Moving Meditation: Awareness in Motion
Level 100
Tuesday, May 12 – June 16, 2026
9 -9:45 AM PT
An Introduction to Integrating Body, Mind, and Senses Moving Meditation invites you to experience awareness through the body where movement becomes a way of listening, and presence unfolds in motion. When movement is met with awareness, the body becomes a place of rest rather than effort.
Instructor: Simon Cook
Note: After the class has begun, you will receive an email asking for a donation. Please offer whatever you feel. Dharma College is a 501(c)(3) and exists on your generosity. Thank you in advance.
- 6 live online classes with guided practices
- Zoom link sent on registration
- Recordings available or 6 months after class
- A supportive learning environment for beginners
- Free cancellation after first class
- Donation only
Description
In this practice, gentle, mindful movement becomes a doorway into meditation. Rather than striving for stillness or emptying the mind, awareness is invited to include the whole of lived experience: body, breath, sensation, thought, and perception, all moving together in natural balance.
As we slow down and listen inwardly, something subtle but profound can emerge. Instead of feeling pressured by time, there is a sense of flow and nourishment. Instead of being caught in habitual thinking, awareness settles into the body, and experience feels more spacious, connected, and easeful. Movement becomes a way of resting in presence, not apart from life, but within it.
This course draws from contemplative traditions and modern somatic understanding, offering a grounded and accessible approach to embodied awareness. There are no forms to memorize and no techniques to perfect. The practice unfolds through noticing, sensing, and allowing meeting experience directly as it arises.
What This Practice Is (and Isn’t)
Moving Meditation may remind some people of practices like Kym Nye or Tai Chi. It is closer in spirit to intuitive movement practices such as Kym Nye, where awareness leads and the body responds naturally. Unlike Tai Chi, however, there are no prescribed sequences or martial forms.
Movement here is simple, slow, and guided by listening rather than performance. There is no “right” way to move. The emphasis is on integration how awareness, movement, and sensation come together in each moment.
Who This Course Is For
This practice is very gentle and accessible. It is suitable for every body and every mind, across all ages and levels of mobility. No prior experience with meditation or movement is required.
Whether you are new to meditation or have practiced for years, Moving Meditation offers a way to deepen presence without withdrawing from daily life. The balance and ease you discover in class often spill naturally into how you walk, pause, respond, and relate beyond the practice space
What You May Experience
Participants often report feeling:
- More grounded and at ease in their bodies
- Less reactive to stress, thoughts, and emotions
- More open, present, and receptive to experience
- A growing sense of confidence and trust in themselves
When body and awareness move together, effort softens. The practice begins to do itself. In these moments, there is a felt sense of wholeness because nothing is being excluded from awareness.
This sense of integration isn’t something we create. It’s something we remember. And we can learn it precisely because it is already part of who we are.
An Invitation
Moving Meditation offers a practical, embodied way to cultivate presence in motion one that can be carried into everyday life. If you’re curious about meditation that lives in the body, invites gentleness, and meets experience as it is, you are warmly welcome to join.
Come move. Come listen. Come discover what it feels like to be fully here.
Testimonials
“I enjoy the movement classes …. The exercises deeply relax not only my body but also my mind.”
Sherry L.
“The guided movements align the body and mind with moving energy and stillness. Feel refreshed after every class.”
L Y.
Instructor
Simon Cook
Simon Cook has a Geography Degree from Southampton University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University. He taught English Language to adults for many years, in the UK and Europe, and has taught Tibetan refugees in India. Simon did the Nine-month Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga Programme at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley in 1986/87. He works for the charity Age UK, helping older people. He teaches Kum Nye at a local therapy centre.
Level 100
Tuesday, March 17th – April 21, 2026
9 -9:45 AM PT
- 6 live online classes with guided practices
- Zoom link sent on registration
- Recordings available or 6 months after class
- A supportive learning environment for beginners
- Free cancellation after first class
- Donation only
Note: After the class has begun, you will receive an email asking for a donation. Please offer whatever you feel. Dharma College is a 501(c)(3) and exists on your generosity. Thank you in advance.