Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:03 min)
Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound,...
Meditation: Living Presence (19:55 min)
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow...
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life (28:56 min.)
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in...
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Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (15:32 min)
The meditation starts with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then we open our attention to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (19:09 min.)
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence - This meditation scans through the body - arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the...
Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:46 min.)
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing...
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Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (19:55 min)
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,...
Meditating with RAIN (11:43 min.)
This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and...
Méditation: Méditer avec ‘RAIN’ (11:18 min.)
Cette pratique guidée applique la pleine conscience et la compassion envers soi lorsque nous sommes confronté à des émotions difficiles. On utilisant l’acronyme RAIN,...
Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (22:22 min)
In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This...
Meditation: Quieting the Mind (16 min)
We open with a reading on silence, and then relax our bodies, calm our minds and rest in the inflow and outflow of the breath. This simple meditation on relaxing with the breath...
Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (35:24 min)
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt...
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:23 min)
Meditation: Breathing into Presence ~ The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous...
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:57 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: Relaxing Back into Living Presence (19:42 min)
When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through “relaxing back” and reopening our...
Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness (24:56 min)
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness." This meditation guides us to look for the source of...
Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home....
Meditation: Awakening Compassion (11:35 min)
Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen ~ Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what...
Meditation: Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) (16:58 min)
Meditation: Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) - A gift of meditation is learning to open to life just how it is, with awake awareness. This meditation guides us in establishing...
Brief Guided Meditation – with no bell at end (9 min.)
Given in the early morning on the first day of retreat, this recording can settle you into a meditation of any length. There is no bell at the end, so you can make your session...