Welcome to the Practice Library

Discover a wealth of resources to enhance and develop your mindfulness practice. This section offers practical advice for cultivating the skills that support everyday mindfulness practice and integrating mindfulness into your daily Life. You'll find guided exercises that can help you explore topics such as compassion and nature awareness practices that can deepen your connection with yourself and the world around you.

Mindfulness Practice is about exploring two areas or skills: the first is about learning grounding and presence developed through building the skill of “focussed attention,” such as P.A.U.S.E., breath-counting and walking meditation. The second is about building “reflective awareness,” which grows our ability to explore our inner experience with greater openness, acceptance and compassion.

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  • Generosity and A Giving Heart – Guided Audio

    Generosity and A Giving Heart – Guided Audio

    At its core, generosity is the foundation for compassion. It’s the lesson of letting go of our self-focus to connect to our greater web. It’s also about being fearless in seeing who we are and how we can meet life from the place of a loving and generous heart. (Rev.) Andrew Blake guides us in an 8-minute reflective practice. May it serve you and inspire your generous heart.

    8 Min

  • Undefended Love – Guided Audio

    Undefended Love – Guided Audio

    (Rev.) Andrew Blake guides us into a practice for cultivating and feeling the quality of Undefended Love (based on a Meditation from Roshi Joan Halifax). The kind of love where we are not guarding or protecting our hearts but opening right up to the possibility of increased compassion for self and others.

    15 Min

Other Resources to Guide Your Practice

How to Meditate – Links for Guided Meditation Practice:

  • This link connects you to an excellent resource with guided practices, talks and videos from teachers such as Sharon Salzburg, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ronald Siegel, Tara Brach and our own local teacher of MBCT,  Zindel Segal.

Jack Kornfield:

Tara Brach:

 

Buddhist Publications:

Lion’s Roar Magazine:  How to Meditate?

Tricycle Magazine:  What is Mindfulness?

 

Secular Publications: 

Mindful Magazine—Getting Started with Your Practice

Meditation Magazine—All About Different Benefits of Practice

Insight Timer:

  • Insight Timer is home to more than 1,500,000 meditators. Insight Timer is rated as the top free meditation app on the Android and iOS stores.