Practice: Fire Meditation on a Winter Night
Sitting, singing, and sharing stories around a bonfire is how humans connect with each other for millenniums. In this winter, build a fire in your yard or a camp ground. Invite your friends and neighbors over to join you in taking in the warmth and light. To begin the practice: Take in the gratitude into our heart. The warmth of friendship. Let’s first…
Practice: Working with Difficult Emotions
“All transformation comes after you come into contact with your body.” – Jonathan Foust Emotions stay in our body if we don’t process and release them. Yet if we can develop the capacity to be with them intimately, we can release them once we allow them the space to be fully experienced for a minute or two. When we work with difficult emotions, we…
Practice: Tree Meditation
In a technology-oriented world we live today, we rarely get the opportunity to have an intimate and deep connection with the natural world and learn from it. This practice of standing in front of and interacting with a single tree, will help us cultivate the sensitivities and attunement to a living being. And we can find a tree even in an urban environment. 1)…
Taking a Walk in the Labyrinth of Vulnerability
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.” ― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Truthfully, instead of writing a blog to share spiritual practices and meditation experiences, I would be content to just…