Meditative.dev

Meditative.dev

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Meditative.dev is a human development initiative grounded in truth seeking and reducing suffering. Shawn, Roger and Teodora teach meditation tools in the spirit of pragmatic dharma. Here we share audio content in the form of guided meditations, conversations, and talks.

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Jul 12, 2025

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Shawn & Teodora Discuss Fire Kasina Again 12.07.2025

Shawn & Teodora discuss Shawn's most recent 16-day fire kasina retreat, setup, logistics, phenomenology and advice. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session. For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn or Teodora, send an email our way at sh...

Teodora & Shawn Talk Fire Kasina 07.03.2024

Shawn & Teodora discuss their fire kasina retreats, phenomenology and advice. --- If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session. For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn or Teodora, send an email our way at shawn (at) meditative.dev or teodor...

The Edge of Experience (guided meditation) 27.01.2024

This meditation will explore what it is to sit on the edge of experience. By doing so it places an emphasis on investigating the first of the three characteristics, impermanence. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditatio...

Deeply embracing experience: Working on the second characteristic (guided meditation) 20.01.2024

This meditation will guide the listener through a meditation on how to deeply embrace the present moment. This is edited from a longer meditation to offer a singular focus on full acceptance and embrace of the present. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If yo...

Stopping doing (guided meditation) 13.01.2024

This meditation will guide the listener through a meditation on how to cease doing. This is edited from a longer meditation to offer a singular focus on the cessation of activity. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditati...

Stopping doing, embracing and the edge of experience (guided meditation) 06.01.2024

This meditation will guide the listener through a preparatory relaxation exercise. Then we will explore different ways of ceasing doing. We then practice some deep embracing acceptance. Finally we explore what it is to sit on the edge of experience. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: ht...

Investigating Somatic Sensation: Felt Perception of the Body (guided meditation, Senses Series) 19.08.2023

This meditation will guide the meditator through an investigation of the somatic sensations of the felt body. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn, send an email his way at shawn (at) meditative...

Focused Attention on Somatic Sensation (guided meditation, Senses Series) 19.08.2023

This meditation will guide the meditator through brief relaxation exercise followed by a concentration building somatic sensation meditation. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn, send an email...

Investigating Audition: Perception of Sound (guided meditation, Senses Series) 19.08.2023

This meditation will guide the meditator through an investigation of the subjective perception of sound. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn, send an email his way at shawn (at) meditative.dev....

Boosting Metta with Visualization Exercises (guided meditation) 28.07.2023

In this live recording guided meditation Teodora leads the meditator through some visualization exercises to help improve visualization and therefore the effectiveness of metta (loving kindness) meditation. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're int...

Samatha Concentration Cocktail: Relaxation, Visual Kasina and Samatha without an Object (guided meditation) 06.04.2023

This meditation was recorded during a Meditative.dev live session and will guide the meditator through a combination of concentration building techniques. We'll setting the mind, then improve our mindfulness by meditating on an object in the visual field. Then we'll work to defabricate and pacify the mind with a deep acceptance and letting go practice. Finally, we'll re-enter the visua...

Nada Sound: The Sound of Silence (guided meditation) 30.03.2023

This meditation was recorded during a Meditative.dev live session and will guide the meditator through an exploration of the Nada Sound in relation to both concentration (samatha) and insight (vipassana) practice. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you&#39...

Working with the Visual Field (guided meditation) 26.03.2023

This meditation was recorded during a Meditative.dev live session and is intended to get the meditator more comfortable when working with phenomena in the visual field. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching...

Hindrance Reduction for Thoughts (guided meditation) 16.03.2023

This guided meditation will explore some different ways of handling thought-related hindrances that can get in the way of doing effective insight practice. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, you can join us in an upcoming session.  For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ If you're interested in private meditation coaching with Shawn,...

Light Kasina (extended guided meditation) 12.03.2023

This  meditation guides the listener through a 45-minute guided light kasina  meditation. It underscores the visual field contrast which is essential  to achieving clearer after images. Light kasina is a useful practice for building up concentration  although it can also be turned into an insight practice by investigating  the 3 characteristics, and especially imperma...

Light Kasina (guided meditation) 12.03.2023

This meditation guides the listener through a 30-minute guided light kasina meditation. It underscores the visual field contrast which is essential to achieving clearer after images. Light kasina is a useful practice for building up concentration although it can also be turned into an insight practice by investigating the 3 characteristics, and especially impermanence when focusing on the vis...

Attenuating and then activating the sense of self (guided meditation) 03.10.2022

This meditation guides the listener through an exploration of different ways of activating the sense of self after having first attenuated it.  This type of practice tends to be helpful for getting more clarity on how the self shows up in experience. It was given on 16 August 2022 in our weekly session.  If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger,...

Tour of Defabrication Techniques for Increasing Equanimity (guided meditation) 28.09.2022

This meditation guides the listener through four techniques for defabricating the mind in order to increase equanimity (and well-being). This meditation was given on 27 September 2022 in our weekly session. You can read a bit more about defabrication here: https://meditative.dev/web/2022/09/27/defabrication-equanimity/ or a lot more about it by reading Rob Burbea´s Seeing That Frees. If you like t...

Death (guided contemplation) 26.09.2022

This is a live recording of a guided contemplation of our relationship to the dying process and death. Ensure you are in a good place when you do it and if some of the mental imagery is too intense you may choose not follow those instructions until a later date when you feel stronger. It was given on 26 July 2022 in our weekly meditation session. If you like this content and are interested in medi...

Reflections On The Good Life (guided contemplation) 18.06.2022

Grab a pen and paper and try to answer these questions about what you truly wish for in life.   Q1 2:35 Q2 3:14 Q3 4:39 Q4 6:00 Q5 7:07 Q6 8:15 Q7 9:41 Q8 10:59 Q9 11:59 Q10 13:00 Q11 14:02 Q12 15:04 Questions taken from https://civilizationemerging.com/dharma-inquiry/ If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group. 🌐...

Noting Body Sensations (guided meditation) 18.06.2022

If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group. 🌐 For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/ 🟠 Thankful for these meditations? Consider supporting Roger's Patreon https://www.patreon.com/rogerthis 👨‍🏫 Personal 1-1 meditation coaching for developing insight into No-Self & Emptiness. Contact R...

Evoking the self to meditate better (guided meditation) 18.06.2022

During our weekly session, we discussed how this practice is not at odds with the insight into no-self. The deepest insights into no-self can evoke models of selfhood without being captured by them, while still perceiving them as empty in the moment and ultimately not self, but that they can be helpful for doing certain tasks. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shaw...

Distinguishing the Sense Modalities and then Headlessness (guided meditation) 18.06.2022

Please enjoy this meditation through the senses, finishing with some pointing out instructions to notice headlessness.  If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group.   🌐 For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/  🟠 Consider checking out Roger's Patreon if you please: https://www....

Effortlessly Awake Awareness (guided meditation) 18.06.2022

Strap in! If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group.   🌐 For more details check out our website: https://meditative.dev/web/   🟠 Consider checking out Roger's Patreon if you please: https://www.patreon.com/rogerthis   👨‍🏫 Interested in personal 1 on 1 meditation guidance for developing insight into n...

Memory-Fueled Metta (guided meditation) 18.06.2022

This guided meditation leads the listener through a practice designed to cultivate metta (loving kindness) through amplifying positive sensations associated with peak memories. It was given on 14 June 2022 in our weekly meditation session. If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger, you can join us in the next session. For more details check out our website:...

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