This talk explores how you can transform your relationship with food.

You’ll learn about how your early conditioning can set up lifelong patterns as to how you eat and how you can shift old habits and embrace eating as a spiritual practice.

Forget seven-minute abs.

This meditation guides you into a felt sense of relaxed presence.

This talk explores the possibility of being free from conditioning.

You’ll learn how subtle your conditioning can be, how to see through your conditioning and how to open more to what it means to be free and awake to the fullness of your life.

This talk explores what it means to be awake in your life.

You’ll learn the characteristics of an awakened being, the diligence and surrender required to wake up and what it means to to be aware of awareness itself.

This talk explores the potential of actively investigating death and dying.

You’ll learn about the true fragility of life, the Buddha’s last words before he died, the power of reflecting on death and how remembering death can more fully open you to life.

This meditation begins with willful, slow, deep breathing and then transitions to free-flowing breath and breathing as the primary anchor.  You’ll explore a modified body scan, move into mindfulness meditation and at the end, rest in open awareness.

This talk explores how you can be with someone who is struggling.

You’ll learn common pitfalls in being present for others, the importance of looking closely at your attitudes and conditioning, some strategies for cultivating compassionate presence and the importance of self care when you are in the care-giving role.

This talk explores how to embrace emptiness in your practice and in your life.

You’ll learn the essential teachings on emptiness, ways you can explore this in your meditation practice and how the understanding of emptiness can lead to increased happiness and freedom.

This meditation begins with a few minutes of movement.  You should feel no strain.  Be sure to release the posture if it feels at all uncomfortable.

As you continue, you’ll be guided to relax and feel deeply inside and settle your attention on a focal point of breath, sound or feeling.  Occasional reminders will call your awareness back to the here and now.  In the final minutes you’ll refresh the practice and explore a quality of deepening relaxation and spacious awareness.

This talk explores how you can transform your relationship with your inner critic.

You’ll learn the origins of negativity bias, how that critical voice forms in your early development and how the miracle of self-awareness can lead to a life guided by wise discrimination.