Stephan Pende guides gentle meditations to open your heart and settle into the peace of the present moment

Guided Meditations

Since birth until today you are surrounded by the kindness and care of other people. In this Meditation you connect with that radiance of care so you can relax into the natural openness of your heart.

Connecting with the kindness around you

Gentle Breathing Meditation, helping you to connect with the natural peace of this moment. Allow yourself to find a place of rest by breathing in kindness towards yourself.

Compassionate Breathing

A guided meditation into the present moment for to be used in a busy life. Take a rest of 5 minutes and do nothing. Connect with the natural peace in your own heart.

Pause, Relax And Open - 5 Minutes of just being

In this meditation you are invited to connect with the warmth of a friendship and from there your are gently guided to a place of radical self-acceptance. From resting in the open heart sharing your love happens naturally and without effort.

May I be happy

Could you allow yourself to find a place of rest in the middle of your experience? Just being yourself is all what is needed to be content. Stephan Pende guides you in this short Meditation to a place of peace in the midst of a busy day. 

Just Being Yourself

The breath can be the resting point you return to during daily life. Stephan Pende guides a gentle breathing meditation which helps you to find a peaceful place in the midst of your experience. 

Resting In The Breath

Refuge Prayer Tibetan

A guided meditation following a traditional Sadhana of the Buddha of Compassion. 

Meditation On Chenrezig

Allowing is effortless, but it takes effort to not allow this moment. For this moment is already present, already perfectly what it is. In the vastness of your own heart even resistance is allowed. 

Allowing this moment to be what it is

Making death your friend to awake to your life. Contemplating death is a powerful pointer to what is really important. Celebrate your life by remembering death. 

Celebrating Life By Contemplating Death

Tonglen (giving and taking) is a method for connecting with suffering — ours and that which is all around us — everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us. We begin to feel love both for ourselves and others and also we begin to take care of ourselves and others. It awakens our compassion and it also introduces us to a far larger view of reality.

Healing Through Tonglen

So who are you? You are not objects out there, you are not feelings, you are not thoughts - you are effortlessly aware of all those, so you are not those. Who or what are you? 
You have feelings, but you are  not those feelings. Who are you?  But then people usually make a big mistake. They think that if they rest in the Witness, they are going to see something or feel something - something really neat and special. But you won't see anything. If you see something, that is just another object - another feeling, another thought, another sensation, another image. But those are all objects; those are what you are not. 


Awareness recognizing Awareness

For Western Meditators it is important to bring awareness back to the body, to shift form disembodiment to embodiment. Otherwise your practice just stays in the head and has little impact on how you live your life. Stephan Pende talks on the importance of embodiment and leads a meditation. 

Back To The Body

A guided meditation into the present moment, connecting with the primordial peace of your own being. Just being here, now, in a place where you have everything you need. 

Resting in timeless presence

Guided Body-scan to gently slide into a deep relaxation, connecting with the natural peace of your mind. 

Compassionate Body-Scan

Instructions about connecting with nondual awareness while being in a public place. 

Connecting with nondual awareness in a public space

An invitation to slide into a place of fulfillment by letting the moment be just as it is. If you stop to struggle with reality there is peace.

Letting be and letting go

A guided meditation in which you connect with gratitude about the richness of this moment. If you are truly present, gratefulness is arising naturally.

Gratefulness

When we practice mindfulness meditation, many things arise in awareness. We typically turn our attention to each thing in turn - different thoughts, feelings, body sensations, states of mind. We often don’t turn our attention to that which is doing the observing, that which seems to be doing the thinking, that which is aware. This is what you are invited to do in this meditation - to actually seek, in a very practical way, who it is that is doing the seeking, who it is that is practicing. Of course, you say, I am seeking, I am practicing. But who is this I? Can you show it to me? When we turn to look for it, what do we find?

Self-Inquiry

In this Meditation you are invited to approach an area of emotional or physical discomfort and hold it softly. Trusting the healing and transformative power of mindful acceptance. A meditation for difficult moments!

Being with  emotional or physical discomfort

Stephan Wormland, MA in clinical psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy. He has studied and practiced meditation in multiple Buddhist traditions for over 30 years and spent altogether 5 years in meditation retreats. Stephan was a monk in the Tibetan tradition for 11 years and teaches meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe.

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