Samadhi Centre Contemplative Practices

14/03/2026

✨ A Rare Visit to the Southern Highlands ✨

What is karma?
Do our actions really shape our future?
And is reincarnation something we can understand in a practical way?

Join Chamtrul Rinpoche, a respected Tibetan Buddhist teacher, for a special day of teachings exploring these timeless questions and how they relate to our everyday lives.

Rinpoche will share clear and practical insights into karma, the nature of mind, and the deeper causes of happiness and suffering.

Whether you are curious about Buddhism, interested in meditation, or simply exploring life’s bigger questions, you are warmly welcome to attend.

📍 Mittagong RSL
📅 Sunday 26 April
🕙 10:00am – 4:00pm

🎟 Free admission
Donations are warmly welcomed to support organisational costs and help make future events possible.

Reserve your place here:
https://events.humanitix.com/karma-and-reincarnation-chamtrul-rinpoche-world-renowned-visiting-tibetan-buddhist-master

Everyone is warmly welcome.

If you feel someone in your life would benefit from hearing this teaching, please feel free to invite them or bring a friend along.

Seating at the venue is limited, so reserving a place is recommended.

06/03/2026

🌿 New Guided Meditation

We’ve just recorded a short guided meditation with Sandra on meeting emotions with balance — a gentle practice for recognising emotional patterns and responding with patience, curiosity, and compassion.

This meditation will form part of a new online, self-paced, on-demand course currently being developed through Samadhi Centre Contemplative Practices, designed to offer practical tools for emotional wellbeing and inner clarity.

Note: Due to a chronic voice condition, I’ve chosen to use an AI avatar for the guided meditations and as a companion throughout the course.

More to come soon.

06/03/2026

🌿 New Guided Meditation

We’ve just recorded a short guided meditation with Sandra on meeting emotions with balance — a gentle practice for recognising emotional patterns and responding with patience, curiosity, and compassion.

This meditation will form part of a new online, self-paced, on-demand course currently being developed through Samadhi Centre Contemplative Practices, designed to offer practical tools for emotional wellbeing and inner clarity.

Note: Due to a chronic voice condition, I’ve chosen to use an AI avatar for the guided meditations and as a companion throughout the course.

More to come soon.

19/02/2026

✨ Stop Managing. Start Noticing. 🌿

5 min Guided Meditation

Most of us have been taught to manage our emotions.

Calm down.
Think differently.
Fix the feeling.

But what if the shift begins somewhere else? 🤍

In our latest guided meditation, Sandra gently guides you through investigating the “inner weather” 🌤️ — noticing how emotions and thoughts actually form, move, and change.

No suppression.
No spiritual jargon.
No self-improvement pressure. 🙏🏼

Just honest observation. 👀

And something relieving happens when you do… 🌬️

Online Lesson 6 is now complete — and the full online course at Samadhi Centre Contemplative Practices will be launching online very soon. 🚀

Stay tuned. 🌿✨

09/02/2026

Why do the same patterns keep repeating in our lives?

Why do we sometimes react in ways we wish we wouldn’t?
Why do certain situations feel strangely familiar — like we’ve been here before?

These are questions many people carry quietly, especially during times of stress, change, or uncertainty.

An upcoming community talk in the Southern Highlands explores these themes through the ideas of Karma and Reincarnation — not as abstract beliefs, but as ways of understanding our experiences, relationships, and the causes behind what we go through.

You don’t need to be Buddhist.
You don’t need any prior knowledge.
Just curiosity and a willingness to reflect.

This is an in-person event — a calm, welcoming space to sit, listen, and consider life from a different perspective.

📍 Location: Mittagong RSL
📅 Date: Sunday 26 April
⏰ Time: 10am – 4pm
💛 Cost: Free community talk (donations welcome)

🎟 Bookings:
👉 https://lotusheartsbuddhistinstitute.org/special-events

29/01/2026

🌿 Buddhism for Beginners – A Path Into Understanding the Mind

This Saturday we begin a monthly teaching series with Geshe-ma Rinchen Pal, offering practical, accessible guidance on working with the mind.

Teaching live from Dharamsala, she brings deep experience and a rare ability to explain profound topics in a clear, human way.

This is about:
🧠 understanding mental habits
💛 working with emotions
🌿 cultivating steadiness & clarity

No background required. Just an open mind.

🕰 Saturday, 31st Jan - 2pm - 4pm (AEDT)
🏡 In person: Lotus Hearts Buddhist Institute, 66 Old Hume Hwy, Braemar (behind Highlands Vet Hospital) + 💻 Zoom
🌼 Free Event - Donations appreicate

Bookings Essential

These teachings are foundational to the journey we explore at Samadhi Centre.

🔗 Book: In-person: https://lotusheartsbuddhistinstitute.org/ola/services/monthly-talk-buddhism-for-beginners-in-person-attendee

🔗 Book: Online: https://lotusheartsbuddhistinstitute.org/ola/services/monthly-talk-buddhism-for-beginners-online-participant

05/01/2026

Buddha Relic Tour ( also visiting Melbourne)

01/01/2026

🌿 A New Chapter for Samadhi Centre & Lotus Hearts – 2026 🌿

As we step into the New Year, we’re gently evolving how we offer our programs.

Samadhi Centre Contemplative Practices will now be online only, with a comprehensive 6-module, self-paced course currently being developed — created to support emotional wellbeing, reflection, and inner balance in everyday life. More details coming very soon.

Our in-person sessions will now continue through Lotus Hearts Buddhist Institute & Initiatives, located at:

📍 66 Old Hume Hwy, Braemar
(Behind the Highlands Vet Hospital)

🗓 Weekly sessions resume from Saturday 10th January

🧘‍♀️ Meditation Session: 9:30 – 10:30am

💬 Discussion Group: 11:00am – 12:00pm

We will also be offering a monthly afternoon teaching session with our resident teacher joining us live via Zoom from Dharamsala, India, including time for Q&A.

This is an introductory schedule and will grow organically as interest and community needs grow.

💛 All sessions are donate what you can.
No one will ever be turned away due to financial difficulty.

Please feel free to comment below or message me directly if you have any questions or reflections.

If you’d like to learn more about Lotus Hearts Buddhist Institute, visit
🌐 www.lotusheartsbuddhistinstitute.org

We’re so grateful to begin this new chapter with you.

11/11/2025

Something new is on the way…

The Path to Peace — our 6-module online journey into quieting the mind, understanding ourselves, and reconnecting with what matters — is coming soon to the Samadhi Centre.

This course is designed to meet you exactly where you are.

No dogma. No pressure. Just gentle guidance, grounded tools, and space to breathe.

I’ve just released a 1-minute introductory video on the Foundations of Meditation — a first glimpse into what’s to come.

Watch. Feel. See if it speaks to you.

✨ The Path to Peace — launching soon.
samadhicentre.com.au

11/11/2025

Something new is on the way…

Peace Begins Here — our 6-module online journey into quieting the mind, understanding ourselves, and reconnecting with what matters — is coming soon to the Samadhi Centre.

This course is designed to meet you exactly where you are.

No dogma. No pressure. Just gentle guidance, grounded tools, and space to breathe.

I’ve just released a 1-minute introductory video on the Foundations of Meditation — a first glimpse into what’s to come.

Watch. Feel. See if it speaks to you.

✨ The Path to Peace — launching soon.
samadhicentre.com.au

02/11/2025

17/10/2025

Ever feel like you’ve tried to slow down… but your mind doesn’t listen? 🕊️

You breathe, you pause, you mean well — but the calm just won’t stay.

You’re not alone.

That’s exactly why we’re creating the Samadhi Centre Online Course — a place where peace becomes something you can practice, not just wish for.

This short video is a small glimpse of what’s to come:

guided reflections, mindful visuals, and tools to help you reconnect — with yourself, and with others.

✨ Because peace isn’t something you chase… it’s something you learn to remember.