Such Sweet Thunder Meditation Podcast.

Voo Growl is a practice developed by Dr. Peter Levine to help us reconnect to our innate healthy aggression. The practice also helps to release tension or stress being held in the body.

Here I offer a guided meditation by offering the gift of lovingkindness in the form of phrases to loved ones. Then we move into a visualization where we radiate kindness energy out to drench ourselves in the warm energy of kindness. The longer we stay in the experience of lovingkindness, the more our neurons wire and fire together, allowing the passing state of kindness to become a permanent trait...

Here I guide a meditation designed by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk designed to nourish our nervous system with the self-generated warmth of kindness. 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 through my website: www.suchsw...

By bringing a caring and non-judgemental lens to our experience of the body, we begin to widen our window of tolerance to the normal and natural discomforts of life. We also develop a capacity on reinhabit our body in a more vivid way. Life begins to take on a vibrancy. I have been practicing meditation for 39 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks,...

By bringing a caring and non-judgemental lens to our experience of the body, we begin to widen our window of tolerance to the normal and natural discomforts of life. We also develop a capacity on reinhabit our body in a more vivid way. Life begins to take on a vibrancy. I have been practicing meditation for 39 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks,...

Here I guide a kindness meditation where we are invited to offer phrases of kindness to our own hearts. These phrases are composed in such a way as to intentionally surface our resistances to kindness. By making our unconscious resistances conscious we now can choose kindness over our habitual reactive pattern. have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditat...

Here I offer a guided meditation designed to help one cultivate the positive affect of kindness. We then use the feeling of kindness as a return point after each distraction. This process not only strengthens concentration but also helps to shift one from the passing state of kindness to kindness as a permanent trait. have been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching...

Voo Breathing is the practice of releasing tension and stress which has been unconsciously lodged in the human nervous system. Voo Breathing is a stress release exercise developed by Dr. Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing. Enjoy!

“Dark itself is not dark. It is due to light that dark Becomes dark. And light itself is not light It is due to dark that light Becomes light. Because light changes into dark, And dark gives way to light, Their appearance and disappearance Depend upon each other… All of experience is like this” Zen Master Hui Neng. The Platform Sutra. Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk:...

Here I offer a guided meditation and a wisdom talk on Kindness. Enjoy!

Here I offer a talk and a guided meditation on the heart quality of Joy.

Here I offer a guided meditation on the heart quality of Joy. I then offer a talk on the topic of Joy as a resource to help cultivate resilience. 🙏🙏🙏

"Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance." Eckhart Tolle. Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: Compassion and Acceptance as an Abode. Chris has been practicing meditation for 38 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facili...

Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. In some traditions these four qualities are known as the "Abodes of The Heart." But what does it mean to "abide in kindness or compassion? Joy or Equanimity? Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: The Four Abodes of The Heart.

Here I offer a guided meditation through the body, feeling tones, and mind/heart, as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. Then we rest deeply in the body and from that...

Here I offer a guided meditation through what is known in the buddhist tradition as the seven factors (or facets) of awakening: Mindfulness, Curiosity, Energy, Joy, Tranquility, Concentration, and Equanimity. As the practice unfolds we are invited to touch in with these qualities, which are always available, and we offer the light of awareness as nourishment to the seeds of awakening latent in our...

Here I offer a guided meditation through the body, feeling tones, and mind/heart, as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. Then we rest deeply in the body and from that...

Here I offer a guided meditation designed to allow one to open their heart to our activity of our mind. We develop the capacity to rest in the body and observe the activity of the mind, without getting swept up by our thoughts and emotions. By coming to rest in the with the activity of the mind, free from judgement, our relationship to our experience of life begins to lighten. We then turn our hea...

Here I offer a guided meditation through the body, feeling tones, and mind/heart, as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. Then we rest deeply in the body and from that...

Here is a guided meditation based on the work of Oren Jay Sofer, designed to first connect us to our needs, and second to experience the beauty inherent in the experience of having needs. 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...

Here I offer a guided meditation through the body, feeling tones, and mind/heart, as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. Then we rest deeply in the body and from that...

Here I offer a guided meditation through the body, feeling tones, and mind/heart, as presented by Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo. In this practice we explore our experience of our body through the skin, flesh, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. Then we rest deeply in the body and from that...

Here I offer a guided meditation where we are invited to rest in the body, and from that deep bodily rest we are invited to observe the activity of our minds and hearts, without getting involved in the content. This can be a doorway into a more spacious way of being. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions...

Here I offer a guided meditation into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. In this practice we explore the felt difference between contact, feeling tone, and interpretation. By coming to rest in the experience of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral we may find ourselves inhabiting a non-reactive field of equanimity. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experienc...

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, bones, and the elemental qualities of the body: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. We are then invited into the feeling tones inherent in the human experience. By coming to rest in the experience of pleasant, unpleasant, an...