An invitation to notice how any sense of identification with our meditation practice can create a subtle pressure that interferes with the development of the awakening factors

Short instructions and guidance for investigating mindfulness of mindfulness itself

Exploring how these two work together to strengthen discernment about what's skillful, and what's unskillful. Includes some ways of working with more entrenched or intense afflictive mental states, bringing wisdom and compassion to them to help them release.

A brief introduction to generosity as the foundation of this path of practice, then exploring generosity as support for skillful mental qualities to arise

An introduction and overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening

Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the clinging-aggregates of perception and volitional formations.

Exploring clinging and release with a focus on vedana: knowing worldly and unworldly pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones, and understanding why the Buddha placed so much importance on the experience of unworldly feeling-tone as a support for the deepening of dharma practice

Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the body, using three practices from the Satipatthana Sutta as support for developing a wiser relationship to the body: contemplating the body in terms of its anatomical parts; its elemental qualities; and as a corpse in decay

Cultivating a wiser relationship to the body through an understanding of the First Noble Truth, focusing on some of the ways we cling to our bodies

Orienting to six qualities that support us to enter more fully into practicing at the Forest Refuge: safety, silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down, and stillness