Loving Kindness Meditation
A guided meditation for the cultivation of metta, or loving kindness. With Tatjana Mesar, founder of Zen Yoga by Dynamic Mindfulness.
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Getting In Touch, a guided meditation
This guided meditation is all about getting in touch with the inner landscape of the body. With Tatjana Mesar, founder of Zen Yoga by Dynamic Mindfulness. If you have lower back issues, place some cushions under the knees. Blankets are also nice to stay warm.
Body Maps – Ancestral Body
Saturday, November 18th at 11 AM – 1:30 PM With Tatjana Mesar, Buddhist yoga and meditation teacher, shiatsu therapist and a musician. Our ancestral body is created from family believes, messages and stories about the body and the movement. Mostly invisible, it shapes the way we live in our physical body day to day. In this session, we’ll move, […]
Whole Body Smile Meditation
A smile makes a big difference. It’s a genuine gift to our surrounding, and to ourselves. This guided meditation is an incredibly simple and powerful practice. You can practice it anytime, everywhere. With Tatjana Mesar, founder of Dynamic Mindfulness.
‘Fire’ by Judy Brown
What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can douse the flames almost as surely as a pail of water would. So building fires requires attention to the spaces in between, as much as to the wood. […]
Silent Illumination Meditation Retreats
with Zarko Andricevic, Chan Master “Silent Illumination” is a simple method of practice to cultivate relaxation and awareness of the state of body, mind, and environment. Silence arises when wandering thoughts and conceptualization settle down, arises “silence”; with the emergence of clarity arises “illumination. The silent illumination method in Chan tradition is practiced in sitting, […]
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you […]
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
by Rainer Maria Rilke Buddhist scholar, environmental activist and author Joanna Macy is reading Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower”. Embedded from Krista Tipett’s On Being Podcast. Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. […]
Dynamic Mindfulness Code Of Conduct
In order to show responsibility to community and students, Dynamic Mindfulness Teachers: Are truthful. Welcome all students regardless of gender, race, religion, creed, nationality, cultural background, or sexual preference. Abstain from giving medical advice, or advice that can be interpreted as such, unless they are professionally qualified to do so. Avoid abuse of drugs and […]
L’INFINITO Giacomo Leopardi
“Always dear to me was this solitary hill and this hedge, which, for its part, excludes most of the horizon. But sitting and gazing at such endless spaces that stretch with their profound and serene silences, my wandering thoughts nearly engulf me. As the wind rustles through the trees, I must keep on, balancing an […]
Walk Slowly, by Danna Faulds
It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgment drops to a whisper and I remember again that life isn’t a relay race; that we will all cross the finish line; that waking up […]
Pablo Neruda’s Ode to Silence
Keeping Quiet Pablo Neruda’s Ode to Silence Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language; let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; […]