top of page
HOME
ABOUT
ABOUT BILL & SUSAN
HOW WE TEACH
SCHOLARSHIPS
RECOMMENDED SITES
OFFERINGS
GROUPS & CONSULTATIONS
MEDITATIONS & CHANTING
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
DAILY SIT MEDITATION SERIES
2024 August
2024 July
2024 June
2024 May
2024 April
2024 March
2024 February
2024 January
2023 DAILY SIT ARCHIVE
2021 DAILY SIT ARCHIVE
2020 DAILY SIT ARCHIVE
DAILY SIT CATEGORIES
UPCOMING EVENTS
DONATE (Dana)
More
Use tab to navigate through the menu items.
Daily Reflection Sit
Join us daily at 10:30 AM (Eastern)
The Holding Environment: Overview
The Holding Environment
The Holding Environment: Overview
Play Video
Play Video
39:29
May 24: Cultivating the Holding Environment
“Learn to hold the body and heart with support and care, and the mind will also learn how to hold itself in caring awareness.”
Play Video
Play Video
39:30
May 26: Back to the Basics: The Holding Environment
Setting up our practice up as if for the very first time. Body and breath, heart and mind; we orient toward well-being.
Play Video
Play Video
38:41
May 27: Keeping the Holding Environment Simple
We know what it feels like with a loved one, or in nature; let’s import that feeling internally.
Play Video
Play Video
38:46
October 27, 2020: The Architecture of Your Practice
If the foundation is weak, the structure is vulnerable. Setting up the body for practice and tethering to the here and now.
Play Video
Play Video
39:15
October 29, 2020: Our Home as Holding Environment
"Inside the chaos, build a temple of love”… Rune Lazuli Can you still build a welcoming “home” in the midst of chaos?
Play Video
Play Video
39:09
November 30: Homeostasis and the Inner Holding Environment
We say we want the truth, but we want to feel more deeply at home.
Play Video
Play Video
39:21
December 13 : Daily Practice
Daily practice loosens and releases some of the rougher energy and the grosser tensions.
Play Video
Play Video
11:57
December 14 : Nature's Support to our Practice
Nature can teach us how to hold ourselves and help us to create our own holding environment. We can carry the lessons of nature throughout our lives - not just outside.
Play Video
Play Video
38:16
December 16: We Want to Come Home
We want to deepen and widen our capacity to feel more at home within ourselves and each other. We set up the conditions to support this in daily practice.
Play Video
Play Video
40:24
December 20: Practice in Daily Life
Steady yourself frequently by coming back into the holding environment. Notice when the holding environment needs some sprucing up. Refresh, rebuild, reconstitute that atmosphere of wise caring attention and then decide what to do next.
Play Video
Play Video
37:05
December 21: The Beneficial Presence
Benefactors or a beneficial presence can be a supportive part of our holding environment. The support of benefactors provides warmth and compassion to our practice.
Play Video
Play Video
38:20
December 27: The Holding Environment, Animated!
Narrated by Jaye Moyer Animation & audio by Elizabeth Mehling
Play Video
Play Video
39:58
December 28 : Samvega and Pasada: Spiritual Urgency & Confidence in the Path
What motivates us to practice? Samvega - spiritual urgency - is a positive quality that can deepen our commitment to practice as we see our world on fire and seek another way. Pasada - confidence in the path of meditation - is a balancing quality to samvega that brings calm and protects against pessimism.
Play Video
Play Video
39:15
December 30: Core Qualities of the Holding Environment
Invite a sense of calm, ease, friendliness & engaged interest.
Daily Sit Archive
Visit our archive pages for more videos
2020
2021
bottom of page