Guided Meditations
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Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (18:50 min)
We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then we open our attention to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:22 min)
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience....
Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (36:04 min) (retreat)
A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others,...
Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom (19:38 min)
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting...
Meditation: Know That You’re Here, Right Here (10:00 min) (no closing bells)
Given the first morning of the 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat, this meditation guides you through a body scan, opens to sounds, then expands to the body as a field of sensation. With...
Meditation: The Center of Now (16:20 min)
Meditation: The Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax...
Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:49 min)
Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home "No matter how far you've wandered, this heartspace - this awake tender awareness - is only a half-breath of remembrance away." This...
Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)
This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with scanning the body, filling it gradually with the image of a smile....
Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body (24:23 min)
When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens...
Meditation: Loving Presence – includes a smile body scan (20:11 min)
This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a body scan, and...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:37min)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence - This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness...
Reflection: The Compass of Our Heart (9:07 min)
When we are remembering our deepest intention in any situation, our lives become aligned, and we can act with grace, compassion and wisdom. These reflections will help you...
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (22:38 min)
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud,...
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here (19:46 min)
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when...
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind …listening to sounds (24 min)
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind ...listening to sounds... This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to...
Reflection: Heart Wisdom of Your Future Self (9:20 min)
By connecting with your future self, this reflection guides you in accessing the deep wisdom and unconditional love of your own awakening heart. "I returned to the river. I...
Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (25:29 min)
Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and...
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (20:07 min)
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to...
Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness – Embodying Full Presence (30 min)
This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises in a kind,...
Meditation: The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (21:24)
Meditation: The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is - It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to...
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