this Radiant Space

A SHARED Exploration
INTO EXPERIENCE

About

This Radiant Space is a living invitation to drop beneath the noise of thought and rest in the vivid aliveness of presence. Rooted in the radical clarity of Peter Brown’s teachings, it offers a shared inquiry into what we are beyond the mind — not as a theory, but as a direct, felt truth. We offer workshops, individual sessions, and ongoing group explorations that combine embodied presence, precise pointing, and relational depth. Whether you're new to this path or have been walking it for years, this space invites you to meet life as it is: raw, immediate, and radiant. Not a project of self-improvement — but a discovery of the freedom that was never missing.

Rob Matthews, PhD, is a certified Focusing teacher and longtime explorer of direct experience, non-dual inquiry, and embodied presence. He holds a first-class honours degree and a doctorate, and brings depth, clarity, and humour to the spaces he facilitates. Rob lives in rural Spain and works with people around the world, helping them discover the radiant aliveness that’s already here.

Find Out More

You can find my writing on Substack and join my Patreon community for ongoing exploration of The Yoga of Radiant Presence.

Patreon: This Radiant Space

This Patreon is the home base for ongoing inquiry into what is actually here, before interpretation.
The core fact is simple: experience is. Everything else is inferred.
And when we look closely, experience does not resolve into the neat “whats” the mind keeps insisting on.
That unresolvability is not a philosophy, it is the discoverable nature of actuality.Inside the Patreon you will find:

  • Short, precise pointings (no fluff)

  • Guided investigations you can do in ordinary life

  • Sutra-style posts, essays, and occasional audio

  • Community discussion: questions, reports, and clarifications

  • Live meetings where explore experience directly

If you want a steady on-ramp, and a place to keep the fire lit, you’ll like it here.
Join the Patreon here: Patreon community

THIS RADIANT SPACE

A Live Online Workshop
Autumn 2025 (full)
January 2026 (full)
April 2026 (full)
June 2026 - Places availableA shared inquiry into the immediacy of experienceWhat if nothing needs to be fixed?Not your thoughts.
Not your feelings.
Not your past.
Not even you.This workshop is an invitation to stop trying to rearrange reality — and instead turn toward it, freshly. Together we explore what’s here beneath the story, before the labels, in the living texture of experience itself.Through direct teaching, partnered explorations (dyads), and group inquiry, we enter a space where something astonishing becomes clear:This — whatever this is — is already whole.
And so are you.What’s included:Weekly live Zoom sessions (small group 10-14 participants)Short, potent talks to open the spacePartnered and group inquiry practicesOptional reflections, texts, and audio between sessionsNo prior experience needed.
Just bring your attention — and a willingness to look.

testimonials

“I’ve taken two of Rob’s six-week workshops on Peter Brown’s Yoga of Radiant Presence and I highly recommend them. Rob’s clear pointing, and the exercises in the meetings and afterwards, have led to a steadily deeper and more enriching encounter with Radiant Presence and the recognition of what we are in essence.”
Rowena H.

“Practical. Hands-on. Profound. Rob facilitates the direct experience, the essence, of what spiritual doctrines can only point to.”
Gray.

“A fresh, dynamic workshop. Each session brought unexpected shifts. A lot of baggage dropped away and I’m left with more clarity and ease. Rob was generous with support and materials.”
G. Wright

“I’ve worked with Rob for several years and his workshops are consistently excellent: clear, sincere, and direct. The inquiry asks for no belief and doesn’t try to produce special states. It keeps returning to the plain fact of experience, and something quietly reorganises.“
Anon

workshop details

✦ What Is This Radiant Space?
This Radiant Space is a live small-group exploration of presence itself.
Across six weekly meetings on Zoom, we gather to look directly at experience in the simple, uncompromising way Peter Brown points to in The Yoga of Radiant Presence.
We learn to:
• Slow down and feel what is actually here
• Speak from the raw immediacy of experience
• Inquire into the nature of reality through the direct lens of Peter Brown
• Stop trying to manage experience and meet it as it is
This is not therapy and it is not self-improvement.
It is an invitation to notice the field of presence that is already happening and to let everything reveal itself in that clear open space.✦ Who Is It For?
This is for anyone drawn to exploring their actual experience, not to analyse it but to meet it directly.
You might:
• Sense there is something deeper in the ordinary flow of your moment-to-moment life
• Feel drawn to inquiry that does not depend on beliefs, methods, or spiritual systems
• Be curious about Peter Brown’s work or other non-dual approaches
• Long to meet life with more openness, clarity, and immediacy
• Suspect that what you are is not a thinker or a self, but something spacious, awake, and alive
No previous experience with meditation or spirituality is needed—only a genuine curiosity about what is.✦ What Happens in a Meeting?
Each 90-minute meeting unfolds as a living conversation rather than a lesson. It may include:
• A guided drop-in to the immediacy of experience
• Whole-group inquiry into what is arising now
• Paired explorations (dyads) for deeper attunement
• Short framings or reflections to orient the exploration
• Space for integration, silence, and spontaneous insight
These gatherings are intimate, alive, and grounded in presence. A place to meet others who value honesty, curiosity, and direct contact with life.✦ The Orientation
We begin with one simple, radical recognition:
All there is, is experience.
When we begin to feel that
to get to know it
to discover we are it
something opens
The struggle to improve or escape softens, and a quiet ease, a natural joy, begins to shine through.
✦ Format
• Platform: Zoom (camera optional)
• Group Size: small and intimate (10-14) participants
• Between Meetings: short weekly emails with reflections and invitations for continued exploration✦ Cost
The cost for the full six‑week series is €180 EUR (approximately £160 GBP / $210 USD).
If the cost would prevent you from joining, I’m happy to offer a concession or sliding scale. Just let me know.
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✦ How to Join✦

June Workshop

Dates & Times
Meeting 1: 4 June
Meeting 2: 11 June
Meeting 3: 25 June
Meeting 4: 2 July
Meeting 5: 16 July
Meeting 6: 23 JulyNo meeting: 18 June, 9 July
Duration: 90 minutes each
Time Zones:
• Central Europe (Spain): 700–8:30 pm CEST
• UK: 6:00–7:30 pm BST
• US Eastern: 1:00–2:30 pm EDT
• US Pacific: 10:00–11:30 am PDT

If you have any questions you can contact me here:

Contact

Calle Baja 21
Cadiar, 18440
Spain
(+34) 622045789

Peter Brown: The Yoga of Radiant Presence

Peter Brown calls his approach the yoga of radiant presence: a direct investigation of the actuality of experience, beyond what imagination adds on top. This page gives a simple orientation to what “yoga” means here, a brief sense of Peter’s work, and how This Radiant Space explores the same ground through live workshops and shared inquiry.

What “yoga” means here

Here, “yoga” is not fitness, and it is not a self-improvement project.In Peter Brown’s usage, yoga means engagement with radiant presence: staying close to what is actually here, and letting the facts of experience speak for themselves.It is not a path to a special state. It is the simple, steady recognition of what is already the case.

Peter Brown and the yoga of radiant presence

Peter Brown is a contemporary non-dual teacher known for a very direct style. He puts the emphasis on what can be checked in immediate experience, rather than beliefs, models, or spiritual stories.A central thread in his work is that we take imagination and interpretation to be reality, and we suffer the consequences. When that starts to unravel, experience is no longer felt as a problem to solve.“Radiant presence” points to the plain fact that experience is present, inclusive, and inherently vivid, without needing to be fixed or improved.

This Radiant Space workshops

This Radiant Space is an independent offering inspired by Peter Brown’s yoga of radiant presence.The workshops are live, interactive, and grounded. We explore together as a group and in pairs, then return to the whole group to integrate what has been seen. The emphasis is on direct checking in experience, in a friendly, precise atmosphere.If you are drawn to Peter’s work and want a place to explore it with others, you are welcome.

This page references Peter Brown and the yoga of radiant presence as inspiration. This Radiant Space is not affiliated with Peter Brown.