Welcome to AuthentiCity
We offer a no nonsense secular approach to meditation.
From day one we will present a comprehensive and systematic guide to training your mind.
From day one we will present a comprehensive and systematic guide to training your mind.
Why 'AuthentiCity'?
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The secular techniques we use are authentic and effective; they come from traditions that have been perfecting a science of the mind for over two and a half thousand years. By secular we mean open to all, regardless of belief.
We do our best to be authentic teachers, we will only teach you techniques that we have mastered for ourselves. The techniques we teach can all be empirically validated, and we will never ask you to accept anything that you cannot verify for yourself. We won’t ask you to exchange one set of values for another, instead we will encourage you to strengthen your own inner authenticity, where more and more the actions you take align with the values you hold. This is a healthy and organic approach to reducing anxiety, remorse, dissonance, and inner turmoil. |
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The Training
We like to think of ourselves as personal trainers for the mind, guiding you in your journey to reach peak mental fitness. By challenging your mind to work with attention and awareness simultaneously, you will steadily increase the overall power of your mind.
Our Role
Our role is to introduce you to the meditation technique, and guide you going forward. You will create the tools you need to free yourself from unwanted habits and emotions, such as anxiety and depression, and enrich what you value most in life.
The Rewards
This training will steadily bring clarity, energy, and peace of mind. You will learn to combine a specialist's attention to detail while maintaining a broad perspective.
We approach our training through three main perspectives:
We like to think of ourselves as personal trainers for the mind, guiding you in your journey to reach peak mental fitness. By challenging your mind to work with attention and awareness simultaneously, you will steadily increase the overall power of your mind.
Our Role
Our role is to introduce you to the meditation technique, and guide you going forward. You will create the tools you need to free yourself from unwanted habits and emotions, such as anxiety and depression, and enrich what you value most in life.
The Rewards
This training will steadily bring clarity, energy, and peace of mind. You will learn to combine a specialist's attention to detail while maintaining a broad perspective.
We approach our training through three main perspectives:
Secular Concentration: by training in attention and peripheral awareness simultaneously, we increase the overall power of our mind, bringing greater and greater degrees of mindful awareness into our everyday lives.
Secular Insight: our training in attention and peripheral awareness leads us to look at our own mind, what goes on there, and how it effects us from one moment to the next. These shifts in understanding or insights arise naturally as we begin to see the role our mind plays in our experience and in our actions.
Secular Values: simply observing the effects of our actions on those around us, and on our own peace of mind, we adapt our behaviour accordingly. It's up to us to enhance the positive states of mind we value, and reduce the negative states of mind we do not.
Secular Insight: our training in attention and peripheral awareness leads us to look at our own mind, what goes on there, and how it effects us from one moment to the next. These shifts in understanding or insights arise naturally as we begin to see the role our mind plays in our experience and in our actions.
Secular Values: simply observing the effects of our actions on those around us, and on our own peace of mind, we adapt our behaviour accordingly. It's up to us to enhance the positive states of mind we value, and reduce the negative states of mind we do not.
If you want to know more about how we work, or listen to a guided meditation, why not try our Introduction to Training the Mind?
Next Steps
If you enjoyed the introduction and think you would like to train with us, we have meditation classes in London and online. Our Foundation Course is a great place to start. It's designed to be a thorough and comprehensive introduction to secular meditation.
Meditation Classes and Workshops
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Online Meditation Classes
People join our online classes from North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Central America. For dates and times, please have a look at our online course schedule.
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Joining our mailing list will make sure you know of all upcoming courses and events in plenty of time.
Wherever you are in the world, we would like to have you in class. If our current course times don't work for you, let us know where you live and what times would suit you best, and once we have enough interest, we will start up a new course right away.
Wherever you are in the world, we would like to have you in class. If our current course times don't work for you, let us know where you live and what times would suit you best, and once we have enough interest, we will start up a new course right away.
