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Jonathan 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 awareness2025-04-0944 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 regula...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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(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 minJonathan FoustHow to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 2: Practices for Cultivating SteadinessMore 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.2024-12-1038 minJonathan FoustHow to Surf the Waves of Uncertainty, Part 1: Practices for Cultivating SteadinessThis 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. 2024-12-0345 minJonathan FoustGratitude as a Gateway to Liberation: The Transformative Power of Giving ThanksThis talk explores how tapping into gratitude can truly transform your life. You’ll learn how you can overcome your innate instinct toward self-centeredness and self-preservation and how you can change this in a way that can cultivate a greater sense of connectedness, resourcefulness and if nothing else, seriously stimulate your pre-frontal cortex.2024-11-2642 minJonathan FoustHappiness and Your True NatureThis talk explores happiness as your essential nature. You’ll learn how the intention to be truly happy cultivates clarity, wisdom and the realization of the inter-connectedness of your life. This talk is live from the Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, VA in 2016.2024-11-2142 minJonathan FoustThe Balance of Resilience and SurrenderThis talk explores how to find the equilibrium between skillful action and skillful release. You’ll learn how much of meditation practice (and life) calls for focus and sustained attention. But too tight a grip on focus can lead to missed opportunities, fresh insights and new possibilities. Learning to rest in presence can open intuitive faculties - when properly balanced.2024-11-1246 minJonathan FoustHow to Keep Your Meditation Practice Alive and Thriving, Part TwoThis talk is a continuation of how to bring aliveness to your practice. You’ll learn some inner practices as well as the invaluable qualities of finding like-minded people and the impact community can have on being more awake in your life. 2024-11-0646 minJonathan FoustHow to Keep Your Meditation Practice Alive and Thriving, Part OneThis talk explore how to cultivate inspiration in your practice, particularly when it gets challenging. You’ll learn why we stop practicing and a variety of tips, tricks and techniques for keeping your practice alive, vibrant, interesting and engaging. 2024-10-3147 minJonathan FoustLetting Go, Letting Be and Surrendering to Presence (Retreat Talk)This talk is from the fifth evening of a week-long Vipassana Retreat. You’ll learn how meditation increases your sensitivity to how you hold on, how the intention to let go can set in motion a process that brings you in direct contact with the mystery — and how letting go and letting be are required to wake up to the nature of reality.2024-10-2456 minJonathan FoustMy Interview with Shawn Parell: Somatic Inquiry and the Evolution of PracticeHere’s my interview with the wonderful Shawn Parell, a wonderful teacher, guide and passionate student of the dharma. We discuss the evolution of practice, the power of somatic awareness, how to balance daily life with deep practice and how meditation can be a wonderful tool for self-discovery. For more about Shawn and her offerings, go to www.shawnparell.com, Instagram @ShawnParell for weekly meditations and prompts for practice and lots more. 2024-10-0957 min
The Guest HouseMoving 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 minJonathan FoustFour Big Meditation MythsThis talk explores some of the mistaken beliefs about the practice of meditation. You’ll learn how meditation is not a quick fix for your problems, is not about escaping reality and how this practice is both an art and science … and can dramatically transform your life.2024-10-0244 minJonathan FoustStarting Over in Your Life [archive]This talk explores the art of new beginnings. You’ll learn how important it is to embrace your first reaction when things change, how to soften and release the past, how to open to new possibilities and how to engage into what most calls you forward.2024-09-2446 minJonathan FoustRewiring Procrastination with MindfulnessThis talk explores mindful strategies for overcoming procrastination. You’ll learn different ways we put things off, what gets in the way of the flow state, what flow feels like and for me, the most important question for sparking creative juices. Jeff Fajains, Phd, offers a 30 Day Creative Momentum and helps creators bring their ideas to life. More on Jeff here: https://jefffajans.com/2024-09-2259 minJonathan FoustBeFriending Fear, Part 4: Managing PanicThis talk explores how to work with acute anxiety. You’ll learn how to identify the triggers that cause feelings of overwhelm and some strategies for working panic, whether it be for yourself or when you accompany another when waves of intense anxiety arise.2024-09-1445 minJonathan FoustBeFriending Fear, Part 3: The Source of all FearsThis talk explores the fundamental elements of fear and how to release what is between you and feeling free. You’ll learn about the essential nature of anxiety, the cause and the release of suffering through the transformative practices of awakening the Wise Heart.2024-08-2845 minJonathan FoustBeFriending Fear, Part 2: Powerful StrategiesThis talk explores strategies for working with fear and anxiety. You’ll learn how you can move from threat mode to opportunity mode and strategies for working with fear and anxiety in the body as well as a particular strategy for working with thoughts and beliefs.2024-08-2046 minJonathan FoustBeFriending Fear, Part 1: Healthy and Unhealthy WorryThis talk explores the art of working with anxiety and dread. You’ll learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy fear, the roots of fear and some strategies for transforming the experience of anxiety when it arises.2024-08-1447 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 minJonathan FoustDoes Meditation Make You Lucky?This talk explores the difference between luck and karma. You’ll learn how a mindfulness practice may help you cultivate a clearer intention, recognize opportunities and help you more quickly reset when you recognize you are off course. For those looking from the outside, you may appear quite lucky indeed.2024-08-0642 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #10 Be Steady and EquanimousThis talk explores the tenth of the ten perfections. You’ll learn how you cannot make steadiness and serenity happen, but can create the conditions that allow this inner state to arise. When you remember the fundamental quality of reality, you can more easily open to embrace your true nature.2024-08-0346 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #9 Be Kind and CompassionateThe talk explores the power of loving kindness. You’ll learn how to be more of a well-wisher to all, some techniques to more effectively express kindness in the world and a reflection on what might happen in your life if you were to be more adept at responding to challenges with an open heart.2024-08-0247 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #8 Develop Strong Determination [recast]This talk explores the power of grit. You’ll learn the importance of first creating goals that are fully aligned with your heart and spirit and then developing your capacity to stay on your path, developing both perseverance as well as deep, intuitive inner listening. 2024-07-161h 04Jonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #7 Seek Truth and Be Truthful [recast]This talk explores how to attune to what is true. You’ll learn how to discern between conventional and eternal truth, two essential teachings of truth and how to use your relationships and wise speech as a doorway to greater clarity and self-awareness.2024-07-101h 05Jonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #6 Be Patient and Tolerant [recast]This talk explores how to cultivate the quality of patience and self-restraint. You’ll learn about the power of refraining from those who have caused you harm, how to endure hardship, how to cultivate greater confidence in ultimate truth and about the near-enemies of patience and forbearance.2024-07-101h 06Jonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #5 Manage Your Energy [recast]This talk explores how to cultivate vitality, courage and resilience in your life. You’ll learn how you can manage the energy you have and how to build vigor and confidence to pursue that which calls you.2024-06-2652 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #4 Seek to Truly Understand [recast]This talk explores how to cultivate wisdom and insight. You’ll learn about the importance of cultivating the wise heart, what gets in the way of seeing clearly, the anatomy of an insight and how to balance wisdom with compassion.2024-06-2046 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #3 Renounce What Does Not Serve You [recast]This talk explores the potential of mindful renunciation. You’ll learn how critically important it is to know what is most important, cultivate the thoughts, behaviors and actions that will bring about that outcome and as well, identify and modify the the thoughts, behaviors and actions that get in the way of that outcome.2024-06-2047 minJonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #2 Be Virtuous [recast]This talk explores how paying attention to your behavior can support you in your life. You’ll learn how all traditions have guidelines regarding your moral behavior, how morality is often based on a negativity bias and how ultimately, it’s up to you to determine what you really want and define for yourself what it means to be virtuous and in integrity.2024-06-061h 06Jonathan FoustThe Ten Perfections: #1 Be Generous [recast]This talk explores the power of cultivating an attitude of love and care in your life. You’ll learn what the Buddha said about giving, how intimately receiving is connected to generosity, the shadow-side of the practice and the power of taking generous actions when you feel called.2024-05-2446 minJonathan FoustEmbodied Presence: Practices for Self-Care and HealingThis talk explores some practices for cultivating embodied compassion and care. You’ll explore what means to ‘heal’ as well as a few ‘deep dives’ - first into a chakra scan then a scan through the body focusing on reflection, gratitude and well-wishing.2024-05-2145 minJonathan FoustEmbodied Presence: So What About the Chakras?This talk explores how to investigate the inner energy centers through the lens of mindfulness. You’ll learn about the chakras, a bit on the origins of different approaches, the components of each one and how to explore through the lens of non-judging awareness.2024-05-161h 04Jonathan FoustEmbodied Presence: Surfing the WavesThis talk explores how to work with challenging energies. You’ll learn how embodied awareness can open the door to higher degrees of self awareness and how in that recognition of what is arising you can learn to ‘ride the wave’ of resistance and discover what is on the other side.2024-04-301h 06Jonathan FoustEmbodied Presence: Whole Body Breathing and Subtle Energy AwarenessThis talk explores how to open to more subtle felt-sense awareness through mindful breathing. Whole Body Breathing is yet another tool for drawing attention to the play of energy and sensations within and can dramatically heighten awareness of what is arising and how you are relating to it. This talk includes a guided meditation on this technique.2024-04-2347 minJonathan FoustEmbodied Presence: Practical Tools for Your Meditation PracticeThis is an adaptation of the first talk of a five day retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone North Carolina. You’ll learn some practical suggestions for embodied meditation and how the body can be an ally in your practice.2024-04-161h 06Jonathan FoustWho are You in the Absence of Desire?This talk explores who you are free from the wanting mind. You’ll learn about the nature of desire, strategies for working with a greed-filled mind, what can arise as desire lessens and finally, some thoughts on being desire-free and enlightenment itself.2024-04-0944 minJonathan FoustWho are You in the Absence of Delusion?This talk explores who you are in the absence of ignorance and confusion. You’ll explore the nature of delusion, strategies for overcoming delusion and being more clearly into the nature of reality and what it means to be awake beyond the fluctuations of emotions, thoughts and beliefs.2024-04-0344 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 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 minTara 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 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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Facebook: facebook.com/foustjonathan2022-10-2646 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" Podcast SeriesRemembering 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 completely un-phased and kept...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 minTara 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.
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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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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC: Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talksJonathan Foust: Awakening | Dharma Talk(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)2019-12-3158 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
The DifferenceLoft Talk Episode #5 w/ Jonathan EdwardsHave a listen to LoftTalk Episode #5!2019-08-2849 min
Tara BrachCompassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based DietCompassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15) - For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day for food, the horrors of the animal-food industry, and the impact it has on climate change (second only to fossil fuels.) In this short talk Tara shares her personal story of transitioning to a vegan diet, and invites listeners to investigate, without judgment, their own choices in this domain. (note: given at a special class on "Lo...2019-05-1700 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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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.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 minInsight Meditation Community of Washington DC: Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talksJonathan 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 minInsight Meditation Community of Washington DC: Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talksJonathan Foust: I'm a Child of Light - by Rapper Jonathan(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC)2012-12-3106 minInsight Meditation Community of Washington DC: Jonathan Foust's most recent Dharma talksJonathan 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
Active PauseJonathan Foust: Mindfulness & the moment of changeIn this conversation, Jonathan Foust talks about the moment of change. Jonathan Foust, MA, CSA is a senior teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, a founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute and former President of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. He is a certified trainer in Focusing and incorporates the principles of Focusing and meditation with clients, students and classes. Jonathan has been leading retreats and training teachers for over 25 years. He is based in the Washington DC area. Website: http://www.jonathanfoust.com/Published November 20112011-11-0233 min
Proactive Mindfulness aka Active PauseJonathan Foust: Mindfulness & the moment of change
In this conversation, Jonathan Foust talks about the moment of change.
Jonathan Foust, MA, CSA is a senior teacher with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, a founder of the Meditation Teacher Training Institute and former President of Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. He is a certified trainer in Focusing and incorporates the principles of Focusing and meditation with clients, students and classes. Jonathan has been leading retreats and training teachers for over 25 years. He is based in the Washington DC area. Website: http://www.jonathanfoust.com/
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