Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol – 2025

Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol – 2025

What Are RAIN Partners? RAIN, the process of bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions, can be practiced with another person in a way that is deeply healing. RAIN partners agree to practice together on a regular basis—weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or...

Cultivar la Atención Plena. Recursos y Herramientas

https://leanpub.com/cultivar-la-atencion-plena-mindfulness Esta breve guía para iniciar en la práctica de la meditación de atención plena se constituye en un texto clave para abrirnos a esta manera de abordar nuestra vida que tantos beneficios, comprobados...
Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:44 min)

Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:44 min)

In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:25 min.)

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:25 min.)

This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and...
Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris

Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris

How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and...
Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts (10:53 min.)

Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts (10:53 min.)

Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When...
Meditation: Touching Peace (22:03 min.)

Meditation: Touching Peace (22:03 min.)

This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts,...
Love is Always Here

Love is Always Here

One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Painting: Rembrandt’s...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 min.)

Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 min.)

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all...
Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence (21:59 min.)

Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence (21:59 min.)

The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving.  As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience.  The gift is a...
Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 2

Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 2

If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridging divides with...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:45 min.)

Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:45 min.)

This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that...
Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 1

Disarming Our Hearts: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path – Part 1

If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridging divides with...
Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:37 min.)

Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:37 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 Oliver. Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)The spiritlikes to dress up like this:ten...