Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (a favorite from the 2014 archives) – Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, iden…
Meditation: The Blessings of Love
Meditation: The Blessings of Love – A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable …
I Hate This 4 Letter Word
Episode 641 – Today I will be talking about my least favorite 4 letter word. It’s not the F word, I love that word. It is a different word, the word that I think holds most people back because they don’t think that they have it but other peopl…
Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof
Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof – This talk was given in 2015, yet it is as timely as ever. It views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the des…
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…
Part 2 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” (2019-08-14)
Part 2 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” (2019-08-14) – 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 …
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…
4 Keys to Find Your Passion
Episode 619 – The #1 question I get asked is “how do I find my passion.” In this episode, I will teach you the Japanese technique to finding you passion that could turn into a career that you love! Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagr…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 (2019-07-10)
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 (2019-07-10) – 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…
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…
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…
Killing the Little Voice in Your Head
Episode 608 – Dean is my best friend in the world. We have known each other for 13 years and talk almost every day. In this episode we dive deep into a lot of topics from being a fat kid, to lack of self worth, to becoming a father. We cover a…
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…
The Courage to Love – Part 1 (2019-06-12)
The Courage to Love – Part 1 (2019-06-12) – 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…
Part 3 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-29)
Part 3 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-29) – Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to o…
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) (2019-05-08)
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) (2019-05-08) – This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self. We then explore the practices of presence and self-inquiry that turn …
Part 2 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-01)
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) – Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to o…
Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01)
Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01) – This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. …
Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything
Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (a favorite from the 2014 archives) – Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, iden…
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body – This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness…
4 Questions to Find Your Purpose
Episode 576 – Wouldn’t it be great if your passion was also your job? Then your job would literally be waking up, doing what you love and being paid for it. Well it is 100% possible, you just need to learn the secret Japanese technique to find…