Meditation and Social Meditation

Meditation

The feeling of letting go into presence has a very distinct sensation in our bodies. It is not a collapse, a giving in. It feels awake with an open heart, empty of expectation. It feels like a relinquishing, an offering toward something mysterious, benevolent, generous and ineffable. It is upright, inhabiting our posture into true Nature.

As an ordained Zen monk and with 30 years of meditation practice, we will begin our meditation journey exactly where you are. Together we will find what works for you in discovering and cultivating this practice toward presence, that feels nourishing to you.

In loving kindness, compassionate regard, and anchoring to the breath, I look forward to sit with you as we enter into spacious awareness, the mystery of the Ground of Being.

“Work on your sense of separation. Every other thing can find resolve later.”
Rupert Spira

Social Meditation

If much of meditation practice is about being witness to the present moment, our own mind and our sensory awareness, social meditation is about being the one being witnessed. We practice staying present and receiving the experience of being seen, listened to, being deeply met by “other” and staying present and in relationship to that kind of intimacy.

What does it mean to stay in relationship?

Our deepest capacity for connection happens in the regulated sweet spot of our autonomic nervous system, where we are alert, relaxed and open to new experience, and where there is no fear to alert us to danger. In social meditation we stay present and in relationship to what is arising within us, between us and in our shared reality. Social Meditation can be described as an attunment practice. We come as close as possible to feel into the subtlety of what the other person is experiencing. We also pay attention to what wants to emerge in the co-creative space between us. We practice inter-being. This is a skill we can learn and apply to our everyday lives and our place within the whole of existence.