Sitting Meditation- The Vast Sky
This world – absolutely pure As is. Behind the fear, Vulnerability. Behind that, Sadness, then compassion And behind that the vast sky. -Rick Fields, written while working with terminal cancer
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Sitting Meditation- Wide Open Receptive Capacity of Awareness
As we practice, we begin to understand an infinite receptive capacity of awareness to hold it all and allow our wisdom to come forward.
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Sitting Meditation- Choosing to Open to Myself
Using the formal sit as a gift to invite the best friend of sati, mindfulness as a support in opening to our own selves.
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Sitting Meditation- “Seeing the Cloud”
Clouds In Each Paper, by Thich Nhat Hanh If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- “Seeing the Cloud”
Sitting Meditation- A Beautiful Place
This meditation is opening to a beautiful place that exists right in the heart of any moment– just as it is, easy, challenging and everything in-between.
Sitting Meditation- The Space of Waking Up- Release
In this meditation we explore what happens right at that moment when we wake up from the mind drifting and the rich potency of this moment for teaching us about refuge, release, relief and letting go. BIRD WINGS Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you are bravely working. Expecting … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- The Space of Waking Up- Release
Sitting Meditation- Coming Home Again
This is a practice of releasing into a silence that is our way to a wholeness, healing and freedom that is our home.
Sitting Meditation- Grounding with the Nature of Earth and Body [6.17.26]
In this meditation, we explore letting go into a connectivity with the Earth which gives rooting and uplift both.
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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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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]