Oceans Within: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation

This book is dedicated to ‘those who want to get into meditation (and wonder if they can)’. It continues the voyage that began with Journeys to the Deep and Into the Flow. With gentle humour and insight, Elizabeth English dovetails lyrical prose and beautifully crafted poems. She writes:

There is no one way, no ‘right' way, to meditate. But there is a way to meditate which leads to ease and enjoyment. When you meditate you learn to navigate, to steer a course, to surf the waves of life and consciousness. You are a sea of selves. More than that: you are the whole ocean and all the waves within it.

'This is a book of real wisdom and grace; a travelling companion for the work that is done in silence, far below the surface of the mind.'
Rowan Williams

About the Author:

ELIZABETH ENGLISH (D Phil) teaches meditation and sleep support at Cambridge, having developed and taught the University’s research-led mindfulness courses for over a decade. Her mindfulness courses were the subject of research (published in The Lancet PH, December 2017) showing significant benefit to students. She draws on over four decades of personal meditation practice, her ordination within a Western Buddhist tradition, as well as her masters and doctoral research at Oxford University, studying Buddhist meditation texts. She is a certified teacher of Mindfulness, Focusing, Somatic Experiencing (trauma therapy) and Nonviolent Communication, and runs her own consultancy: