Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts

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Charlotte Center For Mindfulness weekly sharings and meditations

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Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts episodes:

05.31.2024
Thank You. I Am Grateful For Everything
Once there was a wise old sage, and people would travel a long ways to receive his teachings. He always taught one thing, a mantra to say to everything in life: Thank you, I am grateful for everything. One time a...
05.31.2024
Sitting Meditation- Welcoming the moment
How we meet the moment of waking back up, makes all the difference in our practice. This city meditation is an opportunity to deeply explore that moment of re-awakening.
05.27.2024
The Safe Harbor of Moment to Moment Awareness [5.22.24]
Today we continue to look at how re-anchoring in moment to moment awareness is a powerful practice in finding a better way to navigate any day. This talk draws from Tara Brach’s practice of Four Remembrances: Pausing, Yes to Life,...
05.27.2024
Sitting Meditation- Four Remembrances [5.22.24]
This meditation draws from Tara Brach, teaching on four remembrances for practice: Pausing, saying yes to life, turning towards love, resting in awareness. What It Is It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It...
05.26.2024
The Safe Haven of Moment to Moment Mindfulness [5.15.24]
This talk explores how bringing moment to moment mindfulness into daily life has nothing to do with “being good!” and everything instead to do with “being sane”.
05.26.2024
Sitting Meditation- Just Being Here [5.15.24]
in this practice, we explore opening to the wholeness of what’s here, the gratitude and release as well as the contracted and reactionary.
05.17.2024
Seven Mantras of Love Part 2 [5.8.24]
We were grateful this week to have David Viafora and Jessie Raye from Greatwoods Zen Retreat Center guest lead again this week. Unfortunately we were not able to record their first visit, but this week's sharing works fine as a...
05.13.2024
Enduro Brushy Mountain Beatdown and Being Awake [5.1.24]
How a brutal motorcycle trail race teaches us all about being alive and using our practice to wake up.
05.13.2024
Sitting Meditation- Sitting with the Tree of Your Spine [5.1.24]
This meditation again draws from the Somatics work of Amanda Blake and Embright Organization, and is offers a strong way to use the body as a rooting anchor of support.
04.16.2024
Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 3: The Safety of a True Friend
Today’s sharing on safety is an inquiry practice into the qualities that make a friendship a safe place and how these qualities are manifesting, or not, in our mindfulness practice. Note: One quality named was “perspective”. It needs to be acknowledged...
04.16.2024
Sitting Meditation- The Water of Our Being
Opening up to the shared physical nature of our being is an avenue for contemplative experience of safety, connection, and respect.
04.09.2024
Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 2 [4.3.24]
This time we look at a reliable sense of safety more through the lens of neuroscience/modern psychology as well as introduce the Buddhist practice of lovingkindness-- which was originally taught as an antidote to fear. Discourse on Good Will From teachings of...
04.09.2024
Sitting Meditation- The Interwovenness of Compassion and Safety [4.3.24]
How do we learn to meet ourselves, just as we are, in a way that provides an internal sense of safety? Erich Fried, translated by: ANNA KALLIO It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but...
04.08.2024
Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 1 [3.27.24]
We look again at the necessary nourishment of an internal sense of safety that is not dependent upon having things be the way we want them to be-- this time primarily from a spiritual standpoint, drawing from leaders such as...
04.08.2024
Sitting Meditation- Leaning Into the Tree of Our Spine [3.27.24]
This meditation draws heavily from Amanda Blake of Embright Organization and the field of somatics. Much as we would know we can rely on the support of a strong mature tree, this mediation uses the imagery of learning how to...
04.05.2024
Safety, Connection and Respect Inquiry Practice [3.14.24]
We come back again to safety, connection and respect this week-- this time with inquiry questions to consider these qualities for yourself. Consider a time in your life where you know something about these 3 qualities, some place with a...
04.05.2024
Sitting Meditation- Cultivating an Unshakable Sense of Safety, Connection, and Respect [3.14.24]
Again, drawing from the field of Somatics’ understanding that an inner sense of safety, connection and respect are foundational for our well-being, we use the body as a focus in cultivating these qualities within ourselves.
03.09.2024
Basic Nourishment of Safety, Connection and Respect
Just as sunlight, water and soil are basic nutrients for plant life well-being, safety, connection and respect are basic nutrients for our own human well-being. In this sharing we explore how we might offer this kind of nourishment towards our...
03.09.2024
Sitting Meditation- Safety
This meditation considers how opening in the direction of safety, connection and respect is useful in our formal practice.
02.27.2024
Working With Our Practice Challenges
This week we explore inquiries around the challenges that arise in practice and what skillful ways we might be learning to work with them.
02.27.2024
Sitting Meditation- Openings and Closings: Greeting it All
Your hand opens and closes, and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. -Rumi
02.08.2024
The Chenoo
Chenoos are Native American mythological angry monsters. Looking at a Chenoo story from Joseph Bruchac is a beautiful lesson in how we might use mindfulness to meet both our anger and fear.
02.08.2024
Sitting Meditation- Hard and Easy Complete Each Other
From the Tao Te Ching, translated by Ursula LeGuin: ...Hard and easy complete each other long and short shape each other high and low depend on each other note invoice make the music together before and after follow each other... The...
02.02.2024
Mindfulness, Spirituality, and Prayer [1.31.24]
Today was an opportunity for an inquiry exercise to explore the intersection of mindfulness practice, spirituality and prayer. This includes how Thich Nhat Hanh’s poem, Call Me By My True Name, might be considered as a prayer.
02.02.2024
Sitting Mediation- Body Scan with Wisdom and Kindness [1.31.24]
Today’s sitting practice includes a body scan Informed deeply by wisdom and kindness for what’s here.
01.28.2024
Meeting Place of Mindfulness and Prayer [1.24.24]
We continue our exploration“connection with spirit,” which Polyvagal Theory names of as one of the 4 foundational connections needed for human well-being. Today we look at this through the lens of prayer. Where might these words, prayer, devotion, sacred get...
01.28.2024
Sitting Meditation- Acknowledging the Whole Moment [1.24.24]
This practice is about greeting what is here, not trying to force ourselves into what we think should be here instead. What does that look like for you?
01.21.2024
Living with the 10,000 Joys and the 10,000 Sorrows
Drawing from Suleika Jaouad, Jon Batiste and Rumi, we look at how we can be wise and compassionate with the challenges that arise.
01.21.2024
Sitting Meditation- What’s Here?
Bringing curiosity to whatever happens: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and...
01.12.2024
Do the Dishes [1.10.24]
Drawing from a sharing from Byron Katie about doing the dishes, we look at learning to love whatever we need “to do.” We can use this to skillfully navigate the joys, the sorrows, the challenges and the mundane in a...
01.12.2024
Sitting Meditation- Receptivity [1.10.24]
This is an opportunity to practice being receptive to your own being. Koshin Paley Ellison: Being receptive is essentially being open to learning from everything. Some people hear this and are frightened. Others hear it and are excited … But true...
01.05.2024
Constellation of Belonging
This sharing draws from Sheryl Chard’s practice, Constellation of Belonging, from grateful.org You belong. Everywhere. Yes, you—with all your history, anxiety, pain. Yes, everywhere—in every culture, community and circumstance, you belong in this body. You belong in this very moment. You...
01.05.2024
Sitting Meditation- Respecting Our Wholeness
In this sit, we open to exploring all of what’s here in this moment, not just the often very small story of “who we are vs who should be…"
12.13.2023
Compassion Fatigue and Movie Meditation
This session explores how a meditation on a “triggering” children’s movie helped me see how the compassion in the term “compassion fatigue” is probably not compassion at all... Please note: slight distortion from 00:00-03:00 and briefly around 15:00
12.13.2023
Sitting Meditation- Pendulation, a Natural Rhythm of Life
We can learn to use a practice of skillful pendulation in our sitting practice, and in the whole our life as a means of grounding with challenge. This is a practice of flowing with a natural movement of coming and...
12.07.2023
Finding Refuge in The Dharma. Part 3
This sharing explores the congruency between refuge in the Dharma and modern behavioral medicine, particularly drawing from Judson Brewer's gears model for habit change. If you want more information on Judson Brewer, please see this Ted Talk.
12.07.2023
Sitting Meditation- “What It Is.” Part 2
Revisiting the poem, “What It Is“ is an opportunity to explore even deeper opening into what is here with compassion and wisdom.
12.01.2023
Refuge in the Way of Things. Part 2
This talk again explores the Buddhist practice of taking refuge in the Dharma. Dharma refers to an inherent knowable wholeness in all things— a concept that is palpable and useful in everyday life when we look for it. Note: there is...
12.01.2023
Sitting Meditation- What It Is
What It Is (English translation of Was es ist) Written by: Erich Fried. Translated by: Anna Kallio It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says love It is calamity says calculation It is nothing but pain says fear It is hopeless says insight It is what it is says love It is...
11.27.2023
Refuge in the Way of Things. Part 1
In this sharing, we look at the Buddhist concept of "Taking Refuge." This can be understood in many ways, one of which is through a deep examination of feedback pointing to wholeness in the natural world as well as within our...
11.27.2023
Sitting Meditation- Remembering Home
A meditation to help remind us that home is always already here and available in each moment now. Tasting Mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely, of being in your body so completely, of being in your life so completely, that...
11.20.2023
Car Towing and Mindfulness Practice
This sharing looks at specific practices for integrating our practice into daily life-- even when daily life is 5 failed attempts to get your car towed... Click here for the handout. If you want to learn more about polyvagal exercises, Polyvagal...
11.20.2023
Sitting Meditation- Re-joining Body, Mind and Heart
The word yoga has a definition of “to yoke“. In this sitting meditation, we are practicing a kind of yoga, or yoking, of body, mind and heart.
11.19.2021
Sitting Meditation- Practice with Refuge
There is a tradition beautiful Buddhist practice of taking refuge. In this practice I expand on that practice with a broadened understanding of taking refuge.
11.19.2021
Zen Story and Racial Awareness
Join me for a sharing of an old Zen story about a head cook and his unexpected soup and how this story is so useful for being skillful with our mistakes, including those involving racial bias awareness.
10.15.2021
Sitting Meditation- Wise Effort
There are many different flavors to "efforting" -- some useful and some not so useful. What is it like to intention explore a balanced soft effort that allows you to stay engaged with your practice, without over-efforting and contracting.
10.15.2021
Revisiting Wise Effort
A dream about engaging the right kind of effort inspired this exploration of different kinds of "efforting" -- everything from not enough effort, to punishing grunt work effort, to a soft, open, trusting effortless effort.
10.02.2021
Sitting Meditation- Meditating With What Is Here
So often we burden our meditation practice with loaded expectations of what it should look like and what should happen if I am a good meditator. But in reality every meditation is an open invitation to lay down those expectations...
10.02.2021
Ana and the Flow of the Universe
I share how our beloved cat, Ana, who has been in "hospice" care for a while, died sometime during the night, and how a serendipitous find of Licity Collins and her beautiful music and writing spoke to the tenor of...
09.28.2021
Sitting Meditation – Taking in the Good
In this meditation we explore a formal practice for strengthening a resource of "taking in the good."

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Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts episodes:

Thank You. I Am Grateful For Everything

Sitting Meditation- Welcoming the moment

The Safe Harbor of Moment to Moment Awareness [5.22.24]

Sitting Meditation- Four Remembrances [5.22.24]

The Safe Haven of Moment to Moment Mindfulness [5.15.24]

Sitting Meditation- Just Being Here [5.15.24]

Seven Mantras of Love Part 2 [5.8.24]

Enduro Brushy Mountain Beatdown and Being Awake [5.1.24]

Sitting Meditation- Sitting with the Tree of Your Spine [5.1.24]

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 3: The Safety of a True Friend

Sitting Meditation- The Water of Our Being

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 2 [4.3.24]

Sitting Meditation- The Interwovenness of Compassion and Safety [4.3.24]

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 1 [3.27.24]

Sitting Meditation- Leaning Into the Tree of Our Spine [3.27.24]

Safety, Connection and Respect Inquiry Practice [3.14.24]

Sitting Meditation- Cultivating an Unshakable Sense of Safety, Connection, and Respect [3.14.24]

Basic Nourishment of Safety, Connection and Respect

Sitting Meditation- Safety

Working With Our Practice Challenges

Sitting Meditation- Openings and Closings: Greeting it All

The Chenoo

Sitting Meditation- Hard and Easy Complete Each Other

Mindfulness, Spirituality, and Prayer [1.31.24]

Sitting Mediation- Body Scan with Wisdom and Kindness [1.31.24]

Meeting Place of Mindfulness and Prayer [1.24.24]

Sitting Meditation- Acknowledging the Whole Moment [1.24.24]

Living with the 10,000 Joys and the 10,000 Sorrows

Sitting Meditation- What’s Here?

Do the Dishes [1.10.24]

Sitting Meditation- Receptivity [1.10.24]

Constellation of Belonging

Sitting Meditation- Respecting Our Wholeness

Compassion Fatigue and Movie Meditation

Sitting Meditation- Pendulation, a Natural Rhythm of Life

Finding Refuge in The Dharma. Part 3

Sitting Meditation- “What It Is.” Part 2

Refuge in the Way of Things. Part 2

Sitting Meditation- What It Is

Refuge in the Way of Things. Part 1

Sitting Meditation- Remembering Home

Car Towing and Mindfulness Practice

Sitting Meditation- Re-joining Body, Mind and Heart

Sitting Meditation- Practice with Refuge

Zen Story and Racial Awareness

Sitting Meditation- Wise Effort

Revisiting Wise Effort

Sitting Meditation- Meditating With What Is Here

Ana and the Flow of the Universe

Sitting Meditation – Taking in the Good