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Collecting Art, take a look We can find strength and resilience in familiarity—and use those feelings to explore the unfamiliar. At the beginning of every meditation practice that I teach, I offer up a little bit of instruction for the posture, so that you can experience this practice as being as supportive as possible to your body. A Meditation to Approach the World With a “Don’t-Know Mind” I would like to invite you to come to a place that is truly comfortable and supportive to your practice. This might mean standing up, if that’s more supportive to your back and your posture. And for some of you, this may mean lying down on the ground. And others may want to employ what I like to call a “soft gaze,” which is looking down at the ground about two inches in front of the knees or the feet. When you’ve settled into a comfortable position, I would love to invite you to take three deep breaths with me. As you’re taking those three deep breaths, you may notice that your body may begin t...

Collecting Art, take a look We can find strength and resilience in familiarity—and use those feelings to explore the unfamiliar. At the beginning of every meditation practice that I teach, I offer up a little bit of instruction for the posture, so that you can experience this practice as being as supportive as possible to your body. A Meditation to Approach the World With a “Don’t-Know Mind” I would like to invite you to come to a place that is truly comfortable and supportive to your practice. This might mean standing up, if that’s more supportive to your back and your posture. And for some of you, this may mean lying down on the ground. And others may want to employ what I like to call a “soft gaze,” which is looking down at the ground about two inches in front of the knees or the feet. When you’ve settled into a comfortable position, I would love to invite you to take three deep breaths with me. As you’re taking those three deep breaths, you may notice that your body may begin t...

Collecting Art, take a look Shift from a fix it mindset to more kindness and acceptance with these practices to get back in touch with your body. One thing I’ve noticed in my classes and retreats recently is people are struggling—not just with their minds during meditation, but their bodies. It’s a conflicted relationship. Mindfulness teaches us to keep coming back to the present moment as we experience it in the body, like the breath in the mindfulness of breathing meditation. It’s good to remember that the body is always in the present moment. In a recent yoga class I attended, the teacher, when she moved us through the poses, used the term “today’s body.” She didn’t’ say your body or even the body, but today’s body. I liked the unexpected playfulness of that expression. Immediately it made my body feel more acceptable, less personal, and at the same time more connected with the other people in the room—and their bodies. We all have a “today’s body.” So many of us struggle with o...

Collecting Art, take a look Shift from a fix it mindset to more kindness and acceptance with these practices to get back in touch with your body. One thing I’ve noticed in my classes and retreats recently is people are struggling—not just with their minds during meditation, but their bodies. It’s a conflicted relationship. Mindfulness teaches us to keep coming back to the present moment as we experience it in the body, like the breath in the mindfulness of breathing meditation. It’s good to remember that the body is always in the present moment. In a recent yoga class I attended, the teacher, when she moved us through the poses, used the term “today’s body.” She didn’t’ say your body or even the body, but today’s body. I liked the unexpected playfulness of that expression. Immediately it made my body feel more acceptable, less personal, and at the same time more connected with the other people in the room—and their bodies. We all have a “today’s body.” So many of us struggle with o...