New mindfulness course to start in August!
Learn mindfulness and compassion skills to cope with stress, boost happiness and well-being, and cultivate new sources of resilience, joy and peace in your life. Starting in August, Megan will be teaching the Breathworks Mindfulness [...]
Win at SA Media Awards!
'Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri Anzac' wins at the 2025 MEAA SA State Media Awards! A powerful story of First Nations military service, truth-telling and spirituality, the seven-part immersive audio podcast [...]
More recognition for Bringing His Spirit Home
'Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri Anzac', has been nominated in two categories at the 2025 MEAA SA Media Awards! Produced by Megan Spencer for the Virtual War Memorial Australia, the podcast [...]
SA History Festival talk!
On May 8, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), award-winning commemorative podcast maker Megan Spencer will deliver a talk on two pivotal events that shaped South Australia's WWII legacy. Including [...]
New article for the NFSA!
The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) publishes 'A Remarkable Woman of Wartime', an essay written by Megan Spencer. In it she explores aspects of the NFSA collection around the life and times of Australia's [...]
Champion Medal award
On April 8th, Virtual War Memorial Australia awarded Megan a Champion Medal at the 2024 Schools Program Excellence Awards. The award recognises "Champions of the Virtual War Memorial Australia". Virtual War Memorial Australia is Australia's [...]
Win for Defending with Pride: Voices!
Defending with Pride: Voices podcast wins at the 2023 MEAA SA Media Awards! Defending with Pride: Voices, the multi-part commemorative podcast series Megan made for the Shrine of Remembrance has won the 'Best Radio/Audio Journalism [...]
Mindful Self-Compassion
As a professional meditation teacher, Megan has also teacher-trained in Mindful Self-Compassion. Here she writes about her own experience with the practice, and how it helped her make it through a difficult bereavement process she [...]
Berlin Song
What is it about Berlin that attracts so many Australian artists? Megan Spencer goes to Europe's cultural hub to find out why they keep coming back. An article Megan wrote for Double J on a [...]
Meditation Australia Q&A
Meditation Australia is Australia's peak industry body for meditation teachers. In 2017, MA did an interview with Megan so she could she discuss her meditation teaching and personal practice. It's informative, emotional - and funny! [...]
Scenes from real life: Cuttings
Cuttings is a dynamic new play that grew out COVID and the beating red desert heart of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. It’s about to have its South Australian premiere at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival. In 2020, [...]
Greeting + Gratitude
A New Year's message of gratitude and thanks from my heart to yours for your support of - or interest in - my teaching practice, Megan Spencer Meditation, over the past year. As always it's [...]
Day Retreat
THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED Some periods of silence will be part of the day as well as extended practices, gentle mindful movement and a walking meditation in nature. As we approach the end of [...]
Breathworks Accreditation!
A wee piece of news I'm super happy to share... After years of study and practice, I'm now officially an accredited Breathworks Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher! Which means, that in addition to my usual [...]
Firestarter: Katanga Junior
A powerful new voice arrives to set the Australian music scene on fire. Tanzanian rapper, musician, singer and hip hop artist Katanga Junior has called Mparntwe (Alice Springs) home for only a year. Yet already [...]
New 8-week course!
Based on the award-winning book of the same name, the Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course teaches mindfulness and compassion to help you improve the quality of your life and your health. Taught around the world, [...]
Being a good listener on Should I Start A Podcast?
Must Amplify's Ronsley Seriojo Vaz interviews Megan about good listening practice on Should I Start A Podcast?, an audio series that "explores the stories and experiences of entrepreneurs and artists [who] have created a podcast". [...]
War + Remembrance: Q&A with Peter Monteath and Megan Spencer
Unfortunately the organiser had to cancel the event. -- At this special event on the 76th anniversary of "VE Day", the end of the Second World War in Europe, Peter Monteath and Megan Spencer will [...]
Wake Up Your Creativity
Unfortunately the organiser had to cancel this event. Stay tuned for another date later in 2021! Some tips and tools for un(b)locking your creativity, using mindfulness and meditation. Megan Spencer is an experienced media [...]
Womens Day Retreat
Please note: bookings for this event have now closed. ---- For many women, there’s no time of life more confusing and isolating than the menopausal transition. This includes perimenopause - the years leading up to [...]
Australian Podcast Awards 2020 nomination!
Hot on the heels of the win at the 2020 SA Media Awards, From A Whisper To A Bang! has been nominated at this year's Australian Podcast Awards! The six-part, non-fiction, narrative audio-on-demand series has [...]
Happy Up Here podcast
Megan was interviewed about meditation teaching and her personal practice on Episode 12 of Happy Up Here, a podcast about "the serious topics that are challenging the mental health spectrum". Made in Adelaide, South Australia, [...]
Amazing meditation interviews!
In 2020 Megan had a busy year producing and hosting a series of 'inspiring conversations with inspiring people in meditation', for peak industry body, Meditation Australia. Between May and July 2020 - to support the [...]
Commemorating VP Day 75
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please be advised that this post contains names of deceased persons. * * * To help commemorate the 75th anniversary of "VP Day", the end of the Second [...]
The Sounds of Yearning: Cloud Sequence
I always jump at the chance to write about music. Sadly it's been a while. Music writing is something I love to do, especially when it involves the work of Jez Conlon, a friend and [...]
Win at SA Media Awards!
Megan's remembrance podcast From a Whisper to a Bang!, produced for the Australian War Memorial, has won an award at the 2020 MEAA SA Media Awards! From A Whisper To A Bang! was nominated in [...]
Online panel discussion!
Megan co-hosted the "Pain Management and Awareness for Meditation Teachers" PoD for Meditation Australia on Sunday 14 June, 2020. This online panel discussion and forum is now available to watch online - purchase-to-view here. (Cost: [...]
SA Media Awards Nomination!
Megan's remembrance podcast From A Whisper To a Bang! is a finalist at the 2020 SA State Media Awards, presented by the MEAA. The six-part non-fiction narrative audio series, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial [...]
Courage During Wartime: Crete, Australia + WWII
UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO THE COVID-19 VIRUS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 2021. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR THE NEW DATE! 79 years since the Battle of Crete: a service at the National War Memorial, Adelaide, [...]
Battle on 42nd Street – the video!
The "Battle on 42nd Street" was a notorious, hand-to-hand bayonet charge fought on the island of Crete between Anzac soldiers and members of the German 5th Alpine Division, during Nazi occupation of the island in [...]
Transmansplaining
For the last year I've been working with transgender author, activist and speaker Benjamin MacEllen on his first one-man show - initially as creative coach and consultant, but as the show grows ever-closer, now as [...]
Unplug Drop-in Meditation
TAKE A MOMENT TO REST, BREATHE, RESTORE + RECOVER! In our super-busy, time-poor, always-'on' world, where do you fit in? As the demands of work, life and other people increase, do you make space [...]
Megan joins MA Board
In August 2019 Megan joined the Board of peak industry body The Meditation Association of Australia (aka "Meditation Australia"). The organisation presented the inaugural Australian Meditation Conference in Melbourne in 2018, at which Megan [...]
From A Whisper To A Bang!
From A Whisper To A Bang! is an award-winning six-part audio series about wartime remembrance, an Australian prisoner-of-war in World War II Germany, and an emotional journey in 'historical empathy'. Produced and presented by Australian [...]
Wellbeing In The Music Industry
Megan has been invited to speak on the 'Wellbeing in the Music Industry' panel at this year's Indie-Con Music Industry Conference in Adelaide! The two-day event (July 25-26, 2019) delivers an important conversation around the [...]
Wake Up Your Creativity
Some tips and tools for un(b)locking your creativity, using mindfulness and meditation. Megan Spencer is an experienced media arts professional and a mindfulness meditation teacher. She brings together her unique set of skills to offer [...]
Meditation News – June/July 2018
Hello Meditation Friends! I've been settling in to my new home in South Australia, near the ocean. It's incredibly picturesque here! I've also been busy with new adventures in mindfulness meditation - both teaching and [...]
Is Mindfulness Meditation For Everybody?
While the practice of mindfulness meditation brings so many benefits, has helped millions of people with the 'art of living' (and is a practice I believe in and am committed to 100%), under certain medical, [...]
Why Mindfulness? Why Meditation?
"Waiting for my real life to begin . . ." These days it's easier to feel more like a "human doing" than a human being. There's always something else to "do". We're on the go [...]
Self-Care Is Awesome
Please note that this event is now FULLY BOOKED. Megan Spencer and Prue Allan are a couple of old friends from Bendigo, who teach meditation, mindfulness and self-care. Megan now lives near Adelaide and teaches [...]
Mindful Walking in the Wetlands
"My father considered a walk among the mountains the equivalent of churchgoing." – Aldous Huxley There's a common misconception that, in order to find 'stillness' you must be physically "still". Not so! This present, calm [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School of Life Melbourne
We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to find time for pausing and reflection outside of work, let alone during the working day. How do we stay productive, [...]
Complimentary Meditation
As part of the Historic Aldinga Township Celebration on Saturday 9 June, I'm offering a FREE guided meditation - and an opportunity to find out more about mindfulness meditation. Saturday 09 June, 12.30 - 1.00pm [...]
Participant Testimonials
"Resonating. Reaffirming. Educational. Mind Opening. Healing. Thank you" ~ Participant, The School Of Life, 'Mindfulness & Meditation At Work' workshop (2018) "I am so grateful to have done this course. The experience I had was [...]
Meditation News – April/May 2018
Hello Meditation Friends! It's been way too long! A swathe of time has passed since I've been in touch. So much has happened in between - namely brand new meditation offerings in a brand new [...]
Free Meditation Taster
From May 5, 2018, Megan will teach a new 6-week program of meditation 'drop-in' sessions at Fleurieu Yoga in Aldinga, South Australia. Want to "try before you buy?" Come and experience a FREE guided practice, [...]
Terms & Conditions 2026
By taking part in any mindfulness meditation programs, events or sessions taught by Megan Spencer, each participant expressly agrees to - and understands - the following: ~ That this program or mindfulness meditation session or [...]
Meditation at Fleurieu Yoga (drop-in)
Megan will teach a new 6-week program of meditation 'drop-in' sessions at Fleurieu Yoga in Aldinga, South Australia. You're invited to experience a range of guided mindfulness exercises and meditation practices in a friendly group [...]
Feast yourself on Three Wicked Women
Did you know that convenient, tasty, bite-size pieces of the Three Wicked Women podcast are now online? Now you can feast yourself silly! Each individual interview from 'Three Wicked Women' Series I is now available [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School of Life Berlin
We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to find time for pausing and reflection outside of work, let alone during the working day. How do we stay productive, [...]
Meditation News – June/July
Hello Meditation Friends! Greetings from rainy old Berlin! A while since I've written: it's been an intense few months of learning. I've waited so as to share my reflections in this combined June/July issue. In [...]
OYH Day Retreat Terms & Conditions
By taking part in the 'Open Your Heart' mindfulness meditation Day Retreat, each participant expressly agrees to - and understands - the following: That “Open Your Heart” is a 6-hour group mindfulness meditation 'Day Retreat', [...]
Open Your Heart Day Retreat
When was the last time you took some time out to do something just for you? A day away from the busyness and relentless demands of everyday life? A day of self-care? Open Your Heart' [...]
Meditation News – May 2017
Hello Meditation Friends! Spring has finally sprung here in Berlin! The sun is out (well more than usual!) and the seedlings on the balcony are starting to sprout. It feels good to be in warmer [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School Of Life Berlin
We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to find time for pausing and reflection outside of work, let alone during the working day. How do we stay productive, [...]
Meditation News – April 2017
Hello Meditation Friends! Wow, it's almost the end of April. What a month it's been! An intensive four weeks of meditation teaching, learning and practice, in my home country of Australia... Wake up and smell [...]
Meditation News – March 2017
Hello Meditation Friends! March is shaping up to be yet another 'very full' month! NEWS I've been busy-as! With both media work (finishing off my Berlinale media coverage, Top Ten films list and article in [...]
Subscribe to Auspicious Plastic!
"Objects should not 'touch' [us] because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I [...]
Terms & Conditions MBSR course
By taking part in the "Open Your Heart Mindfulness Meditation" 8-week MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) program, each participant agrees to - and understands - the following: That "Open Your Heart MBSR Program" is an [...]
8-Week MBSR Program – Berlin 2017
PLEASE NOTE: THIS COURSE IS NOW CLOSED “Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which... is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.” [...]
Meditation News – February 2017
Hello Meditation Friends! Can you believe it's February already? Where did the first month of the year go?! > Sacred Cinema ~ Mine disappeared down a rabbit hole - a very nice one I might [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School Of Life Melbourne
PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW CLOSED We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to find time for pausing and reflection outside of work, let alone during the [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School Of Life Sydney
We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to find time for pausing and reflection outside of work, let alone during the working day. How do we stay productive, [...]
Express Yourself Testimonials
"Thank you both so much for a lovely and inspiring day! Your gentleness and sensitivity made it a safe space for us all, and it was really beautiful to hear such authentic truths from everyone. [...]
Open Your Heart Testimonials
"I loved the course led by Signe and Megan. I looked forward every week to learning new meditation practices. Together they created a safe and nurturing space, and the chance to share our experiences, if [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work – The School Of Life Berlin
The next date for this workshop at The School of Life Berlin is Saturday July 22nd, 2017. Buy tickets here! We live busy, distracted and highly connected lives. For many of us, it’s difficult to [...]
Meditation News – January 2017
Dear Meditation Friends - Happy New Year! Welcome to the very first issue of my Meditation E-News! 2016 was a busy year for me, both as a teacher of Mindfulness Meditation and continuing my studies [...]
OYH Day Retreat Terms and Conditions
By taking part in the Open Your Heart mindfulness meditation Day Retreat, each participant expressly agrees to - and understands - the following: That “Open Your Heart” is a 6-hour group mindfulness meditation 'Day Retreat', [...]
Open Your Heart Day Retreat
THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT! If you would like to be added to a wait list (and/or make inquiries about this event), please email: signeglahn@hotmail.com | hello@themeganspencer.com When was the last time you took some [...]
Express Yourself 2017
Finding your voice in a world full of noise... Please note that the dates for these workshops have now closed, but watch this space for further date announcements! And if you're interested in Megan & [...]
Terms & Conditions Express Yourself
The following are the Terms & Conditions for use of the 'Express Yourself' one-day workshop. By taking part, participants expressly agree to - and understand - the following: That “Express Yourself” is a group mindfulness [...]
Terms & Conditions Open Your Heart
By taking part in the Open Your Heart mindfulness meditation program, each participant expressly agrees to - and understands - the following: That “Open Your Heart” is a series of 8 x weekly group mindfulness [...]
Open Your Heart Guided Meditation (drop-in)
This program is now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this program! Registrations are now open for the 'Open Your Heart Day Retreat' on 22nd January 2017. Shortly we will announce dates [...]
Express Yourself
Finding your voice in a world full of noise... 'Express Yourself' is a new, one-day, mindfulness and movement workshop co-taught by meditation teacher Megan Spencer and Grinberg Method practitioner Hanna Nordqvist. The October 22 was [...]
June – August 2016
Bandcamp Three Wicked Women Podcast Six one-hour podcast episodes, released fortnightly from June 1st, 2016, on Bandcamp and Mixcloud. Seriously funny conversation, fearless music and wicked guests, co-hosted with Sam Wareing. Where: Berlin, Germany
April – May 2016
Bendigo Botanic Gardens Moving/Walking Meditation Weekly 1.5 hour moving/walking meditation sessions for the public, held at the Botanical Gardens in Bendigo. Where: Victoria, Australia
April 2016
The School of Life, Australia Mindfulness & Meditation At Work Introductory 3-hour workshop 'Mindfulness & Meditation at Work', and the specific application of meditation and informal mindful practices in the workplace. Where: Melbourne, Australia.
March 2016
Bendigo Magazine ‘Autumn in Berlin’ Travel feature and essay about experiencing Autumn in Berlin. Where: Australia
March 2016
Australian Embassy in Berlin Circus Folk + Flower Punks Photography exhibition with co-exhibitor Kate Seabrook (March 8 – May 27, 2016), featuring performance, documentary and portrait photography, held at the Australian Embassy in Berlin. Where: [...]
February 2016
The Guardian Cleverman premieres at Berlinale Feature article/preview of Indigenous Australian television series premiering at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Where: Australia, UK
February 2016
Cafe Sibylle Storytellers Night #3 Live spoken word and folktale reading (“The Westall ’66 UFO Incident”) at weekly international Storytellers Night. Where: Berlin, Germany
January 2016
Freudian Slip Club Sorrow: The Week David Bowie Died Spoken word performance (“Sorrow: The Week David Bowie Died”) at open mic night Sunday Slips! at Lagari in Neukölln. Where: Berlin, Germany
January 2016
Circus Folk Sorrow Personal essay about the passing of David Bowie, being in Berlin when it happened, and the coincidences that shaped the strangeness of that week. Where: Berlin, Germany.
January 2016
The Fiction Canteen Live essay reading (“Swimming In It”) at monthly spoken word/live reading night in Moabit. Where: Berlin, Germany
November 2015
ZZAAPP! Records Brother From Another Planet Feature interview/article with Jeremy Conlon, commissioned by ZZAAPP! Records, for the release of Cooperblack EP, 'Return To The Big Eyes'. Where: Australia
November 2015
Paypal Deutschland "Mindfulness and Meditation at Work" Presentation of a 3-hour workshop to the staff of Paypal Deutschland as part of their 'Work/Life Balance' employee program. Where: Berlin, Germany
Sept – November 2015
KörperRaum Meditation For Creativity Teaching a 7-week course in mindfulness meditation, and its specific application to creativity. Where: Berlin, Germany
October 2015
Double J Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal: An evening with Patti Smith Feature article/review of the 40th anniversary concert tour of Patti Smith's landmark 'Horses' album, commissioned by Australian digital radio station, Double J. Where: Australia
October 2015
Vimeo Grotto Capri (the Cannanes) Music video production and direction, for the Cannanes' single, "Grotto Capri". Where: Berlin, Germany
September 2015
Soundcloud Deep Storytelling: The Podcast 35-minute podcast that grew out of the Deep Storytelling: Creating A Culture of Connection workshop. Where: Berlin, Germany
August 2015
Double J In Defence of Yacht Rock Feature article defending them merits of the "Yacht Rock" music genre, commissioned by Australian digital radio station, Double J. Where: Australia
August 2015
Freudian Slip Club "All About My Mother" Spoken word performance ("Grief Baking") for theme "All About My Mother". At open mic night 'Sunday Slips' at Lagari in Neukölln. Where: Berlin, Germany
April 2015
Freudian Slip Club Spoken word performance ("Me & Patti Lee"), for "Magical Metamorphosis" theme. At 'Sunday Slips' open mic night, Lagari, Neukölln. Where: Berlin, Germany
February – March 2015
ABC Local Radio, Victoria Saturday Breakfast with Megan Spencer: presenting Saturday Breakfast radio program on ABC Local Radio. Broadcast regions: Ballarat, Mildura-Swan Hill, Central, South-West & Western Victoria Where: Victoria, Australia
February 2015
ABC Open Workshop: "How To Interview An Artist" Guest speaker at a public educational workshop, about interviewing artists for radio and video documentary. Where: Central Victoria, Australia
Dec 2014 – Jan 2015
Radio National Reviews: Summer Films and DVDs Latest film & DVD reviews on Radio National Breakfast, hosted by Jonathan Green. St. Vincent 20,000 Days on Earth The Imitation Game Locke Where: Australia
Three Wicked Women
'Three Wicked Women' is a podcast project I have been working on in Berlin (with Samantha Wareing) since late 2015. On June 1st, 2016, the first episode was launched! "Three Wicked Women is a podcast [...]
Mindfulness & Meditation At Work
EVENT NOW CLOSED Interested in having this workshop at your organisation? Get in touch: hello@themeganspencer.com Thank you to everyone who participated, and to the team at The School of Life Australia for making it such [...]
Circus Folk + Flower Punks
EVENT NOW CLOSED View the 'Circus Folk' gallery online Digital and print orders: hello@themeganspencer.com Australian Embassy in Berlin Wallstraße 76-79, 10179, Berlin-Mitte Hours: Mon-Thu 08.30-17.00hrs, Fri 8.30-16.15hrs Photo ID required for entry To celebrate International [...]
New Music Video
I directed a new music video for Australian indie-pop band, The Cannanes! It was during their visit to Berlin, at the end of their 2015 tour to the States and Europe. View it here and [...]
Meditation for Creativity
Please note that this course is now closed. If you would like to talk about the possibility of me teaching this course in your community, or a workshop version of it, please get in contact! [...]