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JULY 29, 2026 MEDITATION, BREATHING, CHANTING
JULY 29, 2026 MEDITATION, BREATHING, CHANTING
JULY 29, 2026 MEDITATION, BREATHING, CHANTING
Join us in this session for some practice work on what we've been moving through with our presentations recently - regulating our nervous system and coming into coherence.
Regulating our nervous system, which, in my mind, can also be called "meditation," is beautiful. It allows us to become present and allow the body to reorganize its energy. It slows us down where we can clear the clutter and simply "be." I like to think of the I Ching when I think about the nervous system and, in particular, the spine. One of my most favorite hexagrams is 52, known as Keeping Still, Mountain. "Keeping Still" means to quiet our thinking, and here it is known as the thinking of the heart. When our emotions are aroused, the heart is said to think. The object of "Keeping Still" is to quiet this frenetic and focused mental activity.
There are many tools and ways in which we can do this, but among my favorites are breathing mindfully or with attentiveness, chanting, which creates a beautiful vibration in the body and music.
In this session, we will first arrive through a gentle meditation, then do a few exercises to balance our energy, then move into breathing mindfully, chanting for vibratory alignment and then a guided meditation.
AUGUST 5, 2026 IMAGINATION CREATES REALITY
JULY 29, 2026 MEDITATION, BREATHING, CHANTING
JULY 29, 2026 MEDITATION, BREATHING, CHANTING
The Body and the Creative Power Within: Imagination is one of the most sacred powers we have been given, and yet most of us were taught to treat it as something childish, unreal, or fanciful. We were told, "Oh, that's just your imagination," as if imagination were something small. Imagination is the very power through which life takes shape. Before anything appears in the world, it exists first as an image, an idea, a feeling, a possibility, a quiet inner knowing.
Every home was first imagined. Every relationship was first sensed. Every healing was first believed possible. Every change began as something unseen. So imagination is not an escape from reality. Imagination is the womb of reality.
The background of this presentation is taken from the work of Neville Goddard who invites us to stop treating the outer world as the only authority. He asks us to turn inward and notice: what am I rehearsing inside myself? What am I assuming? What am I expecting? What am I feeling to be true before anything happens?
READING LIFE AS A LIVING ORACLE: A Dialogue with Spirit
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
READING LIFE AS A LIVING ORACLE: A Dialogue with Spirit
A dialogue with Spirit is a gentle, embodied experience that invites us to reconnect with our own inner wisdom. Through guided reflection, somatic awareness, and meditation, we explore how everyday life speaks to us through our bodies, emotions, and experiences. This presentation offers practical tools for listening more deeply, trustin
A dialogue with Spirit is a gentle, embodied experience that invites us to reconnect with our own inner wisdom. Through guided reflection, somatic awareness, and meditation, we explore how everyday life speaks to us through our bodies, emotions, and experiences. This presentation offers practical tools for listening more deeply, trusting intuition, and engaging in a meaningful, compassionate relationship with life. The intention for the session is that it will leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and empowered to recognize the guidance already present within yourself.
TIME: From Linear Experience to Living Presence
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
READING LIFE AS A LIVING ORACLE: A Dialogue with Spirit
We are often taught to experience time as something that moves in a straight line—from past, through present, into future. We measure it, organize our lives around it, and often feel as though we are either trying to keep up with it, get ahead of it, or somehow escape its pressure. In this way of relating, time can begin to feel like som
We are often taught to experience time as something that moves in a straight line—from past, through present, into future. We measure it, organize our lives around it, and often feel as though we are either trying to keep up with it, get ahead of it, or somehow escape its pressure. In this way of relating, time can begin to feel like something we are inside of—something that carries us forward whether we are ready or not. But there is another way to sense time, one that is less about moving through it and more about meeting it. If we pause, even for a moment, and begin to notice this moment as it is being lived—not remembered, not anticipated, but directly felt—something begins to shift. Time softens. It is no longer just a line we are traveling along, but becomes a living field—immediate, responsive, and intimately connected to our awareness. Within this field, the past is not truly gone; it lives as memory, tone, and imprint within the body and mind. The future is not entirely distant; it exists as potential, as direction, as a subtle pull or invitation. And the present is not a thin slice dividing the two, but a fullness—a meeting place where past and future are already in relationship, already here. As we begin to shift from tracking time to sensing it, we may notice a different rhythm emerging—one with less urgency and more coherence, less fragmentation and more wholeness. Time is no longer something we must control or manage so tightly, but something we are in conversation with, something we are participating in with every breath, every sensation, every moment of awareness. And in this shift, we are invited out of being ahead of ourselves or behind ourselves, and gently returned to what is always available—the living presence of this moment.
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
There are moments in life when everything seems mysteriously orchestrated — a chance meeting, a sudden insight, an unexpected loss, a door opening at precisely the right moment. And then there are other moments when life feels fluid and unfinished, as though reality itself is responding to our choices, emotions, attention, and perceptio
There are moments in life when everything seems mysteriously orchestrated — a chance meeting, a sudden insight, an unexpected loss, a door opening at precisely the right moment. And then there are other moments when life feels fluid and unfinished, as though reality itself is responding to our choices, emotions, attention, and perception in real time. This raises one of the oldest and most profound questions humanity has ever asked: Is life already written… or are we participating in its creation moment-by-moment?
This presentation explores the living mystery between destiny and emergence — between structure and spontaneity, between what may already exist as potential and what becomes real through consciousness, relationship, attention, emotion, and embodiment. Rather than trying to force a final answer, we enter the experience itself. We begin to sense that perhaps life is not a fixed script nor complete randomness, but a living conversation between the universe and awareness itself.
As we move through this exploration together, we will feel into the body, the nervous system, intuition, synchronicity, imagination, and the subtle fields that shape perception. We will explore how the future may exist as possibility rather than certainty, and how our inner state may influence the pathways that unfold before us. Most importantly, we will ask: What changes inside us when we begin to live as conscious participants in the mystery of life itself?
HOW LISTENING RE-SHAPES THE SPEAKER
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: Is Life Unfolding According to a Plan or Is It Being Created Moment-by-Moment?
The phrase—"How Listening Re-Shapes the Speaker"—contains a profound truth. It suggests that listening is not simply something we do for another person. Deep listening changes the one who listens, and in doing so, it changes the one who is speaking.
When someone feels truly listened to, something remarkable begins to happen. The speaker
The phrase—"How Listening Re-Shapes the Speaker"—contains a profound truth. It suggests that listening is not simply something we do for another person. Deep listening changes the one who listens, and in doing so, it changes the one who is speaking.
When someone feels truly listened to, something remarkable begins to happen. The speaker often starts with a familiar story—one they have told themselves many times. But as they continue speaking into a space free of interruption, judgment, or advice - their own words begin to reveal something deeper. The listener has not changed the speaker by offering solutions. Rather, the quality of presence has created a field in which the speaker can hear themselves more clearly.
Many of us have never experienced being deeply heard. We have experienced conversations filled with fixing, comparing, reassuring, or preparing our own response. Genuine listening is different. It is spacious. It allows silence. It trusts that wisdom is already present within the speaker.
As the speaker senses this safety, the nervous system gradually settles. The body softens. Breathing changes. The mind begins to organize itself. Thoughts that were tangled become coherent. Feelings that seemed overwhelming become more understandable. The speaker literally begins to hear themselves in a new way.
I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life.
Sri Chinmoy
