All your life, you’ve been searching, without knowing it, for exactly this moment. Michael Stone gives a guided meditation on the city, the body and the breath. 25 minutes. Ottawa.

Guided Meditation

Enjoy this short guided meditation with Hawk to discover your clear channel for divine intelligence.

Guided Meditation with Hawk

Most of the pieces on Shanti Guitar are based on the concept of Raga, a traditional form of Indian music that has been in existence for centuries. It's important to note that these pieces are not traditional North Indian Classical music. Rather, they were borne from a personal musical style developed over many years - a style that is heavily influenced by this music.

The word Raga itself means “that which colors the mind." It is not only a scale or some fixed sequence of notes; it is considered a living musical entity (like a God or Goddess). The ancient Vedic yogis discovered that ragas have certain harmonious or antagonistic effects depending on when they are played. When correctly performed -- at the appropriate time of day or season of the year -- a spiritual connection between Raga and musician occurs, thus creating a "sound manifestation" between artist and audience. It is an experience that is literally out of this world.

"Music is much more than notes produced on an instrument. Every note should live and breathe with a connection to the Soul. Drawing from the infinite tradition of raga, as well as that of blues and those South African sounds of my youth, I have found a way to express my experience in a way that I hope will leave you feeling soothed, healed, uplifted and at peace with one's self and the world. Because that's the feeling I get from playing it. Namaste, Siyabonga and Peace." - Stevin McNamara, Ashland, Oregon, January 2012

Shanti Guitar (digital version)

Into the Moment

Nothing needs to be refused. Let the breath travel the body without picking up speed. The clouds of thought haul across the sky. Let them come and go. Let the breath move the way blood moves: let it find its own rhythm. Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Feeling the Sensations of the Body

For the purposes of meditation, what you’re thinking about is not important. But as we pay attention to thinking in meditation, you might notice other aspects of the process of thinking besides the content. So, for example, if you’re thinking words or images, what’s the quality of the inner voice? What’s the quality of the pictures that you see? Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation on Thinking

"Sounds Of Gopinath Garden" is a part of live performance program of Ananda Lila project in Puri / Odissa. This track was recorded in Shri Tota Gopinath Mandir on 24th January 2018.

Shri Tota Gopinath Mandir 2018

Sounds Of Gopinath Garden (live in Puri 24-01-2018)

We discuss multi-dimensionality, opening up access and anchoring higher dimensional realities from this physical here.

Inspired Living

Inspired Living Interview #2: 9/19/2018: Parallel/Alternate Realities/Multi-Dimensionality NOW

In South American Indigenous culture, an Icaro signifies magic or alchemy, and is a healing chant. Sung by a curandero, or shaman, it is said the icaro channels medicinal spirits ~

I made this tribute to the late Olivia Arévalo (1933 - 2018) to honor her beautiful voice, soul and wisdom 

Olivia was an acknowledged Shamana and leader of the Shipibo-konibo tribe in Perú, as well as a political activist defending the Peruvian Amazon. In April last year, she was sadly murdered - but her legacy continues to live on

Olivia was the living memory of her people, one of first female shamans of Peru. Her approach of healing people was really in a total respect of the traditional way from ancient Shipibo 

Haux haux

Icaro (Olivia Arevalo tribute)

A troop of Gibbons call across a shallow valley on a damp morning after a night of rain. A white-rumpped shama awakes. Recorded near Purut camp in the Danum valley reserve in Sabah, May 2017.

Danum in rain

Learn more: https://offer.jovianarchive.com/the-design-of-human-sexuality/

Seven Centered Sexuality Was Rooted in the Strategic | Excerpt | The Design of Human Sexuality

This full moon, we embody the element of Earth - adamant as the mountains and the rocks that structure our world, sensual as the green beings that drink sunlight and dance with the wind, magnificent as the vastness of Gaia, who births and breathes everything into manifestation. We are that. It is all inside us. We can access it, embody it, relax into it and allow ourselves to be informed, nourished and expanded through it.

The focus here is on expansion through relaxation and allowing. No push. No trying. Simply a luxurious unwinding and dissolving of our edges, into a sensual listening and imbibing of Nature's subtle flows.

Come and let go into a potent experience of virtual togetherness, a gently guided meditative process and an exploration of the more that we all are.

Beyond Limitless ~ Earth ~ The Full Moon Gatherings ~ October 2020

Awake in the World Podcast is a library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change. The podcasts were recorded at live events so you might hear coughing, airplanes, cars, sirens, laughter, and peoples’ questions—all part of the intimate experience. Michael Stone (1974-2017) was a Buddhist teacher, author, and mental health advocate. His legacy is stewarded by Carina Stone. Podcast funded by Patreon (patreon.com/michaelstone).