Jess Huon, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne (2026)

19/02/2026

I was sitting in a car one day last year, trawling through the news, when a bird swooped in through the window and flew so close to my face I felt its feathers against my cheek.

It was like it was saying - don’t forget about me. Don’t forget about what’s right here. It pulled me back. Into my body, in my neighbourhood, with the people who were around me.

I’m determined to keep my mind and heart open to the maddening injustices we hear each day, but when I’m overwhelmed, over-thinking, jacked up, or compulsively looking - I’m not efficient anymore. And I’ve usually lost connection to what and who is right around me.

And I’m not as creative or as responsive.

I’ve had a burn to see the way the Dharma can handle these times. How it can be not an isolated pursuit, but a pillar of resource for the collective, and in each of our lives.

In particular, in the last year I’ve been focusing on the power of heart practices.

Heart teachings offer both artful tools to help us be with pain, and an inspirational howl for what we can grow in our one precious life. A way to embed ourselves into a more radical belonging, to stay feeling, as we widen our care.

So we can respond more from a coherent whole, rather than fractured identities or habit energies. So we also can stay connected to what's right here.

In last year’s Collective Well deep dive into the heart, we focused in particular on metta (loving-kindness, friendliness).

And together we explored how this seemingly gentle practice - drop by drop - can have powerful effects - healing, restoring, liberating, animating, a force for change.

There's a reason the Buddha said that no other method was 1/16th as effective.

If you'd like to learn more about metta and the power of heart practices, join me next week in an online class where I'll be sharing on this, both from my own emergent learning and from the wisdom of the collective.

Every-one welcome. Link in bio.

📷 Australian magpie by Chris Gresham.

13/02/2026

The Power of the Heart in Troubled Times 🔥

Are you curious about how heart practices could support and empower you?

Join me to explore how metta (loving-kindness) can resource and mobilise us - and cut through separation.

We've been collating learnings and reflections from last year's deep dive into The Collective Well - Heart, and now we want to make these available more widely.

Save the date - Thursday 26th February 7:30-9pm AEDT, for an online class on the Power of the Heart - bookings open soon :)

📷 by Peter Casamento

02/02/2026

✨️Possibility Day Retreat - this Sunday 8th Feb ✨️

Before the year takes hold, and daily patterns and habits resume in full swing, join us in slipping under the noise - like under a wave. All together here, to settle into a deeper current of trust that a meditation practice affords, amidst it all.

So your creative impulses for the year ahead can arise.

So, together, we can all move a little out of the box; out of known parameters and restrictive thinking.

And a sense of possibilty - that the Dharma keeps inviting us into - might be opened.

So the knowing that comes from settling back into a sense of trust, that can steer you forward, in your own beautiful way, has room to stir. Be heard.

In these times, and maybe all times, I think we need each other to orient back to deep practice - the gravitational pull of people practicing together - to touch into that deeper rest and quiet power.

Join us for Possibility, an urban day retreat on Sunday 8th Feb in Melbourne / Naarm.

What would emerge from you this year, if you felt more backed?

Every-body welcome. Booking link in bio.

14/01/2026

🌱Possibility day retreat - 8th Feb🌱

What do you want to grow? And what fertile soil do you need for this?

When you’re running on habit energy, or you’re worn-out, it can feel like you’re on rocky territory. There’s not much ground for inspiration to take root.

Let’s gather for a day of practice and inquiry together, to cultivate the fertile soil for something fresh and generative to arise in each of us this year.

We’ll settle below the noise, and carve out time for a different kind of knowing - and follow through action - to emerge.

So that you can enter your life and act from a deeper place.

What unique steps towards fulfillment and contribution do you want to take this year?

☝🏼Bookings via link in bio

📷 flowers blooming on Barkandji country, NSW, via Unsplash

07/01/2026

Possibility Day Retreat - 8th Feb

🌱 What would emerge from you this year, if you felt more backed?

🌱 What risks might you take towards fulfillment and expression?

Let’s gather for a day of practice and inquiry together while the year is new, to cultivate fertile soil for something fresh and generative to arise in each of us in 2026.

Together we’ll explore opening to the supportive depth which practice points us towards. To something stable, loving and alive within…

Join us on February 8th for a day of practice, to lay the ground for home-grown, sparky responses to what’s happening in your particular life, and in the culture.

Bookings boss link in bio ✨️

29/12/2025

*RED Women’s Retreat, 27th-31st March 2026*

🔥Let’s fire up together for what’s next in your life.🔥

A lot of the Buddhist practices were written for men, in a different time.

Whilst in the Insight tradition it was clearly stated that women have the same capacity to ‘wake up’ as men, practices were still from a male perspective. Of course there are crossovers in experience. But there are specifics to female practice.

I’ve hit dead ends following this masculine model and had to detour - jump the fence - and find other places to grow, whilst maintaining intense devotion to my classical roots.

In this retreat we are including aspects of the ta***ic tradition, where the feminine is reinstated. Where the body, intelligent desire, and animate life are re-integrated. Practicing right here - no mountain top.

In particular we are re-vitalising the colour RED, a powerful force within an archetypal Ta***ic Buddhist map known as the ‘5 Buddha families’.

Join us for this rare opportunity to explore desire with discernment. To gather as female practitioners to explore and embody the warmth, inquisitiveness, openness, courage and shamelessness of the ta***ic quality of RED.

What do you want - not from a place of lack but from fullness?

March 27th-31st, Great Ocean Rd, places limited to 28 women.

Bookings via link in bio

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.

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