What does it mean to look?
We begin with simple checks and learn how to identify the evidence before explanation takes over.
Four-week live workshop
Learning to Look
Four live sessions exploring the difference between experience and what we think we know about it.
First workshop21 January – 11 February 2027
FormatFour weekly 90-minute meetings on Zoom
TimeThursdays at 18:00 Spain time
Workshop fee€120. VAT will be added for participants in the EU where required.
The workshop
A practical introduction to direct inquiry
Learning to Look is a four-week live workshop in the basic practice of direct inquiry.
We begin with ordinary experience and learn how to distinguish what is present from what has been supplied by naming, memory and interpretation.
The emphasis is practical. You will be shown how to begin, how to recognise when explanation has taken over and how to return to the evidence.
The aim is not to master a set of ideas, but to acquire a way of looking you can use for yourself.
Look again.
The practice
Looking is not analysing
This is not a matter of thinking more carefully or finding a better explanation.
We take something simple, examine the evidence and notice what has been added through naming, memory and assumption.
We also look at the ways the inquiry is lost: moving too quickly to a conclusion, trying to produce the right answer or analysing instead of looking.
The practice is to notice that movement and return to what is actually present.
How it works
Four live meetings
We meet online once a week for four weeks. Each 90-minute meeting combines guided inquiry, discussion and short exercises in pairs.
Between meetings, there will be a simple inquiry to explore in ordinary life.
There will also be time for questions and for working directly with the places where the looking becomes difficult.
The four meetings
What we will explore
What has been supplied?
We separate what is present from naming, memory, assumption and the conclusions they seem to support.
How do we lose the looking?
We notice analysis, performance and the urge to settle the question too quickly.
How do we continue?
We take the inquiry into ordinary experience and learn how to begin again without depending on the workshop.
The live setting
A supported place to begin
Direct inquiry can be simple to explain and surprisingly difficult to do.
In a live meeting, we can see the exact moment when a question has become an idea, when an answer sounds convincing but has not come from looking, or when someone is trying to produce the right result.
There is room to stop, examine what happened and begin again. That immediate support is central to the workshop.
The aim is to leave with a way of looking that can continue beyond the four meetings.
Who it is for
No previous experience is needed
You may be entirely new to this work, or familiar with meditation, non-duality or direct inquiry.
What matters is a willingness to look carefully and allow the familiar explanation to be questioned.
No knowledge of Peter Brown’s work is required.
The background
The Yoga of Radiant Presence
Learning to Look draws on the Yoga of Radiant Presence developed by Peter Brown.
It introduces one foundational movement within that work: examining experience directly rather than beginning with what we already believe it to be.
Here, yoga does not mean a physical discipline or a technique for producing a particular state. It means investigating the evidence of experience for yourself.
You do not need to know Peter’s work in advance. The workshop is designed to let you encounter the inquiry by doing it.
What remains
A practical feel for the looking
By the end of the four weeks, you should be able to begin a simple inquiry, recognise when explanation has taken over and return to the evidence.
You will have a practical feel for the difference between looking at experience and relying on the familiar account of it.
The workshop does not offer a final conclusion. It gives you the basic skill needed to continue.
Continue exploring
Two ways of continuing
Learning to Look is a complete workshop in its own right. If you want to continue, the same inquiry can be taken further in two different ways.
Six-week paired inquiry
What the Hell Is This?
Take the basic operation into everyday life through a six-week inquiry completed in your own time, with paired work at the centre.
Workshop detailsSix live meetings
This Radiant Space
Explore a wider range of the inquiry through live meetings, dialogue and shared investigation with a regular group.
Workshop detailsFirst workshop
21 January – 11 February 2027
- Length
- Four weeks
- Meetings
- Four live 90-minute Zoom sessions
- Format
- Guided inquiry, discussion and short exercises in pairs
- Between meetings
- A simple inquiry to explore during the week
- Dates
- 21 and 28 January, 4 and 11 February 2027
- Time
- Thursdays at 18:00 Spain time
- Workshop fee
- €120. VAT will be added for participants in the EU where required.
- Places
- Limited to allow genuine participation
Registering your interest does not commit you to joining. I will send you the full registration and payment details when booking opens.
Register your interestPractical questions
Before you register your interest
Do I need previous experience?
No. The workshop is open to newcomers as well as people already familiar with meditation, non-duality or direct inquiry.
Is this required before What the Hell Is This?
No. Learning to Look is a complete workshop in its own right and is not a prerequisite for the six-week course.
When will registration open?
I will contact everyone on the interest list when booking opens.
Learning to Look
The first workshop begins on 21 January 2027
Four live meetings exploring the difference between experience and what we think we know about it.
The meetings take place on Thursdays at 18:00 Spain time. The fee is €120, with VAT added for participants in the EU where required. Register your interest and I will contact you when booking opens.
Register your interest