This Mindful Life

I’ve been surprised by how meditative painting has been.  It’s fully immersive and I find myself able to be present in a way I’m not with other activities.  Every part of my mind and body is present, fully connected.  No separation.  No awareness outside myself.   Except when I made this painting.  

*Audio Only*:  We show for ourselves when we follow through with our commitment  to our practice even when there are other things pulling our attention.  We are the ones that create the calm in the storm, the space for stillness, the quiet among the noise. This talk is followed by a 25 minute guided meditation. Poem: Beneath All Sound by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #rosemerrywahtolatrommer #peace #listening #opening #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #allowing #joy #thoughts #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only*:  We can become so overwhelmed by the suffering in the world that we cut ourselves off, not just from the news, but also from our most innate, tender, and joyous selves.  These hurting or difficult times, when we feel helpless and hopeless in the face of such doom are exactly the times we need to reconnect with our joy, our sense of spaciousness, the memory that suffering does not negate joy.  This talk is followed by a 20 minute guided meditation. Poem: Small Moments by James Crews #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #jamescrews #peace #listening #opening #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #allowing #joy #thoughts #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* We think we live from our own free will, but most of live in our life according to a program. The Program is typically invisible to us and informs and influences everything in our lives. So if we can’t see it, how do we know we living by it? The talk is followed by a 20 min. guided meditation.Poem: Forget About Enlightenment by John Welwood#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #drjoedispenza #peace #listening #opening #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #johnwelwood #tarabrach #thoughts #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* Thoughts seem so real to us, seem to make us who we are, but they are changeable, cannot be capture, located, or held in any physical way, like vapor.  One minute this, the next minute that.  In this talk we explore the changeability of thoughts, how we get caught in them, and how we can learn to see them without allowing them to hook us into defining us.  The talk is followed by a 20 min. guided meditation. Resources: Podcast:  https://www.melrobbins.com/podcasts/episode-208 Poem: I Am Not Theses Thoughts by Julia Fehernbacher#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #dralokkanojia #peace #listening #opening #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #juliafehernbacher #melrobbins #thoughts #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* "To everything there is a season...". What season do you find yourself in? How are you relating with this change? Sometimes we welcome the seasonal transitions of our lives. Sometimes we are confused or frustrated by them. In this talk we explore this theme and how it can be challenging. The talk is followed by a 20minute guided meditation. References: Poem: Lost by David Wagoner Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #listening #opening #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #davidwagoner #spiritualawakening #ecclesiastes #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only*  In intentionally clearing noise from our daily lives, we create an open space where we cultivate a deeper listening.  This deep listening is how we stay connected to our inner voice and to who we really are.  This connection serves as the ground from which we can live authentically, with wholeness.Poem:  The Soul Lives Contented by David WhyteBook: Silence by Thich Nhat Hanh#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #listening #positivity #silence #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #davidwhyte #spiritualawakening #thichnhathanh #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* Having a process that can serve as a sort of road map for learning to be present in our lives through meditation can be very invaluable. In this audio, we discuss the practice of RAIN - Recognize, Allow, Intuit, Nurture. This talk is followed by a 20 minute Guided Meditation. Poem: The Guesthouse by Rumi Book: Radical Compassion by Tara Brach #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #RAIN #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #beingpresent #tarabrach #spiritualawakening #sharonsalzberg #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

**Audio Only** Strengthening our skill in recognizing when we are having certain types of thoughts, emotions, reactions and staying with the initial sensations that come up with them, can help us out of the cycle of getting caught. Naming the initial sensations allows us to stay with them rather than letting them lead us into stories that breed more thought and feeling that keep us from living in the present moment. This talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation. Poem: Unlocking the Heart by James Crews Book Reference: "How to Meditate" by Pema Chodron #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #NamingEmotion #JamesCrews #spiritualawakening #pemachodron #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* Rarely to we welcome discomfort. Rarer still are times that we allow discomfort to be present so we may hear what wisdom it has to share. In this talk we discuss the beautiful gift allowing discomfort to be present can bring. This talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation. Poem: Saving Grace by Julie Ferhenbacher "Comfortable with Uncertainty" by Pema Chodron #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #comfortablewithdiscomfort #cPemChodron #spiritualawakening #JuliaFeherenbacher #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

*Audio Only* When was the last time you were soft with yourself? For some, this is a foreign concept, indeed. Bringing a sense of tenderness to the relationship with ourselves can allow us to be more open, more compassionate, and just have an over-all better life experience. This talk is followed by a guided meditation that allows us to begin to cultivate such a softness.  Referenced:  The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron Poem:  Gentle by James Crews#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #pemachodron #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #tenderness #softness #spiritualawakening #acceptance #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness 

**Audio Only**  In this guided meditation we walk through resting our awareness in the energy centers of the body.  !Please note: I forgot the heart chakra.  My apologies! #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #energycenters #chakras #spiritualawakening #acceptance  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness 

*Audio Only* What is our relationship to Joy? Do we give ourselves permission to feel it, to cultivate it, to focus on it despite the difficulty in our lives and our world. In this talk we delve into these questions among others so we can understand more fully our innate capacity for joy (and that we are worthy of it). The talk is followed by a 15 min guided meditation.  Poem "Adrift" by Mark Nepo #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #EllenBass #JackKornfield #spiritualawakening #acceptance  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

**Audio Only** When we delight in the happiness of others, we access a connection of spirit that dissolves all sense separateness. Sympathetic Joy or being happy for another’s happiness is one of the four highest qualities of the heart in Buddhism. It is innate in each of us and always accessible, though many things and ways we have experienced life may make it seem otherwise. This talk is followed by a 20 min. guided meditation that walks us through cultivating greater access to this quality of heart. Poem "For Celebration" by John O’Donohue. #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #Mindset #peace #mudita #positivity #sympatheticjoy #spiritual #consciousness #JohnODonohue #JackKornfield #ThomasMerton #joy  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness 

**Audio Only** In our culture, attaching ourselves to a strong set of certain beliefs is central to who we think we are as individuals. But in Buddhism, it is said that attachment is the very core of our suffering. What can we learn about how attached we are (to things, beliefs, ideas, people) and how to allow ourselves to step back from those attachments so we can see the true nature of things in the world? This talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation. Poem "The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass

*Audio Only* We have the strength to approach the world in an open-handed way, rather than with a closed fist. Bringing this sense of tenderness and compassion to our experience can help us immensely to grow into a more authentic relationship with ourselves and the world. #mindfulness #meditation #love #compassion #selfcompassion #itspossibile #possibility #tenderness #healing #wellness #mindset #healtheworld #RosemerryWohtolaTrommer #ope #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #unconsciousness #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

There is so much power is acknowledging what is happening in the present moment, what situation you find yourself in right now, how that feels, allowing it to be there whether we like it or not. Its not necessarily about liking it or wanting it to be that way, but in the allowing we open space to choose how we will be with it. And in that lies the power. Talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation. Poem What Silence Said by Julia Fehrenbacher

(Audio Only) We have a choice...we can continue to make ourselves hard, contributing aggression, division, and suffering to the world. OR we can choose softness, choose to cultivate compassion and a way of being in the world that contributes understanding, a willingness to be open and see the reality of life - that we all belong to each other and our separation is nothing. but an illusion.

This week we talk about the pillars of mindfulness, what Jon Kabat-Zinn calls the Attitudinal Intentions of Mindfulness. The talk is followed by a guided meditation.

**Audio Only*** We live in a goal-oriented society; “where do you see yourself in 10 years?”.  We are always encouraged, told specifically and directly, that doing, accomplishing, attaining, striving is the way toward something, toward happiness.  We are never told to just be, that it’s okay to be in a state of non-striving.  The talk is followed by a 25 minute guided meditation.  Poem:  Wild Geese by Mary Oliver #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #beginnersmoind #freedom #accomplishment #goalsetting #jonkabatzin #nonstriving #goalsetting #consumer #embracing #attachment #peace #openness #being #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #accomplishment #maryoliver #spiritualawakening #produce  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

**Audio Only** Driven only by a false need to fill emptiness inside us, the illusion that something outside us can complete us, that just one more achievement, the next fancy gadget, that dream job or dream partner we become Hungry Ghosts, roaming our lives in pursuit of satiety we never find. This talk is followed by a 20 min. guided meditation. #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #hungryghosts #spirituality #peace #wildgeese #maryoliver #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Let's check in! How was March? Mine...? Well, I had plans. Life had other plans. What do you do when you get off track? How do you treat yourself? How do you get back on track? #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #March #Rest #exhaustion #healing #wellness #mindset #selfcare #happiness #offtrack #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #grace #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

**Audio Only*** Spring calls us to slow down, to pause and revel in the blooming of new life, the emergence of that which has been previously planted.  This is a lesson nature provides us to bring into our human lives as well.  To pause and appreciate that which we have grown, tended, cultivated in our own lives. The talk is followed by a 20 minute guided meditation.  Poem:  Today by Billy Collins #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #spring #peace #blooming #blossoming #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #accomplishment #billycollins #spiritualawakening #pride  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Practicing Mindfulness on the cushion, in a quiet space, with soft light is great, but how do we bring this same quality of mindfulness into our everyday lives; at the grocery store, at work, while driving?  This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.  Poem “Mindful” by Mary Oliver #mindfulness #meditation #love #compassion #selfcompassion #mindfulnessineverydaylife #possibility #tenderness #healing #wellness #mindset #healtheworld #MaryOliver #hope #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #unconsciousness #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

(Audio Only) How have we gotten to the place where we are screaming at each other?  How have we forgotten that we belong to one another and are connected?  In this talk we go into how division can be healed through compassion practice.  The talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation.  Poem “With Astonishing Tenderness” by Rosemary Wahtola Trimmer #mindfulness #meditation #love #compassion #selfcompassion #nomorewar #war #division #healing #wellness #mindset #healtheworld #RosemerryWohtolaTrommer #hate #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #unconsciousness #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Let's check in! How was February? What is one word you could use to describe this month #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #February #Rest #exhaustion #healing #wellness #mindset #selfcare #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #napping #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

What is your relationship to rest? Do you allow rest when you're tired or overwhelmed? Do you get to the end of the day feeling completely depleted, faced only with the prospect of doing it all over again exhausted? What can you do to create more space to rest on a daily basis? #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #impermanence #Rest #exhaustion #healing #wellness #mindset #selfcare #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity #napping #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

“In Irish when you talk about an emotion, you don’t say, ‘I am sad.’ You’d say, ‘Sadness is on me – Ta’ Bron Orm.” -P.O. Tuama What a beautiful way to both describe the way sadness feels while also giving some space to not identify with it!  So much of the suffering we deal with comes from taking something to be our identity rather than seeing it as a temporary condition, the way something is now, but that it will be different later.  This is the freedom of impermanence.  Talk is followed by guided meditation. #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #impermanence #depression #anger #healing #wellness #mindset #sadness #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #PadraigOTuama #positivity #Ta’BronOrm #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

It’s a hard one…let’s talk about it.  Do you give yourself permission to feel sad?  To feel the dark and heavy emotions?  How do you nurture yourself when faced with these emotions?   #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #depression #anger #healing #wellness #mindset #sadness #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #dogs #positivity #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

It is possible to soften our hearts.  Even in a hurtful world.  Even through our pain.  Even when we feel powerless.  Even with difficult people…especially with difficult people.  Metta is a beautiful heart practice of cultivating loving-kindness; a softening of the hear that includes everything.  The world wants us to be hard.  But our hearts want to be soft, want to love, want to be vulnerable…so we can connect.  This talk is followed by a 20 min guided Metta Meditation.Entire episode available at:YouTube:Spotify:“Self-Compassion” by Rosemary Wahtola Trimmer#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #selfsabotage #metta #healing #lovingkindness #mindset #sharonsalzberg #happiness #rosemerrywahtolatrommer #spirituality #peace #selfcompassion #dalailama #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Let's talk about it. The negative voices in our head. The false beliefs that we are unworthy. The poison that is comparison. There are so many ways we sabotage our growth, our dreams, and make us give up on ourselves. What does this look like for you? How do you over-come it? #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #selfsabotage #brenébrown #healing #wellness #mindset #lordoftherings #happiness #negativity #spirituality #peace #gollum #positivity #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

**Audio Only*** It is the very first thing we experience in a situation, but one that we typically aren't aware of...is it pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Being unaware of this very first experience, often sends us into reactivity and habits we don't always like, want to find helpful. In this talk we explore how to begin to discern these feelings and why pausing to notice these and the accompanying reactions can be so powerful. The talk is followed by a 20 minute guided meditation. The River by  @juliafeh  #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #embracing #forgiveness #peace #metta #positivity #lovingkindness #spiritual #consciousness #tarabrach #dannafaulds #spiritualawakening #acceptance #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Let's Check in.  How was January?  Looking back over the month, celebrate the times you were there for yourself, the times you noticed you needed something and stopped to give that very thing.  If there were times you did not give to yourself, extend forgiveness and use this acknowledgement as an opportunity to recommit to listening and being present for yourself.  Every day and every minute is an opportunity to begin again.  "You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously." -Sophia BushFull Episode Available at:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9ZHEw9Arrdxn1oz0ZNnJAhttps://open.spotify.com/show/7hqj1cA3N10lszQ2w3bPVK#mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #mentalhealth #inspiration #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #positivevibes #spirituality #peace #health #positivity #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle  #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

Forgiveness is an important piece of turning toward ourselves and growing toward embracing ourselves, just as we are. We need not continue to beat ourselves up over arbitrary ways we have not been "right". AND we can cultivate forgiveness, which will allow us to build trust with ourselves. In this talk and guided meditation we begin to understand just how to do that. The talk is followed by a 20 min guided meditation, which includes a forgiveness practice. #mindfulness #meditation #Trust #selflove #selfcare #trustyourself #mentalhealth #SelfForgiveness #healing #wellness #mindset #life #happiness #positivevibes #spirituality #peace #health #positivity #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #Forgiveness #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #mindfulnessmeditation #Dallasmindfulness #mindfulnessDallas #breathemeditationandwellness

When we're open to fully walking our path, open to learning and growing from all parts of our life, we find the people and situations who will help us. These people and situations are not always easy on us. In fact, I'd say the challenging ones are the most fruitful. They reflect us back to ourselves in way we can rarely ignore. They are our mirrors. Join me in exploring where these friends on the path are in your life and opening further to what they can teach us.

**Audio Only*** Rejection can be big and obvious. It can also be subtle, playing in the background and forming false beliefs within ourselves that don't align with our values. In this talk, we visit acceptance, one of the pillars of mindfulness, and how we change our thinking about what acceptance is. We also talk about the process of becoming familiar with when we are rejection ourselves so we can begin to offer ourselves the nurturing we need to turn the rejection into acceptance and, eventually, embracing and love. The talk is followed by a 20 minute guided meditation. @dannafaulds @tarabrach @radicalacceptance  Awakening Now by Danna Faulds Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach The Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto

Healing - this is my word for 2024. After a crazy year of transformation in 2023, i just feel tired. Bone tired. So the first step on my path toward embracing myself is to bring healing into every day. Through listening attentively inward, I will know exactly what it is I need in any moment to nurture myself. This act of awareness, listening, and nurturing IS healing.

Join Mindfulness Meditation teacher Michelle Marshall for talks with guided meditations, periodic reflections on how to incorporate mindfulness into everyday life, and on the journey to embracing ourselves, just as we are.

We say "Mindfulness", but what we are really talking about is Embodied Awareness. This talk is followed by a 15 minuted guided meditation.

Oh, Anger! What do we do with anger? What is our relationship to it? It can be an emotion we want nothing to do with or one we don't know how to deal with. How can we allow ourselves to be with anger in a way that is open to the learnings it has for us?

Asking ourselves this question brings curiosity to our experience. With it we can move from judgement to learning and delve deep into the beliefs and motivations beneath our behaviors. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation. *We had a very special student join us today!*

Winter can be a beautiful time of rest. A time when we allow ourselves to slow down and sink into the calm of shorter days and softer light. This short talk is followed by a 15 minuted guided meditation.

The beauty of being present in this moment is that a space is created from which we can begin to observe what is happening instead of reacting blindly; it gives us our power back. This talk is followed by a 15 guided meditation.

How do we relate to struggle?  Do we wrestle with it, try to ignore it?  Or do we make space for it to be known?  This talk is followed by a 10 minute guided meditation.

We are born curious and, so, I would say enchantment is our birth-right. Often we lose touch with our ability to stay open to wonder, but it takes only a small effort at falling in love with the world again to rekindle it. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.

Jon Kabat-Zinn says, "Above all, we can allow life itself to be the real meditation practice." When we approach our lives in this way, even a trip to the dentist can become fertile ground for practice and learning a little something about ourselves (other than having weak teeth). Followed by a 10 min. guided meditation.

Being trapped in a tiny seat on an airplane for nearly 13 hours will teach you something about what you can, in fact, endure. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.

It can be as simple as noticing a drop of water of a blade of grass, the shadow of a butterfly in flight, a spiderweb on a flower. There are so many ways just stopping and noticing the smallest of things can bring us fully into the moment and fill us with joy. This talk is followed by a 10 minute guided meditation.

We can make ourselves so miserable when something or someone doesn't live up to our expectations. But we can learn that it is not the situation or even the person, necessarily, that creates the misery, but our own clinging to what things should be like. In this episode, I delve into this idea inspired by a way I reacted to a recent retreat not being what I expected. The talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.

Our relationships with our bodies are often quite adversarial, negligent at best. But our body allows us pursue our dreams and goals, show affection to loved ones, and experience life in all it's fullness. In this talk, I delve into this fraught relationship, capping it off with a 10 min. guided gratitude meditation.