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Uncovering your Natural Awareness

With Diana Winston recorded on April 7, 2019.

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There are many ways to practice mindfulness, from the focused and deliberate to the expansive and relaxed. In this session, Diana teaches about natural awareness, which is a wide open, spacious, effortless awareness of awareness. Learn simple shifts and “Glimpse Practices” to connect with our radiant awareness.

(A version of this recording with Spanish subtitles can be found here.)

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