Join me for a conversation with Emma Barnett, British BBC broadcaster and radio journalist.
Matthew regularly offers Buddhist teachings and meditation instructions for in-person groups in the San Francisco Bay Area and online nationally. Here are events scheduled for 2025 and 2026, thus far.
In this guided meditation, Matthew leads the practitioner through mindfulness of elements using Bhikkhu Analayo’s method of Satipatthana practice. The meditation begins with establishing embodied mindfulness and then moves into body scans using earth, water, fire, and air elements.
The Buddha taught that the body can be a doorway to liberation from suffering, a place we can return to find steadiness and ease. With practice, the body can become a place of refuge – a fertile ground for presence and insight.
Matthew leads the practitioner through mindfulness of anatomy using Bhikkhu Analayo’s method of Satipatthana practice. The meditation begins with establishing embodied mindfulness and then moves into body scans of the body using skin, flesh, and bone.
People mediate for a variety of reasons. To slow down. To heal. To stay sane. To meet what’s here. In this talk, Matthew explores these motivations for practice and the ways they align with a more traditional, Buddhist understanding.
Can the present moment be devoid of everything that came before? How might our mindfulness practice be framed as a way of understanding the past?