Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:05 min.)
This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:39 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of...
Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (21:28 min)
In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This...
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Meditation: Relaxing with Life (20:53 min.)
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds,...
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...
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Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence (24:24 min.)
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and...
Meditation: Waking up from the Dream (16:56 min.)
We spend many life moments in a virtual reality of thoughts. This guided practice helps us reconnect with our senses and discover in the space between thoughts the light of...
Meditation: Openhearted Presence (21:58 min.)
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (19:55 min)
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,...
Meditation: Tonglen – Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (5:53 min.)
This short version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice guides us in courageously opening to the suffering within us and all beings, and allowing that suffering to be held in the...
Meditation: Gateway to Natural Presence (17:18 min.)
We enter a full presence through awakening our senses, and awakening to the awareness that is aware. This meditation guides us as we arouse an embodied presence, let go of any...
Meditation: Listening to Life (24:26 min.)
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel...
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:22 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We...
Meditation: Calling on Our Inner Bodhisattva (21:12 min.)
We each have within us the very source of wisdom and love. This meditation calls forward that essence, our awakening heart, so we can seek guidance and nurturing for the parts of...
Meditation: Healing Shame with RAIN (12:59 min.)
This meditation brings the clarity and self-compassion of RAIN to the suffering of self-aversion and/or shame. It helps us see the conditioning that shaped what we judge about...
Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:21 min.)
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary...
Meditation: Embodied Metta (19:36 min.)
Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and openness of metta through our...
Meditation: A Pause for Presence (12:18 min.)
A guided meditation which invites a "sacred pause" in daily life, as a way to open, center, and start fresh in the midst of any difficult situation. In French: Une pause pour...
Méditation: Rencontrer la colère avec conscience (15:48 min.)
Lorsque notre colère est contenue avec conscience, elle peut être une force, une énergie, pour répondre avec sagesse aux situations difficiles de la vie. Cette méditation nous...