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Michael Verlouw

Western psychology helped me with a number of questions in my life, but within Buddhism I really felt that I was coming 'home'.

Meditation and Dhamma study are my way of coming home to myself. And in the world. Just the way it is – as imperfect as it is beautiful.

In my guidance I help people, in a very open and light way, to find the most suitable entrance to silence and freedom for them. By finding your own entrance you naturally stimulate understanding of the path you are walking and wisdom and compassion come alive in such a way that you will gradually have access to it at any time.

I become happy the moment I notice that you really start to see the path as your path.

My name is Michael Verlouw. In addition to being a meditation coach, I work as a corporate lawyer for a public broadcaster. I am also trained as a hypno-/psychotherapist and yoga teacher.

With over 23 years of meditation and retreat experience, I have been studying at the Insight Meditation Center (IMS) and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) in the US since 2004. Deeply rooted in the Buddhist tradition, but at the same time fully focused on a Western lay life, people speak my language and tone there.

Within the many classical Buddhist movements I feel most closely related to that of the Thai Forest Tradition, from which my own teacher, Gloria Taraniya, also stems. Jotika Hermsen is my biggest source of inspiration in the Netherlands. Together with her and other colleagues I supervise retreats and study programs at Sangha Metta.

I sincerely hope that my contributions here 30NOW support you in your practice.

Updates

27 August 2023 Messages from the attendant

Meditation Day Rotterdam 'On making peace with your inner critic' – Sunday 1 October 2023

Each of us has those inner voices that constantly comment. They always find something; of ourselves, of others and of situations. When we are not aware of those voices, they will rule our lives and ...

27 August 2023 Messages from the attendant

Meditation day in Culemborg 'About Wisdom and Love' – October 22, 2023

The Theravāda tradition, the oldest of the many Buddhist schools, speaks of the two wings of the practice: insight and compassion. Words that I (Michaël) increasingly translate with wisdom and love in my own lessons. We are taught...

9 August 2023 Scheduled Live Sessions

Live Meditation scheduled for 14/08/2023: Vipassana on Monday – Breathe relaxed

Live Meditation: Vipassana on Monday - Relaxed Breathing. The practice of Vipassana makes us see the three characteristics of existence. Whatever presents itself in consciousness (sensations, thoughts, emotions, etc) if we look closely, nothing appears ...

27 August 2023 Scheduled Live Sessions

Live Meditation scheduled for 03-09-2023: RAIN - the whole exercise

Live Meditation: RAIN - the whole exercise. For the past few weeks we have been practicing on Sunday mornings with the different steps of RAIN Today we are practicing with the entire set of Recognize - Accept - Investigate & Unidentify. If your practice…

18 September 2023 Scheduled Live Sessions

Live Lecture scheduled for September 24, 09: About Embodied Meditation

Live Lecture: About Embodied Meditation. If anything has become clear to me in the years that I have been giving retreats and guiding people in meditation practice, it is that most people spend their time on the cushion 'thinking'. Observing...