This talk explores the power of intention and aspiration.

 

You’ll learn how an intention can dramatically alter your life, how with a clear intention you are selecting a distinct new set of challenges and how offering the fruit of your intention can open your heart.

This talk explores the profound and elemental teachings on generosity.

 

You’ll learn how central generosity is to both philosophy and practice, where to begin, how to practice and how generosity is a direct path to liberation.  The session ends with a flute meditation and a reflection on the generous heart. 

This talk explores how to determine what practices are best suited for you at this time in your life.

 

You’ll lean about the power of truthful self-assessment, the importance of identifying your patterns of resistance and how to maintain a practice that feels alive for you.

 

 

This talk explores what is considered the flowering of spiritual practice:  Equanimity.

 

You’ll learn what it is, what it isn’t, a practice to cultivate equanimity and some thoughts on how to navigate change with ease and grace.

 

 

 

This talk explores the art and science of cultivating joy for yourself and others.

 

You’ll learn about the transformative possibilities that arise when you can sustain attention on healing your heart, the emotions which stand in opposition to joy and how to work with them, a guided meditation on  joy and finally, how joy leads to a powerful state of non-dual awareness.

 

 

This talk explores how you can offer compassion for others.

 

You’ll learn about the the nature of compassion, the essential elements of the practice, potential pitfalls and the relationship between compassion and karma .

 

 

This talk explores how you can cultivate compassion for yourself.

 

You’ll learn how you lose your connection to compassion, ways to reconnect and heal and some pointers on the path of awakening the heart.

 

This talk explores the power of loving kindness.

 

You’ll learn how you can open to receive kindness, how to tune in to those around you and anticipate how they best receive and explore what happens with the intention to live from an open heart.

Short orientation and a guided meditation that moves from concentration to mindfulness to an inquiry into release and surrender.

 

From the Fall 2015 IMCW Retreat.

 

This talk explores two fundamental wings of practice: Your capacity to pay attention on purpose and your capacity to be aware.

 

You’ll learn about the tremendous benefits of concentration and explore a helpful and accessible technique  as well learn about  the benefits of mindfulness and how wisdom and compassion arise when you pay intimate attention to what arises in each moment.