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After developing the importance of preserving our peace quota, this week Danis Bois invited participants to identify and explore the clues to an inner climate of peace, i.e. the sensations, states and attitudes that enable us to recognise that we are indeed in a place of peace within ourselves. According to Danis Bois, inner peace is the most accomplished state in a quest for meaning, a human journey or a spiritual journey.The state of peace is a self-sufficient state, The state of peace is an inner state that is enough of itself, a fulfillment of a life.  It’s a delicious movement intertwined with a peace for which there are no words.  Feel the joy, joy at feeling alive. Danis Bois Encountering our inner climate of peace is probably what the body likes best to keep itself in balance. But preserving this relationship requires discipline. Here are some suggestions for maintaining your climate of inner peace. During the week, I invite you to observe and notice when you are in a situation of stress or anxiety that come and impinge on your quota of peace. I invite you to choose to sing, listen to some music, leave this climate that is …

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Through his meditation, Danis Bois presents his philosophy with regards to the innter climate of peace. Step by step, he provides guidance to go deeper into this living philosophy of the Sensible, best grasped by a meditative state he considers most appropriate to explore the living world.  In the preceeding weeks, the emphasis was put on connecting with the silence, respecting our quota of peace and what Danis Bois calls the satellites of peace, namely calm, stability, solidity and tranquility. This meditation on the theme of ‘the desiring force of the living world’ brings us to explore another form of peace that is deeper and is connected with a powerful inner push: the inner movement.  By exploring the continuity of silence, motionlessness, presence, smiling and the inner movement, meditative practice gives us access to stability, as a source of inner peace that pervades simultaneously our mind and our body. A travers l’exploration de la continuité du silence, de l’immobilité, de la présence, du sourire, du mouvement interne, la pratique méditative donne accès à une stabilité, source de paix intérieure et qui concerne à la fois l’esprit et l’organisme. Accessing this continuous flow of silence, attention, presence and motionlessness, of the slowness of …

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Today, Danis Bois began to guide a new series of meditations online. He has chosen as a theme for this series ‘The Inner Climate of Peace’ further to the climax Festival he took part in, in September 2024 in Bordeaux (France). The theme of peace is particularly close to Danis Bois’ heart as it finalizes in some way the long path he has been on in his quest for sense and meaning.  How can we find this place of peace within ourselves? How can we demand of ourselves a quota of peace that is absolutely necessary to achieve balance in our lives?  It is not simply about finding peace, but about taking care of our relationship with peace in all its dimensions.  In the course of this series, different themes will be touched on following a step-by-step learning process.  The first meditations will focus on how to connect with our place of peace within before we begin to explore how to make peace with ourself, then with others, and how we can contribute to peace in the world. Finally the meditations will address dying in peace and how we can accompany people to die in peace.  Extracts of the meditation …

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This meditation #102 is devoted to the theme of mystery. It’s an interesting theme in the sense that in the practice of meditation we come across sensations, feelings and experiences that are quite mysterious and in the sense that the inner movement can be an answer to the mystery of Life. Extracts I invite you to have a naked gaze on the mystery, the mystery that we encounter in the practice of meditation. Can we meditate without having somewhere within us a quest for the mystery? It is always a mystery to feel that we are moving from a state of motionlessness to a state of motion within us. It’s always a mystery to feel the push of life in our flesh.  We are not close to this mystery just in meditation. It is everywhere. It surrounds us permanently. Every moment, we are close to the mystery.  Firstly, life is a mystery, an extraordinary mystery. Your life is a mystery. We are alive, we are here and for this to have happened is a real mystery. Why us? Why you?  The time that we live is a mystery.  We behave as though life is something we are owed and we …

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Since the beginning of the term, the meditations have centred around exploring the main supports of  meditation. As a reminder, for Danis Bois, a support is this something on which we apply our attention, our presence, our awareness and in a more dynamic perspective, these supports provide the grounding on which perceptual, cognitive, relational and behavioural potentialities can be developed. Having, in the preceeding weeks, explored silence, the present moment in all its aspects, it is not time to explore two fundamental supports of Full-Presence Meditation: motionlessness and what we call an active motionlessness, meaning the inner movement.  In this meditation, Danis Bois explores through the inner movement what the poet T.S. Elliot calls ‘the dance’, alluding to the co-existence of stillness and movement – a lively stillness.   Having reaching the state of motionlessness in the meditation, it is then seen as the revealer of the inner movement inside the body.  Extracts : I invite you to imagine that you are a statue, draped in silence, and as all statues, you feel unmovable, unshakable by external events. When you feel the support of your back on the chair or another area of support, it is the sign that you are being …

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Danis Bois’ meditations have been listened to 200 000 times since we began and today we celebrate the 100th meditation So today was the 100th meditation guided online by Danis Bois since he agreed to facilitate weekly gatherings.  To celebrate this event, the chosen theme explores the notion of change  of change under the title: “Starting fresh”, as indeed the movement creates a particular state of presence that engages, stimulates and motivates our capacity to make decisions and to go towards change, to ultimately to start afresh.  Extraits : When we have the good fortune to experience the inner movement, we can then experience that living is what is rarest in the world. Then, when we are in this way, faced with ourself, in silence, rooted in the present, we get a better sense of ourselves. And we know that what prevents us from changing is as much our doubts as our certainties. Of course you have free will over your life. Your choice has to be yours. The movement in your life is just a help.  We make decisions that vary depending on our states, on our moods and the movement, when it is a lived experience, changes our mood. It …

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This meditation is taking place at the same time as Danis Bois is giving a Movement Masterclass, so it seemed appropriate for this meditation to explore the theme of the the inner movement that becomes in our gestural movement an inner drive motivating us into action. The inner movement is the signature of Full-Presence Meditation. We we are consciously animated by the inner movement, we are at the heart of Full-Pesence which, in this particular context, is seen as the presence that arises from our relationship with the inner movement. Those who connect with the inner movement report that they feel totally present to themselves and experience, as an undertone, a strong sense of existing.  Gaining access to this experience requires training and perceptual skills. It is possible to experience the presence of the inner movement in different ways depending on practice and sensitivity:  It is of course a meditation that requires a particular kind of training to grasp the inner movement, which is the jewel of Full-Presence Meditation.  Extracts: Silence: The more we pay attention to the silence, the more present we are to the silence, the more the silence becomes animated within itself, become animated by a warm …

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Generally speaking, the relationship to temporality is complex. On one hand, time evokes the threat of our finitude : “With time, everything goes”, sang Léo Ferré. And on the other, time brings the promise of our growth. It is this dimention “With time, everything comes” that Danis Bois offers us this latest meditation.  In this perspective, Gustave Flaubert also questions us with these words: “The future torments us, the past holds us back, that is why the present escapes us.” Indeed the future torments us as we do not know what it will be made of, and the past holds us back as we are attached to what we have lived, to our memories. Through our past, we have constructed our personality. And so meditation enables us to connect to the present so that we can ensure that the present does not escape us. Having established the conditions for silence that lead to experiencing plenitude, this meditation is an invitation to explore the time that is coming with two questions : What is the future for ? or in other words: What would our life be without our future? Extraits : As nets that do not hold back water, the present moment does not …

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In the preceeding weeks, the meditations focusesd on experiencing the eternal moment – a notion that brings a new perspective on the now moment in the context of meditation. A central question remained : how to combine this particular temporality with an objective temporality, the one we experience every day, the time of the clock?  To illustrate this quest, Danis Bois refers to Proust for whom it was possible to wander at our will in the past, the present and the future. And indeed, when we meditate, it is possible to navigate through the past through our memories and to project ourselves into the future through our intention. This meditation offers the opportunity to understand how this is possible without leaving the present moment. The title  The Glow of Time expresses a desire to brighten up the dark areas of temporality through the use of poetry, as the only way to bring some light on the subtleties of time.  In practice, before going deeper into this theme, it is necessary to settle within ourself, in our own silence, and to be present to ourself and to the second that passes; to be present to the eternal moment.  Then comes the time to …

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The theme of this meditation was around ‘the eternal present’. Danis Bois does address the notion of present moment in a mathematical way, neither in a dimension where temporalities follow each other (past, present, future), but rather he proposes a vision and experience of the present moment as a moment of eternity. By guiding us on a stroll into the movement of the present, Danis Bois offers us the poetry of the life that reveals itself in this way.  It all begins by establishing within a deep silence to listen to, through which we can experience ourself.   It is pointless  looking for the present moment as it is here already, as it has always been ever since you were born. Then comes the immersion phase during which we stroll in the present and become aware of the present moment as a moment of eternity that we can reach consciously in our experiencing.  Extracts : The real gift of life is the present moment. And our gift to ourself, for life, is to be present to the present moment. The present moment is the only temporality that lasts over time. There is nothing that is more eternal than the present moment.  Louis …

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