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The First of the Seven Factors: Establish Mindfulness [recast]

Release Date: 01/26/2024

The Ten Perfections: #5 Manage Your Energy [recast]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to cultivate vitality, courage and resilience in your life. You’ll learn how you can manage the energy you have and how to build vigor and confidence to pursue that which calls you.

The Ten Perfections: #4 Seek to Truly Understand [recast]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to cultivate wisdom and insight. You’ll learn about the importance of cultivating the wise heart, what gets in the way of seeing clearly, the anatomy of an insight and how to balance wisdom with compassion.

The Ten Perfections: #3 Renounce What Does Not Serve You [recast]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the potential of mindful renunciation. You’ll learn how critically important it is to know what is most important, cultivate the thoughts, behaviors and actions that will bring about that outcome and as well, identify and modify the the thoughts, behaviors and actions that get in the way of that outcome.

The Ten Perfections: #2 Be Virtuous [recast]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how paying attention to your behavior can support you in your life. You’ll learn how all traditions have guidelines regarding your moral behavior, how morality is often based on a negativity bias and how ultimately, it’s up to you to determine what you really want and define for yourself what it means to be virtuous and in integrity.

The Ten Perfections: #1 Be Generous [recast]

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the power of cultivating an attitude of love and care in your life. You’ll learn what the Buddha said about giving, how intimately receiving is connected to generosity, the shadow-side of the practice and the power of taking generous actions when you feel called.

Embodied Presence: Practices for Self-Care and Healing

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores some practices for cultivating embodied compassion and care. You’ll explore what means to ‘heal’ as well as a few ‘deep dives’ - first into a chakra scan then a scan through the body focusing on reflection, gratitude and well-wishing.

Embodied Presence: So What About the Chakras?

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to investigate the inner energy centers through the lens of mindfulness. You’ll learn about the chakras, a bit on the origins of different approaches, the components of each one and how to explore through the lens of non-judging awareness.

Embodied Presence: Surfing the Waves

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to work with challenging energies. You’ll learn how embodied awareness can open the door to higher degrees of self awareness and how in that recognition of what is arising you can learn to ‘ride the wave’ of resistance and discover what is on the other side.

Embodied Presence: Whole Body Breathing and Subtle Energy Awareness

Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to open to more subtle felt-sense awareness through mindful breathing. Whole Body Breathing is yet another tool for drawing attention to the play of energy and sensations within and can dramatically heighten awareness of what is arising and how you are relating to it. This talk includes a guided meditation on this technique.

Embodied Presence: Practical Tools for Your Meditation Practice

Jonathan Foust

This is an adaptation of the first talk of a five day retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone North Carolina. You’ll learn some practical suggestions for embodied meditation and how the body can be an ally in your practice.

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This talk explores the factors that go into not only waking up, but working with the most profound challenges in your life.

You’ll learn how recognizing the filters through which you perceive is truly a key to liberation and how some specific techniques can sharpen your awareness of when mindfulness is slipping away.

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