Sacred Serenity: The Benefits of Building a Meditation Practice to Calm the Chaos with JaTorra Commodore

Originally recorded on April 28, 2022. This class offers simple and practical ways to pause and connect to your inner calm. Learn breathing techniques that leave you feeling centered, less overwhelmed, and with an overall sense of well-being. You will explore the benefits of building a lasting practice that will help calm the chaos of… Continue reading

Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If we just look at what’s really going on with any meditation technique, it’s so simple as to be unbelievable. Enjoy the flow of your breathing. Notice the flow of thoughts, emotions, and sensations through your body, heart, and mind. Enjoy the beauty of an internal sound—a mantra—that to you feels like the song of… Continue reading

Enriching Our Conception of Mindfulness

Let’s enrich our conception of what mindfulness is. In the ancient languages, the term would carry a meaning more like heartfulness, sense-fullness, gratefulness, wonderfulness, soulfulness. “Mindfulness” means way more than the English word “mind.” In Sanskrit, manas has a wide range of meanings—“mind” in its widest sense, including all the mental powers, intelligence, perception, sense,… Continue reading

Welcome the Wildness: or, Uncovering the True Heart of Yoga and Meditation

Every day, we have to do the impossible. We have to submit to the magic reboot of sleep and then get up and line up all our selves into a unified being and get on with it. Nearly every day, new qualities of our selves come online to join in with all the others. This… Continue reading

An Introduction to the Death or Loss of a Parent

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up.” —Anne Lamott Why is the death… Continue reading

An Introduction to Rest

Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity. The fast pace of modern living can cause people to think they must always be working on one task or another to remain a productive member of society, but the… Continue reading

One Song Lab: Songwriting as a Path Toward Confidence and Wholeness with Ken Ashby

Previously recorded on April 21, 2022. From mindset to music, ONE SONG sessions are rooted in the idea that everyone has creativity flowing inside, ready to be tapped. Accessing your innate creativity involves being aware of the details of life around us every day. The experience of songwriting, which can open pathways to the energy… Continue reading

Thriving Together: The Balanced and Resilient Family with Cole Berschback

Originally recorded on April 12, 2022. During this class you will learn strategies for you and your family to regulate and relieve stress, activate resilience at will, and restore your daily energy balance so that you can be your best. Practices for both adults and children will be shared. About Cole Berschback: Cole Berschback is… Continue reading

An Introduction to Science and Spirituality

Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike. Why did the split occur in the first place, what has… Continue reading

An Introduction to Raising Sons

In a post #MeToo world, many parents of young boys are anxious to find a better way forward for their sons. Luckily, there are many things parents can do to foster a positive environment in which their sons can flourish and thrive, and be proud of who they grow up to be. How do I… Continue reading