Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (11:56 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...
Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:22 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: A Kind and Allowing Presence (19:05 min.)
When we’re stressed our hearts tighten and we try to control our life. This meditation guides us to relax the controlling and discover the open, tender awareness that allows life...
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Blog ~ Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty (text and audio)
Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Download in PDF: Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Sitting quietly,...
Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (19:52 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 life. ...
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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)
Meditation: At Home in the Moment - 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...
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...
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,...
Meditating with RAIN (11:43 min.)
This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and...
Méditation: Méditer avec ‘RAIN’ (11:18 min.)
Cette pratique guidée applique la pleine conscience et la compassion envers soi lorsque nous sommes confronté à des émotions difficiles. On utilisant l’acronyme RAIN,...
Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (22:22 min)
Meditation: Cultivating a Relaxed Attention In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the...
Meditation: Quieting the Mind (16 min)
We open with a reading on silence, and then relax our bodies, calm our minds and rest in the inflow and outflow of the breath. This simple meditation on relaxing with the breath...
Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (35:24 min)
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt...
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:23 min)
Meditation: Breathing into Presence ~ The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous...
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:57 min)
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence (19:42 min)
When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through “relaxing back” and reopening our...