This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. photo: Shell Fischer…
Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 min)
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Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:03 min)
When we allow the body to be a portal, we discover the ever-present background of awareness that includes the whole play of sensation, sound, aliveness. This meditation awakens us through…
Meditation: Presence and Breath (21:40 min.)
This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the breath. We are invited to discover the presence that arises as…
Meditation: The Center of Now (15:38 min)
This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence,…
Guided Meditation: Discovering Inner Space (27:40 min)
…space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D. in The Open Focus Brain….
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (11:35 min.)
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to…
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (26:47 min.)
This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters to us. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds…
Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:23 min.)
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to…
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (18:35 min.)
We unconsciously tense against the energetic life of the present moment. This meditation guides us in relaxing and opening to the full aliveness and awareness that animates our being. Photo:…
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:22 min)
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow…
Meditation: Present Heart (14:37 min)
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner…
Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence (23:19 min.)
The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up…
“Coming Back” – Meditation Instructions with Q and A
A special recording from the first morning of the 2015 IMCW Women’s Retreat that offers further guidance and addresses some frequently asked questions about meditation….
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:25 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We…
Meditation: Touching Peace (21:37 min.)
Meditation: Touching Peace – …with a smile….
Brief Inquiry – Intention in Meditation Practice (2:23 min.)
Brief Inquiry – Intention in Meditation Practice (2:23 min.)…
Meditation: Being Here for Life (18:04 min.)
It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat…
Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
From the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year’s retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness….
Meditation: Transforming Fear (11:19 min.)
…By engaging fear with an embodied and caring presence, we discover the fearless heart that includes but is not contracted by fear. NOTE: this meditation is from the end of…
Meditation for Fertility (11:13 min.)
…prayer. Then this meditation guides us to awaken our bodies, open our hearts, and become a healthy channel for this living universe…receptive and loving toward whatever might unfold through us….
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