The word yoga has a definition of “to yoke“. In this sitting meditation, we are practicing a kind of yoga, or yoking, of body, mind and heart.
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There are many different flavors to “efforting” — some useful and some not so useful. What is it like to intention explore a balanced soft effort that allows you to stay engaged with your practice, without over-efforting and contracting.
So often we burden our meditation practice with loaded expectations of what it should look like and what should happen if I am a good meditator. But in reality every meditation is an open invitation to lay down those expectations and meet what is here. Just as it is. Without needed it to be any … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Meditating With What Is Here
In this meditation we explore a formal practice for strengthening a resource of “taking in the good.”
In this meditation we explore using an anchor of self-kindness for opening to what is here and now.
We start with a short body scan and then move into an exploration of life’s unfolding energy moment by moment
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This meditation explores the interplay between goodwill, compassion, letting go and welcoming the moment just as it is.
In this meditation we explore what is it like to when tension is present in the body/mind/heart and open in skillful ways right with what is here. Note: there are more than usual background sounds in this recording. I edited out as much as I could and apologize for the bits that remain… Thanks!
Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Hospitality in face of Tension
Meditation can be a respite, a place we can lay down our loads for a bit and offer a healing hospitality to our own beings.
In this Body Scan meditation, we explore how waking up to the present moment sensations in the body is a a compassionate act of care.
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