Twenty Minute Practice of Centering Prayer

10th Sept'13

Centering Prayer - A Meditative Practice

Sample tracks from Sharon Salzberg's, "Real Happiness at Work"

Drinking Tea Meditation

Taken from the 2010 Open Your Heart in Paradise retreat, Sharon relates the act of meditation to an alchemical process in which we convert the conceptual into the felt presence of direct experience. The array of what we might encounter in meditation is broad, but we welcome it all. Meditation is a skills training in learning to gather energy. Our attention is brought into focus and we begin to connect the fragments of our lives. When we tap into our ‘inner abundance’, our experience changes and we naturally settle into a more compassionate state of awareness.

Sharon Salzberg – Metta Hour – Ep. 02 – Meditation

Body Scan (12 mins) – Rene Frey-Jennings

Three minutes breathing space

Real Happiness Challenge 2018 • Week 3 Gathering with Amy Gross 

The local NYC gathering for week three of the 2018 Real Happiness Challenge is hosted by New York Insight and guided by Amy Gross. Amy will introduce the week three focus, "Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions". This includes working with difficult emotions and also cultivating positive emotions for greater balance and resilience. The gathering includes a short talk on the coming week’s theme, a guided meditation by Amy, and time for question and answer dialogue.

2018 Real Happiness Challenge • Week Three Gathering w Amy Gross

It's just one minute of compassion for the children suffering and lost in the current ICE immigration system. It's a collective moment to breath, take pause together. Will you join us? 

#MettaMinute

#MettaMinute Meditation with Sharon Salzberg

It's just one minute of compassion for the children suffering and lost in the current ICE immigration system. It's a collective moment to breath, take pause together. Will you join us?

#MettaMinute Meditation Two with Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Survival Guide

A Meditation to Gather Your Energy from Sharon Salzberg

A conversation with  Liz Stanley.

This episode's guest is Elizabeth Stanley, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book "Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma." Liz is a U.S. Army veteran who came to practice (in part) to help her with PTSD. In their conversation, David and Liz discuss contemporary definitions of trauma and how this relates to the current moment; the neurophysiology of trauma, including the relationship between what Liz terms the “thinking brain” and “survival brain”; and their current assessments of the impacts of COVID-19, it’s impact on social windows of tolerance, and their hopes for the path ahead.

Episode 14 | Widening the Window of Tolerance

Sharon Salzberg is New York Times Best-Selling author and world-renowned mediation teacher. 