Guided Meditation: Listening Presence
Blog: Meditating Daily…”No Matter What”
Even after practicing and teaching meditation for more than 35 years now, I truly understand that sustaining a regular practice can be challenging. During the twelve years I lived in an ashram, for instance, I had others to practice with each day. With that kind of...
Part 1: Wise Intention: The Compass of Our Hearts
One of the most powerful spiritual practices in the world is to reflect on your heart’s deepest intention. These two talks look at the way that ego-based intentions perpetuate thoughts, feelings and actions that keep us imprisoned in feeling separate and...
Meditation: On Intention – What Does Your Heart Most Long For? (22:57 min.)
Blog: Undoing All the Doings
Meditation students often ask me what will help them remember presence in the thick of things. My first response: “Just pause.” My second response: “Pause again, take a few conscious breaths, and relax.” Our lives are constantly tumbling into the future, and the only...
Part 2: Embodied Spirit
Our body–this changing field of sensation–is a portal into pure Being. These talks explore the resistance we have to embodied presence, the pathways that enable us to awaken through our bodies, and the blessings of realization that arise as we let go over...Guided Meditation: Inhabiting Vibrating Space
Imparare a rispondere invece che reagire
Un elemento chiave per svegliarci dalla trance in cui viviamo e’ quello di fermarci, riconoscere i nostri sentimenti e aprirci ad uno spazio più grande di quel bozzolo che e’ la nostra mente persa in pensieri. La nostra tendenza è quella di farci prendere in un ciclo...
Beyond the Defended Self
During the years right after college, I was the director of a yoga studio at the ashram where I was living near Boston. One day, at a time when we were behind in promoting our major event of the year, which featured a number of well-known teachers, the head of...
Part 1: Embodied Spirit
Our body–this changing field of sensation–is a portal into pure Being. These talks explore the resistance we have to embodied presence, the pathways that enable us to awaken through our bodies, and the blessings of realization that arise as we let go over...
Guided Meditation: Embodied Spirit (23:48 min)
As we quiet our minds, relax and become mindful of the aliveness in our body, we discover the formless spirit that shines through our Being.
Blog: You Are Not Your Space Suit Self
Whatever came from being is caught up in being, drunkenly forgetting the way back. -Rumi We are born with a beautiful open spirit, alive with innocence and resilience. But we bring this goodness into a difficult world. Imagine that at the moment of birth we begin to...