Vimalasara Mason-John

Join the Teaching Meeting ID: 889 4215 5730 and passcode: 110088 Teacher Bio Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John was the co-founder and guiding teacher of Healing and Insight, an online faculty that explored the sharp edges of suffering. Award-winning author of 11 books, they are the co-founder and co-author of Eight Step Recovery: Using The Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction, with 8 step meetings in 3 continents. This year their new book a First Aid Kit for the Mind: Breaking the Cycle of Habitual Behaviours was published.  They are one of the founding facilitators of Dr Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry. They live on the unceded territory of Kanata.

Every day is a new year, and it’s an opportunity to do something different because the past has gone . However so many of us hold onto the past or cling onto a future that hasn’t even arrived. Today we will explore letting go and discovering a fr...

This month in our Buddhist Recovery Workshop series Vimalasara led us in a guided meditation and Dharma talk.

With the American election coming up, and the spike in COVID cases around the world, it is inevitable that many people may be experiencing PTSD, panic attacks, worry and concern. Many people ask how can meditation help when all you are doing is sitti...

Top up on tips and coping mechanisms to deal with the holidays.  Do the festive season with a sense of freedom and joy.

Imagine not being able to find your way home to your loved one’s, to your friends and family. Imagine how traumatic this would be. And this is the same trauma we experience when we have split from our body and can not find our way back into the bod...