Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence (22:58 min.)
This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to...
Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (15:53 min)
This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and...
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:27 min)
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to...
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Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:53 min.)
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open...
Meditation: Embodied Spirit (16:54 min.)
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the...
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (19:55)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to...
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Méditation: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min)
Méditation guidée: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min) - Pour nous ouvrir aux vagues de la vie, nous devons reconnaître que nous sommes l’océan, la conscience sans...
Meditation: Living Presence (19:45 min)
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow...
Meditation: Befriending Fear with RAIN (15 min.)
When we have the courage to pause and meet fear with the mindfulness and compassion of RAIN, our awareness and wisdom awaken. This RAIN meditation will guide you in unhooking...
Meditation: Shining a Light on Limiting Beliefs with RAIN (12:18 min.)
The Buddha taught that if your mind is captured by the fear and misunderstanding of limiting beliefs, “trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the...
Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (19:57 min.)
The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the...
Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (19:54 min.)
Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly...
Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (20:50 min.)
This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this changing dance of...
Meditation: Say “Yes” to Life (13 min.)
This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence with the intention to truly say...
Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness (18:04)
This meditation begins with a body scan that guides us to awaken our senses. We relax open to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, open awareness (a...
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (17:27 min.)
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...
Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (15:49 min.)
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then...
Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (17:42 min)
This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open...
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:13 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then...
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:53 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....