Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation
You're Not Failing, You Just Need a New Map
July 13 - August 10, 2025
A journey into the heart of joyful, natural meditation
Struggling to start—or stick with—meditation? Know that you should be meditating but something isn't quite working?
You’re not alone.
Join me, Dr. Lorin Roche, for a 4-week course: Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation
For over 50 years, I’ve explored and taught meditation, helping thousands discover small, practical skills that make the practice natural, enjoyable, and deeply meaningful.
In this course, you’ll learn how to welcome thoughts, emotions, and distractions as allies, not enemies. This shift can transform meditation from an inner struggle into something you enjoy—a refuge where you can relax, restore, and emerge enriched.
Perfect for both beginners and seasoned meditators, our 90-minute weekly live classes include:
- Guided meditations
- Practical tools you can use right away
- A supportive, encouraging community
Let’s free your meditation by welcoming your own natural energies so you can flourish!
"When I learned the right kind of practice, meditation became as natural as letting my soul love my body."
Does meditation feel like trying to find your way in the midst of a storm?
Do emotions, physical discomfort, or noisy surroundings disrupt your practice? You’re not alone.
Many people find meditation too challenging because they’ve been led to believe that to find inner peace you have to follow instructions like clear your mind, calm your emotions, or sit perfectly still.
I call these Odious Rules and although they sometimes help, more often they just turn meditation into a struggle.
Let’s shift the paradigm and imagine a practice where the fear of doing it wrong is released. Where restlessness and wandering thoughts are not failures, but portals to deeper self-awareness, insight, and compassion.
Everything belongs—even your thoughts, emotions, and distractions
Meditation doesn’t require perfection. We just need to slowly cultivate loving attention towards whatever arises, moment by moment.
Join me for Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation, a 4-week course designed to help you embrace thoughts, emotions, sensations—even noise—as natural parts of your meditation journey.
Drawing on decades of teaching, I’ll guide you in releasing restrictive rules and approaching meditation with curiosity, compassion, and ease.
Through guided meditations, practical exercises, and group discussions, you’ll learn to:
- Reframe thoughts as welcome companions, flowing without judgment.
- Embrace emotions and moods as vital energy, supporting inner wholeness.
- Dance with physical sensations, even discomfort, as part of your body’s intelligence.
- Meditate amid life’s noise and urgency, finding grace in the flow of your everyday life.
You’ll leave with a sustainable, nourishing practice that honors all of you—no perfection required!
“I'm carrying around a level of relaxation in my bones/nervous system that is new to me and so wonderful. The things I used to let bother me are much less bothersome. The freedom of my personal practice is so lovely and affirming - guiding me in my own way. It wasn't easy to let go of my old way - I'm a pretty high-achieving person with a schedule and lists of things to do. Somehow I'm getting more done in less time."
Course Overview
A Liberating 4-Week Meditation Journey
July 13 - August 10, 2025
Live Classes: We meet live each Sunday at 12pm PT for a 90-minute class with Dr Lorin Roche.
The live classes are recorded and available for you to revisit the following day.
Additional Class Resources: You will have access to recorded audio meditations and written articles for each theme through our private online platform.
Week 1: Reframing Thoughts as Allies
Move away from the old paradigm that meditation is a time to suppress thoughts and begin to embrace them as a natural and welcomed part of meditation
Week 2: Embracing Emotions and Moods as Vital Energy
When we attend to our inner world in a way that is healthy by embracing all of our emotions and moods we are honoring life’s vitality and becoming more integrated and whole.
Week 3: Dancing with Physical Sensations and Discomfort
Like life, meditation can be uncomfortable - all sorts of sensations arise as part of the body’s natural healing and relaxation process. Let’s celebrate our restoration.
Week 4: Integrating Meditation Amid Noise and Urgency
The world is busy and noisy - let’s embrace external distractions and urgency as part of life’s flow.
Also Get Bonus Access to the Radiance Sutras School of Meditation!
- 2x Monthly Live Meditation Events With Lorin, Camille, and Community
- LIVE Community Meditation Classes Every Week
- An Audio Meditation Library With 50+ Practices
- Our Foundational Instinctive Meditation® Course
- A Course on the Meditation Secrets for Love, Intimacy, and Relationships
- A Beautiful Community of Fellow Meditators
- Discounts on Retreats and Trainings
The Radiance Sutras School of Meditation is the perfect place for you to learn, grow, and discover.
If you are already a member of The Radiance Sutras School of Meditation, find your coupon code by clicking here.
Meet Your Teacher
Lorin Roche, PhD
Founder of RSSM
For 56 years Dr Lorin Roche has been exploring the Ancient Yoga Meditation traditions as described in the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. He is a pioneer in developing personalized meditation practices, designing the techniques around an individual’s unique inner nature. He was awarded a PhD from the University of California, Irvine, where he has done extensive research on meditation and meditative experiences.
He is the author of six books on meditation including The Radiance Sutras, Meditation Made Easy, and with Camille Maurine, Meditation Secrets for Women.
Lorin’s teachings help students feel that meditation is more like an innate skill that you are remembering than a technique that you are learning. This work is aimed at activating an individual’s internal guidance systems and bringing forth your instinctive knowing, so that you can safely practice meditation without being dependent upon gurus, systems, or external authorities.
"Yoga is a living tradition. Lorin is on the front lines as a meditation teacher, a champion of natural meditation, of awakening consciousness everywhere, in all places, in all times."
Founder of the Samudra School of Living Yoga
Dive In - Register Today!
This 4-Week Live Course Runs From July 13 to August 10, 2025
Live attendance is not required and you will have access to recordings the day after each class finishes.
Overcoming Obstacles to Meditation
You Receive:
4 LIVE 90-Minute Classes with Lorin
All Live Class Recordings
Weekly Support Activities: Readings and Meditations
- Lifetime Access to Course Materials
2-Months Tuition in the Radiance Sutras School of Meditation (valued at $299/yr)
Course Tuition
We offer tiered pricing to ensure this course is accessible to all who truly want to join. Please choose the option that best fits your circumstance.
Regular Tuition – $197
Sponsorship Tuition – $247 – support someone else to attend
Scholarship Tuition – $147 – if you have financial challenge (limited availability)
Money Back Guarantee
We don’t want your money if you’re not enjoying our Instinctive Meditation approach. If after the first week of the course you’re not satisfied, we will give you a full refund.
"Letting go of focus & force gives space for freedom I have never experienced before to open the eyes to what ‘is’ rather than what should be."