Mindful Biology 

seeds contemplative practice with life science

for soulful harvests

coming home to life:

• deepening mindfulness of the body & its biology

• improving mind-body & interpersonal relationships with the biology of homeostasis

• growing compassion, forgiveness & gratitude for our bodies & our species

• dancing as matter-energy moving through space-time

living spirituality:

• embracing mystey while softening mental efforts to understand

• feeling the sacredness in each moment of experience

• exploring the subtle shape & endless roots of inward aliveness

• honoring the source of all Life

loving Life:

• celebrating our immersion & participation in the evolving biosphere

• embodying the awe, love & wholeness inherent in Life—the seeds of mystical awareness

• connecting with soul powers of head, heart & belly: spacious knowing, embodied caring & earthly being

• cultivating devotion to Life's intelligence

transcending self:

• letting whole-body resonance guide us more, while cerebral interpretations matter less

• watching how moments arise from prior moments & recede from view, while pure being remains steady

• engaging the conditioned self as an evolved tool rather than a permanent identity

• sensing how the web of Life creates and enlarges being, and how the individual self diminishes it

awakening non-duality:

• sensing nature in all of Life, including in human creativity and destruction

• finding the roots of non dual awareness in neural & ecological facts

• awakening to pure aliveness, pure liveliness, pure being

• dissolving in emptiness, the silent matrix of Life

growing integrity:

• clarifying moral choices, guided by the natural growth of Life, diversity & integration

• knowing civilization as a living form subject to limits, like every organism

• recognizing illness & encouraging healing on all scales, from cells to societies

• aging in joy, service & equanimity, the evolved potential of mature adulthood