Uncovering the roots of the teachings

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  • Sep 19

    Saturday Sep 19, 2026 - Saturday Jun 19, 2027

     (Start time Sat 10:00 CEST - End time Sat 12:00 CEST)
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    Christina Feldman, Martine Batchelor, Christoph Köck, Bernat Font
    The course is offered in English with simultaneous translation in French, Italian and Spanish. The price includes a fee for the teachers, no additional dana will be requested.
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    Sessions
    Session 1 - Mindfulness of the Body (Kaya)
    Sat 19 Sep 10:00 CEST - Sat 19 Sep 12:00 CEST
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    Session 2 - Mindfulness of Feeling-Tone (Vedana)
    Sat 16 Jan 10:00 CET - Sat 16 Jan 12:00 CET
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    Session 3 - Mindfulness of Mind States (Citta)
    Sat 10 Apr 10:00 CEST - Sat 10 Apr 12:00 CEST
    Online
    Session 4 - Mindfulness of Phenomena (Dhammas)
    Sat 19 Jun 10:00 CEST - Sat 19 Jun 12:00 CEST
    Online
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Price Options:

Single session: € 35 

Full series: € 125 (Book the 4 sessions to receive an automatic discount)

Supporter Rate available. 

Theme

A four-part series exploring the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthāna Sutta). A  core framework for deepening practice and enriching teaching.
A unique opportunity to access the heart and roots of these teachings, making this foundational approach available across Europe, while cultivating an inclusive international learning community.
This series has been developed in partnership with The Institut Pleine Conscience (Belgium/France), Itaca Mindfulness (Italy), and MBCT-Spain (Spain).
The series will be offered in English, with simultaneous translation into French, Italian, and Spanish.

Who is it for?

The course is suitable for both new and experienced practitioners, as well as for alumni of mindfulness-based programs and mindfulness-based teachers. In particular, it is highly recommended for mindfulness-based teachers as an opportunity to refine their practice, return to the foundations of mindful awareness and thereby deepen their understanding of the underlying teachings on which MBPs are founded.

Course content

Session 1 – Mindfulness of the Body (Kaya) with Christina Feldman 
Exploring the body as the ground of mindfulness: breath, posture, movement, and sensory experience.
A return to embodied presence and the immediacy of lived experience. 

Session 2 – Mindfulness of Feeling-Tone (Vedana) with Martine Batchelor
Exploring how experience is felt as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither, and how this shapes reactivity.
A subtle and powerful inquiry into the roots of habit and response. 

Session 3 – Mindfulness of Mind States (Citta) with Christoph Köck
Exploring thoughts, moods, emotions, and patterns of wanting or resistance within awareness.
An invitation to meet the changing mind with clarity, steadiness, and care. 

Session 4 – Mindfulness of Phenomena (Dhammas) with Bernat Font 
Exploring experience through key contemplative patterns, including the hindrances and factors of awakening.
A wider view that supports insight, freedom, and depth in both practice, teaching and our life. 

Event Details

Schedule

Quarterly sessions beginning in September 2026 

Four Saturdays from 10 am – 12 pm CET/CEST:

Session 1 - 19 September, 2026

Session 2 - 16 January, 2027

Session 3 - 10 April, 2027

Session 4 - 19 June, 2027

Language

The course is offered in English with simultaneous translation in French, Italian and Spanish. 

Cost:

  • The price includes a fee for the teachers, no additional dana will be requested. 
  • Possibility to pay a supporter rate by selecting the option available on the registration form.
  • If you are unable to afford our course rate, please contact us here. We will make sure that no one is turned away because of lack of funds

Recordings:

We strongly encourage live attendance on this course.

If you are unable to attend the live session, the recordings will be shared following each session.

Suitability

Open to all - new and experienced practitioners alike.

Teachers:

CHRISTINA FELDMAN is a co-founder of Gaia House and a guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachussetts. The author of a number of books, she has been teaching insight meditation retreats internationally since 1976. She is one of the teaching faculty of the CPP programme, dedicated to the study and application of the early teachings of the Buddha and is engaged in teaching the Buddhist psychological foundations of mindfulness to those training to teach mindfulness-based applications in England, Belgium and the Netherlands. Her most recent book Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, written with Willem Kuyken, was published in the summer of 2019. 

MARTINE BATCHELOR author of Meditation for Life, The Path of Compassion, Women in Korean Zen and Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits. Her latest works are the The Spirit of the Buddha, What is this? and The Definition, Practice and Psychology of Vedana.  She is a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council.  She teaches meditation retreats worldwide and lives in France. Recently she has been involved with the Silver Sante Study, teaching meditation, mindfulness and compassion to seniors in France to see if this could prevent ageing decline.

CHRISTOPH KÖCK was born in Vienna, Austria, and spent 17 years of his life as a Buddhist monk in the Theravadin tradition.He lived mainly in monasteries connected with Ajahn Chah in Thailand and the West. Currently he lives in Vienna, working as a psychotherapist in a private practice. He teaches Buddhism and meditation internationally, and is trained to teach MBSR and MBCT. 

BERNAT FONT teaches with a combination of scholarly rigour, everyday examples, and a playful sensibility. He met the Dharma at a very early age, and has been mainly influenced by Stephen Batchelor, Sayadaw U Tejaniya & the Thai Forest tradition. A founder of Espai Sati in Barcelona, he has a PhD in Buddhist Studies, translates Pali texts into Catalan and Spanish, and is also a jazz pianist.