There's no going round the group, no sharing exercise, nothing to prepare. If you'd rather sit quietly for eight sessions and never say a word, that's a perfectly ordinary way to do this course.
The cap of ten isn't there to make it intimate in a way that puts pressure on you. It's there so I can actually answer your questions, and so I notice if you've gone quiet.
What you'll have at the end
A practice you can do without me.
That's the whole aim. Not a habit you'll abandon in a fortnight, and not a dependence on a recording of my voice — a short sequence you understand well enough to do in a chair, in a hotel room, in a hospital corridor, on the days when it's hardest and there's nobody to guide you.
Three to five minutes a day, done for four weeks, with someone to ask when it goes wrong. That's what the eight sessions are for.
Upcoming cohorts
Cohort 2 · Full
Cohort 3 · Dates to be announced
Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:00 PM PT — 8 live sessions
Location: Live on Zoom, recordings sent within 24 hours
Includes: 8 live sessions, daily practices, weekly emails, recordings of every session, a small cohort — taxes included
Join the waitlist →“Her voice is a vehicle to go deeper.”
M. FRASER · Cohort 1
Capped at 10 students. When the next cohort opens, waitlist members are invited first.
Common questions
- I've never meditated. Is this too advanced?
- No — it's built for people starting from nothing. Everything is explained while we do it, and no previous experience is assumed at any point.
- What if I miss a session?
- A recording arrives within 24 hours. Several people in each cohort miss one or two evenings for perfectly ordinary reasons and finish the course without difficulty.
- Do I have to be on camera?
- No. Turn it off before you join if you'd rather.
- Will I have to talk about personal things?
- No. You'll never be asked to share anything, and there's no round-the-group exercise at any point.
- How much time does it actually take?
- Roughly eight hours in total — eight sessions of 45 to 60 minutes, plus three to five minutes of practice on the days between. That's the honest number, and the daily practice matters more than the sessions do.
- What do I need?
- A device with a browser, and somewhere to sit. No Zoom account, no cushion, no app.
- What if it isn't for me?
- Come to the first two sessions. If it isn't right, tell me and I'll refund you in full — no explanation needed.
- Is it religious?
- No. I trained in meditation and in Reiki, and I hold this work with care, but nothing in the course asks you to believe anything.
- What happens after the four weeks?
- Nothing is required of you. You're welcome at the free Wednesday meditations for as long as you'd like, and some people from the first cohort still come.