A guided meditation on practicing at home - how to use familiar experiences to reconnect to the fullness of your life. This is the opening session from the December daylong online retreat.

A guided meditation, cultivation of the seven factors of awakening within the meditation on radiating metta in all directions

Guided Meditation | Relating the Brahmavihara to the Seven Factors of Awakening increases their liberating potential

Guided Meditation

Guided body sweeping meditation on the three feeling tones - pleasant, painful, neither-pleasant-nor-painful.

A guided meditation on karuna, mudita, upekha

A guided meditation on the Four Brahama Viharas with a radiant heart.

A guided meditation using brief phrases of compassion and the wish for beings to be safe

Guided Meditation

A short introduction and guided practice on the second foundation of mindfulness.

Guided walking meditation and hand movement meditation.

A guided meditation to establish the heart and mind in metta.

Guided meditation and talk

Encouragement to have the courage and faith to go against the obligations of our lives and take time to center in citta. Amidst the activities of mind, there’s a place of balance and rest, release and non-clinging.

Beginning the process of centering, set aside what isn’t relevant right now. Strengthen the bodily reference to help support citta. Acknowledge the sense of I am – what is the I, how is that experienced?

The energy of citta is conjoined with bodily energy. Steadying and brightening body gives citta a place to rest so it can withdraw from phenomena. With the disentangling from phenomena, the quiet center of citta, the knowingness, becomes more apparent.

A guided meditation for the end of year, beginning with settling into the body breathing, then after some silence, reflecting on the year as it ends, attuning to and acknowledging any benefits that have come from practising together in community

The art of forgiveness begins with connecting to the heart. The practice involves learning skills such as metta, mindful acknowledgement, and compassion. Practicing these skills enables you to free yourself from painful identification with past events. This is a day to bring remorse or grief about past actions and move beyond feelings of guilt and shame. Likewise, if someone has wronged you, you will be guided toward holding them in accountability without closing your heart. Additionally, forgiveness practice will move you toward clarity and acceptance for the ways you have let yourself down. Practicing forgiveness allows you to move from a heavy, remorseful heart and a reactive mind to a heart that’s light but still feels regret, and a mind that is calm and clear. The day will be held with periods of guided silent sitting and walking meditation practice, instruction in the art and practice of forgiveness, and a forgiveness ceremony, with opportunities to ask questions to the instructors.

Guided Meditation

Guided Meditation