Inner Balance Classes
Weekly somatic meditation classes to help you soften, regulate, and reconnect.
Inner Balance is Louise Reader’s signature class – a gentle, body-based meditation space designed to help you slow down, soften and return to yourself.
In a world that often leaves us overstimulated, braced and disconnected, these sessions offer a different rhythm: one of presence, nervous system regulation, inner softening and deeper embodied awareness.
The classes are open to anyone who is seeking more steadiness, ease and connection, and are especially supportive for those living with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, chronic tension or a sense of being disconnected from themselves.
Inner balance is what becomes possible when the nervous system begins to regulate, the body starts to soften, and we feel more grounded, safe and connected within ourselves.
It is not about perfection, performance or becoming calm all the time. It is about developing a deeper sense of steadiness and choice – so that we are not always pulled by stress, bracing or over-activation, and can begin to feel more at ease in our own body and being.
Inner Balance classes are designed to help you:
- feel calmer and more relaxed
- reduce stress and overwhelm
- release tension in the body
- feel more grounded and steadier
- improve sleep
- build resilience
- feel safer and more at home in your body
In each class, Louise guides you through a subtle somatic meditation process that may help you:
- attune to areas of tightness, bracing or numbness in the body
- soften long-held tension with kindness and compassion
- regulate the nervous system
- experience greater embodiment and felt presence
- reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been shut down
- move towards more peace, softness and inner balance
- develop greater capacity to rest, receive and simply be
This is gentle, non-confrontational work. It is not about analysing or forcing change. It is about creating the conditions in which the body can begin to let go, and something deeper can emerge.
More than relaxation
While the classes can be deeply calming, they are about more than simply helping you feel better for an hour.
Louise’s approach brings together somatic meditation, embodiment, nervous system regulation and the spiritual depth of Buddhist practice. This creates the possibility not only of temporary relief, but of a more meaningful inner shift – one that can gradually change how you feel in your body, how you relate to yourself, and how you move through life.
These classes support:
- improved comfort and ease in life
- increased capacity to cope with stress
- greater emotional awareness
- improved focus and concentration
- more natural communication through the whole body
- a stronger sense of internal balance with self, others and life
- you often feel stressed, anxious or overstimulated
- your body feels habitually tight or braced
- you struggle to switch off or settle
- you feel disconnected from yourself
- you are drawn to a softer, more embodied approach to wellbeing
- you want to experience more inner balance in daily life
- you are curious about somatic meditation and Buddhist-informed practice
No prior experience is needed. You do not need to be good at meditation. You simply need a willingness to slow down and meet yourself with curiosity and kindness.
Class Times
Friday Mornings
Leigh Community Centre (SS9 1SP)
10 am – 11 am
Meet Your Teacher
Louise Reader is a Buddhist monk, somatic meditation teacher, speaker and author. Her work is rooted in embodiment, nervous system regulation and the cultivation of inner balance, helping people soften what has been held in the body and return to a more grounded, connected and authentic way of being.
Join Inner Balance
If you are ready for a gentler, deeper and more embodied way to support yourself, Louise would love to welcome you.
