This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of “yes” and then closes…
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, “Awakening Compassion,” is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving…
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting…
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open…
…evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives – part 2 includes working with sleep issues. Listen: Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us…
~ an Open Awareness Meditation ~ When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us discover…
Our pathway to our hearts is through presence. This meditation helps us awaken presence through our body and all our senses. We then open to the awareness that can meet…
Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2016-05-07) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan,…
…of clear recognition and an allowing non-judgmental presence. Listen and watch Part 2: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice Listen and watch Part 1: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice (below) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVK1d9oz5g4&feature=youtu.be…
Meditation: Relax Into Happiness ~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go.” This meditation…
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness ~ In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This…
…the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop…
…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: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when we’re…
Given the first morning of the 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat, this meditation guides you through a body scan, opens to sounds, then expands to the body as a field of…
Meditation: Realizing Your Aspiration (9:43 min.) – Beyond any meditation technique, what energizes and guides our spiritual life is aspiration. This reflection can help deepen your connection with your aspiration…
…awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away.” This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness… a special meditation from 2015-11-11 – includes community chanting OM’s….
…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: 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…
Guided Meditation – Listening to and Feeling Our Life Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This…
