Sitting Meditation with Inter-being of Breath
In this meditation, using the breath, we explore the quote “nothing exists in and of itself, without dependencies.”
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Sitting Meditation with Fluidity
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation — it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it. I look at it like I am a fluid that’s finding the fissures and the cracks and flowing through. -Michael J Fox
Sitting Meditation with Feeling Tone
It is very helpful to begin to see how the unconscious mind categorizes all moments in some version of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant or unpleasant, also called feeling tones. If we are not aware of this process, then the feeling tone can set off a cascade of reactivity. Learning to catch the feeling tone … Continue reading Sitting Meditation with Feeling Tone
Sitting Meditation with Choiceless Awareness
In this practice, we open to letting thoughts be thoughts, feelings be feelings, body sensations be body sensations without adding to a story about any of them. This practice is very useful for learning a skillfulness with untangling our reactivity in life.
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Sitting Meditation- Being Exactly Where We Are
This meditation draws from a poem by Mary Oliver, I Have Decided: I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It’s said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches … Continue reading Sitting Meditation- Being Exactly Where We Are
Standing then Sitting practice
In this meditation, we start with standing movements to release tension and connect with breath and body. This is followed by a short sitting practice.
Sitting Meditation– Resourcing in the Good
In this final week before the Election, grounding and resourcing practice can be an important support to our well-being. This meditation starts with some gentle stretching and then moves into a sitting practice. Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than … Continue reading Sitting Meditation– Resourcing in the Good
Sitting Meditation– Reteaching a thing its own loveliness
Excerpt from St Francis and the Sow, by Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the flower and retell it in … Continue reading Sitting Meditation– Reteaching a thing its own loveliness
Short Noonday Practice– Sound of Silence
This is a shorter sharing and practice with the sound of silence. This is a practice that has been offered in many meditation and spiritual traditions from around the world. Much of my sharing is drawn from a book by British monk, Ajahn Amaro called “Inner Listening.” The book is a lovely short read that … Continue reading Short Noonday Practice– Sound of Silence
Sitting Meditation- Compassion as a Salve
Jack Kornfield offers the observation that at the end of life, our questions become very simple– Did I live fully? Did I love well? Meditation becomes a opportunity to learn to live into these questions now.