Voo Growl is a practice developed by Dr. Peter Levine to help us reconnect to our innate healthy aggression. The practice also helps to release tension or stress being held in the body.

Here I offer a guided meditation by offering the gift of lovingkindness in the form of phrases to loved ones.

Then we move into a visualization where we radiate kindness energy out to drench ourselves in the warm energy of kindness. The longer we stay in the experience of lovingkindness, the more our neurons wire and fire together, allowing the passing state of kindness to become a permanent trait.

Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org

I have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

Here I guide a meditation designed by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk designed to nourish our nervous system with the self-generated warmth of kindness.

Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org

I have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, Non-Violent Communication, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

By bringing a caring and non-judgemental lens to our experience of the body, we begin to widen our window of tolerance to the normal and natural discomforts of life. We also develop a capacity on reinhabit our body in a more vivid way. Life begins to take on a vibrancy.

I have been practicing meditation for 39 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder

By bringing a caring and non-judgemental lens to our experience of the body, we begin to widen our window of tolerance to the normal and natural discomforts of life. We also develop a capacity on reinhabit our body in a more vivid way. Life begins to take on a vibrancy.

I have been practicing meditation for 39 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder

Here I guide a kindness meditation where we are invited to offer phrases of kindness to our own hearts. These phrases are composed in such a way as to intentionally surface our resistances to kindness. By making our unconscious resistances conscious we now can choose kindness over our habitual reactive pattern.

have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder

Here I offer a guided meditation designed to help one cultivate the positive affect of kindness. We then use the feeling of kindness as a return point after each distraction. This process not only strengthens concentration but also helps to shift one from the passing state of kindness to kindness as a permanent trait.

have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, MBSR, Neuroplasticity, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and Buddhist Psychology. I teach from a secular voice and I am passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

If you find these podcasts helpful please consider making a donation: PayPal.me/suchsweetthunder

Voo Breathing is the practice of releasing tension and stress which has been unconsciously lodged in the human nervous system. Voo Breathing is a stress release exercise developed by Dr. Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing.

Enjoy!

“Dark itself is not dark.

It is due to light that dark

Becomes dark.

And light itself is not light

It is due to dark that light

Becomes light.

Because light changes into dark,

And dark gives way to light,

Their appearance and

disappearance

Depend upon each other…

All of experience is like this”

Zen Master Hui Neng.

The Platform Sutra.

Please join meditation teacher

Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: “Finding Balance in the Midst Of Life’s Unfolding.”

Saturday, Sept 21st 2024

10:00am EST

Facebook and Instagram Live!

Chris has been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. He has received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, MBSR, Nonviolent Communication, and Buddhist Psychology.

Chris teaches from a secular voice and he is passionate about bringing timeless wisdom teachings to people of any faith, belief system, or tradition.

Here I offer a guided meditation and a wisdom talk on Kindness. Enjoy!