Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body (18 min.)
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in...
Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence (21:59 min.)
The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:45 min.)
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the...
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Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:37 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: Listening to Life (18:23 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: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (19:02 min.)
Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true...
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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...
A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (3:50 min.) with transcript
A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart. I invite you...
Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:51 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 (18:56 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: Being Here (21:55 min.)
This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies,...
Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (20:57 min.)
This meditation awakens our senses through a body scan and listening to sound, and then invites us to rest in the presence that spontaneously knows the changing stream of...
Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30:00 min)
The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discovering the freedom of an awake,...
Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence (from retreat) (18:18 min)
Often, when we’re really struggling, the only way to find compassion for ourselves is by reaching out to a larger source of love. We might for instance take refuge by calling on...
Méditation: Inviter la Présence bienveillante (17:14 min.)
Souvent, lorsque nous luttons avec des difficultés, l’unique manière de trouver de la compassion envers nous-même est de tendre vers la présence bienveillante qui est assez vaste...
Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:38 min.)
Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and...