• All Meditations • Basic Meditations • Open Awareness Meditations • Special Meditations/Reflections Page 1 of 3123 2020/06/17 - Meditation: Embodied Metta (19:36 min.)Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides...2020/03/25 - Meditation: Embracing Life with an Open Heart (11:54 min.)In this short practice we connect with our aspiration to live from love, and...2020/03/18 - Guided Meditation for Times of Pandemic: “Calling on Your Awakened Heart” (23:44 min.)In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love....2020/03/11 - Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (27:22 min.)This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness...2020/01/29 - Short Talk & Guided Heart Meditation: Releasing Blame (retreat) (41:39 min.)Our self-protective habits of resentment and blame block intimacy and connection with ourself and...2019/12/31 - Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Releasing Blame (retreat)(37:50 min.)This meditation explores the meaning of forgiveness and its role in healing and transformation....2019/12/26 - Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (39:29 min.)This meditation introduces the domain of “heart practices” and then guides us in how...2019/11/20 - Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence (18:18 min)Often, when we’re really struggling, the only way to find compassion for ourselves is...2019/09/12 - Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (10:59 min.)Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way....2018/10/31 - Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity...2018/07/04 - Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:28 min)A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through...2018/06/13 - Short Talk & Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (36:53 min)Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion....2018/06/06 - Short Talk & Meditation: Tonglen – Radical Compassion (32:43 min)We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away,...2018/01/03 - New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins...2017/09/27 - Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:26 min)A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through...2017/09/18 - Reflection: Transforming Suffering & Awakening the Heart (12:45 min.)[Excerpt from Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering a...2017/05/17 - Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (36:04 min) (retreat)A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk...2017/04/12 - Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with...2016/12/31 - Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (35:24 min)We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways...2016/12/01 - Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness (24:56 min)Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that... Page 1 of 3123