Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Touching Peace (21:56 min.)
Meditation: Touching Peace ~ 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...
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart (23:33 min.)
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever...
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (retreat) (26:55 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then...
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Meditation: Befriending Our Experience (22:37 min.)
Meditation: Befriending Our Experience We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention towards gentleness and kindness as the attention...
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (20:34 min)
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 sensations or the breath. We then open to...
Meditation: Letting Life Be (23:14 min.)
This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that...
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Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (22:01 min.)
This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax the body. Following this, we establish our presence with an anchor - the breath, sound or...
Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (18:13 min.)
This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sounds, thoughts, feelings and sensations. The sounding of bells and chimes...
Meditation: A Listening Receptive Awareness (23:56 min.)
The capacity to truly listen allows us to realize the vast and sensitive awareness that is our true essence. This meditation focuses on listening to sounds, and then listening to...
Meditation: Awareness and Flow (19:46 min.)
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the...
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (18:42 min.)
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with...
Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (34:30 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation offers an overview of what many people find is a natural unfolding within a meditation sitting. It includes the process of arriving in an...
Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (24:11 min.)
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of...
Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (23:53 min.)
This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base....
Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:55 min.)
We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness...
Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:36 min.)
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:32 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...
Meditation: Living Presence (21:19 min.)
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again,...
Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (21:04 min.)
This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring...
Meditation: Resting in Reality (23 min)
This guided practice awakens attention to sensations, sounds, space and aliveness, and encourages a continued “relaxing open” from thoughts into the living stream of experience....