We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence…
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Instruction and Meditation: Pathway to Non-Doing Presence (41:30 min.)
While meditation begins with purposeful collecting of attention, it leads to non-doing presence, to Being. In this guided practice, we arrive in presence through a body scan and attention 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, clear presence. photo:…
Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (16:58 min.)
Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence…
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Presence
…our power, intuition and capacity to love in a full way. This talk looks at the ways we leave our body and the path of homecoming to living loving presence….
Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence (24:00 min)
This guided meditation instruction includes: 1 – Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake, 2 – Further collecting the attention using a primary anchor or base, and 3 – Continuing…
Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence
…embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our…
Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)
Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back…
Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:12 min.)
…comes from resting in presence. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (18:42 min.)
…open presence. When there is tightening, holding or confinement in thoughts, we recognize and re-open, letting go into the presence that is always here. Let go of what has passed….
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:12 min.)
Meditation: Refuge in Presence – We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we…
Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (20:50 min.)
This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this changing…
Blog: Gift to the Soul: The Space of Presence
…capacity to appreciate beauty, to celebrate, to serve from the heart. Our mindfulness practice offers us the opportunity to pause and rediscover the space of presence. When we stop charging…
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…
New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to…
Wise Effort – Cultivating and Engaged Presence
…generated out of the sense of a “doing self.” This talk reflects on the grounds of wise effort: connecting to our deepest intention, and cultivating a genuinely allowing, engaged, presence….
Sheltering In Love – Part 5: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence – Part 1 of 2
…feeling disconnected to themselves and others. We then explore how a courageous practice of compassionate presence – with our inner life, and in relationships – can turn the energy of…
Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.)
…reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds. Trust the energy that Courses through you Trust, Then take surrender even deeper….
Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (20:57 min.)
…in the presence that spontaneously knows the changing stream of experience. Relaxing back and letting everything be just as it is, reveals the natural presence that is our true home….
Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (21:16 min.)
The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of…