Meditation

Mystic Spring Practice (3/4): Saturday

Opening: 0 to 1:29; Stretch and Breathe: 1:30 to 5:02; The Story and Meditation Prompts: 5:03 to 10:00 Opening: 0 to 1:29 Adam, I just wanted to tell you that the first text I opened

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Mystic Spring (2/4) Good Friday

Practice 2 of four consecutive days for Easter. Gathering of friends for holy weekend practice. Seeds for meditation: Standing in the face of injustice. Forgiveness. Mercy. Psalms. The million deaths, the infinite rebirth. Meditation: communing

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Meditation for My Beloved

This 9 minute meditation for a spouse, lover, partner or beloved is being released as a Valentine’s Day gift, but it’s meant to be used any time. It’s part of a prescription thought series: meditation,

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The Breath is a Wonder Drug.

Breath as Medicine: Better than any Drug Breathing is, generally speaking, automatic: the brain stem controls the rate of breathing in response to blood-oxygen levels, as measured by receptors in the aorta. These blood-oxygen levels

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The Transforming Power of Silence

This winter, my partner and I went to a quiet retreat center outside of Delhi, India. We sat in silence for seven days. Doing nothing. Saying nothing. Not reading. Not writing. Averting our gaze from

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