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All of these practices are available to supporting members of Integral Life.
New to Integral Life Practice? Click here to kickstart your practice!
All of these practices are available to supporting members of Integral Life.
New to Integral Life Practice? Click here to kickstart your practice!
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Terry PattenTerry Patten and Ken Wilber take an in-depth look at their book Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening. ILP is a highly distilled, easily customizable, and radically inclusive approach to practice, based on the most comprehensive map of human potentials we currently have. -
Jogen SalzbergJoin a multi-dimensional guided meditation and pointing-out instruction tour led by Integral Practice Leader Jogen Salzberg, Sensei through awareness in its various extra-ordinary modes. The tour encompasses the 3 Faces of Spirit through the practice of sparking Wonder, resting into Calm-Abiding, recognizing Spaciousness, orienting to Timelessness, affirming Selflessness and finally being the Clear Light Nature of Mind itself. -
Integral LifeThis series of movements (sometimes called Integral Kata) is a way to contact and exercise your three bodies: physical/gross, subtle, and causal. -
Ginny WhitelawGinny Whitelaw helps you experience the four energy patterns that show up in the human nervous system. All of us possess these four patterns, and though most of us have our favorites, all four are available to us at all times. Each is good at different things, and here you will learn what each one is good for, which ones you might use or overuse, and how you can tap into any of them at the right time in order to lead with your fullest and most authentic purpose. -
Roger WalshAnyone who is deeply committed to contemplative practice and to cultivating the qualities it enhances—such as empathy, compassion, clarity and insight, to name only a few—will want to practice as continuously as possible. This means finding a way to use our daily activities and work as part of our practice. Fortunately, such a way is part of the world’s major religious-spiritual traditions, and it is formulated most explicitly in Hinduism as karma yoga. -
Dr. Keith WittThis practice will help you cultivate the courage to face your trauma, discover an unbreakable source of resilience and empathy within yourself, and find deeper meaning in your suffering — so that you yourself can become a source of strength and healing for the rest of the world. -
Integral LifeAre you angry, upset or frustrated by a situation in the world, or perhaps someone in your life? Are you having trouble accepting some circumstance in your life? Learn to address it constructively by practicing acceptance in the face of difficult feelings. This one minute practice can help you do so. -
Ryan OelkeThis 7-minute meditation is very easy to follow, and empowers you to quickly experience the shift from living outside of yourself to resting in the fullness and foundation of your body. Feel the difference between living on the surface of yourself and what’s it’s like to return within your body, to the center of your life. -
Dr. Lynn Royster FuentesLynn Fuentes offers a brief teaching about how to reclaim your power while struggling with the sense of disempowerment that often accompanies various kinds of chronic illness, whether you are dealing with your personal health issues or those of a loved one. -
Meg SalterMindfulness can feel like swimming upstream against your own mind. Yet the benefits are clear: enhanced attention, empathy, and resilience, and reduced anxiety, stress, and even insomnia. Unfortunately, too many people don't find a practice that works for them and their daily lives. This series comes in five parts: an introduction and four follow-on sessions, each with a sample mindfulness practice based on the four primary ways of relating to the world. -
Craig HamiltonCraig Hamilton offers some simple pointing-out instructions to help you "let go and let God". These practices are not designed to try to get you into any particular state of consciousness, but to liberate you from the need to have any particular state or any particular feeling to be free. -
Craig HamiltonA radical new approach to spiritual practice is being born, bringing the possibility of authentic spiritual Enlightenment within reach for all of us. Craig calls it “The Practice of Direct Awakening.” And it is rapidly turning every assumption we’ve had about spiritual practice and Enlightenment on its head. -
Jeff SalzmanJeff and Corey explore one of the most powerful and universal practices available to us: the practice of gratitude. In times of peak stress, peak fear, and peak anxiety, gratitude is more important than ever. Which means that this year, perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, we could use a nice dose of gratitude to help remind ourselves of the incredible goodness, beauty, and truth that we are all surrounded by. This in turn helps us relax our cynicism, loosen our negative fixations, and make our “skin-encapsulated egos" just a little bit more porous. -
Miriam Mason MartineauThis practice will help you discern where you are coming from within yourself in each moment — your egoic self, or your deeper essential Self — and enable you to live and relate from a place of presence and centered-ness, so that you can respond rather than react to your child. -
Joanne HuntJoin us in this role-playing exercise as four colleagues undergo the first 2 minutes of a business meeting where they discuss a new project. Watch how each participant brings a dramatically different Native Perspective — or “orienting quadrant” — to the table, then get inside their heads to see how they interpret the meeting. Can you spot your own Native Perspective? -
Father Thomas KeatingCentering Prayer is a simple Christian practice that helps us to locate and take refuge in our "inner room," consent to the presence of God-in-2nd-person, and lead us into deep prayer, devotion, and contemplation of the divine. Listen as Father Thomas offers a short guided practice of Centering Prayer. -
Integral LifeThis practice will help you become more fluent with native perspectives — four fundamental ways of being, perceiving, and doing — in both yourself and in other people. -
Andrew HolecekIn this excerpt from the Okay, I'm Dead... Now What? web course, acclaimed teacher Andrew Holecek offers guided instructions for two fundamental types of meditative practices: Shamatha and Vipashyana meditations. -
Michael SchwartzMichael Schwartz offers a powerful aesthetic exercise to help you activate the various perspectives on art (including becoming aware where we are stuck in the fluidity of our perspective taking) and integrate those perspectives into a higher-order perception that will profoundly expand and deepen your aesthetic experience. -
Terry PattenTerry Patten offers a short guided meditation to help you reduce the existential fear, dread, and anxiety surrounding death by shifting your attention and identification to the indestructible presence at the very center of your being. -
Terry PattenTerry Patten offers some very basic instructions to help you kickstart your meditation practice. He also offers an extended segment on "Integral Inquiry", a simple but powerful technique that can deepen your ongoing practice. -
Integral LifeConsciously following the deepest contours of your very own nature is the foundation of any Integral Life Practice. Here you will learn how to feel these basic dimensions of your being, simply by noticing what is already present. -
Ken WilberKen Wilber offers a blistering in-depth guided tour through his widely acclaimed Full Spectrum Mindfulness teaching, a series of simple but powerful practices to unlock your deepest sources of power, love, wisdom, and self-mastery. -
Integral LifeCompassionate Exchange is a way to move freely through all perspectives available to you, instead of staying chronically identified with only one. In this meditative practice, we consciously and deliberately exchange self for other. -
Terry PattenThe 1-2-3 of God practice will help dramatically deepen your own ongoing practice by getting you in touch with each of the three fundamental dimensions of spiritual unfolding. -
Diane Musho HamiltonA crucial aspect of any integral practice is a way to be profoundly honest with ourselves about our shadow, or unconscious, or false self, or dishonesty, or disowned self. The 3-2-1 Process is a simple and effective tool for working with the shadow — any part of ourselves that we unconsciously repress or deny. -
Mary SaundersMary Saunders explores the primordial qualities of earth, wood, fire, metal, and water as elemental energies in nature, within our bodies, and within our psyche — a model for physical health, emotional intelligence, and spiritual maturity. -
Integral LifePower hours – two-hour, highly-focused blocks of time – are one of the secrets to staying focused and productive at work, school and at home. This one technique will skyrocket your productivity. -
Dr. Keith WittRenowned marriage and family therapist Dr. Keith Witt offers a short practice to reinvigorate your "erotic polarity" — one of the fundamental forces that sustain thriving relationships. -
Roger WalshIn an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? This ILP module offers distillations of the world’s accumulated wisdom — ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. -
Integral LifeDepressive symptoms are often accompanied by rumination, or persistent cycles of distorted, negative thinking that undermines your mental clarity. The good news is that with practice you can interrupt these cycles. Use these eight questions to assess the reality of your negative thinking and consider alternative possibilities.
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Integral LifeAnger arises when you feel like you've been violated: you are interpreting some situation or behavior, whether it was done intentionally or not, as a very real violation of your deeper needs or values. It's usually sourced in a deeper need that's not being met. This practice is designed to help you find it. -
Dr. Lynn Royster FuentesLynn Royster Fuentes looks at the question of chronic illness as part of a koan, a puzzle you have been asked to solve, an all-encompassing and fundamental question that can be answered and re-answered as you investigate the approaches that will reduce your suffering. -
Integral LifeAnxiety feels terrible, a gnawing fear that is hard to pin down and harder to shake. This activity may help you alleviate anxiety: when you can see the core fear that's really underneath your anxiety, you loosen its hold on your emotions and feel more empowered to address it. -
Ginny WhitelawDr. Ginny Whitelaw offers a practice that explores Zen leadership, an authentic expression of the connected Self to serve people, create value and beauty in the world and take away fear. -
Andrew HolecekJoin Tibetan Buddhist teacher and end of life expert Andrew Holecek as he walks you through a powerful, and life-changing, one-hour ILP coaching session to better understand death and liberate you from the false identity that keeps you trapped in the fear that your true self is anything other than timeless. -
Diane Musho HamiltonJoin renowned mediator Diane Hamilton in order to enhance your happiness and deepen your relationships by learning to navigate the three native perspectives that can unlock your power, passion and authenticity in every important relationship in your life. -
Helen PalmerAn extraordinary presentation to help you discover more clarity and wellbeing, with practices for each personality type delivered via a deepening understanding of your inner observer. -
Sofia DiazMost yoga programs promise to bring you more strength, more endurance, and more flexibility. Real Yoga does too, but goes several steps further, helping you cultivate these very same qualities on the inside as much as the outside. Not just in your body, but also in your heart, mind, and spirit. Sofia Diaz leads an exquisite 1-hour yoga practice, excerpted from her full Real Yoga web course. -
Ken WilberKen Wilber offers a taste of his Full Spectrum Mindfulness training program, focusing here on the most fundamental level of mindfulness — the hunger drive. -
Paul SmithPaul Smith leads you to a full-spectrum realization of God — a God who is big enough to satisfy our minds, close enough to touch our hearts, and familiar enough to easily recognize how God intersects with innermost Self. -
Rob McNamaraBody Mind Moment Strength Training is designed to help you integrate your workouts into your daily life with the intention of you gaining confidence in your abilities to feel fully alive and to meet the challenges the world presents. Rob’s approach (demonstrated here with his student Maria Bailey) goes way beyond normal strength training goals of developing more muscle or sculpting your body to fit into your skinny jeans, but rather is intended to guide your bodily awareness into what it means to live more completely. -
Joan BorysenkoThe Plant Plus Diet Solution is a user-friendly synthesis of where nutrition is going in the 21st century. It will help you make sense of dietary confusion, give you suggestions on how to personalize your approach to food and bring the practice of mindfulness to bear on that relationship. -
Dr. Keith WittDr. Keith Witt offers a taste of his Loving Completely practice program, an exceptional web course that helps deepen the whole relationship by acknowledging and working with the intrinsic wholeness of human beings. -
Terry PattenTerry Patten helps us explore our own inner skeptic, and suggests practices that lead us into a greater awareness of the mystery of life — whether you identify this experience in spiritual terms or not. -
Craig HamiltonThis practice embraces the wisdom of the great meditative traditions, but also reaches forward to unleash the profound spiritual potential inherent in our recently evolved capacities for self-awareness, introspection, self-authorship and relational intimacy. -
Ken WilberIn this excerpt from The Eye of Spirit, Ken Wilber offers one of the most powerful (and beautiful) pieces of spiritual writing he has ever produced. This is the very first time these words have been reproduced on the web, and we invite you to share this chapter however you like. -
Integral LifeMeditation helps you become more centered and grounded by learning to be still in the present moment. But inner resistance, current circumstances, other people, distracting thoughts, painful feelings and future fears all serve to keep your mind out of presence; they keep you stuck in resistance and away from the perfection and stillness of the present moment. This 5-minute guided meditation will train your mind to slow down and become centered in this perfection. -
Leslie HershbergerCourse Description Your Instructor Course Curriculum We often assume that an elusive something or someone “out there” is keeping us away from the Love that is always present. Yet, it is simply our own unconscious contraction rooted in our personality type structure, which shuts us down from receiving Love’s embrace. The psalmist writes: For You alone my soul in stillness waits… So I have called out to You in my heart… Because your wondrous Love is Life in me... I would radiate your Love as I live Becoming a blessing to others in gratitude to You. In this course, we invite you to cultivate a capacity to receive Love through learning contemplative method and the Enneagram which identifies nine distinct ways we contract from receiving Love. About Between You and Love Between You and Love is an innovative extension to the Coming Home web course that combines Christian contemplative practice with the Narrative Tradition of the Enneagram in order to uncover and overcome your unique obstacles to giving and receiving love in your life. The question "What stands between me and love?" is central for all of us who are trying to live a more fulfilling and compassionate life. This web course will help deepen your relationships and explore what is working for and against you in your quest to love and be loved. Whether you took the original Coming Home course or not, this new offering from Leslie will help you situate yourself exactly where you are in your own field of love. Between You and Love is inspired by everything Leslie has learned from leading the Coming Home community over the last several years, and for the first time, includes her considerable knowledge of the Enneagram as applied to the Christian tradition, allowing you to hone in on your particular wants, needs, and patterns of loving with incredible accuracy. Contemplative method through the lens of the Enneagram not only cultivates presence, but also invites you into compassion which is a state of feeling energetically connected. Compassion is far more challenging than presence for it strikes deeply at your own conditioned nature. Compassion encompasses both subject and object and we recognize, as we listen to people articulate their own experience of their type, that we are deeply connected. It’s a practice. It’s cultivating spiritual capacity. It’s a shift from understanding in your head into an experience of Love in your heart. Welcome to Between You and Love. This web course includes: Seven audio teachings from Leslie Eight audio reflection or guided meditation practices led by Leslie. A special video interview with Helen Palmer, founder of the Narrative Tradition of the Enneagram Three special audio presentations on the Enneagram Heart, Head and Body Centers. Nine audio dialogues between Leslie and individuals representing the nine Enneagram types. A special text excerpt from Paul Smith’s book Integral Christianity exploring States of Consciousness PDF handouts for reflection exercises. About the AuthorDima Bulatov Module 1 Christ Unfolding Unit 1 Coming Home: Christ Unfolding Unit 2 Bonus: Spirituality and Religion Module 2 The Four Perspectives of God Unit 1 The Four Perspectives of God Unit 2 The Four Perspectives: A Guided Meditation Module 3 Re-Imagining the Trinity Unit 1 Reimagining the Trinity Unit 2 The Trinity Guided Meditation Module 4 What Manner of Man Unit 1 What Manner of Man Unit 2 Christian Koan Guided Meditation Module 5 Broadening Your Circle of Care Unit 1 Broadening Your Circle of Care Unit 2 A Guided Meditation on Compassion Module 6 Exploring the Feminine Face of God Unit 1 Exploring the Feminine Face of God Unit 2 Guided Meditation: Nature Walk Module 7 Jesus in Contemporary Culture Unit 1 Jesus in Contemporary Culture Unit 2 Guided Meditation: Experiencing Poetry from Diverse Perspectives Module 8 Jesus as a Teacher of Wisdom Unit 1 Jesus as a Teacher of Wisdom Unit 2 Guided Prayer Module 9 The Kingdom of Heaven Within You Unit 1 The Kingdom of Heaven Within You Unit 2 Lectio Divina Meditation Module 10 Kenosis: The Path of Self-Emptying Love Unit 1 Kenosis: The Path of Self-Emptying Love Unit 2 Centering Prayer Module 11 The Life of Jesus as a Template for Transformation Unit 1 The Life of Jesus as a Template for Transformation Unit 2 Guided Meditation: The Radical Yes! Module 12 The Crucifixion and Its Aftermath — Finding Love in the Darkness Unit 1 The Crucifixion and Its Aftermath—Finding Love in the Darkness Unit 2 3-2-1 Shadow Exercise Module 13 Who Do You Say That I Am? Unit 1 Who Do You Say That I Am? Unit 2 Four Quadrant Meditation Save big when you register for both Coming Home and Between You and Love web courses. Click here to learn more about Coming Home. Coming Home Single Course YOUR PRICE: $145 BECOME A MEMBER TO SAVE 20% [reveal_quick_checkout checkout_text="ENROLL IN THIS COURSE" block="true" shape="square" size="large" checkout_action="lightbox" id="30073"] Coming Home + Between You and Love Two Course Bundle YOUR PRICE: $245 BECOME A MEMBER TO SAVE 20% [reveal_quick_checkout checkout_text="GET THE 2-COURSE BUNDLE" block="true" shape="square" size="large" checkout_action="lightbox" id="30075"] -
Integral LifeA big part of having better relationships is clear and meaningful communication. If you're interested in improving how you communicate and listen to others, this exercise can provide you with a fresh perspective on the way you communicate and how it shapes your instinctual way of being, seeing, and doing in the world. -
Father Thomas KeatingFather Thomas Keating offers a detailed account of the conditions that catalyzed a massive reawakening of Christian contemplative practice in the late 20th century. -
Ken WilberKen Wilber offers a special teaching to awaken Christ Consciousness within your own heart and mind, right here and right now. -
Ken Wilber"Keep an open mind," we like to say, "but not so open your brain slides out." But what happens when you open your mind so fully that you end up temporarily misplacing your entire head? Well that’s enlightenment, baby! -
Lama Surya DasLay claim to your birthright with this short guided meditation by Lama Surya Das. -
Ken WilberKen Wilber takes us on a blistering guided tour through the evolution of the universe, describing how each of the "three faces of Spirit" has evolved from the Big Bang to this present moment. -
Ken WilberKen Wilber offers a 30 minute guided process that will put you in direct touch with Eros — and in so doing, you'll likely encounter the simple mistake of ascribing it source to some object outside yourself. By relaxing the contraction around your heart, you'll experience an unbounded expansion of care, in a simple moment of non-seeking presence. -
Ken WilberIn order to uncover love's future, we need to explore love's past. So Ken Wilber looks all the way back to the Big Bang, retracing love's role throughout the history of evolution. Rather than just a mere human emotion, love is cast as a central driving force in the Kosmos—the force of Eros itself, pushing all of us along our inevitable return to Spirit. -
Patrick SweeneyPatrick Sweeney, the holder of the Karma Kagyü lineage, offers a powerful mahamudra teaching. The term mahamudra literally means "great seal" or "great symbol", a body of teaching that represents the culmination and fulfillment of all the practices of the new schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Mudra refers to the fact that each phenomenon appears vividly, and maha refers to the fact that it is beyond concept, imagination, and projection. -
Diane Musho HamiltonIn this practice we contemplate, think, and know about Spirit in the 3rd-person; we relate, dwell, and commune with Spirit in a 2nd-person relationship, and we meditate, feel and know ourselves as Spirit in a 1st-person apprehension of our source and substance. -
Roger WalshA quick and easy way to recontact the sacred dimensions of this and every moment.