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Listening with an Awake Heart (2016-04-27) – True listening both
nurtures and expresses evolving consciousness. This talk explores
our ego-based conditioning to have an agenda or defendedness that
prevents deep listening, and the strategies that evolve…

Meditation: Spacious Clear Awareness (2016-04-20) – This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of soun…

Releasing Self-Blame – Pathways to a Forgiving Heart
When we are stuck in blaming, disliking or hating ourselves, we are unable to love our world. This talk explores what underlies our addiction to self-blame and the teachings and practices that loose…

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2016-04-06) –
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include al…

Embodied Awareness – Pain and Living Fully – Part 3 (2016-03-30) – The experiences we most value – feeling creative, loving, vital – require being awake in our bodies. Yet when faced with physical pain, our conditioning is to pull away from our bodies,…

Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (2016-03-30) –
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself – it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us to the realizatio…

Short Reflection: This Living Body – Our Portal to Freedom (2016-03-23) (12:15 min) –
Our habit is to leave home – the aliveness of our body – and seek happiness through avoiding unpleasantness and chasing after pleasure. This short talk and reflectio…

Embodied Awareness – Embracing the Unlived Life – Part 2 (2016-03-23) – When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation – including …

Meditation: Living Presence (2016-03-23) (20:01 min) – The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in …

Guided Reflection: Awakening through Conflict (from a talk given on 2014-04-23) – (13 min)
“We live in a field where our emotions are an open loop – we affect each other. When we’re with someone who’s blaming, we tighten. Anger makes us tighten. When …

Practical Dharma for Stressful Times (2016-03-16) –
When we are caught in a stress reaction, we are in a trance that cuts us off from our creativity, full intelligence and capacity to be loving. This talk explores the flags of the stress-trance and th…

Embodied Awareness – Embracing Unlived Life – Part 1 (2016-03-09)
When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation, and the sufferin…

Embodied Awareness – Embracing Unlived Life – Part 1 (2016-03-09)
When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation, and the sufferin…

Meditation: RAIN – Entering the Wilderness (2016-03-09) – This short reflection, guided by the acronym RAIN, engages mindfulness and compassion as we open to life that we’ve been pushing away. By including unlived life, we reconnect with the fullness o…

Meditation: Embodied Awareness (2016-03-09) – This meditation reconnects us to the vibratory aliveness of our bodies, and the space of awareness that suffuses that aliveness. We inhabit embodied awareness in the moments of non-doing, of simply resting …

Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart – Part 2 (2016-03-02)
While the brightness and warmth of our hearts is always here, like the sun when blocked by clouds, our intrinsic love can be obscured. These two talks explore how we become arrested in a confining…

Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (2016-03-02) –
Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how…