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Saying “Yes” – Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25) – Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This talk helps us recognize these often unconscious patterns that keep us …

Meditation: Saying Yes to Life (2018-07-25) – We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness…

What Is It Like Being You? (2018-07-18) – Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. This talk helps us identify the blocks to compassion—our outmoded survival equipment—and using RAIN, offers practical guidance in mindfully attun…

This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is t…

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-07-11) – Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we can awaken from our non-stop doing, including the inc…

Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World – (A favorite from the archives) Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk looks at the way we run from “lady death” and the blessings of opening our arms and heart. If we can embr…

Meditation: 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 tend…

Evolving Beyond “Unreal Othering” (2018-06-27) – What motivates us – as individuals and as a society – to build walls and knowingly hurt others? This talk explores the evolutionary roots of “unreal othering” and how when we are hijacked by fear, it can…

Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence (Retreat Talk) – While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the formless dimension – the pure awareness is our shared source. This talk exp…

Short Talk and Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (retreat) – When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us discover the spaciousness of awareness by realiz…

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30) – Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we can awaken from our non-stop doing, including the inc…

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30) – This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the senses, the more we discover the alert…

Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 2 (2018-05-23) – Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to realizing the loving awareness that is our essence, and the p…

Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 1 (2018-05-16) – Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to realizing the loving awareness that is our essence, and the p…

After the RAIN (retreat talk) (2018-04-29) – This talk offers an in-depth exploration of RAIN, applying the wings of mindfulness and compassion to painful domains of trance. We bring special attention to the fruit of RAIN, the realization of who we are…

Responding to Change with a Wise Heart (2018-04-25) – An intrinsic part of spiritual life is facing the truth of impermanence. When we open to the changing flow without resistance, we naturally cherish this passing life, and realize the timeless, chang…

Listening with an Awake Heart – Part 2 (2018-04-18) – Deep listening – to our inner life, each other and our world – is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong conditioning to be caught in wants and fears, there is oft…

How to tame our inner critic, what does self love in a practical way, how to be an ally to yourself, Kamal Ravikant – Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It