Contemplarte
Courses, Meditations, and Retreats with
Alma Yaeli Ayon
Tools for Cultivating Mental and Emotional Balance
About
Alma Yaeli, buddhist meditation teacher, and contemplative painter, created Contemplarte for those who seek to understand their minds, transform negative habits into positive ones, cultivate emotional and cognitive balance, develop tools for better time and goal management, and harness creativity to live a meaningful life.
Alongside other experts, Alma designs, coordinates, and leads talks, workshops, courses, and retreats on various topics, offering practical methods and meditations for mental training, holistic well-being, and emotional balance. These teachings integrate insights from both Western Psychology and Eastern Contemplative Science.
Finding Balance & Peace
Guided Meditations
Explore a growing library of guided Buddhist meditations to support calm, clarity, compassion, and insight in everyday life. Watch the video practices here or listen anytime through the Peace and Mind podcast. The collection includes meditations on Calm Abiding, the Six Perfections, the Four Immeasurables, the Four Applications of Mindfulness, Vipashyana, Lam Rim, bodhichitta, Tara, Medicine Buddha, Guru Rinpoche, and more.
Courses
Cultivating Emotional Balance
Shamatha, Vipashyana & Genuine Happiness
This course explores Shamatha and Vipashyana, two foundational Buddhist meditation practices that cultivate a calm, stable mind and clear, insightful awareness. Through accessible teachings, guided meditations, and reflective exercises, you will learn to relate to thoughts and emotions with greater kindness and clarity, discover the conditions that support genuine happiness, and bring a more spacious, compassionate presence into everyday life.
Art Therapy
Blog
Contemplative Practices
Contemplative practices can be summarized in the "Three Trainings": 1. Ethics: We cultivate Loving Kindness and Compassion to benefit those around us and we try to avoid damaging people, animals and the environment. Developing generosity, patience, discipline, empathy...
Define your direction in life
Do not let your days go by while you are only doing what is urgent or what others expect of you. Start by defining what you would like to achieve and receive from the world. Then reflect on how you would use these things or qualities to become the best version of...
Two meditation practices that will change your life
Remember what you did last Monday. Do you remember what you ate? The clothes you wore, the people you met, the things you said? Does it take a little work to remember? Perhaps it is because we constantly receive so much information and when we want to concentrate on...
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