TALKS & MEDITATIONS

33 minutes | This meditation explores a variety of ways to find calm in the midst of challenge. These various practices are adapted from...

10 minutes | This meditation (one of a series of three) assists in coming to a state of presence, embodiment and groundedness. We can...

10 minutes | This meditation (one of a series of three) assists in coming to a state of presence, embodiment and groundedness. Utilizing...

9 minutes | This meditation (one of a series of three) assists in helping to let go of past and future and come to presence, embodiment...

28 minutes | Equanimity is the capacity to remain steady in the presence of adversity and temptation. According to the Buddha, “Praise...

48 minutes | The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the Buddha's prescription for releasing from dukkha - suffering, stress, unsatifactoriness. The...

62 minutes | As we contemplate where self-kindness comes from, or who is being kind to whom, we open up doorways for self-kindness to...

61 minute | At the heart of our capacity to be kind to ourselves is the capacity to forgive ourselves for the ways we consider ourselves...

45 minutes | Based on a meditation by Judith Blackstone (the Realization Process), this practice helps participants learn to more fully...

55 minutes | This talk explores ways of cultivating an experience of embodiment. The talk ends with a Mountain Meditation, words of Jon...

9 minutes | Through breath, imagery, words, and felt body sensations we practice cultivating a deeper and more expansive field of...

45 minutes | This meditation is a follow-up to the talk, "Identity and Fabrication." As we let go of clinging to changing phenomena (e.g....

25 minutes | The Buddha refers to two kinds of joy, worldly and unworldly. Unworldly joy is a joy experienced independent of anything...

30 minutes | In this meditation you are guided to explore seven different aspects of existence that we can be aware of: breath, body...

59 minutes | Each of us carries within us a knowing that goes beyond what our rational minds can know. This inner guidance can be...

57 minutes | As we progress along a spiritual path, or grow as human beings, we encounter stuckness and pain. When we turn our attention...

25 minutes | This meditation invites us to learn from embodying a form of an element (i.e., earth, water, air, or fire) or a living being...

27 minutes | This meditation takes us on a journey inward toward natural awareness to discover a sense of stillness, aliveness, and...

31 minutes | This meditation invites a cultivation of embodiment, of learning to be at home in the body. As we become more embodied, a...

45 minutes | Grief is a challenging and complicated emotion. Often we avoid grief. We keep ourselves busy, because it feels too painful....