Hari Om. Good Wednesday to us all.

Today we explore some of the inner-space; that place beyond place. We can often begin to characterize our practice as utilitarian, as if there is a unilateral purpose or experience to be had. Today, we just have fun exploring the worlds within. Some Ujjaya Pranayama, focus on the Third Eye, and gentle guidance can take us through some pretty amazing places. Being playful in our practice is a way to open up and deepen our experiences with meditation, breathwork, and with finding the joy that wants to express within us anytime!

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Good Tuesday to us all.

Today we bring ourselves into meditation posture, and align our attention and focus to the breath. Following the breath into and out of the body, we stay with the sensations of the nose, just long enough to settle our mind and emotional body in sync with the rhythms of the physical body. We find our heart beat. THis is our doorway today, into a deeper meditation.

Focusing ont he heart space, we consciously and intentionally become aware of the pain, fear, sorrow, sadness, and suffering in our bodies, in the room around around us, and in our homes. With each breath, we bring them into our heart space where they are transmuted into Love. This is a profound practice when you can connect through it. 

We end with some affirmations and permissions to be gentle, kind, and to radiate Love, Just For Today. 

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Good Monday to us all. 

Today we begin in seeking balance within our meditation posture. Balance is meeting in the center, bearing the burden with ease and gentleness. Find this place to begin to carry us into our work.

Today we use deep, forceful breath as a way to open up our physiological responses to activation of the fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response. We are actively expelling Co2 from the system, allow a rush of oxygen to enter following. This is the scientific explanation of the practice. The psychological route is a bit different. Through this practice we have the ability to come up to some locked in emotions in the body, parts of our training to re-act in a way that has, in the past, kept us safe. Right now, we know we are safe, so being able to approach these seemingly involuntary re-actions is a healthy way to unlock our ability to self regulate our emotional posturing. This is quite helpful to me, and this practice today is just touching the surface of what we can do with breath and intention.

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All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good morning. Today we begin in meditation posture, seeking balance.



I discuss, for a bit, what balance is and what it is not. I am sure each of us has lived with the repurcussions of moving through life thinking something is one thing, only to find out it was another thing entirely down the road. This is the beauty of experience, it sheds away the falsities of thought, and allows us to see more clearly. So, today, we take a more clear view of balance to begin.



Then, for the second practice, we touch into the places of blockages, wounding, and what it is to be insecure in our own body. This can be a bit difficult for us to sit with, and the practice is made for you when you are ready for it. Take your time, and come to yourself gently.



Thanks for joing me on this Journey Home. You can rweach out to me at [email protected] with any comments, questions, or to book a one on one session. I love communicating with each of you, and it truly does help me in my practice to have these connections. Anything you share is private unless consented upon to be shared anonymously or otherwise.



All In Love,

Michael

Awareness is the Asana of Love.

Hari Om and good morning,and Good Monday to us all. First, Happy birthday Jack Kornfield! May this day bring celebration, reflection, and awareness.



Today is my first morning back in my home space for a couple of weeks. I have been all over the west of this land, in extreme heats, and in some of the most starkly beautiful landscapes on the planet, to be sure. In all of this, I was alaways returning home. This is the sit today. To find our way home through all of the landscapes of our body, our mind, and our emotions, and to find that they are all one. There is no separation!



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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Good Morning Friends. 

It is the first sit for some time, as I have been traveling through the material world, and have not been in my home space for a couple of weeks. I would be dishonest to say that I am unaffected by this transition, and this is what is right now. We can try to convince ourselves of so many things, and we are well trained in doing so. We have begun to believe that trusting one's self is equal to believing one's mind. And yet, we spend much of out time in doubt when we rely upon belief. We make the worlds around us responsible for our sensations, our disappointments, our anger, our rejection, our joy, our intimacy. We make believe. Why is it then that we continue to do this when we know, in a deeper way of knowing, that we are putting ourselves up against it all? Release and be with what is! Release and be in the body, in the mind, in the emotional landscape, but do not begin to plant yourself there, because nothing here can grow. It will be grasped until you have squeezed th elife out of it, and find yourself lost and carrying far too many bags for the trip. 

Breathe, today, and move this energy of the full moon time, the amazing power of light that allows our paths to be cleared. Find the light, and like the moon, reflect it to the world. Be fully present and aware with what is, and you will not have to worry about what is not. 

All In Love,

Michael

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Hari Om and good morning. Today is a special session. I am still feeling a bit sick in the body and now, also, from the rapid demise of compassion in the body politic, sickened in my heart.

I decided to host a session today to speak on the lonliness and despair of individualism, and how it feels to find the terror and fear taking over as the world around us suffers so greatly. I know this is not a time to wait, and to act later. THis session is mostly just me connecting back in to a deeper knowledge of the collective being, and being one with grace and with all. We must remember WHO we really are.

In the times when those sick with individiualism will push their lies of control and dominance, their fantasies of being separate, we must touch more deeply into how we are all connected. We must then not allow spiritual devices and trickster modalities to convince us this is enough. We must move forward and provide to one another our love in the form of our skills, and what we have to offer, be that deemed illegal or not. We must CARE for one another.

Do not allow the lies of separateness to bring despair. Go deeper, and connect. We will exhibit the grace and service that we are made from. Thier false empires will fall around us, as so many tamas meet the fierceness of our love.

All IS Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Good Thursday to us all.

Today's meditation gathers us around the stories that we tell. We have such intricate and detailed minds that create fascinating worlds of doubt, worry, anticipation, pleasure; all made of the sae stuff as anything else! Today we work on sitting with what the stuff is before we make it into a thing. We work on seeing it all, in the words of Trungpa Rinpoche, "no big deal".

I am late getting this description up, as I was down with a summer head cold. Covid free, so I guess there was a strange celebration of having just the standard old muck instead this time. Strange bedfellows fear makes, no?

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om. Hello, good morning, and a good Wednesday to us all.

Today we move into our meditation as we find our posture, and follow our breath. We utilize the hand mudra known as Shankh Mudra or Shell Mudra. While this mudra is multifaceted and is often used in ceremonies, today we will use it to bring awareness into our intuition, and find out way through the sensations of touch and feeling of breath as it moves into and out of our body.

The ability to track our sensations tells us that it is very difficult to focus on more than one thing at a time. This notion of compartmentalizing is really just a trick we play on ourselves, thinking we are not one thing if we are the other. We are all, at any moment, and it is only our awareness that takes us into the experience. When we allow that experience to be tinted by memory or expectation, we will see what we think we see. When we can allow that loop to cease, we can begin to explore the dynamic qualities of all things.

This practice cannot be overstated in it's importance. It is the subtle shifts, and the drastic shifts both that guide our awareness around, and the ability to understand what is focused and what is distracted is a huge step in coming into your own.

Thank you for joining me on this Journey Home. Please check us out on spotify, audible, Anchor.fm, and more; for the podcast version of this daily sadhana.

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All In Love,

Michael

Hari Om, and welcome all on this Tuesday. Happy Solstice!

Today is the longest day of the year for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, and the longest night for those in the South. We use this auspicious day to understand that we are in a state of flux, always. Our bodies (physical, mental, and emotional bodies alike), like the cosmic bodies, are moving in a dance with one another. Our thoughts move through us, mixing into our muscles, our blood, and our bones. Our Emotions permeate our thoughts, painting them like so many canvases. Our bodies speak through our emotions. We are shifting.

Breathe into this shift. Our breathwork today is a bit more intensive than usual, utilizing two more active breathing practices of Bhastrika Pranyama, or Bellows breath, and Kapalbhati Pranayama, or Shining Skull breath. These forceful in and out breaths awaken within us a deeper relationship of our breath to our sensations, our thoughts, and our feelings. We sit with this and move into our space of welcoming in meditation. 

The music for today's session is provided by me. You are hearing harmonium, singing bowls, tuning fork, and chimes. 

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All In Love,

Michael