
Discover practical mindfulness tasks drawn from Zen Buddhism and Buddhist wisdom, offering an open-hearted approach to handling existential questions through Stephen Batchelor’s interpretation of the four noble truths.
Explore dukkha, the existential dissatisfaction at life’s core, and learn how embracing it can transform suffering into freedom and unlock your greatest potential.
Establish grounding by elevating the hips with a cushion to form three points in contact with ground in a tripod, using a Burmese sit with upright spine and cosmic mudra.
Anchor your awareness in the body by tuning the five senses: touch, taste, sight, sound, and smell, while observing breathing and a body scan with curiosity.
Explore mindfulness as paying attention on purpose in the present moment with curiosity and nonjudgmental kindness, and observe how we pay attention to quiet mind chatter.
Ground yourself before meditation by envisioning three breaths from the earth, energy rising through your body from the root, then returning to the earth with each exhale.
Practice present moment awareness to meet each moment with equanimity, reduce reactivity, and choose how to respond, initiating the path to wisdom through mindfulness.
Establish a grounded posture, breathe deeply, and shift attention to sounds with beginner's mind, listening nonjudgmentally to cultivate present-moment awareness.
Cultivate present-moment awareness through mindfulness, develop equanimity and non-reactivity, and pause to choose an appropriate, heart-led response instead of habitual reactions, with meditation as the tool.
Counter mind wandering driven by the default mode network and stay present in the moment. Cultivate mindfulness to deepen presence with others and the task at hand.
Guide students through grounding posture and mindful breathing, then shift attention to sounds with beginner's mind, cultivating present-moment awareness and curious listening.
Embrace dissatisfactions to transform them by meeting suffering head-on. Use mindfulness of sound, body, and breathing to acknowledge, embrace, and bring loving kindness to what rises and passes.
Guided meditation teaches mindfulness of breathing by focusing on the tip of the nose and the inhale and exhale, guiding attention to the present moment and the body's natural rhythm.
Guide students through a 30-minute mindful breathing practice, teaching labeling thoughts—future, past, thinking—and returning attention to the breath at the tip of the nose.
Stop and ride the wave guides meditation practitioners to let go of control, observe emotion with breath, and ride through feeling states to widen the buffer between triggers and responses.
Guide students through focused breathing, noting thoughts with labels such as future, past, or thinking, and returning attention to the breath at the tip of the nose to cultivate mindfulness.
Integrate the first three tasks: embrace dissatisfaction, noting and letting go, and stopping and riding the wave, into life with integrity for mindfulness on the go and metta.
Learn to ride the wave of emotions through centered breathing and body awareness, guiding breath to stuck feelings, observing raw sensations without story, and dissolving emotions into emptiness.
Zen Meditation
Find your inner peace and practice mindfulness by learning different meditation techniques taught step by step for every level.
All beginners or experienced people who want to learn new techniques and tools of meditation
Anyone who has never meditated and interested in starting meditation
Anyone who wants to deal with stress management
If you feel overwhelmed in your personal life
If you are fighting with work stress and want to clear your mind
If you want to improve your overall wellness
I have been a student of meditation for almost half my life. I began experiencing the healing benefits that arise from a routine meditation practice in my mid-teens, in the midst of struggling with anxiety. From that point on, I've been committed to continuing the practice, as well as sharing with others the gifts that arise from sitting still.
My hope is that by teaching mindfulness meditation, it can help ground, nourish and expand others in the same way that it has done so for me.
On this path, I've been fortunate enough to study with many wonderful teachers. My primary teacher is Hoben Kim Hansen from the White Plum Lineage of Soto Zen. My secondary teacher is the late Buddhist & yoga teacher Shoken Michael Stone, from whom I've received certification to teach.
Remington Cooney (M.Ed) - Mindfulness Meditation Coach
Credentials:
- Mindfulness Meditation Facilitation training (90 hour)
- Master's in Education (Contemplative Inquiry)
- Hatha Yoga teacher certification (200 hour)
Feel Your Meditation Come Alive as Your Use of Breath and Gravity Comes Alive
Many traditions teach that your meditation deepens as the length of your exhalations deepens.
Lengthening exhalations comes out of an exploration of the connection between your breathing and the ways in which every part of your body experiences gravity.
One way to explore that connection is through practice with a sword.
Another way is to split firewood with a splitting maul.
When done properly both of those practices strongly reinforce the use of breath and gravity when doing Zen meditation.
The work of Zen meditation is to resolve duality – the simplest duality to begin working on is the mind and body duality.
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