If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores…
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Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (18:50 min)
We start 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….
Meditation: Openhearted Presence (21:58 min.)
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence. …
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min)
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body….
Meditation: Relaxing into Presence (14:46 min)
Meditation – Relaxing into Presence (bell at end) This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. https://youtu.be/OfxTy5v7yIA…
From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence
…this talk we explore the awakening that is possible as we recognize our reactive patterns and instead of judgment, offer a loving and healing presence (a favorite from the archives)….
Sheltering In Love – Part 6: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 2 of 2)
…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 loneliness…
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: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.)
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.) – Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to…
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15:19 min)
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body….
Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)
…meditation continues with a loving-kindness practice – sensing loving presence of someone easy to love, our own being, then offering care to others. (from 2015 fall IMCW weeklong silent retreat)…
Meditation: Loving Presence – includes a smile body scan (20:11 min)
…body scan, and then open to the spacious presence that includes the changing moment to moment flow of experience. The meditation closes with a few minutes of offering loving blessings…
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:37min)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence – This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the…
Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence (22:14 min.)
In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and…
Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (19:55 min)
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,…
Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (19:55 min)
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,…
Longing to Belong: Bringing Presence through the Three Refuges
Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes…
Meditation: Presence and Breath (21:40 min.)
This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the breath. We are invited to discover the presence that arises as…
The Blessings of Embodied Presence (retreat talk)
All that we cherish – love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness – becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of…
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (22:10 min.)
…meditation guides us in awakening our senses, and returning again and again to the freedom of embodied presence. We close with part of a poem “Come Home” by Jane Hooper….