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By meditating on the quality of Joy we come to experience joy as an inner quality, rather than something to be had through acquisition. We don’t acquire something which brings us Joy….we have an experience which reminds us of our innate, internal experience of Joy. Join meditation teacher  Chris Luard for his next offering: Joy as a superpower.  Facebook Live. Thursday, March 9th at 9:30...

Join meditation teacher Chris Luard for a wisdom talk on this very important and timely topic: Heartfelt Awareness: A Fearless Embrace Of Life. Facebook and Instagram Live! Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and has authored two books. Chris has received formal training in Therav...

Welcome to our 2nd spring online meditation retreat offering: Heartfelt Awareness: A Fearless Embrace Of Life. In this 12 week course participants will take a deep dive into the practice of mindfulness. Not only will we be drawing on meditation practices from numerous traditions worldwide, but we will also be exploring techniques which will allow us to enter into a fearless embrace of the present...

Far from being a type of toxic positivity, the practice of Joy can provide one with a type of inner resilience and strength needed to navigate the storms inherent in the human experience. "To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the devil" Jack Gilbert. Welcome to our spring online meditation retreat offering: Joy. The Ground Of Resilience. Celebrating the joys of life: en...

"To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the devil" Jack Gilbert. Welcome to our spring online meditation retreat offering: Joy. The Ground Of Resilience. Celebrating the joys of life: enjoying the smile of a loved one, the purring of a kitten, the laughter of a friend, is a practice of self compassion. It is the ground of  resilience, and a much needed resource in th...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then include an experience of awareness itself. Since we typically habitually identify with awareness, by recognizing awareness as just another aspect of the ever-changing field, our clinging to that identity begins to loosen, and t...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then include an experience of awareness itself. Since we typically habitually identify with awareness, by recognizing awareness as just another aspect of the ever-changing field, our clinging to that identity begins to loosen, and t...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then include an experience of frustration. By welcoming the frustration into the open field of awareness, we may come to experience the frustration not as all-encompassing, but just another changing experience in the midst of all th...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then move through a few different emotions through the lens of "I am...(complete identification) to "It is... (less identification) to "It is being known" No identification.  Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We open the meditation with the emotion of fear and expand outward from there. By gradually surrounding the fear with more and more sensory experience, we come to experience the emotion of fear as just another aspect of the ever changi...

In this guided meditation we are invited to explore a type of joy that might arise as a result of cultivating a deep state of tranquility. The combination of calm, rest, and joy may give awareness a strong base for resting with the mind without falling into distraction. Chris has been practicing meditation for 36 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talk...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We open the meditation with the emotion of Joy and expand outward from there. By gradually surrounding the Joy with more and more sensory experience, we come to experience the emotion of Joy as just another aspect of the ever changing...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We open the meditation with the emotion of anger and expand outward from there. By gradually surrounding the anger with more and more sensory experience, we come to experience the reactive emotion of anger as just another aspect of the...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then include an experience of desire. By welcoming the desire into the open field of awareness, we may come to experience the desire not as all-encompassing, but just another changing experience in the midst of all the other changin...

Here I offer a guided meditation through the anatomy of the body as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, and bones, and holding the sensations with kindness. With practice, this meditation can lead one to a deeper sense of present moment awareness. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience th...

Here I offer a very brief exercise in which we may come to experience the fuel we add to reactivity when we resist it, and the openness when we welcome in the anger. With a practice such as this one, we are more likely to find the space of non-reactivity.  Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or con...

Here I offer a brief guided meditation where we are invited to observe thoughts in three modes: Thoughts with no emotional component, thoughts with little emotional charge, and thoughts with more emotional charge. With a practice such as this one we may begin to recognize that the "charge" is not inherent in the object of thought, but we are in fact "charging" the thoughts ourselves. Thoughts then...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness. We then include an experience of desire. By welcoming the desire into the open field of awareness, we may come to experience the desire not as all-encompassing, but just another changing experience in the midst of all the other changin...

In this guided meditation we are invited to explore a type of joy that might arise as a result of cultivating a deep state of tranquility. The combination of tranquility, rest, and joy may give awareness a strong base for resting with the mind without falling into distraction. Chris has been practicing meditation for 36 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, givi...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness.  Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me thr...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness.  Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me thr...

Here is an exercise designed to illustrate the existence of silence in the midst of sound. This can provide one with a spaciousness of mind and heart and can support one in developing emotional resilience. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices,...

Here is an exercise designed to illustrate the existence of silence in the midst of sound. This can provide one with a spaciousness of mind and heart and can support one in developing emotional resilience. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices,...

Here I offer a guided meditation in which we are invited to systematically open awareness to more and more of experience, until we rest in complete, open awareness.  Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me thr...

In this guided meditation we are invited to explore a type of joy that might arise as a result of cultivating a deep state of tranquility. The combination of calm, rest, and joy may give awareness a strong base for resting with the mind without falling into distraction. Chris has been practicing meditation for 36 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talk...