Find your calm. Keep it.
Learning to relax in each moment just as it is.
Live better, feel better
8 friendly weekly sessions with ongoing support. Learn about meditation and the mind with evidence based tools you can use every day.
One course. Practical tools for life.
Hello, I'm Simon Stead.
For the last 27 years, meditation has guided me towards a deepening freedom and insight, and it has been life changing. If you're curious, I’d love to share some of the things I've learned, and show you how they might help you feel more present and alive in your own everyday experience.
Do you ever have a feeling that you’re missing something? That happiness is an event in the future? If you could just get more of this and less of that, then you would be happy? What if you could learn to hold things more lightly and be contented in this moment?
In this course, we will explore why we so often feel this dissatisfaction with our lives. Through an examination of the causes, we will learn how meditation can help lift and free us from the weight of our everyday worry and stress.
Discovering the Art of Noticing
We will explore how to notice our mind's obsession with thoughts. How they construct our daily reality, limit and define us. As our meditation practice deepens, we will begin to untangle the complex assumptions and mental habits we carry around as self definitions. This shift allows us to be more present, relaxed and connected to our lives and the people around us. Hopefully by the end of the course, you’ll start to notice more simple pleasures and a change in perspective that encourages insight and presence.
Gentle Support & Step-by-Step Guidance
With the help of detailed guidance, the course facilitates a step-by-step process of learning. Going as deep as you are interested in going, through your mindfulness practice you’ll become ever more aware of an inner calm and balance, helping you start to feel less stress and more joy. Ultimately, we will look at how to create greater psychological freedom and give you the tools to take away and use when you need them.
These techniques, when applied systematically, begin to change how we see the world and ourselves. They have helped me immensely, and others too. But please don’t take my word for it, see the reviews below - or search google reviews online.
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The next group courses start on:
September 8th 2026. 6.30- 8.30pm for 8 weeks in Northam. £200. Instalments and concessions available including NHS Staff. Please contact for details.
If you would like to find out more or book a place, please contact me via email in the first instance at simonjohnssea@gmail.com. Then if you'd like, we can then arrange a free, no obligation call about the course, about you, and how I might help.
I also run personalised Individual 8 week courses (both in person and online). These courses can be made to fit around you and your timetable. If this would be your preference, please contact me directly.
Reviews
" Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom throughout this course. I have learnt and experienced things that I could never have imagined. You have helped me re-discover feelings and emotions that I had lost touch with or hidden away. You have helped me to become more accepting of the people and world around me. I am more able to understand and share these feelings more freely. My connections with friends and loved ones have become more open and meaningful. Thank you for starting me on my mindfulness journey. I look forward to seeing where this takes me next. " JP
"Simon's course has been a valuable space to feel, connect, reflect and process on my own inner life. I found particularly helpful the calm and relaxing space. The meditations and discussion helped me reconnect with my journey of mindfulness. A truly enlightening and healing experience. 'Time out' to leap from our merry go round of existence." TP
New Events
Monthly meditation support evenings every month 6.30 to 8.00 for those that have already taken the 8 week course.
Next one Sep/Oct 6.30 - 8.00. Contact to book.
What we will be looking at- Vedana - noticing how we are always pushing and pulling, and therefore judging our experience. Exploring in meditation how all sensations can be seen as either pleasant, unpleasant or neutral and this often being where craving begins.