Spiritual Practice Journeys

This practice is an experiential inquiry into directed prayer. For anyone, this practice has the potential of bringing us to new understandings of prayer and connection.

The Welcoming Practice is intended to cultivate surrender to our deeper Self in times when we might be grasped and carried away by challenging feelings and situations that are difficult to endure. It can also be used to move beyond the alluring feelings of inflation and self-congratulations.

This fundamental practice of gratitude guides us to a fullness of a loving life.

This practice was created during the Covid epidemic when, despite the very best and valiant efforts of the medical staffs here in this country and around the world, many were dying essentially alone. Although we have moved beyond this difficult time, we continue to be called to be prayerfully present to those who in this moment are dying and dying alone.

Although this was created at the time of Covid, its meaning and application remain relevant today. Who will pray for the dead and those who have very recently died? We shall…

This practice is designed to give us a deeper understanding of our death and dying. It invites us to counter our culture's silence and denial.

This practice invites us to consider how we might accompany another in their dying. It allows us to explore how we can share our compassion with our loved ones.

Prayer and action can be integrated into an comprehensive response to the political challenges of our time. This practice sensitizes us to this work and prepares us to face into it.

One of the profound callings of life in our times is the restoration of our rightful and reciprocal relationship with Nature. This practice journey invites us to this work and tills the soil of our willingness.

This practice introduces us to the Imaginal, the next realm out. It invites us to an experiential sense of the possibility of our living more in concert with, and supported by, the Imaginal.

This is an embodiment practice that enables us to engage more directly with life through present sense awareness.

Our relationship with Nature is profoundly reciprocal. This meditational practice opens us up to the experiential veracity of this.

This practice is the essential foundation for loving others. It is the necessary place to start.

Combining several component practices together from all four categories of Wisdom Practice (surrender, attention, presence, and compassion), the Heart of Presence Meditation contributes to the opening of presence to all that is before us and opens us more deeply to the possibility of a loving engagement.

This practice is like looking in the mirror and both seeing and appreciating some of the milepost changes that are taking place in us. In this, rather than patting ourselves on the back, we can more deeply recognize ourselves and the arc of transformation we are on.