Meditation: Relaxed and Alert – This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings,…
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2019-10-09)
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert – This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings,…
Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness (2019-10-02)
Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness – We realize our true nature by relaxing back into what is always, already here. Starting by scanning and opening through the body, we explore resting in the awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all o…
Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment
Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment – In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from …
The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind
The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind – Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the pr…
Meditation: Discovering Inner Space
Meditation: Discovering Inner Space – By imagining the space inside the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D. …
Good Othering – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21)
Good Othering – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21) – One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential awareness, light and love. Because our conditioning is to fixate o…
Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21)
Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21) – We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to rest in that open wakefuln…
Don’t Mess This Up
Episode 634 – The words you use indicate what you are thinking in your head. What you are thinking in your head creates your reality. Therefore, do not meet this very important phrase up! Follow me on Instagram for a change to win FREE headph…
Meditation: Everything Belongs (2019-08-14)
Meditation: Everything Belongs (2019-08-14) – 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 come and go. When diff…
Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” (2019-08-07)
Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other”(2019-08-07) – These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our world? The first talk looks at how we can use the practices o…
Does Your Education Suck?
Episode 630 – How much did you pay for your education? Was it worth it? What if I told you that right now there is a wealth of knowledge that will make you happier, more successful and more peaceful and it’s either cheap or free? Well in this …
Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07)
Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07) – Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice then extends to mindfully include all sounds, sensations…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24)
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24) – Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These two talks explore misunderstandings about su…
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (2019-07-10)
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (2019-07-10) – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing w…
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness – 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 arising …
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 – The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness – We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full res…
The Courage to Love – Part 2 (2019-06-19)
The Courage to Love – Part 2 (2019-06-19) – The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer guidance in learning to contact and transform our fears in…
Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19)
Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19) – When we awaken our senses, we can sense in the background a wakeful openness that is our true home. This meditation guides us by first attending to the space, aliveness and awareness that fills the bod…