Use code SUMMERPRACTICE for a 25% discount on all On Demand Courses through August 31.

Sunday Sangha – 27th September 2026

Norman Blair

This session is led by Norman Blair.

Start Time: 11 am PDT (LA) / 2 pm EDT (NY) / 7 pm BST (London) / 8 pm CEST (Paris). 90-minute live session.

This week’s theme: Just Being You

A lessening of the should and the musts, the past and the future. Just being present as you are – through gentle movement, standing and sitting, we will explore paths that encourage presence. We will look at shapes that support your body and that help you to be here. To deeply understand these words from Dogen: “I realised clearly that my eyes are set horizontally and my nose vertically.”

This session is freely-offered, but dana/donations are invited to help us meet our substantial running costs and to support our teachers. To donate, please click here. We appreciate your generosity 🙏

Register Now Add to Calendar

Please click here for help with joining, or contact us for further support.

Norman Blair

Norman Blair

Norman began regularly practising yoga in 1993 and his first meditation retreat was December 2000. In October 2001, he started teaching yoga. Particularly inspirational teachers include Judith Hanson Lasater, Paul Grilley, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers.

His first book – Brightening Our Inner Skies: yin and yoga – was published in 2016. In July 2025 he published a book of yin wisdom; his next book will hopefully be published in 2027 – Everything We Do Matters: poems and prose about yoga and life.

He have been actively involved in social justice campaigns since the early 1980s. He believes that it is crucial that we connect inward work with outward work – personal transformation in the service of societal transformation. As practitioners, we know that we have the capacity for positive change. We can be catalysts for change: we can look up, raise our aspirations, be less reactive and more creative.

Norman has a monthly newsletter – if you would like to receive it, please email him at yogawithnorman@gmail.com

Click here to find out more about Norman.

View Recordings of Past Sunday Sangha Sessions

The Gratification, The Danger and The Escape

With Dave Smith Recorded : September 23, 2018

The triad of gratification, danger, and escape is one of the Buddha’s most concise and simple teachings for investigating everyday lived experience. This formula can be applied to every single aspect of our experience....

Mindfulness Approaches to Working with Anxiety

With Diana Winston Recorded : September 16, 2018

Who is not anxious these days? Whether faced with the daily stresses of finances, jobs, responsibilities, parenting, family, or the ongoing anxiety of political events and ecological crisis, most of us are anxious. In...

The Power of Relational Awareness

With Oren Jay Sofer Recorded : September 9, 2018

In this session, Oren Jay Sofer shares reflections on the basics of Mindful Communication, with particular focus on the internal foundations of successful communication. The talk explores some of the ways our silent contemplative...

Christelle Bonneau

From conditioned perception to true and free seeing

With Christelle Bonneau Recorded : September 2, 2018

What do we call reality? How can we free ourselves from conditioned vision and taste life more fully and truly? Acknowledging that our perception of what we call reality is completely subjective, Christine explores...

Brian Dean Williams

Running the Middle Way

With Brian Dean Williams Recorded : July 29, 2018

What do sitting on the meditation cushion and running have in common? How might this form of movement be included in our mindfulness practice? Brian Dean Williams, both an insight meditation teacher and an...

A Practical Approach to Understanding Right Effort

With Dave Smith Recorded : July 22, 2018

All schools of Buddhism acknowledge that if we are to “awaken” in this lifetime, our aim is to cultivate and develop the eight-fold path. This path consists of behavioral (sila), meditative (samadhi) and philosophical...

Embodied Intentionality

With Vince Cullen Recorded : July 15, 2018

This session is an exploration of the ‘truths’ that might lead to conviction, to directed karma, to mindfulness as remembering-to-remember, and to the path to joy & beyond.

Equanimity: Dancing with the Unexpected

With Stephen Fulder Recorded : July 8, 2018

Equanimity is a key spiritual faculty which allows us to face the known and the unknown, the ecstasies and the despairs, with steadiness and lightness. Equanimity helps us engage with life from an unlimited...

Brian Dean Williams

Wild Awake: The Wisdom of Nature

With Brian Dean Williams Recorded : July 1, 2018

In the story of the Buddha, he awakened in the forest, taught in the forest, died in the forest. Nature played an important role in the Buddha’s awakening. Many Buddhist practice communities have been...

Attachment Inquiry and Classical Enlightenment

With George Haas Recorded : June 24, 2018

Energizing your householder’s meditation practice often requires some immediate benefit be available to you, even if the long goal is enlightenment. Developing a dynamic social network to support your practice is vital to keep...

Christelle Bonneau

How can I Sink when I am the Ocean?

With Christelle Bonneau Recorded : June 10, 2018

In this session we explore more precisely the different individuals we think we are through the days. We will try to recognize them better, with their own feelings, sensations, emotions, thoughts and states of...

Kaira Jewel Lingo

Speaking Out Against Injustice with Deep Listening and Loving Speech

With Kaira Jewel Lingo Recorded : June 3, 2018

How can we stand up for the values of social justice, inclusion, respect and dignity for all in a way that helps to heal division? How can we reach out to those who are...