Beginning with the preliminary practices that establish a foundation for meditation, these instructions explore mindfulness of the body in sitting, walking, and everyday movement, with an emphasis on curiosity, kindness, ease, and continuity of awareness.
An introduction to the Ānāpānasati Sutta and its sixteen-step path of mindfulness of breathing, exploring how calming and insight practices support one another in cultivating steadiness, clarity, and freedom from clinging.
Principles and clear practices for wise mindfulness with emotions. An alternative to "RAIN" is "RAFT": recognize, allow, feel, tease apart (and trust).
As mindfulness practice unfolds, our experience of dukkha (suffering, dis-ease) naturally shifts and changes. Compassion morphs to meet it. This talk explores five faces of compassion that are cultivated through our mindfulness practice: patience, capacity, humility, spaciousness, and not-self.
