Meditation Under The Stars
Join us for our monthly Meditation Under The Stars in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Together we’ll sit under the stars and connect with our true nature of infinite peace and unconditional love, at the beautiful Deer Creek Hill Country Retreat in Dripping Springs. Our gatherings will be held within the dark phase of the month to align with a more inward meditative focus, and for optimal star viewing in this tranquil dark sky community.
Thank you so much! That was such lovely, beautifully guided meditation. The perfect balance of embodiment and spiritual release. Filled me with so much freedom and peace! ~ Sunny, October 2025
Join our next Meditation Gathering
March Date: Thursday 12th
April Date: Thursday 16th
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm (please arrive by 6:45pm)
Location: Deer Creek Hill Country Retreat, 916 Deer Creek Circle, Dripping Springs TX 78620
A percentage of all donations goes to local organizations that support marginalized communities and the environment including Save Our Springs Alliance, Our Youth Central Center, and Austin Nature Center.
Items to bring: A cushion, blanket or low chair to sit on (as we’ll be sitting on the ground in circle); Good footwear; Water. Optional items: Head lamp, Journal & pen.
Gathering together in the limestone grotto nestled under the cedars and live oaks, we’ll start at 7pm with a welcome and brief introduction. Sitting comfortably on our meditation cushions or blankets, we’ll first anchor into our heart space, dropping all attention from our head into our heart. I’ll then guide us in a 9-round breathing technique to calm and concentrate our minds, followed by a calm-abiding and consciousness-expanding meditation called Meditation Like The Sky. In this state of calm expansiveness, we’ll sit in silent meditation for 20 – 30 minutes. Afterwards we’ll dedicate the merit of our meditation for the benefit of all sentient beings, concluding our session with a loving kindness meditation. For the final half hour (from 8 – 8:30pm) there’ll be an optional group share, with opportunities to ask questions about your own meditation practice too. If you’d prefer to maintain your inner and outer silence, you’re welcome to enjoy a meditative star-lit wander through the property, or help yourself to some herbal tea in the tiny house while you journal.
This 9-Round Breathing Technique and Meditation Like The Sky, was originally taught by the Buddha as a powerful and effective technique to calm and concentrate the mind, and then abide in that calmness so that you may experience your natural state of being, as Clear Light Mind. I’ll be sharing this technique with you as it was taught to me by Antonio Pascual, in the Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Centre, Kathmandu Nepal. It was passed down to him through an ancient lineage of Tibetan Buddhist lamas, culminating in his teachers Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu Nepal. I offer this meditation guidance with much gratitude to my esteemed teachers.
Meditation is the practice of experiencing who we truly are at the most fundamental and absolute level – Consciousness. When we meditate, we rest our attention on that which is beyond the temporal and relative truth of our body, thoughts and emotions, and experience the spacious, eternal nature of our being, unified with all life. ~ Brenda Ryan
My Meditation Journey
In 2009 I gave up my job, my apartment and life as I knew it in Ireland, threw on a backpack, and ventured East to seek truth and find meaning. I was 28, about to turn 29, and I just knew there was “something more” – a supreme truth to life that I yearned to directly experience. I travelled solo for the year, living in Kathmandu for 5 months, exploring the high Himalayan lands of Ladakh just west of Tibet for 3 months, and finished my journey on the hot humid plains of Calcutta, in Mother India.
In my quest to seek and find truth, I immersed myself in Buddhism and received life-changing Dharma teachings from a lineage of high Tibetan Lamas. I meditated many long hours in Tibetan Buddhist gompas (temples) and Theravada Buddhist meditation centers in Nepal and India. I practiced Yoga and was initiated into Reiki and Pranic healing. I trekked through the highest mountains in the world; stayed with Ladakhi nuns in the Himalayas; attended the teachings of the Dalai Lama; and meditated for many many more hours in a Himalayan meditation cell on the borders of Tibet. It felt like the education I truly yearned for, beyond the academic world. The education of inner freedom. The education of the heart.
I’m writing a book based on this profound 2009 truth-seeking journey and I can’t wait to share it with you. Visit my Truth Book webpage to learn more.
May 2019: Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening Course Certificate – Eckhart Tolle, Online (USA)
July 2015: 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course – Vipassana Meditation Center, Dallas, Texas
Sept – Oct 2009: Personal Meditation Retreat – Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre, Ladakh
May 2009: 10-Day Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism Course – Kopan Monastery, Nepal
March 2009: 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course – Vipassana Meditation Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal
Feb – July 2009: Daily Guided Meditations – Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal
July 2005: Raja Yoga Meditation Course – Brahma Kumaris Meditation Centre, Ubud, Bali
Remember, you’re not going anywhere. All things come and go. But you are not what happens. You are the silent space in which all things happen. – Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
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Meditation Guidance & Inspiration
Open to the Divine Within
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divine within you.
Amit Ray
Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one’s own true self.
Sri Chinmoy
You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle
Enter Your Inner Sanctuary
There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within.
S.N. Goenka
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Quiet Your Mind
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
Eckhart Tolle
Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Drop Into Your Heart
Only when the meditation drops from the head to the heart, and is felt, can transformation begin to take place.
Tenzin Palmo
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
Paramahansa Yogananda
To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.
Gautama Buddha
Breathe
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Eckhart Tolle
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Your True Nature is Vast Spaciousness
The act of meditation is being spacious.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Eckhart Tolle
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
Pema Chödrön
Guided Meditations
Deepen Into Presence with Eckhart Tolle
“Our minds are constantly at work, going over the same habitual thoughts again and again. The experience for most of us in any given moment is that we are stuck in our heads, disconnected from our bodies, and living one step removed from our immediate situation. Meditation is a method for synchronizing body and mind in the present moment. When the body and mind are in sync, we are naturally relaxed, alert, open, and aware, and we experience ourselves and the world in a direct, unmediated way, without conceptual filters. It is this direct experience of the fullness, vitality, and splendor of life that is the gift of meditation.” – Eckhart Tolle Now
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.
Eckhart Tolle
Heart Coherence with HeartMath
“Create a coherent state in about a minute with the simple, but powerful steps of the Quick Coherence® Technique developed by HeartMath. Using the power of your heart to balance thoughts and emotions, you can achieve energy, mental clarity and feel better fast anywhere. Use Quick Coherence especially when you begin feeling a draining emotion such as frustration, irritation, anxiety or anger. Find a feeling of ease and inner harmony that’s reflected in more balanced heart rhythms, facilitating brain function and more access to higher intelligence.” – HeartMath
Dare to connect with your heart. You will be lifting not only yourself and those you love and care about, but also the world in which you live.
Doc Childre, HeartMath Founder
Meditation on Twin Hearts with Master Stephen Co
“Pranic Healing is the sublime science of healing physical and psychological disorders by cleansing the prana (vital energy). Meditation on Twin Hearts is a noble tool that hopes to raise one’s vibrations toward higher states of awareness and expanded levels of consciousness. Presently being practiced globally by tens of thousands of people of different religions and backgrounds, the Meditation on Twin Hearts is extraordinary in its simplicity with amazing and dramatic results. This twenty minute meditation on Twin Hearts by GrandMaster Choa Kok Sui, is led by a Senior student, Master Stephen Co.” – World Pranic Healing
Master Choa Kok Sui
Regular practice of the meditation on Twin Hearts reinforces the act of internal giving through blessing the Earth and all people. It makes you strong and gives you the ability to be centered within and to become more balanced.
World Peace Meditations
Join meditators around the world to help raise the collective planetary vibration to one of peace, love and unity. There are global meditations happening all the time all around the globe that we can participate in from the comfort of our own home. I’ve created a Global Meditation Calendar to keep track of all the world peace meditations happening throughout the week, month and year. Let’s all come together wherever we may be, in-person or remotely, and meditate for World Peace. Through the power of our collective intention and attention, we can shift the global consciousness to a higher and more peaceful state for all.
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