In this twelve minute meditation, you'll be guided to focus on particular somatic points while relaxing with progressive exhalations, softening, feeling and moving into deeper, spacious states of awareness and presence. 

This talk explores what it takes to live life with a clear conscience.

You’ll learn how regret is a natural part of our human experience, how helpful it can be to slow down and address your regrets as well as how powerful it can be to deeply inquire as to the guidelines by which you will live the rest of your life to ensure you live as fully as possible. 

This talk explores more on the evolution of meditation practice.

I share stories from some of my more intense explorations from my 50 years of meditation practice and here I'll talk about about the practices of will and surrender.    

There will be a number of reflections for you to try on some of the techniques I explore.

This talk continues to explore how meditation practice evolves over time.

You’ll learn how your practice can unleash new possibilities, build energy and vitality and how important it is to continue to focus on purifying your desires.   I share some of my experiences of living in the ashram, my years of intensive practice and what I learned along the way. 

There will be a number of reflections for you to try on some of the techniques I explore.

This talk explores how meditation practice evolves over time.

You’ll learn about the sacred moment when you are first aware of the mystery of awakening, the egoic call to be somebody, the drive to be somebody special and ultimately, the call to be nobody special.  I’l be sharing some of my personal practice experiences as well as some reflections.

Through your life, your personal practice can be a tool to wake up to what is most important in your life.

How do you figure out the most important thing?

Maybe you're caught between two ideas. Maybe you're trying to decide whether it's time to change careers, or whether to have kids. Maybe you're trying to discern where to best spend your energy as an activist.

Maybe you want to be able to better identify the most important thing in any given moment.

This week's conversation with meditation teacher Jonathan Foust should help with navigating all those questions and more, and was filled with practical mindfulness and life advice.

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This encore talk explores how to wake up your deepest inner knowing.

You’ll learn how you are the product of all your teachers so far in your life, how some teachers come from a lineage while others don’t, how valuable is it to seek those who’ve walked before us and how external teachers ultimately point to waking up our own inner guidance.

This talk explores how to stay present when the going gets tough.

You’ll learn about the inherent drive for wholeness, the nature of attraction and desire, how to stay awake in a relationship and how to navigate things when a relationship is over, especially when it’s not of your choosing.

This talk explores how to work with the realm of feeling tone in your practice.

You’ll learn why the body is so instrumental in liberation practices, what you can learn by deepening attention to sensations, a review of three primary anchors and the kinds of energy experiences that can arise when you relax and pay attention.

This talk explores how to increase your happiness level.

You’ll learn how stress and dissatisfaction can be transformed and how happiness is not only your birthright, but your greatest responsibility and contribution to others.