A guided meditation which invites a “sacred pause” in daily life, as a way to open, center, and start fresh in the midst of any difficult situation. In French: Une…
Meditation: A Pause for Presence (12:18 min.)
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Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:07 min.)
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath,…
Meditation: Relaxing, Breathing, Opening (20:47 min.)
Resources: Community Wisdom on Sleep
…or else.” One less worry on your mind at night. Support Strategies (Remedies): Exercise, yoga, yoga nidra, meditation, journaling, massage, reiki Listening to guided meditations, talks, instrumental music, Magnesium,…
Transcript: Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart – Transcription
…on to security and comfort and push away fear or pain. You can see with meditation instruction: Oh just relax, just come into the present moment. That little word just….
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and…
Mindfulness Strategies for Working with Trauma and Strong Fear
…the breathing be continuous, without a pause between breathing in and out. Relax parts of your body that feel tense: Bring a gentle attention to these areas with the intention to…
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and…
Resources: Gratitude and Generosity
Resources: Gratitude and Generosity Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing…
Working with Fear – article in Modern Maturity Magazine
…practice that helps me to do this. It’s called ‘Breathing Through.’ The first step is to imagine yourself breathing in, and allowing the pain of fear to pass through your…
Blog: Working with Fear – article in Modern Maturity Magazine
…practice that helps me to do this. It’s called ‘Breathing Through.’ The first step is to imagine yourself breathing in, and allowing the pain of fear to pass through your…
Transcript: Healing Trauma – The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
…question I am most regularly asked after classes or workshops is: What do I do if it feels like too much? Meditation instructions are so often to come into the…
Transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
…have real feelings, but they aren’t the truth any more than an idea of an apple tree is the living, breathing tree. For example, you could have the thought: When…
Blog: Working with Pain – Summary of Mindfulness Strategies
…kind of directed breathing – called coherence breathing – calms the nervous system and can help you to relax with what’s happening. Sometimes it is wise to fully shift gears…
The Space Between the Logs
What makes a fire burn is the space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can douse the…
Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love
Like breathing in and breathing out, gratitude and generosity allow us to live fully. This talks explores what blocks these natural capacities, and three pathways of nourishing a grateful and…
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. – Chapter One
…anxious thoughts and guilty feelings. The second step was to Allow (A) what was happening by breathing and letting be. Even though I didn’t like what I was feeling, my…
Transcript: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
…are here, on the earth, on the ground. To further resource or a different kind of approach is conscious breathing. One of the simplest is a long, slow, deep, full…
Blog: The Space Between the Logs
This is from a poem that I love. It’s called, “Fire” by Judy Brown. What makes a fire burn is the space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much…
Blog: Pain Is Not Wrong
…and present as possible during the birth, and while I knew the pain would be intense, I trusted that my meditation and yoga practices would help me to “go with…
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