This Is the Time We’ve Been Practicing For
Recently a dear friend and fellow meditation teacher reminded me of what was said by a wise meditation practitioner, after... View Article
Tag Archive: MBSR
Mindfulness and your Heart’s Calling
Do you ever (or frequently) find yourself pulled in many directions at once? Everything seems important, compelling or maybe we’re... View Article
What Actually is a Silent Retreat, and Why Go?
What Actually is a Retreat? As a person who has practiced silent teacher-led meditation retreats for decades and led them... View Article
Mindfulness and Meeting Everything
Mindfulness and Meeting Everything I find myself in the middle of teaching an eight week mindfulness program (MBSR) as part... View Article
The “Students” are the Teachers- in Mindful Self Compassion
Letting the students speak: Sometime what inspires a blog post is an experience I or a student has had about... View Article
Taking Refuge- Taking Action
Recently I was reading about the closing of a meditation center due to the sexual misconduct of one of the... View Article
We never Really Know, Even When We Think We do
Many years ago, in speaking with one of my Zen teachers about my own teaching of Mindfulness classes, I asked... View Article
What Actualy is a Retreat, and Why Go?
What Actually is a Retreat? As a person who has practiced silent teacher-led meditation retreats for decades and led them... View Article
Spring into Summer With Mindfulness
Signs of the Season A message from Hugh As we move into spring/summer there are any number of noticeable changes... View Article
Seeing Through ‘New Eyes”
Seeing with “New Eyes” The other day I was leading a meditation group which begins with about thirty... View Article