Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open (26:27 min.)
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds...
Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves (25:59 min.)
By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving...
Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.)
This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart. https://youtu.be/Iho4zA5a_Fk...
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Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 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: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)
This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 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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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 in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of...
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 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: Relaxing with Life (21:42 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: Letting Life Live Through You (22:07 min.)
We begin with a body scan, open to sounds and to listening to and feeling the moment. From spacious awareness the practice is simply to recognize and allow the changing flow of...
Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence (23:53 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: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our...
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 others. This short talk and meditation are an invitation to deepen our...
Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.)
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the...
Méditation: Arriver ici avec la respiration (18:53)
Cette pratique guidée nous fait, dans un premier temps, détendre notre corps et établir la respiration comme ancrage de notre attention. Nous pratiquons pour revenir à ce port...
Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (17:47 min.)
This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway...
Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (17:14 min.)
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We...
Introductory Meditation Instructions – Guided Practice from Retreat (39:02 min.)
This guided session includes an overview of the primary components in meditation practices, and then guidance in awakening the senses, collecting the attention, and opening...
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. We then are guided in a forgiveness practice that helps us release the armoring of...
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 to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The...