Awareness Shift: Knowing the Nature of the Body, Heart, and Mind

Connecting to inner and outer nature is an aspect of spiritual practice essential to recognizing what is. A treasured shift of awareness can facilitate an emergence from egocentric into ecocentric existence by widening the...

In this research the meditation was directed specifically to explore themes related to the self, boundary and limits, on the one hand and beyond the self and boundaries, and limitlessness on the other.

Right now, holding certainty about many aspects of life is impossible. Together we explore how our practice can support us when not knowing feels groundless and how we can find freedom even when the...

Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.

Saying yes to life can allow us to be freed from the conditioned loop of seeking and resisting. It can spark remembrance of what’s most fundamental: awareness itself. 

Equanimity, or upekkha, is the last of the four Brahma Viharas or heart practices. It holds the other three—loving-kindness, compassion, and joy—with a spacious awareness that allows us to experience whatever is here with...

Many of us have also discovered that our practice is bearing witness and being intimate with exactly where we are and where the world is, tough though this can be. We must stay the...

One of the frameworks that's helpful in these cases is trauma-sensitive mindfulness practice. Trauma-sensitive, or trauma-informed, mindfulness means that we have a basic understanding of trauma in the context of our practice. We can learn how...

Social media can be triggering for many of us. It can provide fuel for the mind of comparison, heightening our sense of unworthiness. It can stimulate fears. What shifts when our social media feeds...

What does our body know that the mind does not? We can only discover what the body knows by an act of receptivity: we can listen. We are pretty good at listening to the...