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Learning Classical forms of Meditation can take us to higher states of consciousness.

Meditation has become a popular method these days in order to help calm the nervous system and develop concentration. While all of the practitioners at Seattle Trauma Counseling utilize forms of mindfulness practice, Robert Espiau offers a unique meditation training that is much deeper than can be found in your average American yoga studio. Robert spent 6 years as a Buddhist monastic,lived in Southeast Asia for 8 years and has been teaching classical forms of meditation coming from formal Sufi and Buddhist training for over 35 years. Robert offers a unique, rare and in-depth training for those who are interested in entering into deep states of serenity called Jhana or Samadhi in Hindu and Buddhist meditative teachings.

Robert teaches Samatha and Vipassana meditation, which are two distinct forms of meditation practice that date back at least 2500 years. They were taught by the 1st Buddha and are the foundation of all Buddhist meditation systems. Anyone who has a classical meditation training from within a Buddhist monastic tradition will have training in these two methods.Almost any book on early Buddhist meditation will tell you that the Buddha taught these two types of meditation: Samatha and Vipassana. Robert also has formal training in the ancient Christian method of mediation called Hesychia as well as the nondual practices found within Advaita Vedanta.
Currently there are only a handful of teachers in North Amercia who teach Jhana/ samadhi practice and all of them require that it is learned in long silent retreat. Robert is one of a handful of teachers in the US that can show you to enter into states of Samadhi while living a normal life in the community.
Samadhi states are blissful states of concentration that allow one to access with much higher precision the healing of past causes and effects.
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Jhana or Samadhi in Meditation is about entering the silence of the mind in order to rediscover your true nature, which is the serenity of the consciousness.

Samatha, which means tranquility, is a method fostering strong states of concentration eventually leading into what are called absorption states. Absorption into the stillness and silence of the mind, called Samadhi; (Buddha called this jhana). There are 8 states of concentrated absorption that the Budha taught. Robert can train you to enter into these states if you already have a regular daily meditation practice. These states contain qualities such as; joy, contentment, equanimity, and expansion of consciousness.

Vipassana — literally “clear-seeing,” but more often translated as insight meditation — is said to be a method that uses the foundation of tranquillity to foster a special insight into how perception functions at its root, as well as how karma forms and can be unraveled. There are many unusual applications of vipassana meditation once tranquility and concentration have been stabilized. This style of meditation can free a person from anxiety and allow them to accept the accept the painful and difficult experiences in life in a new way, thus leading the mind to release from suffering.

Group Instruction, private retreats and personal meditation training is available.
Currently Robert Espiau lives and teaches in both Cambodia and the United States.

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Advanced Meditation and Mindfulness Training

Learning Classical forms of Meditation can take us to higher states of consciousness.

Jhana or Samadhi in Meditation is about entering the silence of the mind in order to rediscover your true nature, which is the serenity of the consciousness.

You do not have to let fear define who you are.