Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
May 19, 2021
When the mind is thinking, what is happening in the body, and the breath? In this meditation, you work to settle your attention away from an […]
May 12, 2021
In many methods of meditation you are asked to drop an anchor (or reference point) to come back to again and again. In this meditation we […]
December 13, 2020
Presence is a state of being anchored and open to the happenings of your life. In this meditation, we stabilize and soften our body, find centre, […]
July 23, 2020
Thoughts are like threads, coming into consciousness as if they are discreet “things”. Our mind seeks to weave them together, to make sense of our experience, […]
July 1, 2020
This situation is permeable, it’s being transformed even by the breath. Limits and habits soften, the compliments of grounded sitting bones and floating skull give space […]
July 1, 2020
One of the most restful experiences in meditation comes when we notice, by contrast to our typical experience in the day, that we don’t need to […]
June 18, 2020
When we make the space of awareness bigger, noticing things close and far with non-judgment, the contents of consciousness don’t rattle against the walls, but have […]
June 12, 2020
In meditation, we must get comfortable with the practicing of starting over, letting go whatever our mind has picked up, and remembering presence. In this guided […]
May 27, 2020
In this meditation we reflect on the teachings of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, where yoga is offered as an experience of the quiet mind. Through […]
May 24, 2020
In this guided mediation we soften the grip of mental formations and reactive feelings by reminding ourselves of present experience.
May 18, 2020
Samatha meditation (pronounced shamata) is the meditation of tranquility, when attention coalesces on a locus of experience. Here, the action of meditating is turning energy away […]
May 16, 2020
In this meditation we explore the power of compassion, in recognizing this practice here and now as a compassionate act. Compassion helps to soften the mentally […]
May 15, 2020
In this practice we recognize our discomforts; relaxing into a wider scope of experience.
May 14, 2020
Sitting in stillness may feel like we are stepping out of the stream and letting life continue on around us. But when we meditate, we call on the qualities of resolve, compassion, courage and equanimity, all "activities" of practice. Knowing that all actions have an effect, what is the effect of your practice?
May 12, 2020
In this meditation you are gently guided towards peace and steadiness, to turn down the volume of our thoughts, and create space for a more free and open experience of our lives.
May 9, 2020
We may shy away from thinking about death, but the uncomfortable part may not be the fact that's it's certain, but that it holds impassible unknowns. In this contemplative guided meditation, we will rest our mind on death to feel life in its delicate beauty.
May 7, 2020
In this meditation, we contemplate our living experience from a broad perspective, where the mystifying advent of humanity, and this very life you know, is humbling.
May 5, 2020
We may say about a problem or situation "I need to meditate on that". But what does that practice look like, when while meditating, we are often guided away from thinking? In today's meditation, we approach the practice of contemplative meditation, posing a question for which we are seeking guidance around.
May 1, 2020
Our experience of time is inconsistent; sometimes we lose it, or it drags, or it slips away. One of the effects of mindfulness practice is that we regulate our experience of time to feel its flow without interruption. In this meditation, we explore our mind's influence on our experience of time, and how to release into its natural current.
April 28, 2020
How quickly the mind can enclose our experience; in its moods, stories, ruminations. In this meditation, you are guided to open up again, and again; to remember the spaciousness of awareness beyond our thoughts, bringing calm and clarity.