Our lives reflect both our conscious and subconscious drives, but how can we release what we can't see? Breathwork is a timeless way of accessing our limiting subconscious emotions, thoughts, and energetic blocks and letting them go. Allow this simple but powerful two-step pranayama technique to guide you in releasing what no longer serves you and embodying the freedom that is your birthright.

Breathwork helps access and release limiting subconscious emotions, thoughts, and energetic blocks in a simple two-step pranayama technique for embodying freedom.

Breathe and Let Go

The ultimate ground of our being has been described as sat-chit-ananda or being-consciousness-bliss. Thus, by directing our consciousness into our being, we can open to experience this innate bliss more fully. While the joy of being can be felt throughout the body, it is traditionally associated with the sacral chakra. In Sanskrit, this chakra is referred to as svadhisthana, meaning 'sweetness'. When a plant has deep roots and is well-watered, the fruit is sure to be sweet. Svadhisthana also means ‘one’s own dwelling place' or the sacred abode where we can find ourselves again and again. Please join me in connecting with this ever-present wellspring of joy.

By directing our consciousness into our being, we can experience innate bliss associated with the sacral chakra, known as svadhisthana or 'sweetness'.

Basking in the Inner Wellspring of Joy

Our technique for healing emotional complexes borrows greatly from the Focusing school of therapy, an incredibly thorough and simple distillation of many somatic healing modalities. We will start by getting bigger than our disowned emotions and then welcoming them through connecting with their felt sense in the body. As we do so, we get calmer, because we're not caught up in the emotional complex. We also get smarter, because we have a larger perspective and are not being run by our emotions. We make better decisions, our relationships improve and we enjoy our lives more.

Healing emotional complexes using the Focusing therapy method includes connecting with the body's felt sense to gain a larger perspective, make better decisions, and improve relationships.

How To Heal Emotional Complexes

Our inner child lives in the subconscious mind and can thus be accessed through the language of the soul, which is composed of myths, images, and symbols. By visually evoking and dialoguing with this younger part of ourselves, we can alchemize limiting beliefs, challenging emotions and physical tension into creativity, joy, and freedom. Are you ready for magical alchemy?

Access your inner child through the language of the soul, and transform limiting beliefs into creativity, joy, and freedom.

Inner Child Alchemy

Trusting the goodness of life requires surrender, and surrender requires trust. How then do we make the initial leap of faith? In this meditation, you will be guided to dissolve the boundaries of your small self into the totality of life. By opening to the loving embrace of the universe, you will connect more deeply with the innate wisdom, creativity, and joy of life as it moves through you.

Surrender and trust are key to trusting life's goodness; dissolve boundaries and connect with the universe to access innate wisdom, creativity and joy.

Allowing Life To Take Care of Us

As a wise teacher once told me, the closer we get to Truth, the closer we get to paradox. One of the deepest paradoxes of life is that the more we let go of pretending to know, the more we connect with the true security of not knowing. As we surrender to the ineffable mystery of life, we find ourselves guided, moment to moment, by a wisdom beyond all-knowing. This practice is meant to serve those in periods of questioning, insecurity, and disorienting transformation.

Letting go of the need to know brings true security and guidance in life's mysteries, especially during periods of transformation.

Embracing Not Knowing

With the smorgasbord of spiritual teachings out there, it can be easy to disconnect from the guidance at our very core. This practice is designed to bring you into alignment with the greatest barometer of truth in creation: your own precious heart. Our heart is always speaking to us, guiding us to our deepest fulfillment and fullest expression. But it is up to us to put our ears down close to our chest and listen. And when we listen, we are richly rewarded.

Listen to your heart for guidance and fulfillment amidst a variety of spiritual teachings available.

Trusting Your Heart

While meditation is a powerful tool for connecting with our True Nature, our practice can easily devolve into another act of doing, driving us further from our uncontrived state. Where is the peace, presence, and joy of being before we go looking for it? Do we really need rigid meditative techniques to access the truth of ourselves? In this meditation, we will relax mental grasping and fall effortlessly into our natural state.

Unconventional meditation method to access natural state without rigid techniques. Relax mental grasping for peace and joy of being.

Letting Go Of The Meditator

If self-judgment is a defense from feeling the emotional pain underneath, then self-love must be the opposite: the willingness to bring awareness to all the parts of ourselves. In this meditation, we will first be generating a stream of love towards a loved one and then turning that same flow towards ourselves. In the words of the late, great Ram Dass: "Consciousness equals awareness which equals love."

Meditation on self-love involves generating love towards a loved one and then turning that same flow towards ourselves to bring awareness to all parts of ourselves.

Allowing Love To Flow Towards Ourselves

This meditation encourages letting go of rigid techniques and effortlessly accessing our natural state for peace, joy, and presence.

True Meditation

To know ourselves as a whole doesn't require any addition, but the subtracting away of all the limiting beliefs that obscure our vision. In this meditation, we will be guided to follow the thread of longing back from the external world to its primordial origin: the whole, worthy and vital Self at our core. This offering was inspired by the poetry of Charles Bukowski, a satsang entitled the 'Red Thread of Desire' by Adyashanti, and my own lifelong desire to know myself as a whole.

A meditation to uncover the whole, worthy, and vital self by subtracting limiting beliefs, inspired by Charles Bukowski and Adyashanti.

Turning Towards Our Wholeness

Meditation can become another task, but relaxing mental grasping can help us effortlessly connect with our natural state of peace, presence, and joy.

Letting Go of the Meditator

At the highest level that can be expressed in words, we can say that consciousness alone exists. Yet, since our egos are convinced that we need the effort to become what we already are, we can conjure up a process to exhaust the seeking mind. In this practice, we will be letting go of the four linchpins keeping our egoic resistance in place; the drives for approval, control, security, and separation. As we let them go, we create space to embody our ever-present true self; always whole and already free. The Sedona Method questions throughout the recording should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release.

Let go of egoic resistance and embrace your true self with the Sedona Method, using simple yes or no answers to achieve profound release.

Let Go and Be Free

In this meditation, we will be practicing Triple Welcoming, a simple and powerful three-step process we can use to release any issue, problem, belief, or feeling. First, we will welcome the issue, then welcome any feelings and wants associated with it, and finally the sense that it’s personal or has anything to do with us. This release can be practiced any time you would like to go from being lost in a painful story or emotional turmoil to resting as the presence, love, and joy that you are. The questions throughout the recording should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine, as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release.

Practice Triple Welcoming through a simple 3-step process to release any issue, problem, belief, or feeling and rest as presence, love, and joy.

S.O.S For Releasing Challenging Emotions

This is a classic Gestalt therapy exercise in which you express your thoughts and feelings as if you were talking to a specific person. Even though they are not present, you direct your words and gestures at an empty chair and imagine that person sitting in it while you talk. This simple approach is designed to allow you to work through interpersonal or internal conflict. The Sedona Method questions at the end of the recording are designed for letting go of any emotions that may be brought up during the exercise and should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release. May this offering empower us to meet and release any lingering ghosts of the past.

Express your thoughts and feelings towards an imaginary person in an empty chair to work through conflict, and use the Sedona Method to let go of emotions.

Releasing Ghosts: Empty Chair Technique

Many of us are riddled with an insidious feeling of unworthiness, a vague sense that there is something inherently wrong with us. We have been conditioned through millennia to believe that we are broken and separate, spending much of our lives trying to cover up this core wound. This is a beautiful practice intended to restore our sense of wholeness by opening us up to the redemptive love that is our birthright.

We are conditioned to feel unworthy, but a practice of opening up to redemptive love can restore our sense of wholeness.

A Love You Cannot Earn

This meditation helps to connect with True Nature by relaxing mental grasping and effortlessly falling into our natural state without rigid techniques.

We are programmed to believe that judgments are meaningful and serve a purpose, but all they do is hurt us, hurt others, and keep us tied to the tyrannical voice of the ego. Judgments give the ego a false sense of security and superiority; all they do is eat away at love. In this meditation, we will be witnessing how judgments feel in the body and release them. The Sedona Method poses questions throughout the recording that should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine, as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release.

Meditation helps release harmful judgments that give a false sense of superiority, hurt us and others, and eat away at love. Sedona Method questions aid release.

Letting Go of Judgement

While moving from ego identification to consciousness is a gift of grace, we can make ourselves grace prone by practicing the ancient art of self-inquiry. One day, through a book, a prayer, or an insight, a brave question is posed: Who am I? Who is this me when I’m not thinking myself into existence? And when we don’t immediately go to the mind for an answer, a space opens up. We may be shocked to discover that there is an awareness here that can witness our thoughts, emotions, and body. This initial step, what some call becoming conscious or aware, is really a foretaste of an ever-deepening realization. In this meditation, we will explore the nature of what we call the self and connect with the truth of what we are, beyond name and form.

Practicing self-inquiry leads to becoming more grace-prone by moving from ego identification to consciousness and discovering the truth of what we are.

Discover Your True Nature: Self-Inquiry

In this meditation, we will discover what happens when we drop the numbness, armoring, tension, and pain over our hearts and connect with an infinitely spacious openness at its center, capable of holding all of our experiences. By placing our attention on the heart, we can evoke our innate wisdom, warmth, and compassion and reattune to the flow of love as it wishes to move through us and out into the world.

Meditation helps us to connect with our heart's innate wisdom, warmth, and compassion, and to reattune to the flow of love to move through us and out into the world.

Opening Our Boundless Heart

In this meditation, we will be letting go of perceived mistakes as well as the subconscious expectation of repeating them again. We talk about learning from our mistakes, yet we often don't because we're trying not to make the same mistake again, which is simply holding it in mind. The mind does not translate "never" or "not" or "don’t" so when we're telling ourselves that we don't want to repeat a mistake, the mind is simply picturing us doing it again. The questions throughout the recording should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine, as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release of the emotional pain caused by our perceived errors.

Let go of perceived mistakes and the subconscious expectation of repeating them; answering simple questions can lead to emotional release.

Letting Go Of Mistakes

Our personalities are composed of many parts. The inner critic and inner child are well-known ones, but there are many others: a nurturing self, an obedient self, a rebellious self, a parent-like self, a confident self, a fearful self, a saboteur self, and so on. While helpful in certain situations, they can become utterly destructive when taken to extremes. These personalities are often created when we are younger, to help us cope with challenging life situations. If you feel yourself resisting growth or what you know is good for your soul, it may be time to discover which subpersonality needs to be heard to evolve. When you gain their cooperation, they will transform from resisting your goals to helping you achieve them.

Our personalities are made up of different parts (e.g. inner critic, inner child, nurturing self), which can be helpful but destructive when taken to extremes. To grow, we must identify and work with these subpersonalities.

Transforming A Subpersonality

In this guided meditation, we will be letting consciousness dissolve into the body in order to receive the fullness of its nourishing support. We will learn to anchor presence in the body to counteract our default tendency to be swept up in limiting mental beliefs. By cultivating a somatic receptivity and grounded sense of security and safety, we will prepare to meet all that arises with greater acceptance, ease, and grace.

Meditate by letting consciousness dissolve into the body, anchoring presence to counteract mental beliefs, and cultivate a sense of security and ease.

Grounding In The Earth

This practice supports you in letting go of low self-worth to uncover the innate wholeness, self-love, and self-acceptance that has always been here. The Sedona Method questions posed throughout the recording should be answered without much rumination. Either a yes or no answer is fine as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release.

The Sedona Method helps let go of low self-worth through simple yes or no answers to questions, revealing innate self-love and acceptance.

I Love and Accept Myself

This holistic release is designed to help you dissolve or lessen sensations such as pain and tension in the body. Feel free to focus on any part of your body that is chronically tenser than the other parts or that you’d like to have more relaxed. Holistic Releasing is based on the premise that everything the mind experiences, whether real or imagined, arises in pairs. If we have hot, we have a cold. If we have pain, we also have the absence of pain. In this release, we’ll be alternating back and forth on the different sides of the pain and spaciousness polarity. As we do so, the polarities will gradually dissolve each other and we will be left with greater awareness of the freedom, spaciousness, and presence that we already are.

Holistic release helps dissolve pain and tension in the body by alternating between polarities to create greater awareness of freedom and presence.

Letting Go Of Physical Pain

In this meditation, we will be letting go of trying to control ourselves, other people, and the world around us. As we let go, we feel lighter, freer, and more open. We feel relaxed and at ease, knowing that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. As we release the illusion of control, we also release manipulation, pushing, fixing, and forcing. We discover that we are still moved to act, but can now do so from a place of peace, harmony, and trust. The questions throughout the recording should be answered without much rumination; either a yes or no answer is fine, as simply asking the questions can lead to a profound release.

Let go of control and find peace, harmony, and trust with yes or no answers to profound questions in this meditation.

Letting Go of Control

I invite you to connect with the physical embodiment of your essential nature: the alive field of presence in the body. How does the body experience the mystery that we are? Awaken your inner presence field and explore the three unique signatures of presence: the clear, awake space in the head, the overflowing warmth in the heart, and the dazzling darkness of the belly.

Connect with your essential nature by exploring the three unique signatures of presence in the body: clear space in the head, warmth in the heart, and darkness in the belly.

Return to Presence

Many patterns of happiness are learned from our parents. As children, we unconsciously limit our happiness to be only as happy as our parents were in an attempt to love them. In this practice, we learn that we can expand our ability to be happy by talking to the soul of each of our parents and asking permission to be happier than they were. Our meditation will end with reparenting our inner child and inquiring into ways we can support their happiness now.

Learned happiness patterns limit us to our parents' level of happiness. To expand our happiness, we must talk to our parents' souls and reparent our inner child.