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Guided Meditation 1: Recollection of the Dhamma: Sanditthiko (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma)
A 44-minute guided practice led by Kim Allen, from Uncontrived.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation2, Receptive Enquiry (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma)
A 45-minute guided practice led by Kim Allen, from Uncontrived.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Equanimity Meditation
A 43-minute guided equanimity practice led by Jill Davey, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Self-Compassion Meditation
A 33-minute guided compassion practice led by Jill Davey, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Mindfulness of Body
A 44-minute guided practice led by Jill Davey, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life
Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from the archives).Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease
This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence
This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and practice “relaxing back” when the mind gets lost in thought.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others. Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided sitting meditation
A 28-minute guided practice led by Stephen Fulder, from London Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Refuges and guided meditation
A 42-minute guided practice led by Stephen Fulder, from London Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided lying down meditation
A 21-minute guided practice led by Stephen Fulder, from London Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness
Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Tonglen
A 34-minute guided compassion practice led by Daryl Lynn Ross, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Metta
A 26-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Daryl Lynn Ross, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart
During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Living Loving Awareness
By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive continuous space filled with the light of awareness. This meditation attunes us to these dimensions of awareness: continuous open space, heart space and full aliveness. We end with a Zen poem that invites us to rest in this living, loving awareness, and know it as home.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation 1 (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
A 44-minute guided practice led by Kim Allen, from Uncontrived.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation 2 (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
A 18-minute guided practice led by Kim Allen, from Uncontrived.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs – no bell at end).Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs – no bell at end).Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence
When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation on the five reflections
A 22-minute guided practice led by Yanai Postelnik, from London Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts
Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance with a growing creativity and love.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Introduction to Equanimity as a Brahma Vihara followed by a guided practice
A 44-minute guided equanimity practice led by Jean Esther, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Metta/Karuna guided body scan meditation
A 46-minute guided body scan practice led by Nakawe Cuebas Berrios, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Metta Practice for Easy Person/Benefactor, Self, and Neutral Person
A 42-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Jean Esther, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.”Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Gratitude meditation with introduction
A 26-minute guided gratitude & joy practice led by Jake Dartington, from London Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Resting in Knowing
Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence. Learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the blessings of homecoming.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind
Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention – and including the background sounds. Not pushing away anything – a very open and relaxed, receptive attention.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided abiding and radiating joy meditation
A 1-hour 23-minute guided practice led by Jeanne Corrigal, from True North Insight.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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A Mettā Attitude to All Phenomena - Guided Meditation
A 45-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Feeling Non-Identification - Anattā Meditation Instructions
A 1-hour 2-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Notice the Feeling of Well-Being as We Radiate Metta and Well-Being - Guided Meditation
A 44-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Letting in The Good - Meditation Instructions
A 1-hour 1-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Feeling Breath Energy Through The Whole Body - Guided Meditation
A 43-minute guided breath practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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