our morning ritual
a morning practice community
OUR MORNING RITUAL is an online meditation space for practices & community that inspire the awakened heart.
Our collective intention is to follow the path of bodhichitta. To do this we do the inner work with simple contemplative practices, inspiring reading & a caring, gentle community.
We gather daily online to practice meditation, to remember our breath, to soften back into our true essence which is love.
“Our only job is to listen to our heart.”
— Sonja Lockyer
what our morning ritual offers
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Morning Practice
30 minutes of gently guided meditation, pranayama & yoga nidra Monday to Thursday 6.30am UK time in person via Zoom. Open to members & household.
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Bodhicitta Bookclub
Read a book each month that tends to your compassionate, awakened heart and inspires us to keep to doing the work. Read at home or meet in person once a month in Poole, Dorset.
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Full & New Moon Sauna Ritual
We host saunas every full & new moon in Poole, Dorset to acknowledge the sacred rhythms of nature that inform our practices. Open to club members & friends, our sauna session costs an additional £25 per person
PLUS a deeply resourcing member area that includes:
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Yoga Nidra Rest
Our library of yoga nidra recordings and videos for your home practice of deep rest & liminal attunement. Opens June 2024
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The Breath Foundation
A 6 week online journey led step by step with videos to share classical and simple yoga breath practices that soothe, calm and self regulate the systems of the body & patterns of the mind.
These gentle breath practices are suited to you if you feel anxious, over stimulated & struggle to sleep. Opens September 2024
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Gratitude Circles
An invitation to join a small circle of 6 members for a gentle, self organising gratitude circle on Whats’ App.
Grounded in the felt sense of love
Our Morning Ritual is a sanctuary to cultivate the qualities of loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity.
These qualities - the Brahmaviharas - are the foundations that underpin our practice.
our weekly practice flow
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Monday
Mindfulness Meditation - present moment awareness of breath, sensation and ground.
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Tuesday
Mantra Meditation - 2o minutes for the silent repetition of a suggested mantra, with the option to use mala beads for 108 repetitions.
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Wednesday
Tonglen Meditation - the meditative process of giving and receiving with the breath.
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Thursday
Pranayama Breath - sooting breah practices for self regulation, as taught in The Breath Foundation.
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The New Moon
Yoga Nidra - wake up on the New Moon to the ancient & sacred liminal practice of yoga nidra.
FOR THE EMPATHS, the carers, the open hearted ones who wish to meet this being human with gentle, spacious tenderness.
For the ones who acknowledge that how we start our day impacts our relationship with all things.
For the ones who are ready to practice and embody loving kindness.
WE INVOKE A FIELD of loving kindness as we invite our awakened hearts to guide us.
We gather online to practice, to remember, to soften.
We offer the fruits of our practice to ourselves and all beings, day by day.
Meet your teacher
Sonja is of Swedish & English descent, inspired by a felt sense of the liminal and committed to the embodied opening of mind & heart to our true essence which is love.
A dharma student of Lama Tsultrim Allione and a senior student of Core Process Psychotherapy within the Karuna Institute, Sonja’s personal meditative practice is inspired by the teachings of Pema Chodrum, Tara Brach & Ellen Emmett.
Join Sonja each morning for her gently guided meditation.
Membership options
approx £8 a week
approx £7 a week
less than £6 a week
Cancel anytime and no further payment will be made. No refund will be given for your agreed commitment.
If you are called to join but do not have the means, email sonja@sonjalockyer and we will find a solution together. We are committed to keeping the practices accessible to all.
And we rest, too.
DAYS OF REST include:
1 rest week every 3 months
UK bank holidays
Our schedule is not fixed in stone. On occasion, if Sonja is unwell or unable to attend classes will be cancelled or covered by an excellent alternative senior teacher.
Community
The Morning Practice has created an incredible community who connect online and also in person.
The Bodhicitta Bookclub is and invitation for you to read enlightening material at home & the in person gatherings are based in Poole, Dorset. Book choices share a common intention to awaken our open, spacious mind. In person sessions are co-ordinated via a Whats App group.
The Sauna Ritual is open to members & friends every New & Full Moon, it costs an additional £25 per person and takes place at Saltwater Sauna, Sandbanks beach, Poole, Dorset.
We are dedicated to accessibility, inclusion, diversity and kindness. If you feel the call to join but paying for a subscription makes it impossible, please get in touch. Together we can find a solution. All are welcome.