Deep Rest Meditation & Living a Fulfilled Life
a chance for a change of consciousness
A Six-Week Online Course with Jaya Ashmore
April 24 to June 6, 2025
"In these times of instability, what helps you transform?
What allows you to receive all the support you need?
What helps bring forth the best in you?
What helps you give all you have to give?
What helps you recognize the scent trail of your unique path to realization?”
Join international meditation teacher Jaya Ashmore for a six-week immersion in practical wisdom for living a fulfilled life, with the support of meditation through deep rest.
Why This Course?
Deep rest meditation taps into the subtle, natural awareness that is already here…sometimes through relaxing, being welcome as you are, or tuning into spaciousness.
Other times, even if literal rest is challenging, we can acknowledge being part of a wider life, not only made of our own loudest thoughts and emotions.
We can practice noticing, "What else is here?" A texture or soundscape, the memory of a life-giving quality such as gratitude, or an innermost sense of what is important.
And…what else is here? The openness of awareness, of aliveness beyond ideas.
Connecting with deeper resources, we can lice with wonder at what comes to and through us…the kind intelligence, big-hearted action, and fulfilling peace.
This course includes:
● Practical body-mind techniques to support your connection with aliveness beyond ideas, beyond stress, and beyond conditioning
● Deep rest meditation practices to awaken innate wisdom, trust, ease and creativity
● A supportive community of fellow travelers on the path of transformation
● Time-tested wisdom adapted to modern life challenges and your unique path
Live online sessions:
● Four Dharma Talks with Jaya (one every two weeks)
● Weekly Small Group Sessions for personalized guidance and deeper exploration
Fundamentals of Deep Rest Audio Classes:
● The distilled wisdom of Jaya's 25 years of teaching--2-4 audio classes per week, including the soon-to-be published 2nd Series
● Complementary Resources including mini-practices and talk transcriptions
Course Schedule:
Live Dharma Talks (All participants) - 8:30-9:30pm CEST:
● April 24 - Opening Session
● May 7
● May 12
● May 29 - Closing Integration
Small Group Meetings (Choose based on your availability):
● Tuesdays at 5pm CEST: April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3
● Wednesdays at 9:30am CEST: April 30, May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 6
Note: Small group spaces are limited for a friendlier and deeper quality of dialogue. If groups fill up, you can still join for the Dharma talks and audio course.
~ Costs and the way of generosity (dana) –towards a culture of connection and mutual support
If you haven’t already, you will need to purchase the first and second series in my Fundamentals of Deep Rest audio course for $25 each.
The audio course will be available in Jaya’s patreon.com/jayaashmore
We will let you know when we publish the second series, so you can buy that for the second half of the course.
These payments help Jaya cover the technical costs she incurred in creating the audios. (And it would not be fair to revoke this price for this course, since many people have already purchased it.)
~ Dana doubled ~
We are offering everything else in April and May—both Jaya's teachings and the essential organizational support through Open Dharma—on generosity.
The way of generosity and mutuality is radically different from the current norms of extracting “maximum profit, with minimum input.”
We think it’s important to create sustainable culture and free spaces for exploration, in depth, of what is most important. We are gambling on connection and radical trust.
Instead of charging an organizational entrance fee, we welcome your generosity:
1. Donations to Open Dharma sustain the organizational infrastructure that brings these teachings to life—from technology and communications to scholarship opportunities.
2. Offerings to Jaya directly support her capacity to dedicate time to creating and sharing these transformative practices.
Donations for Open Dharma
We know Open Dharma is a space that feels like home to many people. What is it like to treat the Open Dharma space almost as a living organism that many diverse people are part of, each in our own way and timing?
Your freely given support to Open Dharma as a non-profit organization supports the people who make this course possible—registration forms, social media posters and posts, website updates, recordings, accounts, scholarships, and so on.
Donations for the teachings
In the same way, Jaya as a teacher welcomes your offerings of financial support, rather than charging for teachings. She was able to dedicate all the time necessary to create the audio courses because of individual offerings of monthly, yearly or one-time gifts. And through past and present financial support, she is available now to dedicate the many hours involved in creating this and other spaces for meditation and awakening.
The teachings flow like a living stream, from Jaya’s teachers, and through Jaya’s practices over 40 years; through the teachers and practices of everyone helping Open Dharma flow on; in each person’s dedication; and in our gathering together in openness and in Dharma…with curiosity, patience, trust, honesty, playfulness, courage and friendship.
To discover what is. Each in our own way.
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