Guided Meditations
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Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come...
Meditation: Breath by Breath (22:37 min.)
Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with...
Meditation: Listening to Life (18:27 min)
Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening - a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen...
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Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:03 min)
Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound,...
Meditation: Living Presence (19:55 min)
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow...
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life (28:56 min.)
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in...
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Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:49 min)
Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home "No matter how far you've wandered, this heartspace - this awake tender awareness - is only a half-breath of remembrance away." This...
Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)
This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with scanning the body, filling it gradually with the image of a smile....
Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body (24:23 min)
When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens...
Meditation: Loving Presence – includes a smile body scan (20:11 min)
This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a body scan, and...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:37min)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence - This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness...
Reflection: The Compass of Our Heart (9:07 min)
When we are remembering our deepest intention in any situation, our lives become aligned, and we can act with grace, compassion and wisdom. These reflections will help you...
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (22:38 min)
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud,...
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here (19:46 min)
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when...
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind …listening to sounds (24 min)
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind ...listening to sounds... This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to...
Reflection: Heart Wisdom of Your Future Self (9:20 min)
By connecting with your future self, this reflection guides you in accessing the deep wisdom and unconditional love of your own awakening heart. "I returned to the river. I...
Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (25:29 min)
Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and...
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (20:07 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...
Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness – Embodying Full Presence (30 min)
This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises in a kind,...
Meditation: The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (21:24)
Meditation: The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is - It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to...