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Focus on the Calm Part of the Breath

A twenty-minute guided meditation on breath-centered mindfulness.

In this guided mindfulness-of-the-body practice Michael focuses on feeling the ground, the breath, the support…

Michael explains Patanjali’s take on subduing the causes of suffering in their gross and subtle…

Based on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra (1.19) and a poem by Gary Snyder Michael talks about…

Michael talks about applying a lens of Western Psychology to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and the…

Based on a koan (Case Forty-five from the Gateless Gate) this talk delves into the…

Michael explores the line from the Rig-Veda that he chose as the epigraph to The…

Beginning with a quote from Gary Snyder, Michael teaches about non-reactivity, letting go of clinging…

Michael leads a thirty-minute guided meditation on mindfulness of breathing.

In this talk Michael describes how practice helps us become conscious of our viewpoints and…