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      • Discover an unprecedented diversity of meditations and lectures in the 30NOW Library. With themes such as the Eightfold Path, meditation in daily life, living with dying, meditation in motion, compassion, self-care and the art of letting go, the 30NOW-library to delve deeper into what is valuable to you at this moment. In addition, for those who want to delve deeper into Buddhist philosophy, we offer meditations and lectures that take you step by step through the core principles of Buddhism.

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      • Ciska Matthes: Yin Yoga – open your heart
        Ciska Matthes: The good sitting
        Jan Geurtz: Dzogchen
        Joost van den Heuvel Rijnders: Three doors to happiness
        Joost van den Heuvel Rijnders: Kwik, Dewey and Louie: the three root causes of suffering
        Ciska Matthes: Trust
        Ciska Matthes: Finding peace in chaotic times – how to deal with all that world news?
        Chris Cullen: Practicing with difficult emotions
        Luc Rombaut: Meditation and psychedelics, blessing or curse?
        Stef Lauwers: Relationships in healthcare; possibilities and pitfalls
        Mirjam Schild: The power of resilience
        Frits Koster: From despondency to angerlessness
        Michaël Verlouw: About Embodied Meditation
        Ciska Matthes: As soon as you sit, you are Buddha – Zen master Dogen
        Erik van den Brink: From ego to eco-consciousness
        Tom Hannes: Why the Buddha loved lists so much
        Leni Cellini: Never triggered again? ~ Mindfulness for sensitive souls
        Ciska Matthes: Seeing through Mara, then and now
        Irène Kaigetsu Bakker: Committed Buddhism theme month 'Come off your kisses'
        Phap Xa: Tranquility and clarity
        Ciska Matthes: About Brahma and Shiva, desire and transience – inspiration from Hinduism
        Erik van den Brink: Reliance
        Leni Cellini: Mindful anger ~ Beyond the taboo
        Ciska Matthes: “Work on yourself first and everything else will follow
        Tom Hannes: Everything's burning.
        Kasper Meulesteen: Open space
        Ciska Matthes: Seijo's soul – a story, a koan and a meditation
        Bhante Sujato: Breathing Mindfully
        Ward Vandepitte: Siddhartha the rebel of the middle way
        Dingeman Boot: Trust
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      • Four Paths to Wellbeing and Fulfillment - Live Course

        Four Paths to Wellbeing and Fulfillment – ​​Live Course

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        Fritz Koster
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        Erik van den Brink
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        Dealing with Climate Change Consciously - Bhikkhu Anālayo
        Bhikkhu Anālayo
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        Dealing with Climate Change Consciously – Bhikkhu Anālayo

        Dhamma study 'The 7 factors of awakening' - In-depth series
        Helena Pauptit, Bianca Vermeij

        Dhamma study 'The 7 factors of awakening' – In-depth series

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        Helena Pauptit, Bianca Vermeij

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        Guido Scholte
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      • Summer of Reflection and Connection

        Summer of Reflection and Connection

        Hopefully you are doing well. We would like to inform you of the current offer on 30NOW.We are pleased to introduce you to the new in-depth series 'Compassionate Living', developed and supervised by Erik van den Brink. In six ...
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      • The art of meeting

        The art of meeting

        June 10, 2025
        Put out your fire and your light will shine

        Put out your fire and your light will shine

        May 14, 2025
        The spark and the flame

        The spark and the flame

        May 14, 2025
        Find your own way

        Find your own way

        October 31, 2024
        The healing power of breath

        The healing power of breath

        4 September 2024
        Doe's sweet, compassion training for children

        Doe's sweet, compassion training for children

        January 4 2024
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      • #51 Bart van Melik - Fragment from A Life Focused on Awakening

        #51 Bart van Melik – Excerpt from A Life Focused on Awakening

        #50 Mindful with your smartphone - Leni Cellini

        #50 Mindful with your smartphone – Leni Cellini

        #49 The Spiritual Warrior - What is awakening? - Episode 6

        #49 The Spiritual Warrior – What is awakening? – Episode 6

        #48 The Spiritual Warrior - Stress? - Episode 5

        #48 The Spiritual Warrior – Stress? – Episode 5

        #47 The Spiritual Warrior - What has meditation brought you? - Episode 4

        #47 The Spiritual Warrior – What has meditation brought you? – Episode 4

        #46 The Spiritual Warrior - What is a retreat? - Episode 3

        #46 The Spiritual Warrior – What is a retreat? – Episode 3

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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.

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Live Meditation scheduled for 01-08-2025: Soft Belly Meditation (2)

Live Meditation: Soft Belly Meditation (2). Another 'soft belly meditation' where we seek support in coming home to the body, by bringing the attention back to our belly again and again. In order to experience that something in ...
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Live Meditation scheduled for 11/06/2025: The Space Between Two Thoughts

Live Meditation: The Space Between Two Thoughts When we focus on the silence between two thoughts, we can experience a special space, Some call it consciousness, some call it emptiness, some call it our true nature, ...
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Live Meditation scheduled for 29-05-2025: Being present here and now is enough.

Live Meditation: Being present here and now is enough.. In this gentle meditation we practice the willingness to be present…..... The willingness to connect. Without judgment, without expectations…...... Just that silent knowing…..what is happening from moment to moment…
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Live Meditation scheduled for 18-05-2025: A soft belly

Live Meditation: A Soft Belly. What presents itself is harder to work with when we get lost in the story, rather than resting in the direct experience. So much of our suffering comes from the stories that ...
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Live Meditation scheduled for 04-08-2025: Insight Meditation with RAIN – The Fourth Step – Non-Identification.

Live Meditation: Insight Meditation with RAIN - The fourth step - Non-identifying.. In 7 consecutive Monday evenings we will get to know Insight Meditation using RAINRAIN stands for Recognizing, Accepting, Investigating and Non-identifying. In Dutch: Recognize, Accept, Investigate and ...
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Lust for Life - Year Group 2025

Lust for Life – Year Group 2025

February 23 – December 21, 2025 Happiness comes from within In the year group 'Lust for Life - Happiness comes from within' we practice ...
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Eight steps to happiness - Year group 2024/2025

Eight steps to happiness – Year group 2024/2025

March 31, 2024 - January 19, 2025 the eightfold path in everyday life The Eightfold Path is next to the ...
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Dancing with life - Year group 2023

Dancing with life – Year group 2023

March 12, 2023 - February 11, 2024 the four noble truths in everyday life Dancing with life: the ...
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RAIN - Floor series

RAIN - Floor Series

Welcome to the in-depth series RAIN - the direct path to joy, freedom and connection. At your own pace, on your…
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LIVE! - Year group 2022 - Live Course

LIVE! - Year group 2022 - Live Course

For a year - together with a group of like-minded people - develop yourself further on the path of meditation and mindfulness ...
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