Jess Huon, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne (2026)

23/12/2025

This year I’ve been focussing on practice as a deep resource - practice as spiritual resistance.

And of the power of the heart in troubled times.

Thank-you to all of you who have joined me in coming to these practice spaces this year. For your care and courage, for joining me in these inquiries. For staying a little longer in the difficulty, in the movement towards freedom.

I hope your practice is supportive for whatever you’re navigating now and in the days to come.

We’ve a few events ready and open for the first part of 2026, to offer sanctuary and kinship in this path of practice.

I think we need each other to keep the practice fire burning.

Every-one welcome.

You can book into all these retreats through www.jesshuon.com or via links in bio.

20/12/2025

It can be hard to stop deep, entrenched cycles - inner and outer.

But healing happens when we can love ourselves and each other more than the past did. And that takes practice.

Join me for a fresh take on ancient Heart teachings. To both soothe and rouse you into fresher modes of being and doing. Out of isolation. Back into a responsive flow.

These teachings on the Brahma Viharas - friendliness, compassion, joy and deep calm - are spirit strengthening. They can light up your inner fire and warm the edges between us.

Indispensable water for the road!

Deep Springs Summer offer: $99 ends tonight. Regular price $197.

20/12/2025

This time of year can invoke a lot of complex feelings about love and belonging.

But whatever life throws your way, it is possible to stay connected to a wider care - one that offers you warmth and backing, no matter what.

This is the power of the innate heart qualities in all of us - that the Buddha's teachings can help you uncover.

As we traverse the final days of this year, and into a new cycle, I invite you to explore resting into a bigger love.

Loving-kindness (metta) is said to be like rain - it falls on all of us, unconditionally.

Whether or not you ‘perform’ well, whether you’re alone or with others this Christmas, whether you are feeling radiant or despairing - without needing to earn it.

And in time, as you learn to tap into this warmth, it can transform your experience.

So that right there at the kitchen table you can meet life differently.

Pause and offer yourself care when you might usually lash out or sink down. Find a belly laugh emerging instead of tears, speak up instead of withdrawing, or weep on someone's shoulder instead of hardening up.

And when you change your shape, others around you have the chance to respond differently too.

For one more day, you can sign up to Deep Springs, my online course on heart teachings, at half cost ($99). On Monday 22nd it returns to full price.

Details at link in bio.

📷 Jess with her notes and talks from Deep Springs. Photo by Peter Casamento

19/12/2025

Join me this summer to explore the powerful backing of your own heart - without packing up your bags to go elsewhere.

No mountain top. No monastery. No private get-away. No Bali bliss. No mystical location. No idealised state. No exotic, other space. No greener grass.

Being here.

Join me for Deep Springs, an online course on core Buddhist heart teachings that can bring about deep shifts in the way you relate to yourself and others.

We are running a summer offer to celebrate the launch of this self-paced course - Deep Springs is $99 until 21st December. Regular price $197.

19/12/2025

We need to learn to say no to what’s harmful, this is a powerful part of practice - but what are we saying YES to?

Let’s learn to embody what we care about, to lean into the good.

This is part of spiritual resistance, to have good ground to stand on The Brahma Viharas support the work of loving, crossing divides, they’re said to be ‘safe homes’ that give strength.

Every time you sit down to practice, you’re saying yes to cultivating qualities that align with your values. You’re saying yes to your life force.

It’s hard to do this on your own, particularly in divisive and troubling times. It’s so easy to mistrust and tighten up - that’s when we come to the deep collective well, as Krishnamurthi says, with a thimble.

This course is designed to support you to re-open to generative qualities that I think are worth trusting, that can resource you and feed you to get behind what’s important to you. They also feel good and nourish the body deeply. What are they? Equanimity (deep calm) Joy, friendliness, and compassion.

Let’s draw it up together.

Deep Springs is open now - and only $99 until Sunday via link in bio. It will be back to its normal price $197, after that.

17/12/2025

Sometimes we might think we can march on without care. That we can keep it all together, just keep going… only to later confront exhaustion, burn-out, or some kind of lack.

In this crazy season, let’s turn towards care together, now. Let’s fill up.

I’m offering a self-paced course on heart teachings - Deep Springs - for you to do in your own time and space. So that you can rest into kindness, find your ground in equanimity, thaw out through compassion and be enlivened by joy.

Sign up at half-price ($99) until December 21st, and listen to the course whenever suits you - there’s no time limit.

Resource yourself in the holidays, or start the new year by tapping into the deep support of these heart qualities…

I believe we all need this warmth and kindness to get us through.

17/12/2025

📷 📖 Mother Mary Comes To Me, by Arundhati Roy

I read this book almost in one go. I used to read Arundhati Roy when I was in India, along with other female India poets and writers, whilst I was studying Buddhism.

Her bandwidth for both tenderness and fierceness has always educated me.

To read about her mother, Mary - her aggression, her neglect of her children, as well as her greatness - the wholeness of her depicted by AR, was very powerful.

Arundhati’s lack of self-victimisation whilst in the same breath not minimising the harm/impact of her mother's cruelty, along with the recognition that her gifts were entwined with her mother’s, struck me.

Roy’s instinctive sense that the language that she always knew would help her blood flow through her more easily, inspires me.

I know AR doesn’t need anything from me, but I keep imagining all these pot plants around her. Maybe I just want all these brave ones to get good gusts of fresh air.

I’m thinking of the women who’ve sat in my practice spaces - the leaders, mothers, mavericks, academics, mediators, cultural leaders, artists, professionals. How it can be hard at times for these women who’ve had to push shoulder first through doors once shut, whilst also caring for many, to let tenderness deeper in.

Sometimes I’ve wanted to bolt the door in my practice spaces - I’m going to hold you in here until you let the love in. So you can get the nourishment in. Before you get up and do another Big thing, or care for someone Else, or some thing else

I’m thinking of fierceness coupled with tenderness, allowing the whole range to course through each of us.

I’m offering Deep Springs, a self- paced course on the Brahma Viharas (teachings exploring qualities in an alive, resourced heart) for half price, $99, until this Sunday 21st.

I'm offering this as a kind of container to let the warmth in. From where you are. At your own pace. No-one watching. Finding your place around the teachings that I’ve always imagined are like a fire we can gather around, together as citizens of our universe.

Details at link in bio

16/12/2025

In transition, on a new edge, or in a dark night — it’s easy to react to ourselves with control, aggression or criticism. Yet we all need warmth and kindness to get us through.

Join me for Deep Springs, and over four modules you’ll be guided to plant the seeds of a wise, alive heart through exploring the Brahma Viharas - Friendliness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity (deep calm).
In this course you will receive teachings and meditation practices to apply in your life, when it matters – to create fresh space to do things differently. And for the better.

Summer Offer: Get the course for $99 until December 21st. (Normal price $197)
Learn more by following the link in bio.

12/12/2025

I’m excited to share my 4 module self-paced online course, Deep Springs. Join us to be equipped with the tools to connect with the power of your own heart. To tap into aliveness and joy as you face what’s hard. To stand together in these divisive times.

Summer offer: $99 until 21st December. Regular price $197.

Learn more by following the link in bio.

12/12/2025

I didn’t know when I started meditating as a teenager (I often did it at night time - kept it secret) that I would one day be a dharma teacher, talking about this stuff in public. I recall the urgent sense that there must be deeper peace and knowing in my mind, that at the time felt so badly out of reach.

I remember when I started to taste ease and lightness again, in my year of solitude, when my jangled nerves started to soften, and I felt peace through my body, my face, instead of agitation.

It was a powerful, freeing feeling - this actually works, my hunch was right - these patterns that I was scared I'd be stuck in forever weren't actually who ‘I’ was.

The heart teachings, in particular, when I first heard them, sitting on the other side of the world, made me bawl. It was like a window breaking open and letting everything back in. A profound place to trust that wasn’t my mind.

They fuelled my desire to keep going, to feel them course through me, sensing too that they might be a resource for others.

After our three months program, The Collective Well, exploring the emergent knowing of the heart in troubled times, (thanks so much to all of those of you who came) I’m now offering a shorter self-paced online program on the core heart teachings of the Brahma Viharas - friendliness, compassion, joy and equanimity.

I want these powerful heart teachings to be accessible, so as many you can receive them as possible. I think they can be deeply supportive for us all, particularly in these tender and tumultuous times.

You can take Deep Springs for only $99 until Dec 21 - after that it will be $197.

What will you receive?

📷 1: me at 17

📷 2: And teaching a retreat at Abbotsford Convent

09/12/2025

I’m excited to launch Deep Springs, a self-paced online course to support you to draw on the strength of your deepest ally - your own heart.

This course takes you through the four Brahma Viharas - ✦ friendliness, ✦ compassion, ✦ joy, and ✦ equanimity (deep calm). These qualities are powerful circuit-breakers.

In time they can shift some of your most stubborn harmful patterns, and support you to make real change in how you relate to yourself and others.

Through specially recorded dharma talks, guided practices, reflective prompts and curated readings you will be supported to not only think about - but embody - what you care about.

These teachings are here for you to do in your own time, in your own space - in the reality of your life. You’ll receive immediate access to all the material, to go through at your own pace.

This summer, explore the powerful backing of your own heart - without packing up your bags to go elsewhere.

It’s $99 until 21st December. Normal price $197. 
Join via the link in bio.

18/11/2025

Let’s come together to cultivate our spiritual strength and resistance

So that we can keep sparking and protecting life in these tender and tumultuous times.

Join me for my final retreat of the year, with my friend Ruth Langford - beautiful woman, powerful Indigenous leader.

To light up our inspiration and warm the edges between us… fostering eros and aliveness as we face what’s hard. So that we can resist cycles of inner and outer harm.

Ruth will be joining us fresh from the COP 30 climate conference in Brazil, and I will be emerging from a three-month intensive here in Melbourne/Naarm, teaching on the power of the heart in troubled times.

Details:
Inspiration - Urban Day Retreat
Naarm/Melbourne
7th December 2025

Booking Link in Bio

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