Ottawa Insight Meditation Community (OIMC)
A True North meditation group
About Us
Located in Ottawa, Ontario, OIMC offers opportunities to practice insight meditation and other contemplative practices amid the complexities of city life. The group is dedicated to creating a space that welcomes all people regardless of cultural and religious background, race, socio‐economic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, education, and physical ability. It is an environment where people can come together to learn, support, and deepen practice. OIMC is guided in all endeavors by the ethics of non-harming, the spirit of loving friendship and compassion, the wisdom of insight, and the truth of liberation.
Weekly Sitting Group
The Thursday evening meditation group has been suspended until further notice. Please subscribe to our mailing list to be updated. The sitting group comprises a 30-minute Dharma talk and 30 minutes of guided or silent meditation.
Video Dharma
Weekly mindfulness talks and guided practices to help you reduce stress, deepen awareness, and live with greater clarity and compassion. Rooted in timeless wisdom and grounded in real-life experience, each video supports your journey of awakening and transformation.
Letting Go: A Practice Of Surrender And Stillness
This meditation guides you into a state of deep awareness and acceptance, inviting you to let go, not by pushing away, but by allowing what is.
Seeing Through Illusion Meditation
Steven guides you through a meditation about how everything can be an illusion and real at the same time, and how realizing this truth does not change what experiences arise.
Allowing Everything To Be As It Is
The meditation guides you through this foundational practice, pointing out potential errors along the way. Steven uncovers the transformative power of embracing reality as it is and breaking free from unnecessary suffering.
Breathing Into Wholeness: A Meditation On Interconnection
As you rest awareness in the breath and body, you begin to sense the natural interconnection of thoughts, emotions, and sensations—how they arise together as part of a single, unfolding whole.
Trauma Healing Talks
Trauma and the Dharma: Toward Healing and Transformation
How can the Dharma and meditation help us deal with trauma?
Somatic Meditation: Body Awareness, Trauma and Anxiety
Explores body awareness techniques such as somatic experiencing and how this can help us relate to and process trauma.
Self-compassion and Healing from Trauma
We will explore self-compassion in relation to dealing with past trauma.
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