Jérôme Stoel
My name is Jerome Stoel (1967) and I have been guiding vipassana retreats since 2012, these are now long weekends, 5-day and 10-day retreats. I bring my experience from the long retreats that I followed with Sayadaw U Pandita and his successors in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw. Nowadays I consider Ayya Virañani as my most important teacher.
In addition, I have had a practice in body-oriented trauma therapy since 2003, for people who want to recover from early childhood chronic traumatization. For this target group and for healthcare professionals I guide trauma-sensitive mindfulness trainings and trauma-sensitive compassion trainings and trauma-sensitive retreats.
In the retreats in Burma, as an expert by experience of early trauma, I have experienced the power of vipassana meditation but also how complicated it can be. That is why we offer trauma-sensitive retreats for people with an unsafe childhood, in which they can still reap the benefits of the Dhamma.
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Live Meditation scheduled for 21-04-2025: Begin again, again and again
Live Meditation: Begin again, again and again. Because Easter stands for resurrection, or rising again, this is also a good time to breathe new life into our practice. Not from strictness but from forgiveness we can start again at any moment ...
Live Meditation scheduled for 07-04-2025: Using Anger as Strength
Live Meditation: Using Anger as Power. Anger or Dosa is considered one of the major obstacles on the path to liberation. How can you use anger instead of fighting it? The Zoom participation link, ...
Live Meditation scheduled for 24-03-2025: When you doubt your practice
Live Meditation: When you doubt your practice. While practicing vipassana, we can become skeptical when things don’t go as expected. We may work harder or give up. We compare ourselves to others or ...
Live Meditation scheduled for 24-02-2025: Dissociating during practice
Live Meditation: Dissociating during practice. When we are in meditation we can sometimes disappear into a dream state, lethargy, sluggishness, or sleepiness. And sometimes, especially when there are unprocessed traumatic memories, these can be symptoms of (trauma related dissociation). Also ...
Live Meditation scheduled for 17/02/2025: Dealing with restlessness and worry
Live Meditation: Dealing with restlessness and worry. Our attention can go in all directions during practice but also in life. Restlessness and especially worry can really play tricks on us. In this practice we focus on how we ...
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