Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (34:54 min) (from retreat)
This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others. Given at the 2015 IMCW New Year’s retreat, it is a “guided heart” practice and includes...
Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (10:42 min)
This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces this guided meditation based on the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering...
Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (33:55 min)
Scanning the body, filling it with the image of a smile, meditation continues with loving presence of someone easy to love, our own being, and offering care to others. – from 2015 fall IMCW retreat
Guided Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (38:02 min)
an open focus meditation from the 2015 IMCW fall week long retreat
Heart Meditation: Letting Go of Judgment (18:10 min)
from the IMCW 2015 Labor Day Retreat
Heart Meditation: Three Domains of Forgiveness (34:14 min)
…with instruction from the 2015 IMCW Women’s Retreat.
Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (34:16 min)
guided heart practice on forgiveness of ourselves and others – with instructions (from 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat)
Retreat Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (32:56 min)
Instruction and guided heart forgiveness practice from the 2014 IMCW New Year’s Retreat.
Meditation – “Compassion Practice – Tonglen” (28:49 min)
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, “Awakening Compassion,” is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence. Another compassion meditation – this from the 2013 IMCW...
Guided Meditation – “Loving Kindness” (22:10 min)
Guided Meditation – Loving Kindness ~ Loving kindness—embracing ourselves and all beings with a full and tender loving presence.
Guided Meditation – “Loving This Life – Happiness (Metta Practice)” (16:30 min.)
This guided meditation, based on Metta practice, focuses on cultivating happiness and loving-kindness by softening the body and mind, beginning with the imagery of a smile. It encourages being present in the moment, tuning in to sensations, breath, and sounds, while...
Guided Forgiveness Meditation (11:23 min)
NOTE: an excerpt from the end of the “A Forgiving Heart” talk on 2/26/2014. Includes a poem from Rumi at the end.
Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness) (11:48 min)
Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness) – Short heart meditation from the end of the talk, “Part 1: Universal Faces of Love” (audio and video)