Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here
In these tender and tumultuous times it can be hard to stay resourced, especially when the heat is on.
I offer trustworthy footholds, backed by classical Buddhist maps, to support you to find your way to your deeper ground.
Whether you’re looking for ways to ease suffering, or to taste more freedom and aliveness, or you’re making an impact in the world and want to be more resourced, I’m here to support your unique path.
I offer teachings and meditation practices that you can apply in your life, when it matters –
to create fresh space to do things differently.
And for the better.
Everybody welcome. Gather in.
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Deepen you practice with Jess
Teachings & Practices
Retreats & Courses
Individual Mentoring
‘Bringing traditional teachings beyond the walls of the monasteries, to meet the restless heart of modernity.’
Meditation Teacher | Writer | Speaker
“I’ve spent years in monasteries and solitary practice, intensely immersed in classical Buddhist teachings, and I’ve also broken out of these confines – scaled the walls – to explore what it means to include my body, the ‘feminine’ – all aspects of my life on my path.
I’ve done my time on the mountain, but I believe that it’s in our daily life that the rubber really hits the road. Together we can practice tapping into this depth and wisdom from wherever we are.”
Jess Huon
‘I have a particular focus on warmth and embodiment. We all need this nourishment as we face what’s painful in ourselves, in our world.’
Let’s get into the big stuff
I believe we need more people in the world - leaders, parents, community workers, artists, politicians - anchored to their own depth, knowing and sanity.
That starts with you.
Join our community to connect into deeper networks of support, like an underlying root system, and draw up nourishment for what matters.
The Path of Practice
The Buddha offers an intricate, ancient map and training - like a path through a wild forest - to support your unique track to maturation/evolution. There is so much on offer! It can be a lot to navigate on your own. And it can be confusing where to start.
This is an evolving, non-linear process and we each walk it in our own way.
I’ve been distilling my learning of the Buddha’s maps, through my own trial and error - as a woman living, working, creating, loving in the world for the last thirty years. I want to share a pathway I’ve mapped out with you.
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These practices expand your capacity to feel safe in your own skin - a mammalian safety - to find a place of ease, protection, belonging. Ever deepening ‘modes of being’ are explored. This gives nourishment (we all need it) to create the ground for our discernment to arise.
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Once we settle we have a whole lot more space to see clearly what’s in our field of attention. You are supported to explore different ways of seeing and to embody insights (written like freedom tattoos in the original teachings) that free-up and loosen experience.
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Through creating more internal groundedness and space, we can see all the others more directly - human and more-than-human - around us. Heart practices grow our capacity to compassionately respond to ourselves and others, cutting through apathy.
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As the training continues there is less separation between our inner and outer worlds, and more openness and less reactivity to what’s around us. Our practice is wherever we are, and includes all aspects of our lives - our work, relationships, physicality, country, our intimacy.
Supporting your unique path
All the training here is to support you to make practice your own. We become supported by these ancient maps and reference points, to live with less fear, to pursue our lives with courage.
“The Buddha’s teachings plant us back down, shoulder to shoulder, in our shared situation. The marker for our ‘progress’ is not in status, but in uncovering inherent qualities such as razor – sharp wisdom, tenderness, congruency, bravery and clear seeing.” – Jess
Acknowledgment of Country
It continues to strike me that while the Buddha’s teachings, at 2,500 years old, can be considered ancient, here on this land Indigenous Australians and their ancestors have lived, stored and shared knowledge for over 80,000 years. I honour the resilience, potency and wisdom inherent here. And I acknowledge that we predominantly practice together on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, and that sovereignty was never ceded.