TALKS & MEDITATIONS

18 minutes | This talk is an exploration based on the Three Refuges of Buddhism, as applied to daily life. These refuges can be a source...

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. 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...

45 minutes | In this talk we explore how to cultivate essential qualities such as kindness, tranquility, discipline or clarity. These...

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...

48 minutes | Embodiment is a profoundly deepened form of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha discusses how important it is to cultivate...

60 minutes | This talk relates to the inquiry process RAIN, (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture/Non-Identification). In service of...

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...

29 minutes | Many meditation practices serve as a mediation between three different aspects of ourselves: our Conditioned Self, our...

55 minutes | Second talk in a series of three. The 2nd Noble Truth relates to the cause of dukkha, namely clinging or grasping. This...

59 minutes | First talk in a series of three. The Four Noble Truths are the Buddha's prescription for the lessening and ultimate release...

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...

16 minutes | We all have access to natural awareness, though it may be hidden from consciousness. This unfabricated awareness, which...

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

21 minutes | This talk and practice helps to move us from embodying aversive or challenging emotions toward embodying emotions of...