Practice lives in the body: somatic awareness, the felt sense, relaxation as a gateway, energy, and feeling the whole body as the ground of meditation.
Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience February 22, 2026 - And if you sit with this for a little while, you may notice something odd, which is that the flow of body sensation in space is not really very different… Read More »Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience
Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness January 13, 2026 - And so to come back is to open up, not to reawaken in your prison. There is no prison, you know, when just dropping the box drops the bars to… Read More »Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness
Your Awakened Nature Is Right There October 15, 2025 - Good. Now notice what's underneath the stillness or inside the stillness. There is no ground there at all. It's not that it's nothing, because it's not nothing, but there's no… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
Inquiry into the Open Sky July 25, 2025 - Now, in this place of vast, open, awareness, ask yourself this question: What is peace? Don't answer the question with the machinery of your thinking, or with a memory or… Read More »Inquiry into the Open Sky
Being the Stillness July 17, 2025 - Then, notice the room around you, the sights, the sounds, everything. That's a lot of movement and color, and is that really separate from awareness? Is it like awareness is… Read More »Being the Stillness
Being Effulgent Spaciousness June 26, 2025 - Now, without engaging ideas at all, and noticing this wide open wide awake spacious, boundaryless, vibratory body and mind. Just notice directly what you notice when I ask you to… Read More »Being Effulgent Spaciousness
Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness May 22, 2025 - Now, notice something very interesting. From the place of being the stillness that knows, is the energy of the body—this tingly, dancing energy of feeling alive, is that really separate?… Read More »Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness
Relax into Mental Flow December 30, 2024 - In this vast, open, spacious awareness, the flow of thought activity is actually just a very, very, tiny part of it. That's why we're not really narrowly focusing on that–it's… Read More »Relax into Mental Flow
What Are You Avoiding? November 27, 2024 - Then, on an in-breath, the moon comes right into our heart, becomes our own heart, shining in the sky of the mind. Radiating peace in all directions, love and joy… Read More »What Are You Avoiding?
The Burning Fire of Awareness February 1, 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28nUgb_gKmA Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Okay, so let's begin. I want you to simply check in with yourself, ask yourself the question; what's it like to be me… Read More »The Burning Fire of Awareness
Mother Buddha Love June 13, 2022 - Now let's imagine this light coming from the sun in front of us, the sun of enlightened wisdom beaming into our hearts. And now it's radiating up and not only… Read More »Mother Buddha Love
Total Relaxation May 7, 2022 - So we want that in our practice both in our body and even in our mind, where the mind is relaxed, the mind is open, the mind is at ease.… Read More »Total Relaxation
Three Centers of Awareness October 24, 2020 - https://youtu.be/s2d7TRc_Rok Guided meditation by Michael Taft After the one-hour guided meditation, there is a dharma talk and Q&A. About this meditation. Many people feel that they have a "center of… Read More »Three Centers of Awareness
Deconstructing the Body into the Traditional Elements July 28, 2020 - https://youtu.be/3ZhSv8Cqe4w Guided Meditation by Michael Taft First 15 min - Shamatha with an object.Then Dissolving with the OutbreathThen Shamatha without an objectThen the body is deconstructed into earth, air, fire,… Read More »Deconstructing the Body into the Traditional Elements
Sleep Meditation Guided May 31, 2020 - https://youtu.be/moFY4FN-B0U Relax Your Body, Relax Your Mind Want to get some deep, restful sleep? Use this sleep meditation (guided). Michael's soothing voice will guide you through relaxing your entire body,… Read More »Sleep Meditation Guided
The Nondual Heart, with John Prendergast February 7, 2020 - Nondual teacher and psychotherapist John Prendergast speaks with host Michael Taft about the heart area as an opening to infinite space, contacting the “dark matrix” of the ground, the body… Read More »The Nondual Heart, with John Prendergast
Pure Embodied Awareness January 29, 2020 - Guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. Meditation lasts 1 hour, followed by dharma talk and questions. When we allow awareness to simply and directly… Read More »Pure Embodied Awareness
Guided Sleep Meditation – Relaxation July 4, 2019 - https://youtu.be/IZuiMGfvIj0 Listen to this free guided sleep meditation. It will help you to enjoy relaxed, natural sleep Play this audio when you want to go to sleep. It’s a 34… Read More »Guided Sleep Meditation – Relaxation
DY 032 – “Embodying Awakening” – with Mukti February 10, 2019 - Nondual spiritual teacher Mukti talks with host Michael Taft about the debate between the Direct and Progressive paths of realization, working with energetics and embodiment, her childhood background in the… Read More »DY 032 – “Embodying Awakening” – with Mukti
The Sensuality of Everyday Experience April 5, 2017 - How to Use Sensory Clarity to Deepen Your Mindfulness Meditation Practice—and Enliven Your Life by Michael W. Taft Once some friends of mine were trying to get pregnant, and were… Read More »The Sensuality of Everyday Experience
Finding Stillness: My Introduction to Meditation March 28, 2017 - by Ashleigh Abramovich Eight years ago, I was at a diner with a new group of friends—just three months sober—listening to a very animated, awake, and bright young woman share… Read More »Finding Stillness: My Introduction to Meditation
Pain Relief with Mindfulness: The Safe Haven January 29, 2016 - by Michael W. Taft I remember throwing out my back one time, which caused terrible pain in one leg. I went to doctors, chiropractors, took medications, all of which helped.… Read More »Pain Relief with Mindfulness: The Safe Haven Coping with Emotions using Mindfulness December 4, 2015 - In this author talk at Google, Michael Taft looks at emotional intelligence -- how we can work with our own emotions much more effectively using evolutionary biology, psychology, and mindfulness… Read More »Coping with Emotions using Mindfulness
The Meditation Induction — How to Meditate Deeply November 13, 2015 - by Michael W. Taft Mindfulness is awesome because it features a few simple rules that can be recombined to create thousands of different meditation techniques. You could practice a different… Read More »The Meditation Induction — How to Meditate Deeply
Coping with Intense Emotions in Meditation June 24, 2015 - Using Mindfulness to Work with Overwhelming Feelings by Michael W. Taft In the movie Blade Runner, the replicant Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, has a problem. As a genetically-enhanced human-like Nexus… Read More »Coping with Intense Emotions in Meditation
Finding Meaning with Meditation May 5, 2015 - by Michael W. Taft “Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”… Read More »Finding Meaning with Meditation
Six Tips For Relaxing Well April 28, 2014 - by Jessica Graham I have a long history of not being relaxed. I was one of those little kids with knots in her shoulders and chewed down nails. In my… Read More »Six Tips For Relaxing Well Emotions Are Physical Events: Video October 14, 2013 - Michael Taft - "The Physicality of Emotions" from Ego the Book In this short video, Michael W. Taft discusses the difference between the embodied sensation of emotions, and the conceptual… Read More »Emotions Are Physical Events: Video
Take Your Body with You September 3, 2013 - by Michael W. Taft When I was 33 years old, I became celibate. I had always been extremely open to sex, the senses, and my body. The more I studied… Read More »Take Your Body with You
Four Ways that Mindfulness Can Enhance Your Yoga to Make You Feel Awesome March 6, 2013 - by Michael W. Taft Does anything in the world feel as good as yoga class? Think about the slow, deliberate way you get worked into a posture, adjustment by adjustment,… Read More »Four Ways that Mindfulness Can Enhance Your Yoga to Make You Feel Awesome
Listening to the Body December 22, 2012 - by Jessica Graham “In these bodies we will live. In these bodies we will die” – Mumford & Sons Today is the first day of my Holiday vacation and I… Read More »Listening to the Body
Tuning Into the Body with Mindfulness November 6, 2012 - by Michael W. Taft I really like to go dancing. In the Bay Area, where I live, there are a lot of rave-inspired dance events, where I go and dance… Read More »Tuning Into the Body with Mindfulness
The Body as the Direct Path, Part 2 June 28, 2012 - Welcome to the second installment of Mike Zittel's amazing graphic mindfulness instruction series. In this part he starts right up where he left off in Part One, talking about various… Read More »The Body as the Direct Path, Part 2
Mindfulness of the Body June 22, 2012 - In mindfulness, the body is where to begin Mindfulness of the body didn't come easily to me. When I first started meditating in the late 1970s, I had a very… Read More »Mindfulness of the Body
The Body as the Direct Path May 7, 2012 - I first encountered the work of Mike Zittel through his cartoons in an early instruction manual by Shinzen Young. Later I met him and his beautiful wife Marta at a… Read More »The Body as the Direct Path
Broken Heart/Open Heart April 27, 2012 - By Jessica Graham “Like someone is trying to slice my sternum open from the inside of my body.” “Like prickly pins in my stomach.” “It feels like… Read More »Broken Heart/Open Heart
Freshness January 9, 2012 - by Michael W. Taft I remember how painful boredom used to feel as a teenager. It was crushing. New television shows, movies, and music just felt like rehashes of old… Read More »Freshness
6 Ways to Be Mindful Right Now May 31, 2011 - by Michael W. Taft You may think that you are too busy to practice meditation. But there is nobody who doesn't have a spare minute here or there to be… Read More »6 Ways to Be Mindful Right Now