While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and…
Meditation: Loving What Is (18:49 min.)
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Meditation: Embodied Spirit (16:54 min.)
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence,…
Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen (23:39 min.)
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, a compassion practice or tonglen, is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the…
Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (27:22 min.)
This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a…
Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara Brach and Roland Griffiths
…depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both…
Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:23 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…
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment…
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:07 min.)
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with presence….
Meditation: Present Heart (14:37 min)
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner…
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into…
Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:24 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: Dedicated to Maya Angelou – Being Home (23:49 min.)
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence – arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back…
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (22:51 min.)
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of…
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:25 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We…
Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:43 min.)
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary…
Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:08 min)
True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering…
Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (19:52 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: The Space of Loving Awareness (19:53 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We…
Guided Meditation – Being Here (10:30 min)
A short guided meditation – when you only have 10 1/2 minutes……
Guided Meditation – Resting in Wakefulness (13 min)
A short guided meditation – when you only have 13 minutes….
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