Meditation: From Head to Full Being (18:57 min.)

Meditation: From Head to Full Being (18:57 min.)

When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being. Be empty...
Meditation: Loving What Is (18:49 min.)

Meditation: Loving What Is (18:49 min.)

While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions to move through us, just as they are. As this allowing presence deepens, it becomes...
Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:05 min.)

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:05 min.)

This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises with a gentle attention. Photo: Jonathan...
Méditation: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min)

Méditation: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min)

Méditation guidée: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min) – Pour nous ouvrir aux vagues de la vie, nous devons reconnaître que nous sommes l’océan, la conscience sans forme qui est notre source. Cette méditation commence par l’éveil des sens et nous...
Meditation: Breathing Through (17:09 min.)

Meditation: Breathing Through (17:09 min.)

Drawn from a classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, this guided meditation invites us to open to the sufferings of the world, and let it move through our hearts and out again. The blessing of this offering of presence is that our hearts become a transformer of...
Living with Courageous Presence

Living with Courageous Presence

The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and three key steps in cultivating a courageous presence. Ask,...
Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (21:05 min.)

Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (21:05 min.)

Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with a reading on silence by Gunilla Norris, and then includes guidance in letting go of tension, opening to aliveness and resting in a caring and wakeful...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)

When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds,...
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:55 min.)

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:55 min.)

This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness,...
Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering

This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20”...
Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:24 min.)

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:24 min.)

This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings and sounds in an intimate, allowing presence.
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (16:48 min.)

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (16:48 min.)

Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing the breath as a home base. By gathering and collecting the attention, the mind...
Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part 1

Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part 1

We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, as the enemy. These talks explore how, in both domains, our continued evolution, healing and...
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:26 min.)

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:26 min.)

We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, our inner refuge becomes increasingly stable and openhearted....