Meditation: Loving What Is (18:50 min.)

Meditation: Loving What Is (18:50 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 Spacious Heart (22:00 min.)

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart (22:00 min.)

Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through our bodies, and then meet changing waves of experience with a sea of awareness that is intrinsically allowing and tender. the ruthless...
Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:49 min.)

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:49 min.)

This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this changing life.
Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence (20:04 min.)

Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence (20:04 min.)

This meditation begins with us standing in mindful movement, guiding us in awakening awareness in the body. Then in sitting practice, we open all our senses, resting in the wakeful presence that can include the changing waves of our life.
Remembering Goodness: Three Gestures of Love

Remembering Goodness: Three Gestures of Love

This talk explores the power of forgiveness, love and gratitude in re-connecting to our light and awareness, and being able to see the sacredness that shines through everyone. Within times of crisis practicing these gestures of love can truly feel like a pathway home....
Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love – Part 9

Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love – Part 9

How we tolerate uncertainty – during current times and throughout our lives – has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, aliveness and love. This talk explores the conditioned ways of reacting to insecurity that contract us, and pathways of...
Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame

Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame

A key way stress disconnects us from ourselves and each other is through the limbic reactivity of blame. This talk helps us to recognize the suffering of chronic blame, resentment and anger, and to bring a healing presence to the vulnerability that underlies blame....
Meditation: Awakening Through the Animal-Headed Deities (13:48 min.)

Meditation: Awakening Through the Animal-Headed Deities (13:48 min.)

This short meditation guides us in engaging with challenging emotions with presence and compassion. By opening to the “deities” we discover an open heartspace that can hold and respond to our hurting world (from the closing meditation of “Sheltering in Love...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness (27:01 min.)

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness (27:01 min.)

In this meditation we are guided to discover the space and aliveness that fills the body, sense the space in the universe, and then to realize our Beingness as continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. When our attention contracts into thoughts, the...
Sheltering In Love – Part 4

Sheltering In Love – Part 4

During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to...
Sheltering In Love – Part 3

Sheltering In Love – Part 3

During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to...
Meditation: A Calm Refuge (26:50 min.)

Meditation: A Calm Refuge (26:50 min.)

This meditation includes a relaxing body scan and guidance on finding a space of peace and balance in the midst of whatever life brings us. Also enjoy the Virginia springtime rain that accompanies us halfway through the meditation.