A Walking Meditation - Walk and Listen

This podcast is designed for you to listen to while on your walk. There are places where I suggest you pause the recording and where it cycles, and can be repeated, so you can make the walk as long as you wish.Here is the link to a video explaining the walking meditation and a meditation you can do to prepare for it on my YouTube channel:Click here to view the YouTube video.Here is the link to the blog entry for this podcast on the podcasts page of my website:Click here to visit the podcast entry of my blog.This is the first in a series of podcasts that I'm delivering on the subject of mindful walking and walking meditation in collaboration with St Christopher's Hospice, whose good work is needed now as much as it ever has been.St Christophers are running what they called a step up for St Christopher's challenge where supporters are walking 5,000 steps per day to reach 50 million steps. To find out more visit this link:https://www.stchristophers.org.uk/stepupWalking meditation, like whole meditation, is thousands of years old. Once we've learnt to meditate in formal practice (sitting), any activity can become a meditation.Famously, Thich Nhat Hanh, The famous Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and activist, taught the dishwashing meditation.This practice is the technique that I use when I do walking meditation.It consists of cycling through these practices, focusing on our breath, focusing on our feet, and open awareness of our surroundings.This cycling process assists the practitioner to stay present and allows them to have a varied experience rather than, for instance, just focusing on the sensation of the feet on the ground, or trying to stay present.This is from a session I taught in The Meditation Course.Details are here: https://www.meditationcourse.live/ This is a recording of a live-streamed class from The Loving Awareness Meditation Course -Three live-streamed classes each week. You can subscribe to The Loving Awareness Meditation Course website for free to be updatedwith new podcast episodes, offers and information on training.https://lovingawareness.fm/ If you want to just listen to meditations without the guidance, visit The Meditation CoursePodcast here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-meditation-course/id1549271245