Lesson series
Welcome to a Calm Place
Level 100 | Self-Paced
Dates and Times On Demand
Feel less overwhelmed and more in control of how you respond to life. This self-paced course offers short, practical meditation exercises that help you recognize and shift habitual reactivity. Over time, you build a steady, usable calm you can carry into everyday moments—work, relationships, and uncertainty.
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“Full refund if the first class isn’t your cup of tea!”
Self-Paced Meditation Course
In a world that constantly pulls your attention outward, calm can feel temporary—something that comes and goes depending on circumstances. This course approaches it differently.
A Calm Place introduces meditation not as a technique to manage stress, but as a way to fundamentally shift how you meet experience. Through short, precise practices, you begin to see how reactivity forms—and how it can soften. What emerges is not control, but a deeper kind of stability: a mind that is less driven, more open, and able to respond rather than react.
Each lesson builds simply and directly—from working with breath and attention to sensing balance within body and mind. The practices are brief, but cumulative. Over time, they establish a grounded presence you can carry into daily life—work, relationships, and moments of pressure.
This is where meditation becomes practical. Not separate from life, but woven into it.
If you are looking for a way to feel more steady, more clear, and less at the mercy of circumstances, this course offers a place to begin—and to return to.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Introducing Concentration with a Candle
Lesson 2: Distinguishing Vitaka from Vicara with Bell
Lesson 3: Working with the Breath
Lesson 4: White Ball
Lesson 5: Traveling with the Ball
Lesson 6: White and Red Balls
Lesson 7: Finding the Center
Lesson 8: Sitting with a Smile
Testimonials
“My meditation practice is so much better now. The techniques that Richard taught have brought me to a calm, clear space that more frequently carries over into my “everyday” life. Merci beaucoup!”
ROY F.
Readings From
Three Minutes a Day: A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life by Richard Dixey
Instructor
Dr. Richard Dixey
Richard Dixey holds a Ph.D. from London University, an M.A. with distinction in the history and philosophy of science from London University, and a B.A. Hons from Oxford. He was director of the Bioelectronic Research Unit at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London for fourteen years before founding and becoming the Chief Executive of Phytopharm PLC, a biotechnology company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Richard has been a student of Buddhism since 1972 and has traveled extensively in the Himalayas, India and South East Asia. He is currently an advisor to the Khyentse Foundation.
Level 100 | Self-Paced
Dates and Times On Demand
All videos are recorded, allowing you to view them at your convenience.