“In true meditation we signal to our nervous system, moment by moment, that we are safe, that we are home. In this field of inner safety, with total permission to fail, our deepest creativity and joy can be unlocked…”
A 3 Day Self-Guided Poetry and Meditation Workshop with Jeff Foster
Creating From Inner Stillness
Journey to the Depths of Your Being & Embody the Healing Power of Your Creativity
A heartfelt personal invitation to my special 3-Day course…
“All true artists, whether they know it or not,
create from a place of no-mind,
from inner stillness.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Dear Friends,
I have always believed that true art is spiritual in nature and essence. Some of my most powerful spiritual experiences and insights have emerged while listening to music, reading poetry or watching movies. Words, notes and images imbued with consciousness and truth have the power to touch us right in our core – even heal and transform us, and show us the way home.
I am convinced that the highest potential of art is to spiritually awaken the reader, viewer or listener – to beauty, to love, to truth, and to the miracle of being alive.
This is my first ever intensive 3-day self-guided course focussing on non-duality and the creative process, on working through “blocks” (real or imagined!), and getting in touch with the universal Source of Creativity within YOU.
You don’t have to be an artist, work in a creative field, or even see yourself as a “Creative Person”, to benefit from this course! Everyone is welcome! If you’re curious about connecting more deeply with your inner child, becoming more present to your life, and uncovering your authentic feelings… I think some things I’ll share in this 3-day workshop will be helpful for you!❤️
During this workshop, we’ll explore…
- Unravelling the trauma of “I’m not good enough”, and the feeling that you need to hide and hold back your uniqueness, sensitivity and deepest truth from the world
- How to trust the process of creativity… and not get “blocked” or held back by thoughts of doubt, fear, judgement… or comparison with others
- How to create from inner peace and stillness, instead suffering, struggle and seeking … and how to deal with a busy, resistant mind that says NO
- Exploring blocks to creativity, like procrastination, shame, shyness, boredom, numbness and fear – and how to free ourselves from results, goals, and all the should’s and shouldn’ts of our conditioning
- The healing power of creativity, the magic of opening up to our vulnerability, and finding the courage to take brave steps in the world
- My own creative process: how I found the courage to share my deep inner truth with the world, and how I’ve met my own inner doubts, demons and ‘blocks’
- Why there’s no such thing as a “creative person”, and why ultimately “you” are not even the one who creates!
- … and how true meditation can open your heart!😊
Although I have published 9 books available in over 15 languages, I actually don’t see myself as a writer… or even a teacher for that matter…
My experience? I simply get very present and let inspiration flow out of me, from a clear channel inside. From a place of inner stillness and presence, I welcome what wants to emerge….
Over the years I’ve learned (the hard way!) to surrender to and trust this mysterious process of creativity. I don’t know if my work is the “best”. I don’t know about how it compares with other peoples’ work. I just know that it comes from a truthful and authentic place inside, and that’s what matters: Sharing one’s authentic self with the world. Seeing oneself… and letting oneself be seen.
I look forward to sharing with you in this playful, curious, creative space of Presence!
Jeff Foster
Author of The Way of Rest and You Were Never Broken: Poems to Save Your Life
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SOMETHING EMERGING OUT OF NOTHING: This is the miracle of creation itself, and you are an important part of that miracle! In a place of non-resistance, curiosity, deep inner permission, you become a channel for true creativity. You bring something new into this world, something never seen before. And this process has nothing to do with ego, with mind, or even with “me”…
– Jeff Foster
Meditation: A Portal To Creativity
“All of the swirling, pulsating energies of Life are welcome in the Creative Space that you are, the vast Living Room in which all of creation sings and dances and paints itself into the ever-changing picture of this sacred and ordinary moment…”
Over 3 days, Jeff will help you to open up to life and connect with what’s truly inside of you!
When your nervous system rests and relaxes, when you feel safe enough inside, your natural creativity and playfulness can begin to shine!
Meditation is a wonderful way to open this channel! If you are new to meditation, or even if you’ve been meditating for decades and feel stuck or even bored in your practice, Jeff will share a fresh, authentic, contemporary perspective on meditation. Jeff makes meditation, and spirituality itself, simple, joyful, human – and humorous – again.
Through a series of raw, heartfelt, honest and moving sessions, Jeff will help you connect with your natural creative spark, your body, your heart, and your deepest Truth.
Note, this is not a “How To” course – how to write, how to paint, how to compose, etc! This course is about connecting with the source of Creativity itself, opening the channel, working with blocks, and seeing what wants to express itself from there!
START YOUR JOURNEY WITH JEFF TODAY – YOU’LL GET INSTANT ACCESS TO THE FIRST VIDEO WHEN YOU SIGN UP!
“Foster writes from the gut, and his authenticity is off the charts.”
– Esquire Magazine
Meditation: A Portal to Creativity!
“All of the swirling, pulsating energies of Life are welcome in the Creative Space that you are, the vast Living Room in which all of creation sings and dances and paints itself into the ever-changing picture of this sacred and ordinary moment…”
Over 3 days, Jeff will help you to open up to life and connect with what’s truly inside of you!
When your nervous system rests and relaxes, when you feel safe enough inside, your natural creativity and playfulness can begin to shine!
Meditation is a wonderful way to open this channel! If you are new to meditation, or even if you’ve been meditating for decades and feel stuck or even bored in your practice, Jeff will share a fresh, authentic, contemporary perspective on meditation. Jeff makes meditation, and spirituality itself, simple, joyful, human – and humorous – again.
Through a series of raw, heartfelt, honest and moving sessions, Jeff will help you connect with your natural creative spark, your body, your heart, and your deepest Truth.
Note, this is not a “How To” course – how to write, how to paint, how to compose, etc! This course is about connecting with the source of Creativity itself, opening the channel, working with blocks, and seeing what wants to express itself from there!
OUR 3 DAY WORKSHOP COVERS…
DAY ONE:
READYING YOURSELF FOR CREATIVITY
(Or… Why You’ve Probably Been Meditating Wrong Your Whole Life!)
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked…”
— Franz Kafka
During this session, we’ll cover:
- How true creativity and authentic sharing emerge not from ego, but from stillness, presence, and non-doing
- Why you can’t force inspiration but you can “create the conditions” for it.
- Why it’s important to have ‘a beginner’s mind’, and why it’s okay to not know!
- How certainty, expertise and dogma can block creativity; how we can come out of our “shoulds” and into the Fertile Unknown
- The attitude of “one step at a time”; taking our focus off results and bringing our attention to Now
BONUS: Jeff will share about how he discovered Presence through the path of deep suffering. He will read out and discuss some of his own writing about Presence and will read out selected submissions from participants.
DAY TWO:
OPENING THE CHANNEL
(Or… Why It’s Sometimes So Damn Hard To Relax!)
“You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.”
— Martha Graham
During this session, we’ll cover:
- Trusting that how you’re feeling now is the “perfect place to begin”
- Welcoming in the ‘inner children’; how deep self-acceptance begins with “turning towards” our darkest thoughts and feelings
- Working with resistance to the creative process
- Becoming more comfortable with discomfort, excited about boredom, and more wonderfully certain about uncertainty! 😉
- Dealing with ‘blocks’ to creativity and the judgemental voices, both external and internal
- The paradox of relaxation; how to truly relax by giving yourself “permission” to not be relaxed!
BONUS: Jeff will share about how he met his own shadow and darkest feelings and thoughts on his path of awakening. He will read and discuss some of his own writing about self-acceptance and will read out selected submissions from participants.
DAY THREE:
AUTHENTICALLY EXPRESSING FROM PRESENCE
(Or… Why You Can Be Brave and Terrified At The Same Time!)
“Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
— Joseph Campbell
During this session, we’ll cover:
- Finding the courage to express your deepest, most intimate and most authentic truth, and why that is so wonderfully scary!
- How to work with voices of fear, shame and guilt as you bring your art, your talent, your voice into the world
- The Law of Attraction from a non-dual perspective; is it YOU who creates, manifests… or even breathes?
- The paradox of dreaming of the future while surrendering completely into the present moment
- Why it doesn’t matter if you’re “good”… or if you even know what you’re doing! Taking the steps anyway… 😉
BONUS: Jeff will share about his fears and doubts as he started sharing his writing with the world, and he will share some of his own poems about taking courageous steps even when we’re afraid. He will read selected participant submissions about the courage to be authentic.
“Wise, spacious, and loving. Teachings that can free the heart.”
– Jack Kornfield, author of A Lamp in the Darkness and A Path With Heart
Creating From Inner Stillness
Here’s everything you will receive as a participant:
1) Three recorded teaching sessions with Jeff, delivered over 3 days
2) Complete Audio & Video Downloads of All Sessions
3) Written Transcripts to Keep
4) Deep Meditations and Contemplations to support you
Access Jeff Foster’s Creating from Inner Stillness today…
Due to the digital nature of this program, there are no refunds.
About Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster studied Astrophysics at Cambridge University. In his mid-twenties, after a long period of depression and illness, he became addicted to the idea of ‘spiritual enlightenment’ and embarked on an intensive spiritual quest for the ultimate truth of existence. The spiritual search came crashing down with the clear recognition of the non-dual nature of everything, and the discovery of the extraordinary in the ordinary. In the clarity of this seeing, life became what it always was: intimate, open, loving and spontaneous, and Jeff was left with a deep understanding of the root illusion behind all human suffering, and a love of the present moment.
Jeff was voted #59 on Watkins Review’s list of the world’s 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Jeff has published several books in over a dozen languages. His latest book “You Were Never Broken” was published in July 2020 by Sounds True.
Jeff’s simple, compassionate teachings on self-acceptance
have touched thousands all over the world…
“Jeff’s words melt my heart and create an Oasis where I can rest and be myself.” – SY
“Jeff’s expression in this world gives me the permission to be wonderfully messily and chaotically human. Something I never gave myself. His expression literally saved me at some point.” – RC
“I’ve ‘known’ all this stuff for years but you moved it all from my head to my heart….The nuts and bolts of being here now….Falling into the arms of life. In the last call, during the opening meditation, I felt the universe inside me and was beautifully lost in it. Truly life changing, Jeff, and I thank you. 70 years of wandering in the desert and you have guided me home.” – JS
“His words are filled with beautiful inspiration and understanding, and so many times have just touched my soul when I have most needed it.” – JB
“For me Jeff is the voice of the wild soul that truly enters all essence of being and embraces every aspect of it.” – IV
“His words help me to not spiritually bypass my humanity. Put me right there in the middle of everything that Life is.” – VH
“His words, his meditations help me to find rest in me as I am right now, to find peace on my way, to see my fear as a little child looking for my attention and my Love.” – ME
“His words stabilize, normalize, embrace and pacify those of us who feel emotion deeply and haven’t been able to understand that we are beautiful because of them.” – LS
“A conscious voice able to illuminate not only the underlying mystery of it all, but also the deep seated traumas in the human psyche. A rare light that penetrates to the darkest forgotten places at the roots of violence.”– JS
“He helps me to step out of the stories of my mind. He shows me the joy of the open heart.” – JM
“His teachings have touched the deepest place inside and the felt resonance is just so reaffirming that it is all just passing in front of a never changing presence.” – TA
“I thought I was the one that had to carry life! I didn’t trust life at all, not for one minute. I felt like it was trying to take everything from me, even to kill me. I thought I had to learn more, work harder, try harder, work faster, work longer, do more, stay one step ahead … well, you get the idea. Until I couldn’t take it anymore. Then, during meditation, you suggested the unthinkable. To just fall into the arms of life. Life, that dangerous thing I’ve been protecting myself from for decades!! Prepared to die in an instant, I just made that swan dive into the dark abyss with nothing more than the wings of a prayer, and lo and behold I was held! I am held still!” – LH
“Jeff’s teaching gave me courage to face and meet that what seems unbearable. A doorway that was forgotten, overlooked, fled from.” – DW
“Jeff puts into words what I couldn’t express and it moved me to tears. He taught me that it’s ok to be a divine mess, awkward and scared, completely vulnerable and authentic. Learning to leave the mask off and embracing beautiful, f****d-up me.” – AS
“His teachings diminish my fear and allow my own wisdom to flourish.”– MH
“Jeff was the first person to allow me accept what I couldn’t accept – that began my healing process and I will be forever grateful.” – EH
“Jeff’s words have changed my life in that I have come to understand that all of me is worthy of love” – SP
“Jeff has taught me to accept my unlovable parts and start loving the whole of me” – TN
“His teachings have helped me to become best friends with myself resulting in trust, compassion, and grace.” – DC
Frequently Asked Questions
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All of the sessions were held live in August 2023 and are now recorded. You’ll get instant access when you sign up and pay. Just look out for your confirmation email (check your Spam/Junk just in case it ends up there!). You are able to download the videos, audio and transcripts to watch/read/listen at your convenience.
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HOW I BECAME A WARRIOR
Once, I ran from fear
so fear controlled me.
Until I learned to hold fear like a newborn.
Listen to it, but not give in.
Honour it, but not worship it.
Fear could not stop me anymore.
I walked with courage into the storm.
I still have fear,
but it does not have me.
Once, I was ashamed of who I was.
I invited shame into my heart.
I let it burn.
It told me, “I am only trying
to protect your vulnerability”.
I thanked shame dearly,
and stepped into life anyway,
unashamed, with shame as a lover.
Once, I had great sadness
buried deep inside.
I invited it to come out and play.
I wept oceans. My tear ducts ran dry.
And I found joy right there.
Right at the core of my sorrow.
It was heartbreak that taught me how to love.
Once, I had anxiety.
A mind that wouldn’t stop.
Thoughts that wouldn’t be silent.
So I stopped trying to silence them.
And I dropped out of the mind,
and into the Earth.
Into the mud.
Where I was held strong
like a tree, unshakeable, safe.
Once, anger burned in the depths.
I called anger into the light of myself.
I felt its shocking power.
I let my heart pound and my blood boil.
Listened to it, finally.
And it screamed, “Respect yourself fiercely now!”.
“Speak your truth with passion!”.
“Say no when you mean no!”.
“Walk your path with courage!”.
“Let no one speak for you!”
Anger became an honest friend.
A truthful guide.
A beautiful wild child.
Once, loneliness cut deep.
I tried to distract and numb myself.
Ran to people and places and things.
Even pretended I was “happy”.
But soon I could not run anymore.
And I tumbled into the heart of loneliness.
And I died and was reborn
into an exquisite solitude and stillness.
That connected me to all things.
So I was not lonely, but alone with All Life.
My heart One with all other hearts.
Once, I ran from difficult feelings.
Now, they are my advisors, confidants, friends,
and they all have a home in me,
and they all belong and have dignity.
I am sensitive, soft, fragile,
my arms wrapped around all my inner children.
And in my sensitivity, power.
In my fragility, an unshakeable Presence.
In the depths of my wounds,
in what I had named “darkness”,
I found a blazing Light
that guides me now in battle.
I became a warrior
when I turned towards myself.
And started listening.
– Jeff Foster
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