Skillful Practice of Tracking
This week we start an exploration of ways to be with ourselves in practice when it is just hard to be with ourselves. Learning to “track” is a very useful place to start.
Category Archives: meditation
Sitting Meditation – Breath Practice
Join us for this sitting meditation where we explore grounding in the body with gravity and breath. Thanks!
Short Evening Practice
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” -Kahlil Gibran In this short sharing and practice, we explore the attitudes or qualities of goodwill, … Continue reading Short Evening Practice
Short Sitting Meditation- Knowing Refuge
We need strong refuge points for our awareness in order to support ourselves in the midst of life. This meditation is about strengthening that knowing of refuge within ourselves.
Shared Breath
In mindfulness meditation, we teach how to be aware of the breath as an anchor or refuge, and in our current world, to invite awareness into the breath is to invite again awareness of “I can’t breath…” That fact needs to be met with a lot of care and compassion. This week we open to an … Continue reading Shared Breath
Short Morning Practice
Join us for this short teaching and sitting practice. Today we continue the exploration of a quote from Abraham Heschel, “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline. A sense of dignity grows with an ability to say no to oneself.” In particular, we look at how “bite-sizing” the moment helps open a workable choice point for … Continue reading Short Morning Practice
Short Sitting Meditation– Befriending the Present Moment
I hope you enjoy this 13 minute sitting practice on awakening to and befriending the present moment.
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Standing and Sitting Meditation– Befriending the Present Moment
Sometimes we are holding tension in the body that benefits from movement before sitting. Join us for this combined longer standing and sitting meditation on befriending the present moment.
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Lost Keys and More
This week we explore three short Nasruddin stories and how they are useful for understanding our practice. If you are not familiar with Nasruddin, he is a trickster or wise fool character from the Sufi tradition. These stories are much loved for the unexpected yet revealing “twist” always present.
Short Morning Meditation-Growing Self-Respect
For this short morning meditation, we explore the beautiful quote from Abraham Heschel: “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline. A sense of dignity grows with an ability to say no to oneself.”
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