by Jeanne Ricci | Jan 30, 2022 | Articles, Skillful Living
Loving-Kindness (or Metta) Practice In loving-kindness practice, you repeat well-being phrases for yourself and then for your loved ones, friends, teachers, strangers, enemies, and finally all sentient beings. In loving-kindness practice, you repeat the following... 
by Jeanne Ricci | Apr 13, 2021 | Articles, Skillful Living
Knowing What’s Really Happening: Experience vs. Interpretation A crucial skill for minimizing emotional chaos and sustaining clarity in your life is the ability to distinguish between your experience and your interpretation of your experience. A crucial skill for... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Newsletter Archive, Skillful Living
How Preferences Prejudice Your Perceptions What you perceive from among all the stimuli in your environment is biased by your preferences, and your preferences are conditioned by past experiences. Look around you. What do you notice? There are endless things in both... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, The Seven Factors of Enlightenment
Awakening in the Body Mindfulness of the body is a profound, though often overlooked, opportunity to deepen your meditation practice and develop insight. Many meditation students view body awareness as just a starting point for their practice. They tend to skip over... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles, Skillful Living
Balancing Priorities If you hope to find lasting happiness, you must answer the question, what is your true priority—your inner life or your outer life? “The highest compassion, the only true act of compassion, is to point a person to their own... 
by Marco | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles
Being in Your Body The inner experience of integrating what you learn in yoga class into your daily life experience is what’s referred to as “being in the body.” One night a few weeks ago as I watched a group of fellow students leaving the yoga class...