Deep Springs
Draw on the strength of your deepest ally - your own heart
A Self-Paced Online Course with Jess Huon
Do you want powerful backing in your life - your own heart onside?
This fresh take on ancient Buddhist heart teachings will support you to draw on the powerful innate qualities of your own heart.
So you can -
Tap into care when you need it, instead of over-thinking, fading out or getting up to trouble.
Generate love, steadiness and aliveness - for yourself and others
Have one foot in joy, as you step into what’s hard
Be less reactive with the people you care about
Spark direct and vital contact with your life
In this course you will receive teachings and meditation practices to apply in your life, when it matters –
to create fresh space to do things differently.
And for the better.
You don’t have to wait for a crisis before you turn towards your deepest ally - your own heart.
In transition, on a new edge, or in a dark night — it's easy to react to ourselves with control, aggression or criticism. Yet we all need warmth and kindness to get us through.
In this online course you will be guided not just to talk and think about - but to embody - what you care about.
You will do this through the four Brahma Viharas, core Buddhist heart teachings translated for modern times: Friendliness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity (deep calm). These qualities are like homes - safe homes that feel good - and are said to give strength and be strength
Through practice, we can spend more time in these enriching states.
Over four modules, you will plant the seeds of a wise, alive heart through exploring :
Friendliness / Metta. Unconditional friendliness to whatever arises within you. The loving base that supports your clear-seeing/discernment.
Compassion / Karuna. ‘Feeling with’ youself/ others. Putting yourself in another’s shoes without leaving your own.
Sympathetic joy / Mudita. Finding joy in sharing in another’s good fortune and liberation.
Equanimity / Upekkha. Steadiness to open to life’s inevitable pain and beauty - without freaking out (too much).
A note from your guide, Jess
I want this offering to be a circuit breaker.
We’ve all seen how cycles of pain play out on a large scale - the maddening, escalating, compulsive tides of history - the repetitions of harm - politically, environmentally.
This also happens in big and small ways in each of our own lives.
Every time one of us disrupts this pattern of inner or outer harm - every time we can love ourselves or each other better than the past did - we are all contributing to changing the course of our shared human ship.
This starts with you. And it’s not easy to do alone.
These teachings on the Brahma Viharas will support you to recognise something deeper in your being than repetitive cycles - and to act from here. To plant good seeds in the bed of your own life, and in the collective.
There is a place for everybody in these heart teachings.
I believe we can all be soothed and strengthened here - everybody welcome.
In this course you will receive:
A video introduction on these heart teachings
A specially recorded dharma talk on each of the Brahma Viharas
Tailored guided practices to download
Reflective questions to journal or discuss
Curated readings, ranging from original buddhist texts, to contemporary teachers, to artists
Bonus content: Extra dharma talks, a Q&A recording, and a live session recording featuring music by Matt Wicking
Three curated, beautiful maps of Buddhist teachings to support your learning.
These teachings are here for you to do in your own time, in your own space - in the reality of your life.
They can support you to make real change in how you relate to yourself - and those around you.
In time these qualities can shift some of your most stubborn harmful patterns.
Without packing up your bags to go elsewhere.
No mountain top. No monastery. No private get-away. No Bali bliss. No mystical location. No idealised state. No exotic, other space. No greener grass.
BEING HERE.
Your Guide Jess Huon
With 30 years of practice and study, Jess has spent countless hours exploring what it means to be human. A dharma teacher, writer (The Dark Wet, Giramondo Publishing), and mentor, she blends deep understanding of classical Buddhist teachings with her embodied experience as a contemporary woman and artist on the path.
Authorised to teach in the Insight and Open Dharma traditions, Jess has spent extended periods in monasteries worldwide. Her approach is deeply informed by Tibetan tradition and long stretches of solitary forest practice.
She stands for every human's capacity to find fresh responses to personal and collective challenges, deeper than distraction and despair.
What Others Have Experienced:
"It was a refuge, rays of light and truth, a backbone for the chaos and pain that inevitably emerges in this human life. It was one of the best things I have ever done."
“I feel steadier, more sure-footed, vital and awake to what matters.”
"It allowed me to soften, tap into more inner strength and love, and gifted me with beautiful practices to continue to use in my daily life."
I loved the chance to maintain the depth of practice within my full time work week - getting up early and then doing it again before bed. ”
Course Investment
Normal price $197
Summer Sale: $99
Offer ends 21st December
A Path Through Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times
Drawing on timeless Buddhist maps, this course offers a pathway and practices to support you to open to the power of your heart - and make real change in the midst of daily life.
Have questions?
Email us at mentoring@jesshuon.com — we're here to support you in finding your way to this work.
