Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:44 min)
In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality,...
Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:07 min.)
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing...
Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (16:59 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...
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Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life (11:23 min.)
Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying...
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease
This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and...
Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19:53 min.)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the...
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Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence (20:04 min.)
This meditation begins with us standing in mindful movement, guiding us in awakening awareness in the body. Then in sitting practice, we open all our senses, resting in the...
Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (from retreat) (30:03 min.) ~ with video
~ an Open Awareness Meditation ~ When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us...
Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (19:15 min.)
Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory...
Méditation: Détendue le jour, et dormir la nuit venue- trouver le calme et l’aisance en soi (15:06 min.)
Une méditation guidée: Détendue le jour, et dormir la nuit venue, trouver le calme et l’aisance en soi. Plus du 1\3 des adultes en Occident n’ont pas assez de sommeil. Les...
Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence (22:32 min.)
This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a Hereness that feels like home. The...
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (12:10 min.)
We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner resources by calling on the...
Meditation: Openhearted Presence (23:26 min.)
This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from...
Meditation: Vipassana – Seeing Life As It Is (27:36 min.)
This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear and open presence. Enjoy a bit longer...
Meditation: Awakening Through the Animal-Headed Deities (13:48 min.)
This short meditation guides us in engaging with challenging emotions with presence and compassion. By opening to the “deities” we discover an open heartspace that can hold and...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness (27:01 min.)
In this meditation we are guided to discover the space and aliveness that fills the body, sense the space in the universe, and then to realize our Beingness as continuous space,...
Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence (22:30 min.)
Our experience includes a foreground of changing experience - sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts. In the background is an alert inner stillness, the awareness that is our...
Meditation: A Calm Refuge (26:50 min.)
This meditation includes a relaxing body scan and guidance on finding a space of peace and balance in the midst of whatever life brings us. Also enjoy the Virginia springtime...
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.
Meditation: Touching Peace (22:51 min.)
This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax...