Guided Meditations

Guided meditation by Michael Stone, with focus on the tongue, palette, position of fingers, and subtle physical tricks to open the mind in Vipassana practice. Recorded on silent retreat at True North Insight in Ontario. April 19, 2014.

Guided Meditation (40 min.)

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

This is instruction for a meditation practice called&nbsp;tonglen. Tonglen is a Tibetan term that means giving and receiving. In this practice you send out happiness to others and you take in any suffering that others feel. (Lojong Teachings #2) Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 15 min.
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15 Minute Guided Tonglen Meditation

A 15-minute guided meditation on mudita (appreciative joy) with psychotherapist and dharma teacher Brian Williams. Co-taught with Michael. Enso Foundation, Kelowna.

15 Minute Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy w/ Brian Williams

Guided meditation with Michael Stone. Meditation Facilitation Training, Vancouver, 20 min.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Guided 20min. Meditation on Receptive Breathing

Let the exhale relax your body; Let the inhale still you. Vancouver, 15 min.

15 Minute Guided Meditation on Breathing

Home Base: Guided Meditation (20 min.) on Mindfulness of Thinking

If you feel unsafe or unstable, this is a gentle 10 minute guided meditation in corpse pose, for taking care of yourself. Vancouver, 20 min.

Guided Corpse Pose for Safety

Shift away from the content of the mind to the process of thinking. Mindfulness of thinking while sitting like a mountain. Vancouver, 25 min.

25 Minute Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Thinking

Followed by a talk on how meditation unfolds, and how to use the space of meditation to investigate experience. Recorded on retreat co-taught with Michael Stone, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, California. 60 min.

The Deep Request: 30 Minute Guided Meditation w/ Paul Haller

Zen teacher Paul Haller guides a gentle and clear meditation on noticing what it is to attend to experience.  Recorded on retreat co-taught with Michael Stone, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, California in June 2016.

30 Minute Guided Meditation w/ Paul Haller

Bringing distractions back into the beginning of the inhale. Victoria, B.C. Recorded January 17, 2017.

15 minute Guided Meditation on the Breathing Body

Using sound as an anchor to ground attention. Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Receptive Listening

Mindfulness of the breathing body in the abdomen to settle thoughts. Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of the Breathing Body

Tuning into breath in the nostrils to explore subtle sensations and bring mind into its natural state. Recorded 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Tuning into Breath in the Nostrils

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

See if you can find out where in your body that emotional state or mood is most manifested, most expressed. What sensations or feelings in your body let you know that you’re having this emotional state? See if you can notice how the emotional state is expressed through your body, through sensations in your body. Recorded December 2017.

20 min. Guided Meditation: Unstable Emotions

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

An 8-minute guided meditation with Martine Batchelor. Centre of Gravity, Toronto. Recorded March 28, 2010.

What Is This? Short Guided Meditation

Michael Stone leads a guided meditation beginning with grounding the body, opening to sound, and feeling the breath as an anchor to present experience. Recorded on May 2, 2011.

Guided Meditation ~20 Minutes

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).