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Wild Mind Retreat
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  Labor Day Weekend
  September 3-6

Alchemy of Change
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  Oct 25-Nov 6, 2010

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Meditation Online
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Trans Circles
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Anne Frank








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Alchemy of Change

NOT meditating by numbers

It is a lot simpler than most people think to have your head meet your heart and your body and to tap into that inexhaustible source inside at will, whenever you need to, or want [...]

Wild Mind

You could write a book to unpack the idea of the wild. In fact there have been several. I am thinking in particular of Gary Snyder’s Practice of the Wild.

Join us for a retreat to learn ways to open to the simplicity of living from the innate and naturally wild capacity of mind. [...]

The Universe is Alive

Everything is alive, like Allen Ginsberg’s Footnote to Howl. Everything’s holy, everything wholly, everything’s whole. Which is not to say that it’s perfect just as it is, and that there isn’t a job for you to [...]

Meditation and the Law of Attraction?

What the Buddha wants

Long ago I imagined living and working at a retreat on unspoiled land, far from the city, yet accessible enough for people to come here for workshops. I imagined that the land itself would be like a teacher. I imagined becoming native to this place, intimate with the animals and plants that [...]

Loving Kindness Retreat: Maitri

Retreat February 12-15

Meditations on Love

The ancient Greeks had many words for it, while we have only one. We send it in emails, and at the end of messages, without  a thought. We may long for another person, and yet we use that same word, with great intensity. We may use it to describe our feelings [...]

The Art of Focus: Ways Meditation Can Change your Life

Video from Caitriona

A Mind as Big as the Sky

Meditation is not just about mind control. Focus and concentration are not just about controlling the mind. It’s better to consider controlling less, trusting more – like a trained dancer, an artist, a musician who can express themselves effortlessly.

Meditation is the art of living, and [...]

Present Moment - Future Moment

If you do not have a destination, a goal, then how can you ever arrive there? At the same time, if you have a goal, but are fixated on arriving there, without really knowing where you are right now, you cannot fully know the steps you must take. To pursue your dreams and goals, AND to live fully in the present, THAT is [...]

Michele Benzamin-Miki on Meditation

Video of Michele speaking about the experience of meditation. Waking to the dance of life and death.

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Get the Life You Want

It may sound like a wild claim, but there are skills, which in the right hands can do in ten minutes what ten years of meditation may not accomplish. I was shocked when I first discovered it. Those skills don’t lessen the power of meditation, they enhance it. And you subsequent capacities are enhanced [...]

Economic meltdown, climate change, and the miracle of mental flexibility.

How will you survive the economy and climate change? Some say it will take a miracle. But the miracle is the mind itself and the flexibility with which we make meaning! My work as a meditation instructor and coach affirms it every [...]