We haven’t talked much lately. It’s been an incredibly challenging time to navigate on my end. Every day is… really something.

So as I work my way back to more consistency here, I thought we’d revisit a little bit of quiet. Maybe starting the week this way can help us find a grounded place from which to meet whatever might arise.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 02.23.36.)

First, let me recognize my absence. There has been a lot of upheaval in my life. I appreciate the daily meditation subscribers for their patience as I’ve wandered away and back. 💗

As we arrive to this meditation today, I am thinking of the full moon in Scorpio today. I’m thinking about all the things in my own life that I would like to begin again. I am thinking of this brand new month and day that’s full of possibility.

If you’ve wandered from meditation, I invite you to return.

If you’ve wandered from other things that have felt important to you, maybe it’s time to begin again.

You can always begin again.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

We’ve come to perhaps one of the tenderest points in revisiting this series on connection: the heart. The ways we relate to our hearts are really going to inform the next couple of meditations also, so I encourage you to be gentle and take some time.

I’d like to share a little from the original post:

We’ve explored the breath and body as well as the mind. How do we feel the connection of these two and now to also feel their connection with the heart?

In this trio, I think the heart can often feel the most guarded, even from its closest allies. It can also be the most tender, especially in times such as these where every news story is a different heartbreak. Even when something is anger-inducing, sometimes what lives beneath the anger is our tender little hearts, maybe wishing for something to be other than it is or recognizing the suffering of a situation.

Today is an invitation to be the with the heart and its many connections, to feel into the tenderness that lives in us always.

I would like to leave you with one of my very favorite quotes from my late teacher:

“It’s so important that we’re paying attention to the condition of our heart... It’s the beginning of your life in every single moment.”

— Michael Stone

Thank you for being here today, friends, and for exploring these connections. 💗 Take care.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about connection lately: our connections to ourselves, to each other, and to the world around us. So much works to disconnect us, how does it feel explore what and how we connect?

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 04.11.25.)

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We’re starting off a new week and I wonder what your week is going to be like. What will it hold? What do you want it to hold? How do you want to feel this week?

We’re exploring some intentions and find our foundation in the breath. I hope it’s a good way to start things off today.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 09.29.25.)

We’ve been talking a lot about quiet in the daily meditations, so tonight I thought we could spend a little time with stillness.

Here’s a little something from the original sharing of this meditation:

Sometimes when things are shifting either in small or big ways, getting still is the last thing that I want to do. Maybe you too? But when I don’t want to find that stillness is when I know that I need it.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t move things through our bodies with actual movement, but that there is a balance we can find between stillness and wanting to run from things.

Stillness can help us see what’s truly going on, to act from a place of choice instead of reactivity. It can be informative. It can soothe some frayed edge feelings.

Of course, if none of this feels like it resonates, today’s meditation is still a lovely exercise in just being right here.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 05.30.25.)

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As we’re kind of hitting sort of midday here, I am thinking about something we touched on in the daily meditations yesterday, which is this idea of pausing. These five minutes of breath can be a great pause in your day. Perhaps it can help you find the pause you need in whatever has had your attention, whatever the feelings might be in this moment. Just breathing and being with today and the moment is what we’re doing together.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 04.28.25)

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I am thinking today about the breath, the exhale, how it feels to hold our breath in times that feel difficult or in anticipation.

In what ways can we be with the breath, to lean into the exhale today to make a little space for letting things flow instead of that sense of holding, if you do feel that.

Thank you for being her today. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 10.10.25.)

As we’re starting out the week, I thought we could take some time to check in. Before your day gets too wild, before whatever the week brings, what’s here in this moment?

I often find myself full steam ahead, regardless of what day it is or what’s going on. Maybe this sounds familiar? For me, taking even a few minutes to pause and check in makes a huge difference in the day. Maybe you’ll find this too?

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archives. It was originally shared on 11.18.24.)

This morning, we’re getting a little curious about what’s here and what we need. What has the week been like for you? What do you need today?

We’re allowing an intention to arise, holding it lightly, and settling into the breath today.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Something that I hear often from folks is that consistency with meditation is hard. I hear about things that I really relate to like perfectionism or day to day things that can make it difficult. It’s hard to schedule. It’s hard to get back to. Sometimes the things that are most beneficial to us are the hardest to keep up with. I know.

I’ve been facing a lot of migraines with the seasons changing, so my own consistency here and with my practice has been spotty this week. But the remedy is simple: just keep coming back. It’s what we practice when we do sit. We inevitably get distracted, but we return.

So I hope you’ll return to meditation today if you find yourself somewhere else.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re taking a little Friday break from the foundations we’ve been exploring to be with the exhale today. We often do this on a Friday, finding the breath and practicing letting go. Maybe today there’s something else you need and I encourage you to bring whatever intention that’s alive for you into practice today.

It’s a wild time to be alive, friends. I’m glad you’re here. I think being in practice is so important for ourselves and the world. Thank you for being here.

💗 Take care.

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We’re starting a new month together and, as promised, we’re turning our attention back to the foundations of our meditation practice.

This is a great time to begin a regular practice or get back to one. If you have an established practice, I think returning to these foundations can help us let go of what we think our practice should look like. I love to go back to meditation instruction. It allows me to drop the ideas that I know anything and have that beginner’s mind once again. It’s a sweet experience.

Today, we have a short and simple practice to just be with the breath. We spend so much of our time not thinking about it, what’s it like to really sit and be with the flow of the inhale and exhale? There’s no judgment here for distractions. The only thing to do is to be with the breath and return to it as you need.

Thank you for spending time today, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Today, I’m thinking a lot about all the things that life holds: the good, the bad, the fires, the droughts, the calm and quiet places. In my own life, there have been a lot of fires lately. Sometimes when this happens, meditation is hard. I admit that my mind is quite full and rarely quiet in my practice. But there is something about sitting that has felt like a respite. Even when the mind is busy, there’s something to sitting in the middle of it and breathing.

Maybe your life doesn’t feel like this today. Maybe you’re feeling pretty chill. However you are arriving today, I hope you find something in the meditation that makes your day a bit better.

A reminder for you that in March (just two days away!) we’re focusing on going back to the meditation foundations and later lovingkindness. New classes will be up soon too.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We’re starting this week off with a bit of quiet, an invitation to be present. In the rush of a Monday, I hope this meditation offers you some space to settle.

As for some news… I mentioned yesterday to the daily subscribers, we’re going to make some shifts for March. We’ll be starting out the month really returning to the basics of meditation. This is an invitation for you to come back to the practice, begin meditation, or to really dig in to the practice you already have. I love going back to meditation instruction and settling into the foundations. I hope you will too.

After spending time there, we’ll move into lovingkindness practice. If you haven’t done this practice before or you have only done it a couple of times, I hope that you’ll really take the time to be with it this coming month.

Of course, if you aren’t already a daily subscriber, I hope you’ll consider becoming one. I’m really looking forward to finding some steadiness with you in March. It’s only a few days away now. Can you believe it?

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Whether your day has started out just as you expected or things have already gone off the rails, we’re sitting with ease today.

I often think about how our expectations really influence both our experiences and the outcomes. If I’m expecting a Monday to be a real “case of the Mondays,” that’s probably what I’m going to find. But if I find myself already in this day that feels wild, what difference can it make to sit quietly and find some ease in it all? Let’s see.

Thanks for being here. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive. It was first offered on 03.17.25.

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If your day has been long, short, tiring, exciting, or any number of other things… I hope you’ll enjoy just a few minutes to breathe tonight. Maybe it will help you reset for rest or just begin your wind down. I hope it’s a good night, friends.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 08.14.25.)

As I write to you this morning, it is still dark outside, but have you noticed that the light is returning? I looked outside last night at 6:16pm and the sun was still in the process of setting. I think it’s the first time that I really felt the shift in daylight this season.

To start the day and the week, we have a quiet little breath meditation this morning. We’re finding some flow, keeping things simple. We’re also keeping this sense of invitation: inviting the mind to settle, not forcing anything to happen.

I hope it’s a good start to the week, friends.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We often spend time with the exhale on Fridays and sometimes we talk about letting go. I wonder if there’s something that’s come up over the week that you’d like to shift, something that could better serve you in the letting go than the holding on. Or maybe there’s some built up tension in your body from all that life is in this moment and the exhale can be that pressure release.

However you are today, whatever you may be carrying or holding onto, I hope that this practice with the exhale and invitation to let go helps you feel a little lighter.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 09.26.25.)

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To settle into this new month, we’re talking about something that I think is a really special feature of meditation practice: beginning again. We do it every time we wander away from the breath and come back. We do it every time we even sit down to meditate.

I hear often about people being “bad” at meditation and something happens where trying again feels impossible. I know I’ve said it so many times here, but just showing up is what matters: showing up to meditate, showing back up when you wander off in distractions. There is no good or bad. There’s no need for judgment. You can rest in knowing that beginning again is possible any time.

So if you’ve been away from meditation or maybe there’s something else in your life that you’d like to begin again, I hope our time together today inspires you to be open to what it can feel like to start and restart however many times you need.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 05.02.25.)

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Perhaps you (like me) are in a place that has closed the roads due to just having had a major snow storm and you’re like “What else is this week going to bring?” Or maybe you’re free to roam as you choose and there’s a little feeling of “Ugh. What is this week going to bring?” Or even still, maybe “What is this week going to bring?” has a curious or excited vibe to it.

However this week’s arrival has found you, we are checking in on it today. What’s here? What’s present? How can we practice returning to ourselves and the moment throughout the day and week ahead?

It seems like a lot of questions today. I wonder what answers you might find.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Stay warm.

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As so much of the United States is dealing with a monstrous storm at their doorstep, as the news breaks of another death in Minneapolis, as we hold any number of other personal or collective heartbreak, I thought of this meditation.

I’ve been a bit quiet over the last couple of days. I think sometimes I need an extra minute to sort ourselves out when the world and life is as it is. Maybe you too? But today, I am here to offer you a space to help hold that which is hard.

This meditation was first shared on the day of two memorials for two different people in my life who had passed, but I remember thinking about other heart breaks that day too. There’s a way that grief compounds, one on top of another, some seemingly unrelated.

Bearing witness to the grief, the heartache, the anger, the loss, the disbelief… whatever it might be is a powerful practice. It can be transformative to sit in the middle of what is painful and what we’d prefer to run from. I am in way telling you just to sit (though meditation is its own act), but I am offering this practice as something to help build the ground from which you can act with wisdom.

I hope it’s helpful in whatever way you may need today.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 I’m with you.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 11.11.23.)

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The daily meditation subscribers might be sensing a theme forming, which is the question of “what’s here?” Because what is here? What is going on? Sometimes it takes being still for a minute and looking deeply to find the answer.

So today, we sit with the breath, ourselves, all that’s here.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 06.23.25.)

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I’ve had a hard time finding words today. There’s so much going on in the world, in our collective and separate lives. It’s hard to know where to begin.

I know there’s a lot to do in our day to day lives and also with the wider issues at hand. It can be exhausting to simply keep up with the news. So what do we do when that’s the case? I think we have to find ourselves where we are and find ways to resource ourselves.

I had someone ask me recently if the people I’m seeing in sessions and classes are talking about [insert thing here] and what I have found is that mostly people want to recognize the horrors and move into what will help face them. So finding rest, finding healing, finding the breath. Taking action without caring for ourselves can leave us drained.

So tonight’s meditation is for you to find the rest you need. You don’t need permission to rest, but maybe you need some encouragement. It’s okay to take these moments for yourself, to relax, to breathe. It means that in the very next moment, you can be more present.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 02.02.25.)

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We are spending time this morning with possibility. In the rush of Monday (or any day), sometimes it feels hard to not just be with what we expect.

Maybe we’re expecting it to be a Monday sort of day. Maybe we’re expecting work to be this or an appointment to be like that. What if we let go of the expectation and let what’s possible unfold?

To me, that feels more spacious than the “knowing” of expectation. It feels more open and a place to breathe. How does it feel to you?

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 9.22.25).

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To say it’s been a week is perhaps the understatement of the year thus far. If you’re feeling the stress of the news, work, life, whatever it might be, I hope this meditation helps you to find a way to breathe a little freer. There’s no way to attend to any of the things that are going on in this world if we can’t find ourselves where we are.

So let’s take some breaths, find our exhale, and give ourselves a few moments just to be.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 06.20.25.)

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Our meditation today is a short one, intended to be able to fit into the smallest of time windows if you need.

I know many folks are returning to their “usual” Mondays and usual weeks after the haze of the holidays. I hope this meditation can give you a foundation for the day, a chance to find center and your breath.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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As we wrap up the holidays, I thought perhaps a little something to help us land might be nice.

Today’s invitation is to find a soft place in this meditation that holds something you might need. Maybe it’s just some quiet space, some stillness, something else that might arise while we’re here together… I hope you find what you need for your day.

Daily subscribers, I suspect my voice will be recovered enough for new meditations starting this weekend. Thank you for taking a trip through the archive with me. If you’re not already a daily subscriber, I hope you’ll consider.

As always, thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 10.17.25.)

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We’ve made it. 2026. How wild. I never would have expected this year. I have a hard time imagining what the future holds, so it never fails to amaze me where I land. How about you? How do you feel today, at this start of something new?

Our meditation to start the year is one from the archive, as my voice is not yet ready to create. While I’m not grateful to have been sick this past week, I am grateful for the chance to slow down and be still and think about what it is I’d like to bring into this new year.

I’m not saying anything about resolutions today, but intentions. Just as we start many of our months together: what do we want to bring into this moment? Any moment is a chance to shift and begin again, but there’s an energy to a collective moment like this one.

In light of that energy and also in respect to my own abilities, we won’t be taking on The 30 Day Sit this month. Instead, I’d like to offer you something that’s not a resolution or a program or another thing to check off your to do list.

Maybe it’s a shift, an intentional move toward something that you might want: calm, quiet, mindfulness, clarity, focus… insert your word here. So over this next month, maybe we will be quiet and slow, honoring the winter, honoring ourselves without adding one more thing, but inviting it.

If you aren’t already part of the daily meditations subscription, I hope you’ll join me.

May this little meditation be a good start to the year. 💗

Thank you for being here.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 01.01.23.)

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We are in that liminal space at the end of the year where I feel as if no one quite knows what day it is and if it is the day you think it is, it’s still not your usual day. Perhaps this is not your usual Monday.

I have found myself in both that weird end of year feeling and also the time dictated by an end of the year cold. I don’t know what time it is. I’m waking up at odd hours. It’s a weird time.

But I think that these times, the ones where we find ourselves sort of floating above what the “norm” is for us, are a great reminder that we can come back to something. We can bring ourselves back to center, back to a foundation. We can explore what all of this oddity feels like and yet still return to the breath and the moment. What a gift to be able to do it.

Today, we’re finding some focus. We’re remembering it’s Monday perhaps.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 09.15.25.)

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I hope your day yesterday was a good one and that maybe you’ve been able to find some rest, away from the usual things on your schedule and with more of the folks and animals who are special to you.

Our meditation tonight is a short one to help you find some quiet from the last couple of days, whatever they may have held for you.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 08.14.25.)

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We’ve made it. Today starts the return of the sun, each day a little brighter. I’m thinking today about what we’re bringing with us into the light, what we’re planting. How can we hold those things gently and with the space they need to grow?

We’re practicing a little bit of that with the breath today, not getting too caught up in our distractions, but letting them go with ease, staying open and gentle as the breath itself can be.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Whether you’re feeling that push and rush of the end of the year and the holidays or you’re feeling chill about it all, I invite you to these few moments to breathe and take a rest. Sometimes it’s hard to find the time or hard to give ourselves the permission to rest, but I hope you’ll take these moments and know that you don’t have to be anywhere else, doing anything else. Being right here is important too.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Our meditation today invites you to tune into the breath and let it out. Maybe there are things in your life that also need that feeling of letting go, moving through, shifting… something like the exhale. Maybe you feel like you’re waiting for the new year or the holidays… Let’s come back to now and see what’s here if we just take a breath.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 10.10.25.)

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Today, we find ourselves together on a most auspicious day. In the Zen tradition, this is Bodhi Day, or the day we recognize as when the Buddha became enlightened.

Meditation existed before the Buddha, but his enlightenment was something new. It is said that he sat all through the night, as many practitioners do on this day and then… “At dawn, looking at the morning star, he exclaimed: ‘How wonderful! I and all beings have simultaneously realized the Way.’”

There is, of course, much that came before this day in Buddha’s journey to enlightenment and much came after, but what I hope for you to take away from this (whatever your faith tradition may be or may not be) is that a simple human found a simple practice that helped him and others in a deep way.

So today, in honor of all of this, we sit in the same quiet that the Buddha did, under the same stars.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

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As I was trying to record for you today, I realized something that was happening: the sitting was getting to me. 😜

I’ve been talking a bit this week about Rohatsu, the time leading up to the Buddha’s enlightenment in the Zen tradition. Normally, I would be on retreat, but this year finds me at home and sitting with community online. It’s been quite a bit more meditation each day than is my usual and I fear that this morning I am struck by so many things at once: the vastness of practice, the way that it ripples out from us through so many parts of our lives, the way it can become a full body practice as opposed to just up in our minds.

So today, I put aside trying to say all of that to you in a meditation and opted to find the one I’m sharing today. It offers us quiet and a practice of stillness to help ease the mind. I wonder what you’ll find in it. Maybe it will inspire you to sit a little more too? (If so, we’re sitting on Sunday.)

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 08.07.25.)

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It is hard to believe that we are here at the beginning of December. What a wild year it’s been. I have been thinking a lot obver the last day or so about what I’d like the end of the year to hold, in feeling, in activity, etc.

I started to put together the class schedule for this month and just really thought about what my heart wanted to do. I tried to listen. In the next couple of days, you’ll receive a more proper update on December offerings, but until then, you can find all the classes up for scheduling here.

I hope some of your intention this month and beyond is to find connection. I hope maybe it’s a little bit of spending more time in meditation. I hope that this month is full of heart for you.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 I hope to see more of you. Take care.

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For many of us, yesterday may have held what felt like a lot. Even if we didn’t take part in the holiday or if it wasn’t hectic, there can be a lot of lead up. The collective energy has a way of impacting us whether we’re engaging in certain activities or not.

Whatever your day might have held yesterday or what today might hold as well, we’re here together for a little breath and to find some sense of centeredness. We’re connecting into the deep part of ourselves that can hold us steady even in the wildest of times. Maybe there’s some calm here, some quiet too.

Thank you for being here and exploring together today. 💗 Take care.

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I thought that it might be nice to start this holiday week off with a little time to just find some quiet. Even if it feels like your mind is going going going, maybe there’s a little space there between the breaths or the thoughts. There’s no judgment here for how busy (or not) your mind or body might feel. I hope you’ll allow these moments together to be easy and gentle, a flow that you can take with you into the day and rest of the week.

As I know holiday times can really start to ramp up around now (if not before), I hope you’ll return to your breath when you need. Maybe take a moment to stop outside and get some quiet if you’re able. Quiet will indeed be a big focus for us this week, so I hope you’ll join me.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re starting our day and our meditation off a little differently this morning.

The invitation today is to find a little happiness before we settle in and to let that feeling be with us in this meditation. It’s easy to get sort of sucked up into the things that bring us down, especially in the world today.

I know that my struggles with chronic migraine lately have brought a lot of unhappy times. Maybe you’ve got something in your life that has left you feeling similarly. And that’s okay. I remind myself that this is a season and that someday things will shift for me as they will for you too.

This morning is a rare breath of being pain free and feeling light. So I hope a little of that comes through this meditation for you too, whatever you might need.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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When I received jukai in March of 2022 from Roshi Joan Halifax, she gave me the dharma name Joko. So much was happening in that moment that things feel fuzzy, but I remember so clearly the mental image as she described its meaning as a quiet lake.

This morning, that image of the quiet lake is here with me. The calm waters, barely believable in their stillness. We’re not so different from that lake, which inevitably will start to have waves and unexpected visitors. Meditation can help us return to the calm waters if and when they get too choppy. That’s our invitation today: finding the stillness, returning to it, and being with whatever the waters might be otherwise.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I’m thinking this morning about what it is to find this idea of quiet or ease in our wild world. To me right now, it feels like letting my shoulders relax, taking a few minutes to breath. It’s breathing deeply and being with the breath. It’s taking a moment to notice the sky. Maybe these sound right to you too or maybe there’s something else that comes to mind that might help your Monday be a little more calm and easy. Whatever you might need this Monday or this week, I hope our few minutes together can help you find it.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 05.12.25.

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In thinking about what to share with you this morning, I was reminded of this moment that I had while making coffee earlier. The little moments are always the one that get me the most, the ordinary and every day things. It’s the care with the water, the coffee, the filter. I felt like I was noticing the texture of the mug differently today. There was a bit of slowing down to notice. It wasn’t about my actions slowing, but my mind.

This seems to me what we practice in meditation. We catch the quiet moments with the breath. Maybe we find a quality to the breath we didn’t notice before. Maybe we are able to find a little space in our minds between the thoughts. All kinds of experiences are possible, even in these ten minutes.

As we spend more time in this space, there’s a little more that comes out of our practice and into other areas of life too. Maybe it’s the coffee or maybe it’s a conversation with a friend where you feel more present. A gift, either way.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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For our meditation today, we’re spending time being quiet, maybe finding a little calm. I know that Mondays can often bring a rush or maybe it’s a more subtle shift for you. Either way, I hope today’s meditation can begin the week ahead helping you to cultivate a quiet, calm space you can return to when you need it, whenver that might be.

In this wild world in this wild time, that cultivation of calm can make a big difference in both your experiences and the ones of those around you.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Here we are at the start of November. It’s so hard to believe how the year has gone by.

As we often do at the start of a new month, we’re talking about beginning again. Whether you’ve been away from meditation or you’re brand new, what a time to start fresh!

Maybe you’ve felt too distracted or there’s something else that keeps you from sitting down to practice. Each time you find yourself here is a chance to begin again. No reason to feel any negative way about inconsistencies or wanderings off. The fact that you’re here, the act of returning to meditation and to the breath… That’s the magic.

Thank you for being here today. 💗 Take care.

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Whenever I pull something from the archive for you, I like to write something new, bringing the meditation forward into what’s happening now. Today, as I was deciding what to share with you, I thought that what was already here feels applicable and worth sharing again.

I hope you find what you need for your Monday…

I know that to say it has been an eventful year so far would be an understatement. Maybe even just for the last few days alone.

To start off this week, we’re spending time checking in with ourselves. We’re with the breath and also all the rest of what’s here in this moment.

Bearing witness (as we do in checking in) is a profound and important act. The Zen Peacemakers know this. It’s the second of their three tenets. The first is Not Knowing. So as we enter into these check-ins, I invite you to be curious. What’s really here? See it as it is, no additions.

The third of the tenets is Taking Action. Sometimes we say Compassionate Action. While it can often feel like a right action is hard to identify, being with what is is already something. Quantum physics teaches us that the observed is changed by the observer without any “action.” What shifts happen simply by being present?

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation was originally shared on 06.23.25.)

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Ah, Monday. Here we are again.

Last night, this morning, and other times recently, I’ve been thinking about the feeling of tension and how we can find a space to let some of that go. I even recognized that I was tensing my shoulders while laying in bed last night, asking myself what is that even about? I have my suspicions.

Maybe you feel something similar. Maybe just Mondays bring out a sense of something like getting tense. Maybe your week is holding a lot. Even when we’re looking forward to things, there can be an anticipation there that feels a bit tense. I think a good question to ask is, “do we need to be holding this?”

Today, we’re sensing the tension, finding the way it can flow into something else, something more calm and clear.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

Shoo. What a week. I’m not sure what yours has looked like, but mine has included a lot of unexpected things. Maybe yours as well?

Today’s invitation is to find a soft place in this meditation that holds something you might need. Maybe it’s just some quiet space, some stillness, something else that might arise while we’re here together… I hope you find what you need for your day.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I’ve been awake for some time, but it still feels like a slow and sleepy start to the day. I’m noticing the quiet of the morning (well, aside from the tiny dog snores), allowing it to sink in, something I can take with me for the day.

I’m hoping that if you need it, you’ll find a little quiet here too: something that feels like a good start to whatever your day might hold.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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As we often do on Fridays, we’re spending a little time with the exhale. I know that I often find myself holding my breath or maybe not breathing fully. Whatever it is, there’s some sort of feedback happening with the breath. Maybe you have found this happens to you too? Today, we’re just allowing ourselves to spend some time with the exhale, sensing in to how it feels to let things go, to reset. Or maybe there’s something else here for you in the quiet today.

Whatever you might find in today’s meditation, I hope it’s just what you need.

Thank you for being here. ✨ Take care.

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We’ve arrived back together on this Monday. I thought it might be nice to take a little time before the week gets going to find a little quiet, maybe a feeling of stillness.

Perhaps you’re wondering why we talk about quiet so much or practice being in it. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the one I’m thinking about today is that the world and our days can be so, so busy. To be able to sit in the quiet, collect ourselves, find a little space, etc can really make a difference in how your day feels. I think it also makes an impact on how we are with others. If we don’t have a little space, how can we make room to genuinely interact with the people around us?

I could go on, but there are other days for that. For now, I hope you can find that little bit of (or a lot of!) quiet today and that it helps set your day off on the right footing.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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✨This week! On 10/12, if you’re local to Columbus, I hope you’ll join me for walking meditation at Highbanks.

✨Coming up! If you’re looking for a little more meditation guidance, there’s an in person introduction to meditation workshop on 10/19. An online version will be on 10/26.

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First, my apologies to the daily subscribers for a late start to the month. I think the delay is most aptly summed up by: what a time to be alive. 😜

We are here now though, a couple of days into this new month. When we find ourselves at a beginning of some sort, I do love to feel into that new energy and what it might hold. For us together, does it hold consistently showing up to meditation? Does it hold something else you’ve been starting/stopping/starting?

For October, I hope we can feel into this energy throughout the month. Every day is a chance to make a choice. (Every moment, in fact, but that feels like a lot sometimes.) It’s easy to get stuck into a way of looking at something or a way of showing up (or not). In the case of meditation practice, if you’ve been wanting to show up, every day you get a brand new choice to do so. Nothing has to be attached to that except what you decide that day.

I’m glad you decided to be here today. I hope to see you tomorrow.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Today’s meditation is a little breath and quiet, a little intention, or maybe a whole lot of both? We’ll see how things go.

We’re winding down the month and so maybe intentions are on my mind. I have a lot of ideas for October and what I’d like it to hold. But that’s still a couple of days away, so I find myself asking what I’d like today to be like? Not just what I’d like to or need to get done, but what would I like the day to feel like? Something that’s not connected to my productivity necessarily, but something more internal than that.

So that’s our offering today: we’re with the breath and finding a little intention for our week ahead.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Letting go is one of those themes that we come back to regularly. I know in my life, I could use a reminder to take the exhale and let something go. So I offer that as a reminder to you today also.

We carry so many things in our days and lives. Sometimes we don’t need to. I remember talking with my teacher last year about this idea of holding something (witnessing it, holding space for it, etc) versus carrying it. I do not need to carry a heavy weight of something around with me. I can take the exhale, recognize what’s happening, recognize the thing that’s too heavy, and let the weight go. Even just a little is nice.

Maybe you don’t relate to what I’m saying here, but maybe there’s something else for you today with the exhale. Maybe there’s a feeling in your body that could shift, some other thing in the mind.

Let’s see what’s here together.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We often come back around to the idea of possibility at the beginning of the week or month, even the day. I know that it can be really easy to get sort of stuck in our expectations of what things will be like rather than being open to what they could be like.

And what’s the fuss about being open? Even if things do happen exactly as you expect, I think we leave behind a lot of possibilities that way. We so often find what we seek instead of allowing for things to unfold as they might. This is not a call to inaction, but a call to drop a little knowing and let the world surprise you. There’s a lot of possibility out there if we stay open to it.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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I find myself thinking often about the changes that can happen from just one person. Even the difference that you can make in a person’s day by seeing them. It’s easy sometimes to not really look at the parking attendant or not engage with the person at the store’s register. Lots of people don’t. If you’ve ever worked jobs like these, you know.

I had an interaction with a nurse at the doctor’s office the other day that got me thinking a bit about this. She had to help me with something sort of complicated and thanked me for being kind with her. How many times are people rude to this nurse? Or they don’t engage with her?

So I’m hoping today after you’ve sat with this idea of calm presence, maybe you consider what it is to be the person who is present, who does see and shows kindness. We miss these (some might say small) really human one on one interactions with each other so often. What if we didn’t?

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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I was truly surprised to find it was Monday today, despite knowing yesterday was Sunday. I lost track of time around last Thursday and I think I’m only just arriving back to the present.

Time is a funny thing, as is our focus. We can get so distracted and lose ourselves in the many things going on: the to do lists, the urgent calls, the pleasant naps, the time with friends. No harm in it, but sometimes it seems nice to arrive where we are. Today, we’re collecting the parts of us that are lost in last Thursday and bringing them with us to being just here.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We’re spending time sort of decompressing at the end of the week (if it as such for you). This is a great meditation for after your work week ends or maybe taking some time as you shift into your nighttime routine.

This week has been a lot for a lot of reasons and I hope that this practice of the exhale will help you to take a little time away from All The Things and find rest for your mind and body.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared 06.20.25.)

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Whether your day has started out just as you expected or things have already gone off the rails, we’re sitting with ease today.

I often think about how our expectations really influence both our experiences and the outcomes. If I’m expecting a Monday to be a real “case of the Mondays,” that’s probably what I’m going to find. But if I find myself already in this day that feels wild, what difference can it make to sit quietly and find some ease in it all? Let’s see.

Thanks for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was first offered on 03.17.25.)

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The day is winding down (perhaps your week is too) and today’s offering is a little chance to relax.

Whatever your day has held, I hope you’re able to let it drop away for these few minutes and really be with the breath and body.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared 04.07.24.)

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Welcome to September. I’m so happy we’re here together.

Today’s meditation is holding this idea of beginning again along with our intentions for the month. Perhaps more meditation is your intention. Perhaps finding more presence in the every day. Maybe it’s something entirely different.

However you approach today’s meditation, we’re staying with the breath, letting our intentions hold in the background, and practicing this incredible act of beginning again with each breath.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Before anything else, I want to say that I am deeply grateful for to the daily subscribers who have been so understanding while I took a couple of days away this week following the passing of my beloved cat, Maus. It makes a big difference to be able to step away.

To ease back into our regular schedule, today’s offering is one of our shorter breath breaks. Let’s take a couple of minutes to just breathe and be to end the week.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I know on a Monday morning you might be like “slowing down? No… I gotta go!” And if that’s the case, I hope you will especially take these ten minutes to be with the breath today.

It’s one of my favorite things to be reminded to notice how you’re holding the coffee mug or to take a look at the sky. You may indeed be running late or feel like there’s a need to be quick about something, but even in that can part of you feel steady in the rush? Let’s see what a bit of breath brings to the day.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally offered on 10.30.24.)

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Sometimes I find myself believing that I know something. I know what comes next or I know what this person is going to do or I know what the day is going to be like. Then it turns out I don’t know anything and things have gone awry. Have you had this experience of thinking that you know?

Today, we’re working with expectations and letting them go. It’s not an easy thing. It seems like the world around us really pushes us to know. We should have an opinion on everything and an idea of how things “should” be.

What if we did let some of our expectations go and allowed the moment to unfold? Not in a way that means inaction, but a way that allows for openness. This is what we’re holding a bit of this today in our meditation.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I’m thinking a lot today about the changing times we’re in and the shifts of late summer. Maybe you’ve got your own things happening that are leaving you feeling a little ungrounded. Maybe the world feels a little ungrounded. Whether you’re feeling a little of that or not, finding a kind of steadiness at any point in the day I think feels nice.

Today, that’s what we’re holding in our practice: finding a little steadiness, finding that still point in the breath that can act as an anchor. You can take that anchor, that feeling of steadiness out of meditation with you and into the day, coming back to it whenever you might need, if you do.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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While I was thinking about what to share with you this morning, the idea that kept coming up was just how special it is that you’re here, that we’re all here.

It is a radical act to even attempt to be really here with what is in this moment. There are so many things that take us away from ourselves, from each other. Meditation is a path back, I think, back from the scrolling and the busybusybusy of life. Finding ourselves with the breath and the openness of the moment even for a brief time is really special.

So we’re holding this intention of being present today, present in the distraction and the focus, present with the breath and our wandering away. Nothing is pushed aside. The moment is right here always.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Do you ever have those days or weeks where time just passes so quickly that you can barely believe it?

This meditation is here to help us slow down for the night, take some breaths, and maybe find a little rest.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

We’ve made it here together to a brand new week. Folks I’ve been talking with lately have been bringing up this sense of transition and change. Summer is starting to wind down, kids are going back to school, there’s a shift in the air… And how do we greet those things?

Today’s practice is one of finding a little openness and possibility where we might otherwise have felt closed off.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally offered on 03.25.24.)

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For tonight’s meditation, I hope you will find your way to being as comfortable as you’re able. The name of the game this evening is rest and relaxation. You don’t have to have had a hard week or day to deserve a little rest.

However you might be arriving to tonight’s meditation, let’s find that quiet place to rest the body and the mind.

Thank you for spending a little time with the breath tonight. 💗 Take care.

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This morning I’m thinking about what kind of day and week I’d like to have. What do I want things to feel like?

My usual answer is some form of quiet and ease, which are two things we hold a bit of in our meditation today. When I say that, I don’t mean that things are just quiet and easy the whole time (though sometimes that is nice). What I really mean is that I can meet the day, the week, the moment, with an internal sense of quiet and ease. It’s easy to spend a lot of time in a heightened state between the news, scrolling, life’s every day stresses, etc.

What is it to cultivate a little quiet in ourselves so that we can meet each of these things a little easier? Maybe we’ll find a little of that today, or perhaps you’ll find something else that you need.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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As we often do at the start of a month, we’re coming back to an invitation to practice. If you’ve wandered away from meditation, been intimidated to start, or you’re not just sure what’s going on, today is especially for you.

I hear often from folks that they’d love to have a steady practice but once they miss a day or feel like maybe their mind is too busy, they drop away. It’s hard to keep things going! I struggled for a long time to have a regular practice.

Unlike how it may feel at times, some of the real magic in meditation comes from beginning again. We begin again with each breath and realizing each distraction: an opportunity every time. This is the space where a gentle quiet can start to find its way to even the busiest of minds. We’re not shutting things off, but we’re finding space.

I hope you’ll spend some time with this meditation today, whenever it might find you. And I hope to talk to you again tomorrow.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

✨ Opportunities to talk about meditation, rest with a little reiki, or experience support are available this weekend and beyond. I hope to see you. https://makespacemeditation.as.me/

We’ve made it back around to a Monday. Maybe you’re off to work. Maybe you have appointments. Maybe you love Mondays. New day, new week, new possibilities are themes we often talk about on Mondays.

I know that sometimes a prevailing story can be that feeling of “ugh! Monday!” But what if it was just that: a story? What if we could change the story if it isn’t working for us? Maybe we’re not changing it straight to something about how Monday is the very best, but maybe it’s just a shift of perspective to allow for some possibility.

Stories aren’t necessarily bad. Sometimes they’re helpful. I think one of the gifts of meditation is allowing us to see these stories and determine if it’s helpful, making a change if it isn’t.

This is the back drop of our meditation today: just allowing ourselves to see what’s here when it arises. Maybe we find a story and we get to choose to keep it or let it go. But most importantly: we get to choose instead of being washed away into the story itself.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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This evening’s meditation is a little treat from the archive. I kept thinking today about the exhale and this feeling of letting go that it can bring. Regardless of what your day or week has been like, I hope you can find a little rest with the breath tonight.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally offered 02.26.23.)

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How are things on this Monday?

Today, we’re spending some time with our friends quiet and ease.

Sometimes it feels so easy (no pun intended) to make things difficult or to make them feel difficult, especially in this space of starting a new week. What if we approached it a little differently? What if we could find a little quiet, a little sense of ease, and keep those things with us as the day and week unfolds? Let’s see what might be possible.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally offered on 05.12.25.)

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As we’ve been working through lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations, I have been thinking a lot about connection with ourselves and each other.

In a world that feels more and more divided, what a radical act to look at the connection instead. Today, we do just that with our little visit to the archive for this meditation.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re here again at the start of the week. I thought perhaps a nice way to be together this morning is a practice of attention. We’ll spend time with the breath, but also noticing what’s here in us and around us.

I hope that finding time for this practice helps whatever your day might hold. I know it’s especially easy sometimes on a Monday (or any day) to rush off to whatever seems important. But slowing down, taking it in, bringing our minds to being just right here can help us be more present for whatever’s next. I hope you find that to be true.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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One of the things that has been really wonderful about concentrating on lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations has been returning each day to a sense of connection.

My experiences in the world, especially lately, have felt like encouragement to disconnect. But every breath can be something that brings us back. When I’ve been on retreat, it’s the thing I most come away with: a sense of connection and care for everything. I don’t think it’s coincidence that theme keeps arising. I think retreat is what I need to remember sometimes.

This moment is full of connection and we don’t need to go away on retreat to find it. What’s here with the breath? What’s here in connection for you today?

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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A new day. A new week. A new moment. Some of my favorite things, as many of you know.

Today, we’re focused on just being here. What is it to be here with your breath, body, mind, and heart in this very moment? What a kindness it is to yourself and to others in your life to take this time to just be.

I am reminded this morning of the great Zen master Maezumi Roshi who used to say “Appreciate your life!” There is even a book of his talks with that title. Maybe we can take a little of that into today too: appreciating each breath.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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In the daily meditations, we’ve been exploring lovingkindness and so connection has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s also a new week (if you have a traditional schedule) and how do we really prepare ourselves for what’s ahead?

Today’s meditation is bringing us to the breath so that we can find maybe a bit of foundation for the week ahead. There also some other themes here: connection, kindness. What is it to not just practice being with the breath, but also being kind to ourselves when our minds wander? How does that move out from our meditation and into the world?

I hope you’ll be open and curious with all of it today. And, of course, if you’re so moved, I hope you’ll join us in our lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We began talking about lovingkindness earlier this week, focusing on ourselves to start. (If you’re not part of our daily meditations and would like to be, I hope you’ll find consider subscribing.) We’re continuing that practice today.

I think that beginning our practice of lovingkindness with ourselves before moving on to others helps us to do what can be so difficult in so many ways: care for ourselves. We are not talking about a selfish act, but one that helps us grow and allows us to connect more deeply with others as we move through this practice. It is so easy to neglect our own needs, to not listen to ourselves. But you are worthy to be cared for and listened to and I hope you feel that a bit today if you haven’t been lately.

Tomorrow, we’ll finish up our time with the focus on ourselves with a bit of an extended practice. We’ll then move into our next focus: our loved ones.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re here with the exhale today, noticing how it can help us release and relax. It’s not just because it’s Friday (if it is indeed a “Friday” to your schedule), but because times are out here being wild.

I am thinking today about the Supreme Court decision on trans care in Tennessee. I’m thinking of the loss of life around the world. I am thinking of the small things every day that may feel a little harder than they used to. There are also still all our joys and laughter too.

And then right here in the middle of everything, this ability to exhale. Not to deny any of the goods, bads, in betweens, but to be able to stay present in all of it. It is a radical act in these times to breathe and be present.

Thank you for being here today, finding this exhale. 💗 Take care.

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I am thinking a lot today about how so much of what we practice in our meditations can start to really impact time outside of our practice. The more that we do this, the easier it becomes to see those effects.

Today, our intention is to keep things quiet and easy, two adjectives you might not always use for a Monday. But here we are: practicing with maybe what we’d like to see more of in our day. We’re keeping things flowing, allowing distractions to move on with ease, coming back to focus, back and forth in the flow of breath.

I hope that you find what you need in today’s meditation, friends.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We're spending time over the next few days exploring what it is to slow down. If you feel like life has you going and going and going and… then these meditations are going to be especially for you. If you feel like your mind can’t slow down during meditation (or otherwise), I hope you’ll also explore how having this intention might help.

Slowing down is not about any kind of forcefulness. Instead, it’s a steady and gentle process of feeling into it: noticing tension and letting it go, noticing the way you feel rushed and what it feels like to relax, and so on. I hope this practice (and the ones over the next few days for daily subscribers) help each of us find ways to slow down and connect to the moment we’re in.

Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We are indeed together again on a Monday. Today, we’re spending time with quiet and this intention of holding some ease and chill. When distractions arise, we’re keeping it easy. Maybe just knowing that for the next few minutes, all you have to be is right here with the breath brings a sense of that too.

Whatever we practice in our meditation has the possibility of coming into other aspects of our lives. If finding a little more ease and chill sounds nice for your day, being with that sense in these few minutes is one way to help bring that into other times of the day. Sounds nice to me. Maybe you too?

Thank you for spending time today. 💗 Take care.

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We’re spending time with our expectations today. Even already this morning, things have not gone as I planned. It seems so easy to get wrapped up in what I think should be happening and miss what’s really here, only to be annoyed later at the whole thing. Maybe you can relate in something about this morning or this week?

Today, we’re exploring what it is to hold even our expectations of our meditation with a little lightness. What’s here instead of what we think should be here? How can we ease our grip on our expectations? What happens when we do?

Thanks so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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Monday’s here again. How are you?

For today, we’re keeping a bit of this beginning again feel to things, remembering that the breath is an excellent example of how this is done. As distractions come up, we can remember that each exhale is a letting go, each inhale the opportunity to be with the moment. So we’re in this flow of being with what arises and letting it go.

I know Mondays can be especially distracting, but I hope you’ll remember to keep things easy, without judgement. Again, allowing the ease of the breath to guide the mind as well.

I hope it’s a good day, friends. 💗 Take care.

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As many of you know, I love a new month, day, moment. One of the things meditation practice has taught me is that we can begin (or begin again) as many times as we need, with whatever we might be doing. So today’s invitation is to meditation. If you’ve had a practice, have wanted one, have thought about it numerous times, have fallen on and off the a million times, etc, today is especially for you.

Maybe you have a meditation practice already, but there’s something else in your life that you’ve wanted to start doing or learning. I hope today inspires you to start or start again whatever is calling to you.

Thanks for being here today. 💗 Take care.

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Today’s meditation is one I think I needed this morning myself. Sometimes when things are shifting either in small or big ways, getting still is the last thing that I want to do. Maybe you too? But when I don’t want to find that stillness is when I know that I need it.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t move things through our bodies with actual movement, but that there is a balance we can find between stillness and wanting to run from things.

Stillness can help us see what’s truly going on, to act from a place of choice instead of reactivity. It can be informative. It can soothe some frayed edge feelings.

Of course, if none of this feels like it resonates, today’s meditation is still a lovely exercise in just being right here.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re spending time just simply being with what’s here today. We’re checking in, breathing, and allowing ourselves to be with what is, just as it shows up.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 11.18.24.

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We’ve been spending some time this week with an idea of letting go, clearing the air, finding the exhale. I started out this morning with nothing going as planned, so if that’s you too maybe this particular is just for you. 💗

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive. It was first shared on 02.28.25.

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We have made it to Monday once more. Today’s meditation is hopefully supportive to the start of your week, this new day. I know that especially on days like a traditional Monday, we’re often ready to rush off to whatever is on our list, but I hope you’ll take today’s meditation as an invitation to pause, connect to the breath, to maybe find a little ease before that rushing or whatever else your day might hold.

Thanks for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Our time together today is focused on the quiet and stillness we find, even in the noise. It’s a little bit of holding both things, not one or the other. Whether there’s a lot of noise in or around you, there is the possibility of quiet also.

I always think of this quiet center that exists in each of us, that we can always go back to if we need it. It’s a place I want to live from more and more, a place where we aren’t reactionary, but thoughtful. It’s a place where we know that each moment and action matters, so we approach all things with care.

All of that in just a little quiet? Yes, I think so.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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Starting off a day, a week, a moment with the intention of finding the easy points always feels like a little bit of relief to me. As if the breath in these moments could guide us to a place where the tension in our bodies relaxes and we can go with the flow of what is here in this moment. I do think it can do that, even if for a moment.

I hope you’ll let this meditation be easy and light today.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We started bringing in this sense of invitation last week with the idea of beginning a meditation practice or beginning again. We’ve moved through a couple of other invitations, all to help you explore the practice a little bit.

Today, we’re focused on slowing down. You might think about your day and the week ahead and think maybe there’s a lot to do or a feeling of being behind already. Whether you’re in that space or an entirely different one, I really hope that these ten minutes of breath and being still can help you slow down. And I hope this sense of slowing down brings in a little more presence and focus when you need it. I know for myself when I feel rushed or stressed or like there’s a lot going on, sometimes the best thing I can do is step back and breathe.

I hope it’s a good day, friends.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re still in this place of meditation practice invitation. One of the things about meditation that can feel like opportunity or very much the opposite is when we get distracted. I know from my own experience how discouraging it can feel to find out just how loud or busy our minds can be. It doesn’t have to be a negative though.

The very act of beginning again with each distraction we discover is full of possibility. I really believe that. It’s the possibility to know ourselves and our minds a little better. It’s also an opportunity to be gentle with ourselves and let go of judgment. No matter how many times we find ourselves wandering away from focus, we can have this open place to start anew.

Often folks tell me that they’re “bad” at meditation because they can’t get their minds clear of thought. Your mind is going to work itself through. It’s what minds do. It’s our response to it, the willingness to begin again, that makes the difference. Slowly but surely, you’ll feel a shift in that busy/distracted mind.

I hope you’ll explore with me today and be gentle with yourself and your mind.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’ve found this new month together and in it an invitation.

Whether your meditation practice has fallen away or perhaps you’ve never quite gotten around to really giving it a try, the beginning of the month is especially for you.

I hear often about how people want to meditate or have this sense that they “should.” In this invitation, there’s no shoulds or pushes or forcing. We’re not shoving ourselves down this path, dragging our feet. I mean, maybe we do need a little encouragement or discipline to stay with meditation, but this is true for many habits.

How many times did I try to stick with meditation before it really stuck? Many many many many many many many… (you get the idea) times. So many. One day, I took the invitation to begin again and it stuck. And here we are.

So I hope you’ll join me, accepting this invite from meditation to find more presence, calm, patience, and/or any number of things that might benefit your life and those around you too.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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We’re spending just a few minutes together to start our week. If you’ve been here for a little bit, you know I love the start of new week.

I also love the start of a new month, which is coming up quickly.

By May 1, there will be new classes added to the schedule, both online and in person. We’ll have walking and seated meditations as well as the return of lovingkindness class.

On May 1, we’ll also start a little bit of time focused on beginning or coming back to practice. We all wander off some times or have trouble even starting, so we’re going to take it easy. This isn’t a formal 30 Day Sit, but it is a week or so of invitations to be here. So it’s a good time to become a daily subscriber if you’ve been considering. If there is any hesitation based on finances, please just reach out.

tl;dr more to come in May! Let’s spend a few minutes breathing together today.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I’ve spent most of this week a little confused on the date. For instance, I thought yesterday was today. There’s been a lot of sudden news and changes which only adds to the sense of confusion in place and time. Maybe you’ve had a similar week or something entirely different. Whatever the last few days of held for you, maybe finding a little shift sounds nice.

Today, the exhale is our practice. You can take this meditation any time to help bring you into your weekend or otherwise move some energy. I hope you’ll let the exhale guide you into what you need most today.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re here together on a Monday again and for today’s meditation, we’re finding a little bit of openness.

On Mondays in particular, it seems easy to just jump into things and not find time to breathe. This is your invitation to take a couple of moments, explore the breath, and maybe find a little bit of openness to what’s here before moving into (or back into) your day.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’ve spent the week looking at connection and today we’re focused on one that can be a bit tricky: other people.

I went searching this morning for a quote or bit of wisdom to offer you to go along with our meditation. I landed on a simple classic from Father Greg Boyle. You may have heard me talk about Father Greg before or know of him yourself. He’s a Jesuit priest who founded Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation program in the world. He talks a lot about our connections to each other. To me, listening to Father Greg just opens my heart up and helps me to find that space (if you’d like to listen to him also, this is one of my favorites). One thing he says often is simply, "we belong to each other.” And he means it: no one is left out.

So today’s meditation is an exploration of belonging and connection, not just to the people you know or people you like, but to each and every one of us. The barista who makes your coffee, the person at the grocery checkout, the driver who cuts you off, the unhoused person you pass every day, and so on. We’re all here and we belong to each other. What does it feel like to sense into and recognize our connections, both here in this meditation and throughout the day?

This connection in particular is not always an easy one to hold, so I hope you will be easy on yourself, stay connected with the breath, and just be open to what’s here.

Of note: our meditation is a bit longer and bit more “talky” today. So if you’re looking for something on the quieter side right now, perhaps this one is for you.

Thank you so much for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re continuing our theme of connection today, focusing on the mind.

I am thinking of a podcast from Michael Stone that I listened to recently where he shares that it’s a “fascinating thing to watch when you’re sitting… how the breath really responds to the state of the mind.” He goes on to say “if you try to work with your mind to relax your mind, you tend to just create more mind loops…” but if you move to working with your breath and “you really start to settle your breathing, your mind also will start to settle.”

We’re exploring the body and mind connection today, expanding on yesterday’s meditation. At the same time, I also want to recognize that the mind informs so much of our lives an interactions with the world. The state of the mind impacts how we interact with other connections around us. What is here when we get curious about how our mind impacts not just our breathing, but how we speak to someone else or ourselves, for instance? So much to explore here. I hope this meditation is just the beginning.

I also hope that you’ll join me for the rest of this week’s exploration of connection too by considering becoming a daily meditation subscriber. (As with all my offerings, if this is outside your current means, please feel free to reach out. No one is turned away.)

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

We’re working with connection in all the places that it shows up today. I’m going to let this meditation speak for itself as there’s a little bit more talking up front, but I want to be clear that maybe connection isn’t what resonates with you today. Maybe there is something adjacent or maybe just finding the openness to see if something is here you didn’t expect.

Some of meditation’s most impactful benefits sort of sneak up on us sometimes, I think. We find them at the grocery store when we’re waiting in line and we’re feeling more patient. We see it in the way we’re more present for friends and conversations. Meditation’s impact on all these little connections can be subtle or all at once and no way is better than any other.

Let’s explore what’s here.

Thank you for being here today. 💗 Take care.

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Today’s meditation is an invitation of sorts. I know many people drop away from meditation or feel intimidated in starting.

Our meditation today holds quiet and this invitation to begin or begin again. It’s a time to lay judgment and commentary aside and just be with the breath, knowing that we can return as many times as we need. It feels sometimes like there’s a lot of barriers to meditation in terms of expectations, so we lay those aside too as much as we’re able. What we’re left with is just us, the breath, and this flow of our mind’s wandering off and returning. And that’s just it: it’s a flow. If your mind was a river, you wouldn’t get mad at the waves for their direction, but you’d find the way to navigate them. So we do together today with a little quiet.

I hope this meditation is just the one you need today.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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As the week comes to an end, maybe the idea of that there is a great wide world of possibility is not the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe what’s needed is the quiet of the breath or the stillness of just sitting. These things are all here for you in today’s meditation.

If you’re struggling with current events or things in your life that are difficult, I hope you’ll consider the story of the stars I share today. We have a lot of encouragement to ignore possibility for things to shift, to take a more negative stance, but what if we did stay open to it? What if we did remember that the stars are always here, even if they’re hidden.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared 08.16.24.

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We’ve made it back to the start of a new week. Today’s meditation greets the day with quiet and curiosity. Even in our times of quiet, allowing that curiosity to greet each distraction as we move our attention back to the breath.

I hope this little bit of quiet is just what the day needs.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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I’m finding myself a little speechless this morning. I’ve had a weird week. How’s your week been? Busy? Maybe also weird?

Today, we’re finding the possibility of stillness and quiet in the middle of all that’s happening around us. I like this sense of a still point because I think it allows us to take in more of what’s going on. It can also help leave space to check in with ourselves. There’s so much to take in and to do, what is it to stop moving for a few moments and just be here with what is?

Whatever your week has held, I hope this meditation helps you to find a point of quiet, maybe even a little rest for your body and mind in this practice of being still.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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We’re spending some time in the quiet this morning, allowing ourselves to settle in maybe before the busyness of the day or week sets in.

I know especially in the morning, our minds can be flooded with all the things about things that are happening, things to do, things things things. But I really invite you to find a little bit of space here to breathe and be quiet, letting all the things rest for just a few minutes. You can pick them back up again after if you need.

Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

This meditation is from the archive and was originally shared 07.08.24.

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We’re spending time with the exhale today, feeling into the sense of letting go. What is there to let go of? Maybe it’s something like perfectionism (which we talk about here) or maybe there’s something else, something that needs the shift an exhale can bring.

When I hear people talk about meditation, sometimes I hear the drive for perfect in their questions or thoughts. There’s so much “I’m bad at meditation” sentiment when really the showing up is what matters, just like the return to the breath is what matters in this meditation regardless of how many times we wander away from it.

Maybe that feels like a lot to think about today, so you’re also welcome to just be and let the exhale guide you.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

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This morning, I can’t help but find myself thinking about everything. You know, the everything going on. Maybe it’s not just the everything in the world, but also in your life.

More and more, I find myself having a difficult time being in a reactionary space. There’s a lot of immediate gratification in the social media cycle of outrage, for instance. And while I don’t suggest we aren’t outraged, don’t react, or that an emotion you feel about a particular thing isn’t valid, I do think about this return to quiet.

In this case, the quiet is like a check in. What’s really here? What am I really feeling? What’s the right next action? Instead of the immediate reaction, there’s a curiosity and a space to choose. It doesn’t deny the reality of any situation, but asks us to maybe find the ground first.

Today, we’re practicing this little bit of being quiet in the middle of all the things. I hope it helps you take a breath today.

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As always, thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.

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There is an irony to our theme today because truly this morning has not felt like it's had much ease in it to me. Maybe this is you or maybe you've had a chill morning. Whatever your experience of the morning might be, there is something to bringing an intention of ease into times that feel just the opposite. Even in meditation, I know it can feel difficult to sit or difficult to be with what's here, but allowing even the intention to sort of infiltrate might change things up a little.

I think this is true for when we think something is difficult or bad like a Monday morning. Maybe today hasn't done anything to us, but we feel this like UGH about it. How can the idea of ease lighten that feeling, if it can?

✨ Times are available this week for a little ease and care. I hope to see you.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.

Our time together today is about one of the themes we talk about often: slowing down. A little over ten years ago, I had a break up that left me feeling some kind of way (as they do, I'm sure you know). I remember the weekend that it happened, I just stared at my phone playing games for hours. I started to stack my schedule full of activities. I was the busiest I could be. And that trend lasted a long time. There's always more to do or learn, always a place to be.

It's taken some unwinding over the years to recognize the avoidance that that type of schedule promoted for me. It is still a lot of work to slow down or to not overbook my schedule in some way, not get sucked into the go go go of things. I don't think our minds and systems were meant to live that way. Just being here is enough.

Today, I offer you these few minutes to find a little space of slowing down if you need it. Maybe even to just see what it feels like if you too have been so busy.

✨ I hope your weekend holds rest and a little slowing down. There are times available this weekend to help do just that.

Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.