Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast…
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:58 min)
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Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:24 min.)
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include…
Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life (24:39 min.)
The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the sensations, feelings,…
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into…
Guided Meditation: The Luminous Space of Awareness (28:17 min.)
(from the 2014 IMCW New Year’s retreat) This meditation shifts attention from form to the formless source of all Being. Discover and rest in continuous space, filled with the light…
Guided Meditation (without instructions) – “Lovingkindness (Metta)”
A guided Lovingkindness (Metta) meditation from Tara….
Guided Meditation (with instructions) – “Lovingkindness (Metta)”
Tara leads a guided Metta meditation with instructions….
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (22:07 min.)
…flow of life. The meditation ends with the poem, “Hokusai Says” by Roger Keyes. Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He…
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken…
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (27:44 min.)
We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us…
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 “yes”…
Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence (20:49 min.)
…feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, we discover am increasing sense of wholeness and peace. The meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer….
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (27:40 min.)
Vipassana meditation with Instructions (from 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat)……
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…
Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (35:24 min)
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense…
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into…
Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness (24:56 min)
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source…
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:25 min)
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home…
Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
…evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives. Listen: Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us Visit: Community Wisdom on Sleep “Be empty of…
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (18:36 min.)
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience….
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