Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)
If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the...
Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)
Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole...
Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful...
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Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 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: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness...
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Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)
In this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through...
Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which...
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)
Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same...
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:07 min.)
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with...
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Relaxing with Our Life (19:04 min.)
The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve...
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (17:02 min.)
Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then...
Meditation: The Power of the Sacred Pause — Clearing to Remember Heartspace (6:56 min)
In just a few minutes, this practice guides us to pause, deepen attention and reconnect with the spaciousness, presence and of caring of our awakening heart....
Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:46 min)
No matter how far you’ve wandered, this heartspace – this awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away. This meditation awakens attention to the space of...
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart (25:39 min.)
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (22:19 min)
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever...
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:37 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...
Meditation: In the Body (20:29 min.)
This guided meditation invites you to gently come home to the aliveness of the body. Through mindful awareness, you’ll learn to soften tension, release mental agitation, and rest...
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:10 min.)
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and...
Meditation: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.)
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us...