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...
Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety

Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety

Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores how we get caught in...
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (18:00 min.)

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (18:00 min.)

Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations – 6, 12, and 18 minutes long – can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing...
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (12:00 min.)

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (12:00 min.)

Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations – 6, 12, and 18 minutes long – can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing...
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (6:52 min.)

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (6:52 min.)

Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations – 6, 12, and 18 minutes long – can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing...
Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us

Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us

Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and...
Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us

Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us

Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and...
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (18 min.)

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (18 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...
Blog: Can You Medicate Meditation?

Blog: Can You Medicate Meditation?

The use of anti-depressants by those involved in meditation practice is a very hot topic. Students often ask me things like, “If I take Prozac, isn’t that as good as giving up? Aren’t I admitting that meditation doesn’t work?” Those who’ve been advised by a doctor to...
Without Anxiety About Imperfection

Without Anxiety About Imperfection

The nature of being human is that we get caught in anger and judgment, hurt and fear. This talk explores what it means to be without anxiety towards this universal emotional conditioning as it appears in ourselves and others. Condemning imperfection binds our identity...