Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org I have been practicing meditation for over 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. I have received formal training in...

Here I guide a meditation designed to allow us to resource our positive experiences of feeling safe. In doing this, we create the neurological pathways leading to future experiences of safety. As the saying goes: "the neurons which wire together, fire together" By embarking on this type of practice, based on the pioneering work of Dr. Rick Hanson, we can train ourself to balance out the human tendency to focus on the negative experiences of life (negativity bias) and allow us to cultivate a...

I am super delighted to announce the first of two online programs being offered in the fall. Welcome to our Autumn Retreat offering: "Lovingkindness. The Heart Of The Matter" Metta, often translated as Lovingkindness, is one of the Four Immeasurable Minds in the Buddhist traditions. During these twelve weeks our facilitator Chris Luard will guide us through an exploration cultivating a boundless quality of kindness, friendliness, and care. In drawing on the meditation techniques found in...

Here is a guided meditation where we are invited to take on the struggles of another and offer the other comfort and safety. We create an exchange for "I" and "other" in a beautiful and heartfelt act of compassion. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website:...

I am super delighted to announce the first of two online programs being offered in the fall. Welcome to a feature event in our Autumn online offerings: Resting In A Non-Reactive Space. A Live, Twelve Week Immersive Online Meditation Program. During these twelve weeks, our facilitator Chris Luard, will guide us through a deep dive into a series of resting meditations. Meditations composed with the intent to bring one into a very alert, but very peaceful, calm state of tranquility. Coming to...

“I am not saying other practices do not, but cultivating unconditional kindness has been empirically shown to lessen and even reverse the negative effects of adverse childhood experiences.” Dr Peter Levine. Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: Lovingkindness. The Heart Of The Matter. Wednesday, Sept 6th. 7:30am EST Facebook Live! Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks,...

In this meditation I gently guide us through a RAIN practice designed to give us a set of tools to work with toward forgiveness. With a practice such as this one, we can begin to explore the beliefs which keep us locked into our own resentments and hurt. RAIN= R=Recognize A=Allow I=Investigate N=Nurture. Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two book Chris...

I am super delighted to announce the first of two online programs being offered in the fall. Welcome to our Autumn Retreat offering: "Lovingkindness. The Heart Of The Matter" Metta, often translated as Lovingkindness, is one of the Four Immeasurable Minds in the Buddhist traditions. During these twelve weeks our facilitator Chris Luard will guide us through an exploration cultivating a boundless quality of kindness, friendliness, and care. In drawing on the meditation techniques found in...

I am super delighted to announce the first of two online programs being offered in the fall. Welcome to a feature event in our Autumn online offerings: Resting In A Non-Reactive Space. A Live, Twelve Week Immersive Online Meditation Program. During these twelve weeks, our facilitator Chris Luard, will guide us through a deep dive into a series of resting meditations. Meditations composed with the intent to bring one into a very alert, but very peaceful, calm state of tranquility. Coming to...

n this guided meditation we are invited to explore forgiveness in three ways. Asking forgiveness from those we feel we may have hurt, offering forgiveness to those we feel may have hurt us, and offering forgiveness to ourself for the ways we may have hurt ourself. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me...

Here I offer a guided meditation designed to allow one to open their heart to the experience of the body. By reconnecting to the body in this way, we explore the possibility of finding resilience through kindness. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org I have...

Here is a guided meditation designed to allow one to meet challenging encounters with warmth and compassion. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website: www.suchsweetthunder.org I have been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009,...

Here we are invited into a meditation designed to allow us to explore the many layers of social conditioning we may have around meeting experience as it is, and with kindness and curiosity, trusting in our experience just as it is. The benefit of this is that we may get to know the inner critic and start to befriend that harsh inner voice. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in...

Here we are invited into a meditation designed to allow us to explore the many layers of social conditioning we may have around receiving kindness from others, and giving freely to others. In this exploration we may find that letting go of such social conditioning allows for a free flow of kindness in our life. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other...

Here I outline and guide a meditation designed to allow one to dive deep into the experience of gratitude. This is considered a resourcing practice and can be very helpful when moving through times of transition, stress, and turbulence. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website:...

Here I guide a traditional meditation used to discover our innate self-compassion. By offering ourself phrases of compassion, resistance to the phrases naturally begin to arise, thus we learn how we unconsciously resist self compassion in our day to day experience, so we can begin to let those resistances go and gradually become more available to compassion. Meditation can be challenging. Sometimes we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in...

In this meditation I gently guide us through a RAIN practice designed to give us a set of tools to work with compassion toward ourself. With a practice such as this one, we can begin to explore the beliefs which keep us locked out of our innate capacity toward self compassion. RAIN= R=Recognize A=Allow I=Investigate N=Nurture. Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats,...

Here I guide a brief meditation through the three pillars of Self Compassion as codified by Dr. Kristen Neff. By moving through the stages of Mindfulness, Common humanity, and Kindness, we give ourself the opportunity to soften around our struggles and allow a space for healing. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free...

Here I offer a meditation designed to allow one to experience impermanence and change on a visceral level. When we do this, we become less and less attached to the ever changing nature of our experiences. Thus we find freedom Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or other meditation practices, please feel free to message me through my website:...

Here I offer a guided meditation through what is known in the buddhist tradition as the seven factors (or facets) of awakening: Mindfulness, Curiosity, Energy, Joy, Tranquility, Concentration, and Equanimity. As the practice unfolds we are invited to touch in with these qualities, which are always available, and we offer the light of awareness as nourishment to the seeds of awakening latent in our heart. Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which...

Here I offer a guided meditation designed to allow one to open their heart to our activity of our mind. We develop the capacity to rest in the body and observe the activity of the mind, without getting swept up by our thoughts and emotions. By coming to rest in the with the activity of the mind, free from judgement, our relationship to our experience of life begins to lighten. We then turn our heartfelt awareness to the hindrances. These are five mind-states which cloud our ability to clearly...

In this meditation I gently guide us through a RAIN practice designed to give us a set of tools to work with anger. With a practice such as this one, we can begin to explore the beliefs which keep us locked in resentment, and cultivate a method and a practice of forgiveness, thus removing the splinter of anger from our own heart. RAIN= R=Recognize A=Allow I=Investigate N=Nurture. Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide...

In this guided meditation we are invited to explore a type of joy that might arise as a result of cultivating a deep state of tranquility. The combination of tranquility, rest, and joy may give awareness a strong base for resting with the mind without falling into distraction. Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. Chris has received formal...

When we hold on to resentment, anger, or any form of grudge, we hinder, veil, and block our access to the present moment. In this eight week course, our facilitator Chris Luard will gently guide participants through a series of practices designed to give one a way to work with these hindrances and to allow one to live a life free from the torments of the judging mind, the critical mind, and the resentful mind. By drawing on the meditation techniques found in the Theravada and Mahayana...

Please join meditation teacher Chris Luard in an upcoming talk: Self-Compassion. The Benefits and How To Apply The Salve June 8th, 2023. 7pm EST. Facebook And Instagram Live! Chris has been practicing meditation for 37 years and has been successfully teaching meditation worldwide since 2009, giving talks, facilitating retreats, and have authored two books. He has received formal training in Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan, Zen,) and Vedanta meditation techniques as well as Trauma Sensitive...