Guided Meditations
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Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (20:07 min)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the...
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (17:22 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...
Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom (19:01 min.)
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting...
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Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (19:53 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We...
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (13:10 min.)
Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by...
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (18:50 min)
When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this...
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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: Breath by Breath (22:37 min.)
Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with...
Meditation: Listening to Life (18:27 min)
Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening - a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen...
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...
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...
Meditation: Letting Go (20:53 min.)
One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This...
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:07 min.)
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (19:49 min.)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (19:49 min.) - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body, and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include...
Meditation: Realizing Your Aspiration (9:43 min.)
Meditation: Realizing Your Aspiration (9:43 min.) - Beyond any meditation technique, what energizes and guides our spiritual life is aspiration. This reflection can help deepen...
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.)
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.) - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to...