The meditation starts with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then we open our attention to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence….
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention…
Meditation: What is Your Deepest Longing? Download text in PDF – Find a comfortable way of sitting, and allow yourself to relax and be at ease. With a receptive presence,…
It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and awakening through the…
We enter a full presence through awakening our senses, and awakening to the awareness that is aware. This meditation guides us as we arouse an embodied presence, let go of…
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention…
One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This meditation guides us…
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these…
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost…
…When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation…
Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness – The primary qualities of a healing and freeing presence are being alert, open and tender. This meditation arouses these qualities by engaging a mindful awareness of…
…of clear recognition and an allowing non-judgmental presence. Listen and watch Part 1: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice Listen and watch Part 2: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice (below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcTat6UZUU&feature=youtu.be…
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body….
A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a…
The Buddha taught the value of gladdening the mind when we begin a meditation and in our daily lives. This meditation begins with an inquiry on gratitude – what we…
Meditation – Letting Life Live Through You – This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body scan,…
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence – Offering a meditation that scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the…
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own…
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 the…
Meditation: The Center of Now This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to…
