On the first of July, as part of a 3-day conference on finding good responses to Covid19, I gave this talk to a group made up mostly of I...

On a deep rest meditation retreat, in a tent in a desert The second meditation, the second of January, 2018 (Gertrude cartoon (c) Jaya J...

Resmaa Menakem gives us some of the most human and contextualized introductions I have ever come across--into the vagal nerve and psoas, ...

Thank you for your practice and thank you for walking your path with honesty and kindness. May we meet again soon. After gathering daily ...

After a couple of months of daily quarantine meditations, we asked what was helpful and unhelpful. You also asked how to be in touch. So...

A poem by Susan Crozier... drawn from sharings in my "Out of Nowhere" online program...and a recent Dharma talk on an online retreat wher...

From today's meditation with Jin Shin Jyutsu. Just to give you a taste. I left out the questions and sharing after the meditation, but ke...

New Insight Timer meditations from two of my recent daily meditations...many thanks to Frances Hearndenji for getting these recordings re...

The heart and deep rest... On a month-long work retreat in 1989 or so, I remember being so bored with the teachings that I would drift of...

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen gave this experiential session in breathing in embodied anatomy...it will be available free only for another few ...

In Joy Harjo's memoir, Crazy Brave, she opens her life story with this, in italics and with a big "O" to start out with Once: "Once I tra...

Here is my birthday dance playlist. This just might be the beginning of a good tradition! Hania Cennerrazzo, a friend of almost 30 years...

2020 3 16 Simple meditation Feet, back, breath What would it be like to live in a world where there's enough time for meditation? Settlin...

~What is important? ~How are you doing? ~What are you doing these days that is new, whether because of the outer circumstances, or for an...

Several places to go for inspiration and information that can help us connect, with no cost: Jin Shin Jyutsu on yourself, just simply pl...

With sudden and unexpected changes in the last week especially, many people have found themselves in touch with deep, grungy dynamics and...

Thanks to Sanda Spasic for sharing this beautiful fable about smallpox, from Living Fearlessly by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda. As we follow...

" 'You know, Colonel, there’s absolutely nothing you can give me. I don’t want your money. You can’t give me my husband back. All I’m loo...

(Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2020.) I am grateful to the ways my friends and students continually enrich my ways of experiencing an...

Going beyond the beliefs and habits of lack that helped bring us to this current situation... from the "Wilds Beyond Climate Justice"~ a...