welcome yourself into this (and every) moment
We show up more when we feel welcomed. Enjoy this Deep Listening practice to feel more grounded and welcome in any moment.
inner smile: an enlightening ancient healing practice
I love when during meditation, Master Teacher Tara Brach offers the que, "imagine a smile in the heart". She clarifies that this inner smile is 'not as a way of cover up anything, but rather to make room for what is.' This is very true for me. When I 'imagine' a smile, I feel an opening, a softening, a somatic expansion in my body. I feel more spacious.
yoga, meditation, and creativity: a conversation with jillian pransky and dani shapiro
How does our practice help stoke our creative process? In my inspiring conversation with my friend, New York Times best-selling author Dani Shapiro, we talk about the ways that yoga and meditation help Dani tap into her voice and imagination, in order to fuel her writing.
two expansive listening meditation practices for spaciousness and clarity
Bring relief to our busy, bombarded, and preoccupied mind.
Listening meditation is simple, and anyone can do it anywhere. Essentially, we are training in being open and receptive. Eventually, listening meditation becomes an opportunity not only to cultivate a spacious attitude but also to be able to wait quietly for the unknown without expectations or fixed thinking.
the sweet release: meeting our tension
When I was about 12 years old, I had mononucleosis and hepatitis, and I had to have blood drawn practically every week for months. I have tiny veins, and it’s always been difficult for nurses to access them. They’d wind up using a painful procedure called fishing, which involves poking the needle in and spinning it until it makes contact with the vein. In addition to a lot of black-and-blue marks, I wound up with loads of anxiety about needles that persisted into adulthood.
our life partner, the breath. a love story.
Stressful situations will always arise in our life, and sometimes it will feel as if there’s no solid ground to support us. Each time we pause and replace our attention on our breath, our mind comes “home” to our body. Each time we replace our attention on our breath, we grow more grounded. For a moment, we stop thinking about the future or replaying the past. For a moment, we can stop zipping around trying to make things better.
land. arrive and relax into the new year.
Set Conditions to Feel More Calm, Clear, and Open This Year - with LARLAR
I remember it like yesterday. It was January 1993, I was walking up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan when a small gold sign advertising a yoga studio caught my eye. I turned on a whim, went in, and some two hours later, found myself sobbing on my yoga mat.
pause and relax with this 10-minute guided meditation
Take a few moments to lay down and find a comfortable position. If you need some instruction on propping a supported relaxation pose visit here →
7 minute mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness is a major classification of meditation practices, known as vipassana, or insight meditation. Sometimes just called breath centered meditation. While it is taught in various ways, depending on your guide or the lineage of the practice, the practice always has some main characteristics.
