This talk explores the art of new beginnings. You’ll learn how important it is to embrace your first reaction when things change, how to soften and release the past, how to open to new possibilities and how to engage into what most calls you forward.

This talk explores mindful strategies for overcoming procrastination. You’ll learn different ways we put things off, what gets in the way of the flow state, what flow feels like and for me, the most important question for sparking creative juices. Jeff Fajains, Phd, offers a 30 Day Creative Momentum and helps creators bring their ideas to life. Mor…

This talk explores how to work with acute anxiety. You’ll learn how to identify the triggers that cause feelings of overwhelm and some strategies for working panic, whether it be for yourself or when you accompany another when waves of intense anxiety arise.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the fundamental elements of fear and how to release what is between you and feeling free. You’ll learn about the essential nature of anxiety, the cause and the release of suffering through the transformative practices of awakening the Wise Heart.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores strategies for working with fear and anxiety. You’ll learn how you can move from threat mode to opportunity mode and strategies for working with fear and anxiety in the body as well as a particular strategy for working with thoughts and beliefs.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the art of working with anxiety and dread. You’ll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy fear, the roots of fear and some strategies for transforming the experience of anxiety when it arises.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the difference between luck and karma. You’ll learn how a mindfulness practice may help you cultivate a clearer intention, recognize opportunities and help you more quickly reset when you recognize you are off course. For those looking from the outside, you may appear quite lucky indeed.…

This talk explores the tenth of the ten perfections. You’ll learn how you cannot make steadiness and serenity happen, but can create the conditions that allow this inner state to arise. When you remember the fundamental quality of reality, you can more easily open to embrace your true nature.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

The talk explores the power of loving kindness. You’ll learn how to be more of a well-wisher to all, some techniques to more effectively express kindness in the world and a reflection on what might happen in your life if you were to be more adept at responding to challenges with an open heart.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores the power of grit. You’ll learn the importance of first creating goals that are fully aligned with your heart and spirit and then developing your capacity to stay on your path, developing both perseverance as well as deep, intuitive inner listening.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to attune to what is true. You’ll learn how to discern between conventional and eternal truth, two essential teachings of truth and how to use your relationships and wise speech as a doorway to greater clarity and self-awareness.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores how to cultivate the quality of patience and self-restraint. You’ll learn about the power of refraining from those who have caused you harm, how to endure hardship, how to cultivate greater confidence in ultimate truth and about the near-enemies of patience and forbearance.Kirjoittanut 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.Kirjoittanut 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.Kirjoittanut 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.…

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 integr…

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.Kirjoittanut 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.Kirjoittanut 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.Kirjoittanut 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.Kirjoittanut 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.…

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.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores who you are free from the wanting mind. You’ll learn about the nature of desire, strategies for working with a greed-filled mind, what can arise as desire lessens and finally, some thoughts on being desire-free and enlightenment itself.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores who you are in the absence of ignorance and confusion. You’ll explore the nature of delusion, strategies for overcoming delusion and being more clearly into the nature of reality and what it means to be awake beyond the fluctuations of emotions, thoughts and beliefs.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust

This talk explores who you are beyond the reach of aversion. You’ll learn about how, in our relationship to hatred there can be a rush to premature transcendence and how, by turning toward aversion, what is possible when hatred ceases, namely the arising of inter-connectedness, compassion and love.Kirjoittanut Jonathan Foust