M E D I T A T I O N S

M E D I T A T I O N S



D E T E R M I N A T I O N

This is a season of difficulty, a season of heat, a season of compression. It is a time that takes so much to move forward and more to be still. It takes so much strength to be calm, to be ready, to be true, to find fresh air, balance or equilibrium. These days are filled…

O R I E N T E E R I N G

Orienteering: When I was first learning to hike, I thought orienteering was about knowing where you are heading. After practice, I learned that it is about knowing where you are. Navigation is the act of knowing where you are going. Before we can navigate, before we can move along our intended path, we must first…

R I P P L E S

There are moments when our words can feel too little or too weak, our actions seem to fall too short. It’s like moving through endless water, wading, and wondering, do our choices actually create change. Are our written words ever read, our raised voices really heard. Do the images and videos and quotes we post…

T I R E D

Tired: I’m so tired. I’m tired of watching, of reading, of learning. I’m tired of protest, I’m tired of injustice, I’m tired of racism. I’m tired of false actions, and hollow legislation and political scams, symbolic in headlines but devoid in action, equality or culpability. I’m tired of knowing that there even needs to be…

P U R P O S E

Purpose: When times are trying, it’s easy to get lost in the commotion of a day. We can get caught up and distracted, or lose track of our initial intention. We might feel like we’re on our path, aligned with our desires and moving in the right direction, but with further inspection, we notice our…

C O U R A G E

Courage: Courage comes to us in many ways. Sometimes it arises slowly as a skill that is practiced, honed, tested. Sometimes it can arrive quickly, even as a surprise, welling up from within, a response to our immediate stimuli. Courage like will power is something that ebbs and flows within all of us. The more…

W I L L

Will: To will. Not to want, not to desire, not to hope, to will. To have the will, to possess it, to know it, to embrace it. To feel it run through you, to let it guide you, take you, drive you. To understand the decisions we make and how those decisions, fuel our every…

I N T E N T I O N

Intention: There are so many times that life can take us by surprise, catch us off guard. Not prepare us for what is coming.  But so much of the feeling of being caught off guard is a lack of preparation and training on our side.  Most of what life deals us is things that we…

T H E C A L L

The Call: When the call comes, we meet it, then we adjust to meet it stronger and more fully. We adjust our positioning, our posturing, and the efficiency or efficacy with which we proceed.  We react to our surroundings, yield to our desires, or turn towards our intentions. The call isn’t always religious or celestial, but…

C O N S I S T E N C Y

Consistency: It’s been two and a half months since George Floyd was murdered.  This weekend marked 150 days since Breonna Taylor’s murder. The newspapers and major media outlets continue to ignore the protests and bury the headlines, but we’re still here. People still show up in real numbers every day.  Atlantic, Flatbush, Houston, Delancey,  5th Ave,…

R E S T O R E

Restore: Welcome to the weekend. Even in this new weird post-quarantine world mired with unemployment and disillusionment it is still possible to track the compounding energy of the “work” week and the desire for the rest and restorative power of the weekend.  Maybe the weekend looks like sleeping in, or quality meals, maybe sitting with…

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y – 3

Responsibility – pt 3 // Taking Care of Our Being: To be responsible takes an incredible amount of time, effort, and work, and to remain vigilant takes a toll on the body, the mind, and the spirit. To be actively and readily responsible, we must first take care of ourselves.  We must be taking action…

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y – 2

Responsibility pt. 2- Responsive: Being responsible means being responsive. These are hard times and with each day comes a new level of atrocities or worse a new level of normalization.  It is our responsibility to protect our communities against these two horrifying extremes.  The atrocities must be met head on with the fullness of our…

R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y – 1

Responsibility (pt.1) – hidden spaces:  What are we addressing and what are we letting go unchecked.  What are we disregarding and what are hoping will fix itself.  Do we know what is in our unopened storage, in our dark corners, our forgotten spaces.  Are we keeping track of it, remembering to revisit it regularly.  Are…

A R R I V A L

Arrival:  How do we arrive at meditation.  Do we come ready and prepared to enter our quiet place, or do we come with expectations, and desires.  Do we arrive expecting answers and results, expecting to gain something without the understanding of how we will be asked to give in to it.  Do we show up…

Q U I E T

Quiet:  A quiet mind is a calm mind, a peaceful mind, a ready mind. A loud mind is a jittery mind, a uncertain mind, a mind that is unaware of its surroundings, a mind that is unable to process it’s own desires and intentions. A loud mind cannot separate it’s lust and desire from it’s…

L I S T E N

Listen:  I woke up this morning and wondered what would happen if we could learn to listened a little better.  Would we have found ourselves in this situation in the first place. It takes incredible dedication and clarity to give someone the consideration that their words demand.  The BLM protest has helped teach me to be…

N E E D

Need: I have so much respect for people who fast, in any form, in any manner, whatever fasting means to them.  What I love about fasting is the agreement that we make with ourselves when we fast. We decide what is needed and what not.  We identify the superfluous and shed it.  Some people fast with…

D O U B T

Doubt:  Doubt is something that I believe lives in all of us. It can be confusing and debilitating.  Doubt can shorten our breath, sway our decisions, and take us off course. Left unchecked doubt can lead us far from our intentions.   When doubt arises it can feel damaging and hurtful.  It can feel like…

A L L O W I N G S P A C E – 2

Allowing Space (pt. 2): Breathe: This year has shook us to our core, it has challenged the very nature of our most base and most crucial and most immediate need. The need to breathe.  Take a moment today to find your space and find your breath.  The simple act of breathing supports our every movement…

A L L O W I N G S P A C E – 1

Allowing Space (pt. 1) : For tonights meditation, the focus will be on allowing space. This year has brought about so much transformative change that it’s almost impossible to process.  With each hour, day, week, and passing moment the world seems to be a new version of itself. Nothing is predictable anymore. During the beginning days…

S I L E N C E

Silence: For today’s meditation, let’s focus on silence.  I was asked last week what type of meditation I practice.  At it’s core, for me meditating is first about finding silence; silence from our daily distractions, silence from the movement in our minds, silence from our emotions, and most often silence from our reactions to the things…

U N D E R S T A N D I N G

Understanding –  For today’s meditation, I would like to suggest that we focus on understanding and how it effect transformative change. I feel these last couple weeks have been challenging as our cities continue to open and we try to integrate our newly learned lessons from quarantine and protest into our previous daily routines. I…