The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our…
Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
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Guided Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness – Metta (17:05 min.)
This guided meditation, grounded in the practice of Metta, invites us to awaken the heart by softening the body and quieting the mind. We begin with the simple image of…
Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (22:22 min)
In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence…
Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:40 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 of the…
Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19:53 min.)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in…
Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.)
This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart. https://youtu.be/Iho4zA5a_Fk Photo:…
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:39 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go…
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (15 min)
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us…
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:27 min)
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to…
Meditation: “Yes” to Our Moments (19:37 min.)
When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and…
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (22:18 min)
This meditation reconnects us to the vibratory aliveness of our bodies, and the space of awareness that suffuses that aliveness. We inhabit embodied awareness in the moments of non-doing, of…
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:22 min)
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow…
Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (20:48 min)
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself – it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us…
Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:30 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…
Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:38)
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 resting attention with…
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guides attention through the body—softening, sensing,…
Guided Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (38:02 min)
an open focus meditation from the 2015 IMCW fall week long retreat…
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (18:35 min.)
We unconsciously tense against the energetic life of the present moment. This meditation guides us in relaxing and opening to the full aliveness and awareness that animates our being. Photo:…
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (10:08 min)
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us…
Guided Meditation: Discovering Inner Space (27:40 min)
…space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D. in The Open Focus Brain….
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