Human and Dog Training-Both!
This sharing examines the useful similarities of learning to train and dog and a human mind both– all about mindfulness and mammal biology.
Siting Meditation- 3 Steps of Re-grounding
This meditation explores the 3 beautiful steps offered by Sayadaw U Tejaniya for all of moments of practice, and therefore, life.
Thank you, I Am Grateful for Everything
This week’s sharing is based on a short story with the teaching, “Thank you, I am grateful for everything.” What are ways of relating to this teaching that are useful for you? What are ways that are not useful for you?
Sitting Meditation- Naturally Arising Gratitude
Finding an attunement to a moment of practice– no matter what we are feeling in our internal world– that is useful for our freedom and “thank you” begins to naturally arise.
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Paradigm Shifts and Mindfulness Practice
Paradigm shifts are when we come to understand that what we took as a reality is, in fact, not the deeper truth of things and it startles our systems enough into seeing the ourselves, each other or the the world through a whole new lens. Feeling into paradigm shifts helps shed light on the basic … Continue reading Paradigm Shifts and Mindfulness Practice
Sitting Meditation- Coming Home Again [2.18.26]
In this meditation we explore the different feel of being caught in the reactive mind and those moments, no matter how small, when the body, mind and heart are in attunement. This attunement is what we are pointing to as “mindfulness,” and when we are aware of it, it has a natural sense of coming … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Coming Home Again [2.18.26]
Difficult Conversations [10.22.25]
This sharing explores teachings from the book, Difficult Conversations. This book examines the ways conversations we care about can so easily get “hijacked,” and ways to help us stay grounded in having the conversation we want to have instead.
Sitting Meditation- The Bad Student [10.22.25]
The is a meditation on bringing care to our internal “bad student”– i.e. meeting the part of us we want to get rid of, the part we see as disrupting our meditation. This willingness to meet our troublesome, annoying, distracted, angry, worried, tired, or any other version of the “bad student” is ultimately the path … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- The Bad Student [10.22.25]
Sitting Meditation- Arriving, Being Available in Alignment with Our Deepest Intention [10.15.25]
This is a practice of grounding in the physicality of here and now in a way that naturally allows a connecting with our experience in alignment with our deepest values. This basic practice of the Arriving Sequence comes from Phillip Moffit. It is a beautiful practice, useful not only in formal meditation but also as … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Arriving, Being Available in Alignment with Our Deepest Intention [10.15.25]
Acceptance Part 2 [10.1.25]
We explore three necessary steps for a healing, empowering acceptance that more deeply engages us with meeting life as it is.