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…a day! Course is online and on demand. Learn More… Radical Acceptance: Mindfulness & Meditation ON-DEMAND Designed for those who are new to meditation and those who have been practicing…

Blog: Meditating Daily…”No Matter What”
Even after practicing and teaching meditation for more than 35 years now, I truly understand that sustaining a regular practice can be challenging. During the twelve years I lived in…

Guided Meditation: Stand Still (standing meditation with instructions included) (25:04 min.)

Méditation: être l’océan et s’ouvrir aux vagues (25:00 min)
…qui est notre source. Cette méditation commence par l’éveil des sens et nous invite ensuite à découvrir la présence spacieuse à l’arrière-plan de toute expérience. REMARQUE : Cette méditation a…

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:05 min.)
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a…
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Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence (23:59 min)
This meditation guides you to arrive fully in embodied presence—awakening through the senses, relaxing into the breath, and gently returning to the aliveness of the here and now. With a…

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From Longing to Belonging
…someone we barely know. In the course of a few hours of meditation, I had lived through courting, marrying, having a family with this man—over and over, in various versions….

Meditation: The Return to Presence – Rest Your Mind in What Is (21:17 min.)
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…

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (17 min)
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: Homecoming with the Breath (23:48 min.)
This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. The…

Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN
…Learning to directly face anxiety and fear with the RAIN meditation—Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture—gives you a pathway to inner transformation and a fearless heart. Recognizing the Trance After a…

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….

Morning Question and Response on Retreat (16:46 min)
…2016 IMCW spring residential retreat). Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list. photo credit: Vicki Wood in Australia…

Blog: Trance of “Unreal Other”
…invite them to consider, “What does he or she need?” “What does this person fear?” “What is life like for this person?” After one of these meditations, a student approached…

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (17 min)
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: A Healing Breath (26:06 min.)
…a simple breathing practice that brings relaxation and inner ease….

Blog: Radical Acceptance of Desire
…infatuated. In the midst of the typical rush and excitement of such connections, I left for a weeklong meditation retreat. In the six years that I had been practicing Buddhist…