This final evening talk of a weeklong retreat explores mindfulness through the lens of the hero’s journey.

You’ll learn about the call to inner practice, how to work the trials and challenges that arise, the process of opening to insight and the reflection on your return home.

This talk is from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.

This talk explores what happens when you deeply relax and pay attention to your moment-to-moment experience.

You’ll learn about the process of settling attention in the here and now, how to recognize the characteristics of what is changing and the subtlety of how you are relating to change and how to reflect on being aware of awareness itself.

This talk is from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.

In this fifth morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan, directed to an anchor of your choosing with options to more deeply investigate challenges that arise and toward the end of the meditation you’ll be invited to rest in presence and turn your attention toward awareness itself.

These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.

In this third morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan, directed to an anchor of your choosing with options to more deeply investigate what is present, particularly emotions.  Toward the end of the meditation you’ll be invited to rest in presence.

These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.

This 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 the power of resilience.

You’ll learn why sustained focus is so critical in your practice, how elemental forces can take your attention off your goal, and what happens when you see more clearly into the nature of reality.

In this first morning of a week-long meditation retreat, you’ll be guided through a centering body scan and directed to an anchor of your choosing. 

You’ll hear occasional reminders to help support your practice of arriving and settling in the here and now.

These instructions are from the 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat.

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 the power of actively contemplating impermanence.

You’ll learn how contemplating death can not only help you remember what is most important and clarify your most cherished values, but to see clearly into the nature of reality.

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.