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Jonathan FoustListening as Spiritual Practice Why Unguarded Attention Is the Greatest GiftThis talk explores listening as a radical act of compassion at moments of loss, when words often rush in to ease our own discomfort rather than meet another's pain. We examine how common responses to grief—reassurance, advice, spiritual framing, or positivity—can unintentionally distance us, and how the impulse to fix subtly reinforces separation. Drawing on mindfulness and embodied awareness, the talk invites a shift from doing something helpful to being with what is most tender and real. You'll learn how to recognize the fixing reflex as it arises, listen from the body rather than...
2026-02-0532 minJonathan FoustHow to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 2: Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]More on how to keep you keel in the water when navigating uncertainty. You'll learn some practical strategies for finding 'refuge,' a place of presence, particularly accessing Wisdom - clear seeing, Compassion - a heart that can hold it all, Presence - the space of awareness itself, and Skillful Action - strategies for staying deeply present in the midst of change.
2026-02-051h 49Jonathan FoustHow to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 1: Practices for Cultivating Steadiness [archive talk]This talk explores how you might cultivate greater steadiness in turbulent times. You'll learn some practical tools for finding refuge in present-moment awareness, in cultivating Witness Consciousness and in watching the flow of phenomena with awake awareness and an open heart.
2026-02-0546 minJonathan FoustWhat Is Your North Star? Questions That Awaken Wise IntentionThis talk explores wise intention as a living, moment-to-moment inquiry rather than a fixed decision or self-improvement project. Drawing from the Buddhist understanding of Right Intention, it reframes intention as an embodied process of noticing what genuinely supports clarity and ease, honestly recognizing what leads to contraction, and allowing the heart to recalibrate without judgment. The emphasis is on alignment over striving, and on learning directly from lived experience. You'll learn how to evaluate your life and practice through clear cause-and-effect, recognize when effort is actually creating more struggle, and make mindful course corrections that a...
2026-01-0952 minJonathan FoustSeeing Clearly: Insight and the Path of LiberationThis talk explores the liberating power of clear seeing — vipassanā, or insight — the capacity to recognize things as they truly are rather than as we wish them to be. Through the practice of mindful attention, we begin to see through the illusions that shape our experience: the illusion that things are solid, that the self is fixed, that craving can bring satisfaction, and that suffering is personal. Each moment of genuine insight loosens the grip of confusion and reveals the luminous awareness that is already free. You'll learn how insight unfolds through the deep investigation of per...
2025-12-2531 minJonathan FoustFour Phrases That Heal: Loving the Unlovable [archive talk]This talk explores how to consciously direct the inner process of healing and release. Drawing on the classic teachings of Ho'oponopono, it introduces four phrases that guide your attention to: • Taking responsibility for your inner experience • Attuning to the process of release • Reflecting on gratitude and the opportunity to grow • Resting in loving awareness
2025-12-2144 minJonathan FoustThe Eightfold Path 4: Understanding Right Action and the Ethics of Everday LifeThis talk explores the heart of the Fourth Noble Eightfold Path factor—Right Action—as a living expression of mindfulness and compassion. We look at how ethical conduct arises not from rigid rule-following but from moment-to-moment awareness, attunement to the body's signals, and a sincere intention to do no harm. Through stories, classical teachings, humor, and direct reflection, we explore non-harming, integrity, embodied wisdom, and the courage it takes to act wisely in a complex world. You'll learn how to sense alignment in your actions, recognize the body as your most honest ethical compass, and trans...
2025-12-1026 minJonathan FoustDo Unto Others: Mindfulness and the Golden Rule [archive talk]This talk explores how to apply the Golden Rule in the context of mindfulness practice. You'll learn how this timeless guidance ties into the practice of compassion (Karuna), interconnectedness (Dependent Origination), loving kindness (Metta) and non-harming (Ahimsa).
2025-12-1035 minJonathan FoustThe Anatomy of Now: A Somatic Pathway to Awake AwarenessThis talk explores the radical simplicity and depth of awakening to the present moment. Drawing on early Buddhist teachings and modern somatic inquiry, we'll investigate the building blocks of experience — sensation, feeling tone, perception, and awareness — to understand how the mind creates "now" and how freedom is discovered in direct experience. You'll learn how to discern between sensation and story, how to recognize the birth of reactivity, and how to rest in awareness itself. Through reflection, humor, and practical meditative guidance, you'll discover that the present moment is not a passing instant but an infinite field...
2025-11-2532 minJonathan FoustYour Obstacles are the Path: Grace in Difficulty [archive talk]This talk explores the possibility of 'problems' as profound opportunities for growth and expansion. You'll learn the importance of equanimity, cultivating convergent and divergent thinking and deep investigation into the nature of attachment and the nature of self.
2025-11-2142 minJonathan FoustThe Eightfold Path 3: Wise Speech - Speaking from Clarity, Kindness and TruthThis talk explores how every word we speak carries the power to create harmony or division, awakening or confusion. Drawing from the Buddha's teaching on Right Speech—truthful, kind, useful, and timely communication—you'll discover how mindfulness transforms the way we express ourselves and listen to others. Words become more than sound; they become expressions of presence, integrity, and care. Through stories, reflection, and a few moments of silence, we'll explore how conscious speech can become a profound practice of awakening in daily life. You'll learn how to pause before speaking, feel into your intention, and s...
2025-11-1732 minJonathan FoustThe Space Between Sensation and the StoryThis talk explores the powerful and often-overlooked moment between what we feel and what we think about what we feel. Rooted in both Buddhist insight and somatic inquiry, we'll examine how raw sensation arises, how the mind instantly weaves a narrative around it, and how those stories—when left unexamined—can calcify into beliefs that shape our identity and behavior. With mindful attention, this space between sensation and story becomes fertile ground for transformation, offering a doorway into clarity, compassion, and inner freedom. You'll learn how to recognize and decode the language of bodily sensation, inves...
2025-11-1037 minJonathan FoustLiving from the Still Point: Taking the Seat of the WitnessThis talk explores the power and peace found at the still point—the place of awareness untouched by the waves of thought and emotion. When we take the seat of the witness, we discover a dimension of consciousness that is both intimate and vast, both deeply embodied and profoundly free. Drawing on the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness and insight, this talk illuminates how awareness itself can become the refuge, how turning toward what arises with stillness and curiosity reveals the freedom that has always been here. You'll learn how to recognize and rest in the wit...
2025-10-2934 minJonathan FoustListening from Within: The Dharma of the Felt SenseThis talk explores the transformative power of tuning into the felt sense—the subtle, bodily knowing that lies beneath thought and emotion. Rooted in early Buddhist teachings and supported by contemporary somatic practices, the felt sense offers a direct path to presence, insight, and release. By connecting deeply with the body from the inside out, we ground our awareness in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and begin to directly experience the liberating truths of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. You'll learn how to recognize and trust the language of inner sensation, how the felt sense awakens the...
2025-10-2537 minJonathan FoustOne Breath at a Time: Anchoring Awareness in the PresentThis talk explores the simple yet profound practice of using the breath as an anchor for awareness. In a world where distraction and stress pull us in countless directions, the breath is always available as a doorway back into presence. Drawing from the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness of breathing and weaving in reflections from daily life, we'll look at how one conscious breath at a time can ground us, reveal our inner state, help us transform reactivity, and open us to freedom in the present moment. You'll learn how to return to the breath as a...
2025-10-0830 minJonathan FoustThe Eightfold Path, Part 2: Living from Wise IntentionThis talk explores the second step of the Eightfold Path, Wise Intention—the heart's compass that points us toward freedom. Rooted in the Buddha's teachings, Wise Intention asks us to orient our lives around letting go of what doesn't serve, cultivating goodwill instead of ill will, and living with compassion that seeks to do no harm. Through stories, reflections, and practical examples, we'll look at how our inner intentions quietly but powerfully shape our choices, our relationships, and ultimately, our destiny. You'll learn how to recognize the subtle intentions behind your daily actions, how to rel...
2025-09-3030 minJonathan FoustYour Body is a Temple: Coming Home to SensationThis talk explores the profound practice of coming home to the body—not as an object to fix or improve, but as sacred ground for awakening. Drawing on early Buddhist teachings and somatic insights, we'll reflect on what it means to honor the body as a temple of presence. Through stor25ies, reflections, and practical guidance, we'll explore how sensation itself can become a direct path to freedom. You'll learn how to ground attention in the felt sense, meet difficult sensations with compassion, and uncover insight through embodied awareness. Whether you're dealing with physical discomfort, emo...
2025-09-2434 minJonathan FoustThe Eightfold Path, Part 1: The Path to FreedomThis talk explores how the Buddha's Eightfold Path offers a clear, practical guide to living with greater wisdom, compassion, and inner freedom in everyday life. We'll look at how each step on the path supports both personal transformation and the well-being of others. Wise View, the first step, invites us to see life as it truly is—recognizing impermanence, the causes of suffering, and the possibility of liberation. It's about shifting from a narrow, self-centered perspective to a broader understanding that our thoughts, actions, and attitudes shape our experience.
2025-09-1730 minJonathan FoustBegin Where You Are: Laying the Groundwork of MindfulnessThis talk explores how to begin a mindfulness practice by starting exactly where you are. Rather than striving for a particular state or trying to "do it right," we look at how mindfulness arises through simple remembering—the act of returning to presence, again and again. We'll reflect on how the breath can become a reliable ally, how intention can quietly shape our experience, and how there's no wrong way to begin. We'll explore four key themes: (1) how mindfulness is the practice of remembering presence, (2) the power of starting just as you are, without needing to...
2025-09-1737 minJonathan FoustChoose What is Already Changing [archive talk]This talk explores how to embrace impermanence. You'll learn about the inevitability of change and how understanding your reactivity and biases can help you access a quality of awareness that can help you move from reactivity to wisdom, compassion, creativity and enthusiasm.
2025-08-2945 minJonathan FoustYour True Nature is Already Here [archive talk]This talk explores the nature of 'true nature.' You'll learn more about the nature of 'true nature,' what gets in the way of experiencing this primal quality of being and some doorways of practice that can bring you into an intimate, embodied sense of presence.
2025-08-2046 minJonathan FoustHow to Access the Flow State, Part 2 [archive talk]This talk explores the mechanics for entering the flow state. You'll learn the role mindfulness plays in setting up the flows state, a review of triggers that can be helpful, how applying the principles of flow to meditation can deepen your practice and some cautions and concerns about the practice.
2025-08-1346 minJonathan FoustHow to Access the Flow State, Part 1 [archive talk]This talk explores what it means to be in flow. You'll learn about the magic of being in the flow state, some distinctions between mindfulness and flow and how to be more aware of how you consciously or unconsciously sabotage the flow state.
2025-08-1347 minJonathan FoustHow More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 2 [archive talk]This talk explores the power of willful attention inwardly as well as in the world. You'll learn some strategies for inner focus in your meditation as well as some outer focus to cultivate sustained attention on what is most important to you in your life right now.
2025-07-2947 minJonathan FoustHow More Focus Can Transform Your Life, Part 1 [archive talk]This talk explores the power of willful attention. You'll learn what the Buddha said about concentration and liberation, some essential practices for deepening focus and how skillfully applying concentration can open up new inner worlds.
2025-07-2946 minJonathan FoustAm I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 5: Love is the Highest Thought of All [archive talk]This talk explores the power of streaming thoughts toward love, compassion, kindness, joy and equanimity. You'll learn about the origin of the heart practices, how here love starts as a thought and moves into an experience, the system for loving kindness and what it means to be awake both in heart and mind.
2025-07-1545 minJonathan FoustAm I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 4: Bare Attention and Gratitude [archive talk]This talk explores the practice of Bare Attention and how suffering ceases in the experience of gratitude. You'll learn about the distinction of the linear mind and the intuitive mind, the practice Bare Attention and a technique for opening to gratitude as a way of shifting the mind to a more fluid and intuitive state.
2025-07-0843 minJonathan FoustAm I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 3: Investigating Beliefs [archive talk]This talk explores how to deconstruct beliefs. You'll learn about the origin of thoughts and beliefs, the art of interrupting the stream of thinking, the art of deconstructing beliefs and the importance, when you do this work, to err on the side of safety and self-care.
2025-07-0845 minJonathan FoustAm I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 2: The Power of Mental Noting [archive talk]This talk explores the power of noting or labeling your inner experience. You'll learn how you can cut through discursive thinking by training your attention to the sense fields, but also what it means to 'take the seat of the witness' and note or label what is happening inside.
2025-07-0847 minJonathan FoustAm I Dreaming? Thoughts on Thinking Part 1: Embodied Awareness [archive talk]This talk explores how to cut through the trance of thinking. You'll learn how turning toward awareness itself reveals how much you rely on thinking and some practical strategies using embodied awareness for 'remembering' who and what you truly are.
2025-07-0845 minJonathan FoustDo you REALLY want to Wake Up? Tracy Budd on his Journey of Intensive PracticeA few years back, Tracy retired and thought to himself, "What would happen if I practiced at home with the same intensity as I would on retreat?" He was inspired to practice the "Elephant Path," a very disciplined approach that cultivated deepening concentration. His journey was powerful, traumatic and brought him to his knees, but opened up vistas he could only imagine. Here he shares his story, what he learned and what we might offer by way of encouragement and caution for those looking to intensive practice.
2025-06-1557 minJonathan FoustJeff Fajans on the Flow State and Creativity: Conversations with Depth PractitionersThis conversation is with Jeff Fajans—a creative momentum coach, seasoned musician, and PhD‑backed creative performance researcher—who helps creative people bring their biggest ideas to life. Whether you're drafting a feature film script, launching a new business, or building a product from scratch, Jeff blends flow science, mindfulness, and creative productivity and leadership principles to move you past procrastination and into real, lasting creative momentum. Here are some links: More info about Jeff's coaching: https://jefffajans.com/creative-performance-coaching-creative-coach-jeff-fajans/ To book a free 45-mi...
2025-06-0544 minJonathan FoustDon't Believe All Your ThoughtsAs your practice deepens, you may begin to notice you are less identified with your thoughts. 'Observing without judgement' can open all kinds of new possibilities. This talk explores some strategies for shifting your relationship to thinking.
2025-05-2045 minJonathan FoustWhy Practice?Mindfulness practice can get dry and rote. When you remember why you are practicing you'll reconnect with your passion and deepest intention. When you can sustain your practice, you may notice a number of benefits. Beyond the physiological and emotional boosts you'll feel, ultimately you'll notice the arising of two distinct faculties. Wisdom is your capacity to recognize what is true. Compassion is your capacity to allow and open to truth.
2025-05-2045 minJonathan FoustSkillful Effort: Maintaining Wholesome States of PresenceThis talk explores how to manage your energy as you pursue your aspirations. You'll learn about four guidelines: How to prevent unwholesome states before they arise, how to let go of unwholesome states when they have arisen, how to cultivate wholesome states that have not yet arisen and how to maintain wholesome states that are already here.
2025-05-1040 minJonathan FoustConversations with Depth Practitioners: "This is the New Normal" with Ray Manyoky and Tara CassidyThis interview with Ray and Tara explores how to work with the deepest challenges of sickness, old age and death. You'll learn how Ray and Tara are working with Ray's diagnosis of glioblastoma a year ago. They speak beautifully of how the practice deepens, how to find steadiness and how to open again and again to love.
2025-04-3052 minJonathan FoustThe Art of Yes: Mindfulness and the Power of AllowingThe talk explores some fundamentals of a meditation practice and how (sometimes) saying 'yes' to what is present can dramatically shift your relationship to the here and now. You'll learn my favorite definition of mindfulness, the art of 'saying yes,' how every 'no' actually means yes - and the classic instructions to more intimately deepen your mindfulness practice.
2025-04-2547 minJonathan FoustLet Go Now: The Path of Release and RenewalThe classic teaching "Be Here Now" requires that we "Let Go Now" - of everything and anything that is not present. How do we do this? I share some guiding principles of the art of renunciation with practical examples and teachings through the ages. This is the first talk on my podcast, from the fall of 2011.
2025-04-1948 minJonathan FoustFour Phrases That Heal: Loving the UnlovableThis talk explores how to consciously direct the inner process of healing and release. Drawing on the classic teachings of Ho'oponopono, it introduces four phrases that guide your attention to: • Taking responsibility for your inner experience • Attuning to the process of release • Reflecting on gratitude and the opportunity to grow • Resting in loving awareness
2025-04-0944 minJonathan FoustBeyond the Witness: From Watching to BeingThis talk explores the power of self-observation and what lies beyond the sense of self. You'll learn how the witness can free you from the tyranny of the mind and your reactivity as well as what can happen when you explore being aware of the witness and what lies beyond.
2025-03-3045 min
Pain To JoySurrender And Let Go To Make Space For New DreamsIn this week’s episode Danielle shares her experience with grief and isolation, acceptance and joy on her healing journey.She references a key tenet from the Landmark Forum that can help us all live more empowered lives.Danielle reflects upon an affirming Jonathan Foust quote:“What could be good about this?”As she does her best to embrace this quiet time.She speaks to the many ways grief touches us all throughout our lives.Daniel...
2025-03-2924 minJonathan FoustHow to Awaken the Witness: From Identification to ObservationThis talk explores the liberating factor of self-observation. You'll learn about how you can cultivate the optimal environment to develop the witness, the near-enemy of the practice and what it means to be aware of the light behind the observer.
2025-03-2147 minJonathan FoustMeditation, Psychedelics and the Allure of Spiritual AwakeningThis talk explores the theme of 'ancient future technologies,' in particular the role of psychedelic-assisted therapy and meditation. You'll learn about research currently being done, a bit on the history of psychoactive substances in the west, what happens when we alter our consciousness and some of the very real precautions when exploring these medicines. Please note that I urge extreme caution regarding this topic. While there can be profound insights in the wise and regulated use of plant medicines under the care of professional and skilled guidance, there is no substitution for a...
2025-03-1143 minJonathan FoustPractice Questions with Tara and Jonathan, Part 1 [archive]Given these wild times, it's more important than ever to find ways to keep your practice rich and engaged. Tara Brach adn Jonathan Foust take on a number of real-time questions on practice in challenging times.
2025-03-0758 minJonathan FoustYour Obstacles Are the Path: Finding Grace in DifficultyThis talk explores the possibility of 'problems' as profound opportunities for growth and expansion. You'll learn the importance of equanimity, cultivating convergent and divergent thinking and deep investigation into the nature of attachment and the nature of self.
2025-02-2742 minJonathan FoustDo Unto Others: Mindfulness and the Golden RuleThis talk explores how to apply the Golden Rule in the context of mindfulness practice. You'll learn how this timeless guidance ties into the practice of compassion (Karuna), interconnectedness (Dependent Origination), loving kindness (Metta) and non-harming (Ahimsa).
2025-02-1135 minJonathan FoustSeeing Clearly Into the Nature of Reality: Retreat TalkThis talk, from an IMCW Spring retreat, explores what happens when you deeply relax and pay attention to your moment-to-moment experience. You'll learn about the process of settling attention in the here and now, how to recognize the characteristics of what is changing the subtlety of how you are relating to change and paying attention to awareness itself.
2025-02-041h 00
Beat The Prosecution- Fairfax, Virginia, Criminal Defense / DUI LawyerDecades of mindfulness & meditation practice- Winning by bursting with positive energy and focus- Jonathan FoustSend us a textFairfax, Northern Virginia criminal / DUI defense lawyer Jonathan Katz knows the benefit of mindfulness and meditative practice to beating the prosecution and to living a great life. Jon Katz's main mindfulness practice is taijiquan / t'ai chi chu'an yang style short form (also known as 37 posture Cheng Man Ch'ing / CMC taijiquan). Jon has also been involved with lawyers mindfulness gatherings. Jon also benefits from the practice of Self Identity Through Ho'oponopono. This practice helps develop razor sharp focus, deep listening, and clearing out one's internal gunk. Right here in the nation's capital area are...
2025-01-3159 minJonathan FoustThe Illusion of Self: How Mindfulness Reveals True FreedomThis talk explores how the most simple mindfulness practices point to liberation. You'll learn about the destination of cultivating present-moment awareness, understanding the nature of impermanence, recognizing inter-dependence and the power of non-attachment.
2025-01-2938 min
Consumer CodeUnlocking Insights With Consumer Purchase Data (ft. Jonathan Silver)In this episode, Jonathan Silver, CEO of Affinity Solutions, discusses the importance of behavioral data in understanding consumer spending patterns. He shares his journey from launching a potty training product to leading a company that provides valuable insights to retailers and financial institutions. The discussion covers the evolution of Affinity Solutions, its partnerships with organizations like the National Retail Federation, and the impact of economic indicators on retail trends. Silver emphasizes the need for retailers to adapt to changing consumer behaviors and the significance of data-driven decision-making in the retail landscape.
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(00:00) Introduction
(00:30) Intro To Affinity Solutions
(03:10) From Potty...
2025-01-2450 minJonathan FoustThe Living Process Interview: A Conversation with Dr. Greg MadisonDr. Greg Madison is the founder of "The Living Process" and in this interview we explore the fusion Focusing and how somatic inquiry runs through the traditions of yoga and meditation. I share a good bit on my personal history as well as exploring a wide variety of topics such as somatic inquiry and non-dual practices. The Living Process is a series of conversations with people who are interested in how humans process their feelings, their thinking, and their way of being with others, especially using Focusing but also other experiential and existential practices.
2025-01-141h 11Jonathan FoustThe How Of Now: How to be More Present in Tumultuous TimesThis talk from 2022 explores the doorways from moving from fear and pain to a sense of ease and freedom. You'll learn how the conditioned self is dedicated to survival and self-preservation, the role of pain in waking up, how embodied presence opens new doorways to freedom and some thoughts on how to be present in these tumultuous times.
2025-01-0746 min
The Living Process. Practices in Experience and ExistenceEnergy Flow and the Pathless Path with Jonathan Foust on The Living Process with Greg MadisonThe Living Process episode 27 with guest Jonathan Foust
Energy Flow and The Pathless Path
I’m very happy to welcome Jonathan Foust to this episode. Jonathan has a lifetime of spiritual practice to share. He has dedicated his life to yoga practices, Buddhist meditation, mindfulness practice as well as Focusing. In our conversation we touch on how Focusing fits with these various somatic practices and the spiritual understanding of energy flow in the body. Jonathan shares his own personal journey and questions such as what body are we working with and what do...
2024-12-241h 09Jonathan FoustAligning with Your Purpose: The Annual 'North Star' ReviewWhat does it mean to live a life of integrity? You'll learn the importance of defining your North Star and explore some helpful models that can help you refine what worked, what didn't work and what most calls you forward in the year ahead. I also share a few highlights from my 2024 Annual Review.
2024-12-2040 min
The Guest House: "Gem Tactics"Moving the Line: a Conversation with Jonathan FoustIn this rich conversation, I welcome meditation teacher Jonathan Foust to explore his remarkable 50-year journey of practice and teaching. Enjoy this deep dive at the intersection of meditation, mindfulness, and the evolving path of spiritual awakening.Jonathan offers listeners an inside look at a life-long path of self-awareness and transformation. He reflects on childhood experiences of disconnection and belonging and shares how living in an ashram for 24 years profoundly shaped his spiritual path. Jonathan also provides practical advice for those balancing a meditation practice with the demands of everyday life.The episode delves into...
2024-10-0355 minPain To JoyPain Is Inevitable Suffering Is OptionalThis week Danielle talks about how waking up feeling panicked recently allowed her to recall when her mindfulness journey began.She shares her first panic attack experience, as well as a tool to help calm the nervous system if panic ensues.She reflects on the start of her mindfulness journey, and expresses her thankfulness for Don Maclean of Practical Wellbeing in Calgary where she began to learn about Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, created by Jon Kabat-Zinn Phd.Danielle mentions the April 5, 2023 episode of Ten Percent Happier with...
2024-08-1219 min
Tara BrachAsk Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.
2023-07-0657 min
Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-07-0557 min
Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-07-0557 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-07-0557 min
Tara BrachAsk Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.
2023-06-2255 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-06-2155 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-06-2155 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Jonathan Foust, Tara Brach: Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) “Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
2023-06-2155 min
Help ExistingHelp With Future Thinking--Meditation Teacher Jonathan FoustThis week I'm talking with meditation teacher Jonathan Foust about the tendency of the mind to live in the future. Whether it's fantasizing or mundane planning, I know I often find my mind off in the future. Its underlying cause is an overdeveloped impulse to find pleasure and avoid danger and discomfort. Future thinking is impossible (and ill-advised) to avoid entirely --but I would like to learn to reign it in so that I can be more present in my life. At the same time, as we talk about in this episode, future thinking has a purpose...
2022-10-2638 min
Health Gig299. Jonathan Foust Awakening the Still, Small VoiceJonathan Foust joins Tricia and Doro to share insight on awakening the intuitive voice within ourselves. Through various teaching techniques and years of experience, Jonathan educates us on the links between mindfulness and opening yourself to intuition. We also learn there are many paths to finding your individual calming style. Listen in!
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2022-10-2646 min
Health Gig299. Jonathan Foust Awakening the Still, Small Voice with Links Between Mindfulness and IntuitionJonathan Foust joins Tricia and Doro to share insight on awakening the intuitive voice within ourselves. Through various teaching techniques and years of experience, Jonathan educates us on the links between mindfulness and opening yourself to intuition. We also learn there are many paths to finding your individual calming style. Listen in!
2022-10-2646 minHelp ExistingHelp Figuring Out "The Most Important Thing"—Meditation Teacher Jonathan FoustHow do you figure out the most important thing? Maybe you're caught between two ideas. Maybe you're trying to decide whether it's time to change careers, or whether to have kids. Maybe you're trying to discern where to best spend your energy as an activist. Maybe you want to be able to better identify the most important thing in any given moment. This week's conversation with meditation teacher Jonathan Foust should help with navigating all those questions and more, and was filled with practical mindfulness and life advice. Jonathan is one of my favorite people to talk...
2022-07-1241 min
Ed Harrold Life With Breath PodcastRemembering The Breath In Meditation With Jonathan FoustMany forms of meditation rely on awareness of breath as a foundational element of practice. This technique is sometimes referred to as ‘remembering.’ But what is it we are remembering when we return our attention to the here and now of the easy, natural flow of this breath? How can awareness of breath lead to happiness, inner peace and even liberation?You will love how we are always given opportunities to connect with our breath and stay present. In this interview, we had technical difficulties and I was lost from the broadcast for several minutes. Jonathan was...
2021-12-201h 00
Integral Yoga PodcastJonathan Foust | Seriousness is a Crime in the Court of GodJonathan Foust, MA, CSA, is a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and a founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute in Washington. A senior teacher and former president of Kripalu Center, he leads retreats, trainings and classes in the Washington DC area and around the country and works individually with those interested in healing and spiritual awakening.He lives outside of Washington, DC with his wife, Tara Brach and their slightly demented dog.Links:Website: https://www.jonathanfoust.com/Contact: jonathanfoust@mac.com...
2021-08-0358 min
Tara BrachTrusting the Gold: A Conversation - Tara Brach and Jonathan FoustTrusting the Gold: A Conversation - Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust - In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic goodness and realizing a mature and liberating quality of trust.
2021-07-0245 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: Trusting the Gold: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic goodness and realizing a mature and liberating quality of trust.
2021-06-3045 minTara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)Tara Brach: Trusting the Gold: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic goodness and realizing a mature and liberating quality of trust.
2021-06-3045 min
Intimacy with the worldThe power of questions to change your life, with Jonathan FoustI speak with Jonathan Foust, a mindfulness and meditation teacher, with a speciality in body centred inquiry, which we also touch upon in our conversation.Jonathan was born and raised on a Pennsylvania farm by quakers, and one day as a young child sitting under a tree, he had a strong mystical experience, which really set the course for the rest of his life. For example he lived at the Kripalu Yoga and meditation centre for 24 years.Today Jonathan lives in Washington DC with his wife Tara Brach. Jonathan leads retreats, he teaches meditation teachers...
2021-04-291h 10
Your Mindful Coach7 Mindful Minutes: Reflection on a New YearThis meditation reflects on three questions inspired by Jonathan Foust and James Clear. As you look forward and backward,
What worked well in the last year?
What didn't go so well?
What are you working towards?
2021-01-0307 min
Your Mindful TeenMindful Exercise: A New YearThis meditation reflects on three questions inspired by Jonathan Foust and James Clear. As you look forward and backward,
What worked well in the last year?
What didn't go so well?
What are you working towards?
2021-01-0307 min
The Tapping Solution PodcastTS 089 – Radical Compassion with Tara Brach
Have you ever had a desire to “fix” yourself and then this backfires on you? Although the intentions are good, sometimes wanting to change or “fix” how we are, might be thwarting our natural being and who we truly are at our core. Today, we’re speaking with Ph.D., psychologist, author, teacher and my friend Tara Brach to help loosen the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs that separate us from our naturalness.
Tara explains, as we develop, the layers of protection that we are constantly adding solidify, creating whom we think we’re supposed...
2020-04-1742 min
Your Mindful CoachSimply Meditation: A Truckload of Dung Talk plus Guided MeditationThe challenge of our time is how to be with what is happening right now. Being aware of it and allowing it to be as it is when we have no control. That doesn't mean we are "OK" with it but instead we learn how to respond thoughtfully to our conditions so that we may see them change and evolve. The guided meditation on working with difficulty inspired by Ajahn Brahm's story, Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung. Watch Brahm describe it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx2dnLxO2nM as well as the Body-Centered Inquiry work of Jonathan...
2020-04-0629 min
Your Mindful CoachSimply Meditation: Feeling States Talk Plus Guided MeditationThis talk and guided meditation explores the Vedenas or "feeling states" that we are sure to experience throughout our day. We move from pleasant, to unpleasant and to neutral as we evaluate the quality of our experience. The guided meditation, taught to me by Jonathan Foust, uses pleasant sensation in the body as an anchor for our attention. When we find ourself aware of unpleasant, we gently guided our attention to a different part of the body. At the end, we explore this unpleasant sensation with a caring heart. This practice is best done lying down.
2020-01-2626 min
Your Mindful CoachSimply Meditation: Feeling States Body Scan MeditationThis guided meditation explores the Vedenas or "feeling states" that we are sure to experience throughout our day. We move from pleasant, to unpleasant and to neutral as we evaluate the quality of our experience. This practice, taught to me by Jonathan Foust, uses pleasant sensation in the body as an anchor for our attention. When we find ourself aware of unpleasant, we gently guided our attention to a different part of the body. At the end, we explore this unpleasant sensation with a caring heart. This practice is best done lying down.
2020-01-2516 min
Your Mindful CoachMeditation on a New YearThis guided reflection invites the meditator to reflect on the year that has passed and then look forward to identify "What am I working towards?" This meditation is helpful during times of change and at transition points in one's life. Inspired by the habit change work of James Clear and the Body-Centered Inquiry discipline of Jonathan Foust.
2020-01-0318 min
Retreat Talks Archives - Tara BrachThe Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk)
We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.” We look at the power of mindfulness and compassion to undo resistance, and open us to the loving presence that can handle whatever energies arise. This special talk was given at the 2019 IMCW 5-Day New Year’s Silent Retreat.
photo: Jonathan Foust
photo: Jon McRay
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2020-01-021h 03Retreats Archives - Tara BrachThe Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk)
We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.” We look at the power of mindfulness and compassion to undo resistance, and open us to the loving presence that can handle whatever energies arise. This special talk was given at the 2019 IMCW 5-Day New Year’s Silent Retreat.
photo: Jonathan Foust
photo: Jon McRay
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2020-01-021h 03Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: Awakening | Dharma Talk(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
2019-12-3158 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: Guided Metta (Loving Friendliness) Meditation(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
2019-12-2941 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: Body, Breath | Guided Instruction(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
2019-12-2843 min
Your Mindful CoachSimply Meditation Begin Again Guided MeditationThe simplest instruction in mindfulness meditation is to Begin Again. Beginners and experienced meditators alike find themselves lost in thought or carried away in an emotion. The practice is to gently guide the attention back to the focus of attention and begin again. This guided practice begins with movement inspired by his teacher, Jonathan Foust (www.jonathanfoust.com).
2019-12-0119 min
Your Mindful CoachSimply Meditation Begin Again Talk Plus Guided MeditationThe simplest instruction in mindfulness meditation is to Begin Again. Beginners and experienced meditators alike find themselves lost in thought or carried away in an emotion. The practice is to gently guide the attention back to the focus of attention and begin again. This talk includes the story of Marc's first meditation while the guided practice begins with movement inspired by his teacher, Jonathan Foust (www.jonathanfoust.com).
2019-11-3027 min
2019-08-2849 min
UntangleJonathan Foust - Insights on Anxiety, Anger, and RelationshipsJonathan Foust is an author and a guiding teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC. With wisdom and humor, he shares some suggestions for how we can become more familiar with the feelings that fuel our anxiety and anger. He also shares some great advice for dealing with conflict in our personal relationships.
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2018-02-0634 min
Sounds True: Insights at the EdgeJonathan Foust: The Issues Are in Your TissuesJonathan Foust is a longtime teacher of yoga and meditation who has guided learners at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC for more than 20 years. He is a featured presenter for Sounds True's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Jonathan discuss the practice of body-centered inquiry—specifically the surprising ways it can be applied to pain. Jonathan explains how he has worked with body-centered inquiry to explore his own migraines, and how he has discovered a curious freedom therein. Finally, Jonathan an...
2017-06-271h 01
Your Mindful CoachForgiveness Guided PracticeThis week, I offer a traditional forgiveness meditation with the words of Jack Kornfield wrapped around some more contemporary repeated statements from my teacher, Jonathan Foust. The meditation explores forgiveness in three directions. Forgiveness from others, Forgiveness to ourself and forgiveness to others. I hope one or all of these directions resonate with you.
Remember that forgiveness is a process. And forgiveness is for you. Theologician Louis Smedes wrote "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory...
2017-05-0720 min
Synchronicity with Noah LampertEp. 77 - The Magic of Pain with Jonathan FoustThis week on Synchronicity I'm joined by esteemed bodyworker, meditation teacher and mystical powerhouse, Jonathan Foust. Jonathan is a master at approaching pain and suffering and getting to the root causes and functionality of pain. He's also the husband of one of my favorite people, Tara Brach. But back to pain... Pain sucks. Or does it? Well, it does. But it also has a function. Often that function is to bring us into the present moment, even if the present moment isn't particularly pleasant. Confronting...
2017-04-051h 08
Your Mindful TeenMindful Exercise: Can You Feel or Imagine?The following meditation is based on the work of Dr. Les Fehmi and was shared with me by my teacher, Jonathan Foust. I’ve found it a helpful meditation on those busy, hectic days where slowing down might allow me to become more focused and also relaxed.
The process of "feeling or imaging" can take us out of our linear, problem solving mind into a more creative experience of spacelessness and timelessness.
You might enjoy Jonathan's longer version of this meditation available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsotDvMJmk.
2016-09-1600 min
Your Mindful CoachCan you Feel or Imagine? Guided PracticeThe following meditation is based on the work of Dr. Les Fehmi and was shared with me by my teacher, Jonathan Foust. I’ve found it a helpful meditation on those busy, hectic days where slowing down might allow me to become more focused and also relaxed.
The process of "feeling or imaging" can take us out of our linear, problem solving mind into a more creative experience of spacelessness and timelessness.
You might enjoy Jonathan's longer version of this meditation available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OsotDvMJmk.
2016-09-1613 min
Your Mindful CoachSensing into Kindness, Guided Practice MMMSensing into Kindness begins by engaging our bodies in the practice and noticing sensations that arise. We close with a compassionate loving-kindness practice. This practice uses the phrases, “May I be seen. May I be comforted. May I be loved.”
This practice is aspirational. We can’t hope to see, comfort and love everything that comes our way just as we can’t expect to be seen, comforted and loved in every situation. That said, I feel the intentionality that comes with reflecting on these phrases has the potential to transform our outlook, our actions and our speech. Thanks to two of m...
2016-02-2521 min
Your Mindful CoachEnergy Gainers and Drainers, Guided Practice MMMThis meditation begins with movement and transitions into an exploration of what gives us energy and what drains our energy.
It was offered as part of Mindful Men Meeting, a monthly mindfulness practice and discussion group. Thanks to Jonathan Foust (www.jonathanfoust.com) for his teachings and inspirations that contributed to this episode.
2016-01-1417 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: Transforming Your Relationship to Obstacles(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The first evening talk of the 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat, Jonathan talks about the process of settling in and working with the natural challenges that arise in cultivating non-judging awareness.
2015-10-1059 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: I'm a Child of Light - by Rapper Jonathan(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)
2012-12-3106 minJonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)Jonathan Foust: The Five Hindrances as Portals to Freedom(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In this first evening talk of the IMCW New Year's retreat, Jonathan outlines the five major obstacles to freedom - and how to work with them both on and off the cushion.
2011-12-281h 01