Our Place in the Web of Life

Our Place in the Web of Life

Let an image form in your mind’s eye of a web, the delicate filaments intricately connected, each one vibrating in response to the smallest movement on any part of the net. We know this image from the wisdom traditions, like the Buddhist sutra that describes Indra’s...
The (Really) Big Picture

The (Really) Big Picture

Allow 10 minutes with approximately 3 minutes for each section of the meditation: Body Wise, Heart Wise, and Soul Wise. While the Body Wise practices are gentle, modify any physical instructions to care for your body’s needs. Always honor what feels comfortable and...
Listen…

Listen…

…with your whole being, to where and how we are all enlivened by the same source of vitality. SEE how this awareness, often discovered in solitude, is integrated through recognizing and connecting to this same presence in others. FEEL our intimate, interdependent...
Breathing the Sky

Breathing the Sky

Did you know that every carbon atom in our bodies was once blasted from a star? With science confirming that we are indeed stardust, perhaps it becomes a little less clear where we stop and start. While words are handy when it comes to passing the salt at the dinner...
A Greener Self

A Greener Self

The elements of our bodies were born in a primeval supernova billions of years ago. Who can be sure where our bodies begin or end?   Geneen Marie Haugen I love the Oscar Wilde quote, “Be yourself, everyone else is taken” as a way to ease the pressure of molding...
Deep Ecology

Deep Ecology

“As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.”     Joanna Macy In my foreboding daydreams of the future, my yet unborn granddaughter sits beside me on the couch flipping through a dog-eared book with pictures of African penguins, a...