Mind Training with Tim: Recent Episodes
Tim Vorhoff
February 7, 2024: Choosing to be more present with our current situations and changing our perspective.
February 1, 2024: I had the lovely chance to guide a meditation for my friend Alex Roob. Here we again generously dive into our physical sensations and build our general awareness.
January 31, 2024: we take a generous helping of curiosity and apply it to our physical bodies. Will likely lead to wonderful feelings of relaxation and calmness.
January 21, 2024: we return to the basics of settling into our bodies and our physical sensations
This 20 minute meditation is a battle against enemies of presence and awareness. Dive into your senses. Feel your body, hear the sounds, see the sights behind closed eyes. Then sit with the breath actively fighting off distractions.
We spend a bit of time settling our bodies, settling on our breath and then we work on amplifying love.
This is an excellent starting point for beginners looking to get into meditation. We relax our bodies and then focus on the breath.
November 28, 2023: one of the most beautiful qualities we can create within ourselves is joyful effort. Literally how can we take joy is doing good things.
How does our practice change when our external environment changes? This last week I moved into a new apartment and that brought with it its own challenges to my practice.
We start by settling our bodies and then focusing our attention on our breath. Once settled we focus on building and giving away love.
Class from August 30, 2023. Today we give our minds a bit more space to sit with our greatest teacher. When our minds are agitated, sometimes we need to give the mind enough room to relax
Today we go through the steps of an inner guide meditation. This is the foundational meditation to other practices and we will continue to learn this meditation over the following weeks.
Minimally guided mind training this week to give the mind creative space to explore the prompts.
If went to the gym and only did bicep curls, we wouldn’t have strong legs. If we want stronger legs, we’d have to do leg exercises. What if our minds work in the same way?
Thinking about difficult people as blessings and then diving into a loving kindness meditation
Loving kindness or metta meditation where we begin my discussing the 8 points of posture
Based on an ancient Tibetan lineage, this meditation can help develop a new relationship to running and spirituality.
This meditation is for practitioners who are already comfortable with the structure of the love meditation and are looking to deepen their practice with less instruction.
This is a brief 10 minute meditation that starts with a body scan and then moves out focus of attention to the breath.
A love meditation where we focus on someone we love and transmute that emotion to everything in our lives.
A love meditation where we ignite a feeling and allow it to expand into every interaction and experience in our lives.
This meditation is focused on love. Traditionally we can think of love as the desire for others to be happy. We will work to first ground ourselves in the breath, and then we will utilize a memory to build the sensation of love in our bodies. We will then work on giving that love away to other people in our lives.