Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:48 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we...

Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:08 min)
True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:59 min.)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...
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Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (20:22 min.)
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...

Meditation: Energy and Source (19:10 min)
Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms and rest in the vast, formless...

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (16:47 min)
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the...
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Méditation: Se détendre dans une conscience éveillée (17:27 min.)
Se détendre dans une conscience éveillée : Nous prenons conscience de notre vraie nature en nous détendant avec ce qui est toujours et déjà ici. D’abord, nous parcourons notre...

Meditation: A Healing, Relaxing Breath (24:19 min.)
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep even breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm....

Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment (10:48 min.)
In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us...

Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (10:59 min.)
Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover...

Meditation: The Blessings of Love (11:17 min.)
A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings....

Meditation: Discovering Inner Space (27:40 min.)
By imagining the space inside the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus...

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (18:08 min.)
We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to...

Meditation for Fertility (11:13 min.)
We can enhance our fertility by becoming more relaxed, open and welcoming of this ever creative life. We begin by connecting with the purity and sincerity of our prayer. Then...

Meditation: Everything Belongs (20:35 min.)
This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and...

Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (18:49 min.)
Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice then extends to mindfully include all...

Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: from Day 4 on Retreat (29:20 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then...

Meditation: Letting Go (20:23 min.)
One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This...

Méditation: Le Lâcher-prise (19:58 min.)
Le “lâcher-prise” des habitudes de contractions et crispations par lesquelles nous résistons aux émotions et nous éloignons de la vie qui est là, pourrait être une...

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home....