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Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Holding Environment: Overview The Holding Environment THE HOLDING ENVIRONMENT: OVERVIEW Play Video Play Video 36:28 2025 December 31: A Feeling of Home We create the Holding Environment, the foundation of practice. We create a feeling of home. This is how we set up the practice. Play Video Play Video 36:55 2025 December 29: The Holding Environment as Intimate Cultivation It is far more than a technique; it is a home base and a portal. Play Video Play Video 38:29 2025 December 17: Holding Our Vulnerability When we are caught in reactive states it is often because we don’t yet know how to be with something that is difficult. Play Video Play Video 38:17 2025 December 15: Being Realistic and Kind with our Intentions and Expectations of the Practice Working with phrases to help notice and slow down patterns of striving in our meditation practice. Play Video Play Video 38:39 2025 December 10: Taking Refuge in the 4 Brahmaviharas During Winter and the Holiday Season This time of the year offers us plenty of opportunities to practice the Brahmaviharas towards others and ourselves as we navigate the winter blues and the season when we may feel pressured to perform or be jolly. Let’s light the fire of our heart minds with wisdom and empathetic love. Play Video Play Video 38:01 2025 December 03: What We are Learning about Equanimity Here are some images and metaphors that help us to explore and experience what is perhaps the most challenging of the Brahma Viharas Play Video Play Video 37:46 2025 December 01: Equanimity Enriches and Deepens the Other Brahmaviharas It brings patience to metta, steadiness and acceptance to karuna and lessening of our selves to Mudita. Play Video Play Video 39:25 2025 June 25: Working with Fear Importance of relating to fear with wisdom and compassion. Play Video Play Video 38:39 2025 June 23: The Precepts Are An Important Part of the Holding Environment Explore how the cultivation of each precept supports us on and off of the cushion. Play Video Play Video 39:54 2025 June 18: Bringing the Elements of Nature Into the Holding Environment Exploring how the elements of earth, air, fire and water can nourish and support our practice Play Video Play Video 39:58 2025 June 16: Being Refuge To take refuge is to orient our heart/minds toward what supports us in the direction of well-being. What does it mean to embody refuge? Play Video Play Video 39:38 2025 June 11: Making Space for Mindfulness Practice at Home and while Traveling Oftentimes our formal meditation practice slows down during holidays and summer vacation for most of us lay people. However, we can create temporary holding environments wherever we are. And we can always remind ourselves to breathe, ground, settle and soothe while on the go. Extending boundless love to all (ourselves included ) is the ultimate holding environment. Play Video Play Video 38:52 2025 June 09: Combining Strength and Gentleness in our Holding Environment How to wisely cultivate a strong and gentle holding space to keep our Heart/Minds open and caring, integrating new learning and awareness. Play Video Play Video 37:15 2025 June 04: Spring Cleaning and the Outer Holding Environment On the importance of creating an inviting, calming physical space to more easily and warmly engage with meditation and mindfulness practices. Play Video Play Video 38:10 2025 June 02: As We Create Our Holding Environment We Become More Intimate with Ourselves Instead of rejecting the uncomfortable parts of our experience we create a sense of home for all of ourselves. This is a foundation for our practice. Load More

Continuing Education Bill and Susan Morgan are able to offer continuing education credits through the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy Psychologists Licensed Mental Health Counselors The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for the program and its content. This course offers 20 hours of credit. This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886513225-2689) for 20 continuing education contact hours. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6048. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This program is approved for 20 clock hours. It is also applicable for MaMHCA/MMCEP hours for re-licensure, in accordance with 262 CMR. This program carries 20 Contact Hours and meets the specifications of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Nursing (244 CMR). Nurses of other states are welcome to contact their state boards for individual consideration. Learning Objectives At the end of this retreat, participants will be able to: Explain the importance of setting up the posture of one’s mindfulness meditation practice. Identify the essential elements of the holding environment. Demonstrate how to set up mindfulness practice in all four postures (sitting, standing, lying down, and walking). Utilize compassion practices to enhance empathic attunement. Utilize meditation techniques for working with unwholesome mind states. Utilize mindfulness and concentration practices in the service of deepening therapeutic presence. Social Workers Nurses

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Daily Reflection Sit Join us daily at 12:00 PM (Eastern) The Paramis: Adhitthana (Resolution) The Daily Sit Categories THE PARAMIS: ADHITTHANA (RESOULTION) Play Video Play Video 39:26 2023 August 30: Resolve to Take Care of Your Wellbeing What would it be like to pause in the middle of your day and notice, to drop in and notice what it feels inside? Check in on the BODY, on what it's doing, on its BREATHING, on the MIND, on what it's thinking, and on the HEART, on the attitude of attention. Then, adjust accordingly... letting go of stress and bringing about ease. Play Video Play Video 36:56 2023 August 29: Resolve to More Fully Inhabit the Present Moment Make magic out of the ordinary. Play Video Play Video 38:34 2023 August 23: The Parami of Resolve Invites us to Consider Our Intention in the Practice Remembering that our practice helps us be with the inherent groundlessness and instability of being alive in this world. Noticing when we demand and expect that the practice give us certainty or solid ground. Play Video Play Video 39:12 2023 August 21: Benefits of Resolve and Ordinary Moments of “Enlightenment” Appreciating the gradual blossoming of the fruits of our resolve to stay with the practice and the ordinary moments of a bit lighter, freer, more content that arise. Play Video Play Video 39:26 2023 August 16: Resolve to Watch Over Your Wellbeing CHECK IN, many times a day, and see what and how you are doing and how it feels inside: in the BODY, in its BREATHING, in the attitude of HEART and the attention of the MIND. LET GO of whatever stress is possible and ORIENT towards wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 39:30 2023 August 14: Articulating a Specific Micro-Resolution Take a 12-second pause several times each day. Play Video Play Video 39:25 2023 August 09: Resolve is a Matter of the Heart & Mind For today, what small move can you make to support your wellbeing? Nothing grand. Consider actually doing something or not doing something in support of your wellbeing. Play Video Play Video 38:21 2023 August 07: The Parami of Resolve Resolve is not a club we beat ourselves with, it is a post-it note reminding us what is too important to forget. Play Video Play Video 38:03 2023 August 02: Right View Identifies the Causes of Distress and the Causes of Wellbeing Right Resolve moves us then in the direction of wellbeing.