This meditation explores energetically “attuning” to a soft relaxed awareness that can be with our conditions as we are as best as we are able. What a relief when we find this attunement!
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This meditation starts with a beautiful short story about a Samurai and a Monk in which the Monk teaches on what makes heaven and what makes hell. How might the metaphor of the story be useful for your own practice in this moment now?
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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]
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]
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]
How does welcoming things as they are– not as we want them to be, but as they actually are in this moment now– open to healing? This meditation is a chance to explore working with a radical, freeing “welcoming” of our own selves as a first step.
We use the Arriving Sequence (Arriving, Being Available, Aligning) to ground ourselves in order to open to an exploration– what does it mean somatically, emotionally with curiosity to be accepting in this moment now?
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This meditation again explores the “Arriving Sequence” from Phillip Moffit and Dharma Ground. These 3 steps of 1) arriving, 2) being available and 3) aligning with our values and what inspires us is such a useful practice for formal meditation and for life in general.
In this version of a loving-kindness practice, we pay particular attention to how we meet our moments of distraction.
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One useful way to settle into a practice is to use the breath to attune or “resonate” compassionately with whatever is present in the body/mind/heart.
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