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Tonglen is the traditional Buddhist Meditation for compassion. Today's variation is Tonglen for self. We can't give what we don't have and this practice offers an accessible way to support and empower ourselves.

Sitting meditation can be frustrating because we're given the instruction "let go of your thoughts" ... but there isn't much to do in sitting meditation and we can become very aware of our thoughts! This is a feature not a flaw. Here's why.

Meditation often gets pushed to the back burner during the summer. These two meditations are invitations to connect back to YOUR "why meditate."

A somatic practice to counter summer's fiery, expansive energy. This 15-minute practice helps you land in this moment before intentionally moving forward.

Gom is a Tibetan word for meditation. It translates as "to familiarize." During the razzle-dazzle of summer, it's easy to be distracted from our own life. This meditation is an invitation to re-familiarize ourselves with ourselves and give ourselves a little love because, as Thich Nhat Hanh says, "understanding is love's other name."

What we see is interesting. What we don't see is even more interesting.

Using Buddhism, Tarot, and poetry, this meditation invites us to let go of our fixed ideas of how things "should" be and find more peace in how things are.

This meditation uses the technique of breath with visualization.

"Grasshopper mind" is an apt description for the all-over-the-place quality of our mind when we sit in meditation. Mary Reufle's poem "Grasshopper" gives us a good metaphor and invitation for landing in this moment and being present for our lives. This meditation uses a poem from Mary Ruefle, entitled "Grasshopper," which offers a metaphor for our practice of being here, of being more present for all the moments of our lives.

Reclaiming our attention is a radical act that lets us control our own time and our connections. Our time and our connections determine the quality of our lives.

The 3 Root Poisons cause our suffering. We filter everything in our lives through one of three lenses: attachment, aversion, and ignorance. We can practice meditation as a way to see these root poisons - and then gently clean the lenses - so that we can see a little more clearly and suffer less.

This practice uses a somatic exercise from the Strouzzi Institute for Somatics that I learned from LaUra Schmidt of the Good Grief Network.

A good boundary protects our peace and allow us to remain in alignment with our values. This is easier said than done, especially if we've spent years developing defense mechanisms that rest in anger, detachment, or people pleasing. The Loving-Kindness meditation can help us put down our unhelpful defense mechanisms so that we can create healthy boundaries.

People (myself included) usually come to meditation because they want to feel different, better.

A quick, powerful meditation for processing emotions.

The Merriam-Webster definition of orient is “to acquaint with the existing situation or environment; to ascertain the bearings of.” This meditation of "orienting" is a practice of locating yourself on a metaphorical map. You are here ❌ physically, mentally, emotionally. Knowing where you are starting, you can move forward with more awareness, intentionality, and ease. This 17-minute practices moves through three stages: orienting to our physical surroundings orienting to our

When a child is bouncing off the walls with energy, we might give them a challenge, like "see how many times you can run around the house." A Thought Party Meditation uses the same principle for our busy minds. When our minds are racing we can say, "great - let's see how busy you can get!" We let them run wild, exhausting their energy and, ultimately, creating some quiet. This 16-minute meditation was recorded on 5/6/26.

"Gratitude" can feel cliché. But, when experienced as authentic and embodied, gratitude can be transformative. Practicing gratitude allows us to feel joy, connection, and happiness -- without denying feelings of sadness, disappointment, or anger. As Nikita Gill references in her poem above, we can acknowledge an apocalypse and also turn to glimmers of beauty. Here's a 24-minute gratitude practice from 5/5/26 to help you connect to what you're grateful for right now. Before o

A Zen Koan: "Only one thing made him happy. When it was gone, everything made him happy." - Leonard Cohen

Meditation trains us to come back to reality as it is. During practice, we notice the stories and assumptions that we layer on top of what is actually happening. As we meditate, we build the habit of recognizing thoughts as thoughts, letting them go, and coming back to reality as it is in this moment. We do this because it is nice to be with reality directly. And, also, because we increase our own suffering with our assumptions and fixed ideas. As the story of "Good or Bad Lu