This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts,…
Meditation: Opening to Life (20:49 min.)
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Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (9:45 min.)
One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and…
Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (16:54 min.)
When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and judgment. This meditation relaxes and opens the mind, first by a body scan and a…
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:27 min)
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to…
Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence (22:32 min.)
…feels like home. The meditation ends with a beautiful poem by David Wagoner called, “Lost.” Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are…
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: 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: A Pause for Presence (12:18 min.)
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: 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…
Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:21 min.)
Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then…
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart (23:33 min.)
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of…
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:39 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go…
Meditation: Embodied Love (21:56 min.)
This meditation guides us through a scan, to awaken a healing and openhearted presence throughout our body. We then widen to our full field of awareness, including whatever wants attention…
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (19:34 min.)
This meditation guides us to rest in the aliveness of the changing stream of sensations, sounds and feelings. As we open to the awareness that includes all life, we touch…
Meditation: Suffering and Compassion (8:07 min.)
This brief meditation is a version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice: With the support of the breath we allow ourselves to open to the realness of suffering, and then offer…
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (18:35 min.)
We unconsciously tense against the energetic life of the present moment. This meditation guides us in relaxing and opening to the full aliveness and awareness that animates our being. Photo:…
Meditation: Everything Belongs (20:09 min.)
This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and sounds to…
Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be (16:42 min.)
We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it…
Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (20:45 min.)
“Peace is this moment without judgment,” writes poet Dorothy Hunt, “this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.” This meditation is a guide to opening to the…
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (22:10 min.)
The movement from virtual reality – thoughts – to the awareness of sense-based reality is true homecoming. This meditation guides us in awakening our senses, and returning again and again…
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