Build a Strong Foundation for Your Meditation Practice
This self-paced course offers a structured and supportive way to deepen your meditation practice over 30 days. It guides you step by step—from the basics to more advanced insights—drawing from a wide range of traditions and approaches.
30-day Foundations Course
Who is this for?
This course may be a good fit if you:
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Are new to meditation and want a clear, grounded introduction
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Have some experience and are looking to reconnect or go deeper
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Prefer a non-dogmatic, open approach to mindfulness and awareness
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Are curious about how to bring meditative awareness into daily life
Whether you’re starting fresh or building on past experience, this course offers a structured and spacious way to go deeper.
What You’ll Learn
The course is designed to build gradually, beginning with the foundations and moving toward more advanced territory.
1. The Basics of Practice
Posture, the nature of attention, distractions, the role of the meditation object
2. Refining our Technique
Walking meditation, Noting Technique, Metta (loving-kindness), The Perspective of Purification, and working with challenging emotions
3. Building Mental Faculties
Cultivating Samadhi (concentration), Sati (sensory clarity), and Upekkha (equanimity)
4. Foundations for Insight
5. Living the Practice
Exploring impermanence, non-self, dukkha, and emptiness
Relational awareness, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Brahmaviharas, and ways to continue beyond the course
How it works
Daily Video Lessons
Explaining the Practice with helpful Diagrams and Graphics (5–10 min each)
Daily Guided Meditation
The practical exploration of the day's topic. 30 Minutes each mainly in Sitting.
Self-paced
You can follow the 30-day rhythm or take more time. Lifetime access.
No live component
For live support, see our 10-Day Basic Course and Satipatthana Long Course offerings.
Approach & Influences
This course is rooted in the wisdom of Vipassana meditation, particularly as taught in the Theravāda traditions of Mahasi Sayadaw and S.N. Goenka. At the same time, it draws from a broad range of perspectives to meet the complexity of modern life with clarity and care.
Throughout the course, you’ll find influences from:
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Zen and Tibetan Buddhist psychology
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Somatic practices and embodiment work
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Contemporary psychology, neuroscience, and trauma-informed approaches
Rather than presenting a single tradition, the course offers a practical and integrative framework — one that honors ancient teachings while remaining responsive to the needs and challenges of today.
A Personal Note
This course emerged from my own search for clarity and transformation. Over the years, I’ve spent many months in silent retreat, diving deep into the practices of Vipassana. These experiences shaped my understanding of suffering, insight, and inner freedom in profound ways.
Yet practice doesn’t end when we leave the cushion. As a facilitator, embodiment coach, dance improviser, martial artist, and father, I continue to learn through movement, relationship, and everyday life.
This course is a synthesis of what I’ve found most helpful: grounded frameworks, experiential tools, and a spirit of curiosity and compassion. My intention is not to hand down fixed answers, but to offer something spacious, sincere, and rooted — so you can explore for yourself what truly works.
Let this be a space for you to slow down, meet yourself more deeply, and grow your capacity to live with presence and integrity.
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Reimar
Founder & Facilitator
Vipassana at Home
Course Fee & Support
In traditional monastic settings, meditation teachings are offered in exchange for food and support. As a non-monastic teacher, I also rely on contributions to sustain my work and continue sharing these teachings. The course price reflects the time and effort I’ve dedicated to creating this resource, ensuring it provides lasting value.
However, I understand that financial circumstances vary. If the course fee is a barrier for you, I offer a limited number of scholarships to make this course accessible to everyone. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please see here.
Thank you for supporting this work and your own practice!