We Are Beloved

Our weekly meditation meets on Zoom
on Tuesday from 8 - 8:55am Pacific
Given freely — donations warmly welcome
Join meditation: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97932637709
We will not meet 2/18/25, 3/25/25

Weekly Meditation Gathering

A gentle, guided drop-in session open to all. This gathering explores a wide range of practices — each session is created to suit the moment and those present. The way we practice sees meditation as an innate human capacity, recognizing that our minds are made for curiosity and wonder, and making space to fall naturally into states of contemplation, rest, and reverie for integration and creation. This practice is amenable to busy minds and is trauma-aware: choice, grounding, exploration of somatic experience, and thoughtful self-regulation are steady threads.

This event is given freely; your choice to donate supports my ability to share teaching in widely-accessible formats. Thank you!

Weekly Newsletter

The Strong Call of the Here and Now

Feb 13, 2025 — Just after Imbolc, the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox, winter landed here on the Olympic Peninsula. It's been a solace, the need to bow with respect to the life of the Earth.

Calming Down, Speaking Up

Feb 5, 2025 — I'm going to add a section called Resistance which will follow Resources. We all need moments of respite from grief and chaos. I want to offer this. Silence, though, would be in grave disharmony with my ethics. So: a clear label and placement that supports your agency.

Reaching for the Strawberry

Jan 28, 2025 — There is an old Buddhist teaching story that feels ripe for this moment.

Light in Darkness

Jan 22, 2025 — Energetic Integrity: a Workshop for Living begins 2/1 and our free Community Reading of Rebecca Solnit's fine little book Hope in the Dark is underway.

30 Years of Teaching, A New Workshop, & Community Reading

Jan 15, 2025 — Registration for the winter-spring Energetic Integrity workshop opens now. We will explore the Field of Being meditation which I last taught 8 years ago, cultivating our ability to center, ground, clear, vitalize, and boundary.

Reflecting the Light

Dec 19, 2024 — Melora's vision resonates for me with the way that meditation can help us tap into appreciation, cherishing, and wonder so that we find again the glorious magic of our everyday living, the satisfaction and pleasure which are right before us all the time

The Wonder: Today I am 55

Dec 11, 2024 — A beautiful paradox in my living is that the more I let go, the more the journey of my life feels ultimately like a homecoming.

Zooming In, Zooming Out

Dec 4, 2024 — With time the path grows, and it says: love, and special, simple meals with treasured people. It also says: cherish as much as you can.

The Duff Between Us (+ Long Resource Section)

Nov 21, 2024 — Precious being, may we learn this alchemy. May it offer us refuge and set us aflame in the days ahead. I look forward to walking onward, hand in hand with you, the duff kicking up gently between our feet.

Well, F*ck: & What Comes Next

Nov 6, 2024 — My heart is with you on this tragic day. There are resources below to both support you in your sorrow and offer you places to gather in hope, love, rage, and resistance.

Taking Care at Samhain

Oct 31, 2024 — Connecting with the more-than-human life of the planet offers respite when the human world is hard. This moment resonates for me, too, with the fundamental spiritual orientation which has developed for me over the past few years. This week it finally became the first prayersong of my own creation.

The Turning Season

Oct 17, 2024 — Like all the rest of the life of the Earth, we are growing a little slower and turning a little more toward rest.

Last Call for Autumn Course

Oct 9, 2024 — What holds our community together is our care for the world and for one another: we aim to live in honor and love. Not a love which makes us smaller, but a love which makes us braver and brighter. This work helps us to feel grace, resilience, and connection. It helps us to find and speak our truths.

The Humbling Depth of My Ignorance

Sep 25, 2024 — In my work I am seen often in my shine; today I come to you in my rough-hewn aspect, trying, perhaps stupidly – it is certainly not for me to say whether valiantly – to break free of my ignorance, to know my belonging, which is painful and beautiful.

A Meandering Not-Yet-Irish Story, Perhaps

Sep 19, 2024 — Quarter-assing-it became a delightful theme, and I aim to carry it onward in community lore.