One day in a meditation class, my teacher said at the end, “Feel your aliveness.” And I felt my blood pulsing in my fingers and toes and thighs and back and top of my head. I felt my breathing in my nose and my chest and my belly. Marvel at all the aliveness there is… Continue reading Re-post: Aliveness Meditation

This is a repost of one of my favorite meditations. As I mentioned last week, I lost my best friend Fatberry after a long battle with cancer. I did this meditation every time we snuggled for years. Repost: “There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and… Continue reading Re-post: Petting the Pet Meditation

Of all the spectacular things going on on this planet, plants are at the top of the list. Living in a temperate rainforest, I am phenomenally lucky to luxuriate in the sprawl of forests that roam for miles and miles, but farmlands and deserts and oceans are abundant with plants too. They are everywhere, and… Continue reading Breathing with the Plants Meditation

Any “Friday Night Lights” fans out there? ….Anyone? We breathe all day every day, and for a lot of people, the only times we notice it are during exercise, or when something is going badly wrong with our breathing. It is possible to feel gratitude for our flawless and blessedly uneventful breathing, not all the… Continue reading Clear Nose Full Lungs Can’t Lose Meditation

I love metta meditations. I use them for everything – when I feel joy, when someone is going through something hard, when I really, really need to forgive someone and let that sh!t go. I really do think of them as a prayer, and it’s as close as I get to genuine spirituality. Metta is… Continue reading Metta Meditation

Every meditator has a body scan they like, right? As I’ve mentioned, historically, I have a very bad relationship with my body. All of my activity tends to center around my head. But when I pay attention, it turns out I do have a whole lot going on from the neck down.  I love this… Continue reading Grateful Body Scan Meditation

You can picture me; I’m an Oregonian. I love trees. I literally hug trees. I stroke their needles and run my hands over their bark. I caress silky-soft decaying stumps. I love plucky little infant trees and towering sturdy old growth trees, I love living trees and richly populated fallen trees. They come in infinite… Continue reading Breathing with the Trees Meditation