Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:59 min)
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the...
Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be (16:44 min.)
We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious...
Meditation: “Yes” to Our Moments (19:37 min.)
When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and then...
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Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:43 min.)
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary...
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:41 min)
Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that...
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) (23:14 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then...
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Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat (31:15 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then...
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (18:36 min.)
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience.
Meditation: Yes to Life (19:53 min.)
After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: "What is Happening...
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come...
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.)
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the...
Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize...
Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:53 min.)
This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:27 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in...
Méditation: Arriver chez Nous, Ici, avec la Respiration (16:07 min.)
Notre souffle, comme chemin de retour à la Présence, est toujours disponible. Cette méditation très simple nous mène à la relaxation, à l’éveil du corps, pour établir ensuite la...
Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:48 min.)
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for...
Méditation: Une pause pour être Présent (12:02 min.)
Une méditation guidée qui nous invite à faire une pause sacrée dans notre quotidien. Une manière de s’ouvrir à la vie, de se centrer et de recommencer à nouveau lorsque nous...
Ten-Minute Basic Meditation (10 min.)
Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath and sounds, then resting in awareness in silence for the final 3.5 minutes ~ from the...
Méditation: Pratique de méditation de base de 10 minutes (10:00 min.)
Cette courte méditation d’introduction avec scan du corps amène l’attention sur la respiration puis les sons pour finir en se reposant dans la Conscience. Cette méditation...
Reflection: Learning to Stay (4:41 min.)
We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear... "Learning to stay opens up the space that gives us our life. That's when...