Mini Teachings for Independent Practice
Europa invites us to consider how we can expand our living ways of absorbing information and how this influences our meditation practice.
Wesley explores how balancing negative and positive outlooks allows us to more fully realize our capacity for taking action in the world.
Denmo offers a slogan for how we can work with our own attachment to the world and a helpful reminder that perception does not equal reality.
Europa invites us to consider the body’s relationship to water and to explore the sensations of water within the body.
Hannah Pearl shares the significance of the seasonal time for strengthening our roots and reconnecting with our home, the earth.
Abby guides us through the beginning of a Three Fold breathing practice, encouraging mindful breath, release of tension, and self-compassion.
Denmo uses an example from her physical theatre training to identify our potential for movement within stillness.
Hannah Pearl brings the Mullein plant into practice to offer its medicinal properties and symbolism for the health of the musculoskeletal system and the lungs.
Nicolle introduces us to the use of Seed Syllables in chanting, their use in calming the nervous system, and the universal resonance of humming.
Abby guides us through a breathing exercise (to be done while lying on the back) aimed at body and breath awareness in relationship to the earth.
Norman introduces the practice of "interoception"—the purposeful feeling of sensations in the body—and guides us to use the breath to foster an awareness of our physical connection with the ground.
Europa reminds us that it is both possible to set intentions clearly and to hold expectations gently, allowing each moment to become what it was meant to be.
Norman shares how bringing our awareness back to the body can be a welcome break from our daily, moment-to-moment thinking activity.
Wesley invites us to turn our attention towards felt sense in the body, as it relates to breath and awareness. In somatic meditation we come into contact with the sensation of space and begin to connect with that openness, this life force, the universe within us.
Nicolle offers a teaching and personal insight inspired by the quote from Chögyam Trungpa: "The bad news is you’re falling [...]. The good news is, there’s no ground.”
