Use code SUMMERPRACTICE for a 25% discount on all On Demand Courses through August 31.

Search Sangha Live

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of 26 May, 2025

Milla Gregor

We’re delighted to have Milla Gregor leading our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May these sessions support and deepen your practice.

This week’s theme is: Being Grounded: Five+ Ways

What is it, to feel grounded, for you? Contact with the earth, with fundamental interrelatedness, your body, values or lineage; with the histories of the land? What’s the opposite of being grounded? We’ll explore such ideas, grounding our reflections in embodied meditation practice.

Our Dharma Library thrives through collective generosity. Your donation helps sustain this offering for our entire community.

What is groundedness for?

May 26, 2025

What is groundedness for? Where might we ground? What are the qualities of a useful place to ground?

Giving the monkey mind an apple

May 27, 2025

Giving the monkey mind an apple – practical tools and tips for finding steadiness in our practice (counting, gathas)

Grounding in our fundamental interrelatedness

May 28, 2025

Grounding in our fundamental interrelatedness. Gratitude and connection with teachers, lineage, peers, supporters, friends, and all our various sanghas.

Making 'the shift'

May 29, 2025

Making ‘the shift’ – finding the somatic signature of groundedness and its opposite in our bodies, playing with moving between them deliberately as a form of practice, and within meditation practice

Creating your own grounding/ steadiness gatha

May 30, 2025

Creative gathas shared by the sangha in the chat on Friday 30th May

Nadia Abdel-Karim

Settling in, I become grounded, like a mountain

Being grounded, I feel fearless

Being grounded, courage can emerge

Now, I can stand in harm’s way of evil forces in this world

 

Caz Sheldon

Settling in I become grounded like great tree roots

Catherine Thompson

Settling in I become grounded like deep water

 

Golo Föllmer

Settling in, I become grounded, like a warm rock in the sun

Being grounded, I feel connected inside and outside

Being grounded, confidence in me and others can emerge

Now, I can approach the day with a smile

… what a wonderful thing to do, thank you!

 

Caz Sheldon

Being grounded I feel I am Earth

 

Victoria Peake

Settling in I become grounded like a mountain. Being grounded I feel rooted

and settled

 

Henry Wilcox

Settling in, I become grounded, like a tree,

Being grounded, I feel rooted to the ground,

Being grounded, spaciousness can emerge,

Now, I can be free.

 

Kathy

mountain solid I can relax I can sit, wait, be.

 

Ines Hughes

Like a rock in a river

Feel safe and secure

Spaciousness can emerge

Become connected to all things

 

Victoria Peake

Being grounded opens to all can emerge. Now I can breathe fully and be

present

 

Harriet Thistlethwaite

Like a swan landing on the nest

I feel homecoming

And can rest secure

 

Caz Sheldon

Being grounded I feel I am Earth; Now I can just be.

 

bec gee

Settling in, I become grounded, like slowly growing roots.

Being grounded, I feel held.

Being grounded, space can emerge

Now, I can notice.

 

Caz Sheldon

Grounded – roots; Earth; Just be.

 

Gerta Stenfert

Moutain, heavy, trust, live easily, free and with joy

 

Laura Stahnke

Settling in I become grounded

 

Clive Martinez

My simpler gatha:

Breathing in I feel supported by the ground

Breathing out I feel connected.

Supported; connected.

 

Catherine Thompson

Settling in I become grounded like deep water,being grounded I feel I am

dropoing to unfathomable depth,being grounded I feel stilness can emerge,Now

I can have deep rest.

 

Hannah Baker

Like a stone nestled in the earth, connected and present, i open up beyond

myself, alive

 

Laura Stahnke

like an oak rooted to the earth, being grounded I feel restored and renewed,

being grounded strength can emerge, now I can smile at life

 

Sally Howard

Settling, the oak

Rooted and Stable

Lightness can emerge

Now, calm, feel free

 

Laura Stahnke

Settling in I become grounded like an oak rooted in the earth, being grounded I

feel restored and renewed, being grounded strength can emerge, now I can

openly smile at life!

 

Adina Malveklint

Settling in, I become grounded, like a rock on a flat surface

Being grounded, I feel connected with my bones

Being grounded, I am entering the world

Now, I can rest in myself

 

Emily West

One with the earth,

Secure,

Freedom emerges,

Now I can fly

Discussion

One thought on “Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of 26 May, 2025”

Leave a Reply

Discover more from the Dharma Library

  • Miles Kessler

    Daily Meditation Recordings, with Miles Kessler – Week of October 30, 2023

    This week’s topic is “Meditation In A Time Of Crisis”. As the world spirals into yet another all too frequent crisis, we are once again confronted with our basic human fragility. At times like these, it is not uncommon to be overcome by insecurity, anxiety, and fear with the recognition of your own human vulnerability. Now more than ever, it’s helpful to rely on your Dharma practice as a refuge. Not as a practice of liberation that gives you refuge FROM the world, but rather as one that gives you refuge IN the world. Join Miles in this week of Meditation In A Time Of Crisis and cultivate your greatest spiritual resource.

    Read More

  • Shaila Catherine

    Who Knows Best?: Exploring the Judging Mind

    Recorded : July 14, 2024

    In this Sunday Sangha session, we will address the common tendencies to judge and compare. Wise discernment is useful, but excessive comparing and compulsive judging can harm relationships, obscure the clarity of perception, and thwart spiritual development. This session includes practical suggestions for calming a harsh inner critic, while encouraging critical and thoughtful inquiry. (Please…

    Read More

  •

    Five tenets of a whole life path

    Recorded : November 19, 2017

    Many long for a way to “integrate” their Buddhist practice with what is often called “the rest of my life.” This often fails. Doesn’t integration refer to separate things that must be brought together? In this talk, Gregory offers what he calls the Five Tenets of a Whole Life Path, a practical, yet demanding, way…

    Read More

  •

    The Power of Relational Awareness

    Recorded : September 9, 2018

    In this session, Oren Jay Sofer shares reflections on the basics of Mindful Communication, with particular focus on the internal foundations of successful communication. The talk explores some of the ways our silent contemplative practice can support our interpersonal relationships, while the Q&A delves into more specific issues of conversation and relationships.

    Read More

  • James Rafael

    Daily Meditation Recordings, with James Rafael – Week of April 24, 2023

    This week’s topic is “Fluidity and Flux: Gateways to a Kinder, More Inclusive World”. The Buddha’s teachings on impermanence and compassion offer us gateways to cultivate a kinder, more inclusive world for all. Impermanence connects us to a sense of fluidity and flux, where we can see through the illusion of solid binaries and fixed identities. This can inspire us toward action that includes, appreciates and holds others with kindness.

    Read More

  • James Baraz

    Gladness of the Wholesome: The Buddha’s Teaching on Awakening Joy

    Recorded : January 15, 2023

    The Buddha was known as The Happy One. Though Joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with so much emphasis on working with suffering, joy can sometimes seem frivolous or unspiritual. His teaching on attending to the ‘Gladness Connected with the Wholesome’ is a key aspect of Wise Effort and developing a loving heart. We will practice and explore together this foundation for awakening joy.

    Read More