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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we co…

Meditation: Entering the Wilderness (2017-07-05) – We open to our full naturalness as we awaken the senses. This brief meditation guides us to open all the sense gates, and in that openness, experience the pure aliveness and awareness that is our essen…

Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence – When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and th…

Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence (2017-06-28) – When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied pre…

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2017-06-28) – This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness. Your support e…

Stories that Imprison our Heart – Part 2 (2017-06-21) – Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing f…

Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence – This guided meditation instruction includes: 1 – Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake, 2 – Further collecting the attention using a primary anchor or base, and 3 – Continuing to collect around an a…

Stories that Imprison our Heart – Part 1 (2017-06-14) – Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing f…

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath – 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 clear, intimate presence w…

The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World (2017-05-24) – The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World – Our true refuge is reality – only by opening to “things as they are” do we find true peace and freedom. This talk explore…

Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (2017-05-02) – A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely.  This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a classic th…

Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (2017-05-02) – A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely.  This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a classic th…

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace and Freedom (2017-05-10) – This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully i…

Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part 2 (2017-05-03) (retreat talk) – We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our e…

Relaxing the Over-Controller  – Part 1 (2017-04-26) – We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our experience. The…