Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Meditation

Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore setting intentions for the new year. Our topic is authenticity: having an inner and outer experience, mind/body/heart congruence, so that we don't feel like we're checked out of any part of our lives. Authenticity is key to self-compassion and enjoying the little things that make up life. To watch this practic...

Greetings meditators, continuing our preparations for the Christmas, Hannukah and holiday season with meditations upon generosity. Last week we covered ways to be generous with ourselves, and today we explore a generosity practice for others. Generosity doesn't equal giving STUFF to others, but our loving, full presence without an agenda for control and change. For more information about Calgary M...

Good day! In today's practice, we begin preparations for the Christmas holiday season, and our first theme is generosity. Not with stuff, but with our attention, focus, and presence, for ourselves and others. To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/0mWuwZOOyDQ For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com , w...

Greetings! Today is part 3 of our work with mindfulness & depression. We have a guided practice that explores focus on sensations in the body and visualizations. To watch today's practice, please visit https://youtu.be/T0dL8n-Q4fw For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com , where we welcome your questions, comments...

Welcome! Our second sit regarding depression. In today's practice, we continue our exploration of thoughts of fear, shame, anxiety, and work through a couple breathing practices to help bring these thoughts to light and to release their hold on our stream of consciousness. To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/F2grqobkAa8 For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join o...

Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation. We began this season with mindfulness approaches to managing stress and anxiety in difficult times, and now after a couple weeks of honoring the Day of the Dead and Remembrance Day with loving kindness meditations, we are moving on to a new theme: the mindful exploration of depression. Meditation isn't "enough to fix" depression, especially...

Good morning & welcome to our annual remembrance day meditation. Today we practice loving kindness for those that have passed on during the violence humans inflict upon one another in war. We also meditate upon our own peaceful thoughts, from the premise that peace comes from within, and that the world we perceive and create can only reflect the violence, discord, and un-ease within if we do n...

Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence. We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselve...

Welcome to our Sunday morning meditation. Today we're taking a break from our current series on how to keep your cool in stressful times. Today we stop to celebrate our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on, in loving kindness meditation. To watch this podcast on video, please visit: https://youtu.be/OAJoAhRvrms For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice,...

Greetings! In today's podcast, we continue our theme of nurture our inner strength when the external world seems very stressful. This topic is the gift that keeps on giving, since we have approached it from many different angles in the seven episodes of this season! Today, we explore mindfulness of emotional intensity - how many of our thoughts and emotions are at the red hot end of the spectrum--...

Welcome to our Sunday 15 minute mindfulness meditation, where we explore how to investigate and nuture our thoughts of toxic mistrust. We go further than last week, where we explored how to recognize and acknowledge it. Today we learn techniques for investigating and nurturing these self-sabotaging thoughts. What is toxic mistrust? Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselves (we feel unworthy of...

Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence. We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that arise during our practice and then returning to the breath. Toxic mistrust can manifest against ourselve...

Greetings and welcome to our FOURTH session of the autumn 2025 season, where we are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. Alas it is now too cold to meet outside early in the morning! I will schedule alternate indoor times at least once monthly for our group to meet! Today, we use EMOTIONS as our primary a...

Greetings and welcome to our third session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. To watch this video, please visit https://youtu.be/WmKt2nZqrWE . (We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesom...

Greetings and welcome to our second session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. (We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesome Calgary parks, so if you're local and would like to sit in per...

Welcome back to our autumn session! I hope you had an excellent summer. Our next session of weekly Sunday 8am meditations is guided by many of the participant suggestions we received over the summer, and most have to do with: "how do I keep my equilibrium when the world seems to be going crazy?" From a meditator's perspective, we turn to awareness of the body and senses. Often we are operating in...

Greetings, this is our final broadcast and podcast before the summer hiatus, where we will be meeting in person in the Calgary area in our usual meditation flashmobs! I hope you can join us. Please email me at CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com to register for our meetings (free of charge, but registration is required). When? Mostly on weekends I'll be travelling with my sweetheart and family so we will...

This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch our practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a magical time of growth and power; every plant is bursting with life and green. It is very beautiful. There's...

This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y . For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a magical time of growth and power; every plant is bursting with life and green. It is very beautiful. There...

Welcome to our annual Father's Day Meditation, where we share loving kindness, forgiveness and gratitude with our fathers and father figures, and with those with whom we share father and father figure relationships. We also dedicate some of today's practice to awakening and nurturing qualities of the divine masculine in ourselves. The divine masculine embodies qualities like strength, protection,...

Good morning meditators! Today's meditation is inspired by an interview I heard on CBC's "The Current" this week with Israeli peace activist, Yonaten Zeigen, whose mother was killed in the Oct 6 terrorist attack in Israel. Vivian Silver was a peace activist, and he has taken up her mantle. I was so moved and filled with peace hearing him speak of the need for a new non-binary discourse that helps...

In today's practice, we wrap up with our Development of Self Control / Conflict Management series and return to a traditional anchor, the mindfulness of emotions. Emotions are an important guidance system that we are well advised to be mindful of. For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com , where we welcome your questi...

In our final episode on the self-control series, we explore how mindfulness of thoughts can help develop self-control and more skillful conflict management. To watch this podcast, please visit https://youtu.be/bPqIiz0p8-0 . For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com , where we welcome your questions, comments and intent...

Welcome back! Today's podcast is filmed in my partner's backyard under this fabulous May Tree; the fragrance is so powerful and uplifting! We are focusing on our development of self-control as a conflict management tool by training our minds to amplify positive, beautiful aspects of our lives--nature, relationships, honouring our contribution to self and community and so on. To watch this meditati...

Happy Mother's Day! Today's practice, filmed in the Rocky Mountains on my last camping trip, focuses on the anchor of loving kindness as part of the series in developing self control and managing conflict. Happy to share this beautiful part of my world and my partner's life with you also; we so enjoy being out in the mountains! To watch this video, please visit https://youtu.be/OeQ2x_3GFCU . For m...