Audio Teachings

New audio teachings and guided meditations are added to this page on a monthly basis.  May they energize and support your journeys!  (Key: 'D' indicates a discussion track, and 'GM' indicates a guided meditation).

 

Explorations of Tibetan Tantra: A Weekend Workshop with Reggie Ray

Nov 20 - 22, 2009, Portland, OR

This workshop was part of Reggie's 2009-10 teaching tour, which included workshops in New York, Montréal, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria and at Spirit Rock and Kripalu. The Portland weekend featured teachings on following the thread of tantra in our everyday practice lives, accessing authentic creativity, trusting chaos, egoic process, and developing an unmediated relationship with reality.  Guided bodywork meditations explored resting in the depths of the earth, letting go of somatic tension, dimensions of the breath, and looking into the nature of space.

 

Friday PM: Tantra

1 The Student-Teacher Relationship - Listen Online

2 The Tantric Journey is Down - Listen Online

3 Desire is the Gateway - Listen Online

4 Renouncing the Project of "Me" - Listen Online

5 D: Positivity, Wanting, Initiation, Trust, Dark Retreat - Listen Online

 

Saturday AM: Reality

 6 Meditation Connects Us to Reality - Listen Online

 7 GM: Ten Points Practice - Listen Online

 

Saturday AM: Lower Belly

 8 Unmediated Relationship with Reality - Listen Online

 9 GM: 12-Fold Belly Breathing - Listen Online

 10 GM: Three Dimenasions of the Body - Listen Online

 11 D: Effort, Ego, Tension, Pain - Listen Online

 12 D: Paranoia, Thoughts, Intention, Fear, Sensitivity - Listen Online

 

Saturday AM: Depths

 13 GM: Infinite Depths - Listen Online

 14 Acceptance by the Earth - Listen Online

 

Saturday PM: Birth

 15 Giving Birth to Creativity in Daily Life - Listen Online

 16 D: Ego, Outbreath, Images, Questions, Ego-Clinging - Listen Online

 17 GM Calling to the Unseen World with the Drum - Listen Online

 

Saturday PM: Breath

 18 GM: Exploring Sensitivity to the the Breath - Listen Online

 19 GM: Discovering Dimesnsions of the Breath - Listen Online

 20 The World is Our Salvation - Listen Online

 21 D: Lineage, Unseen World, Children, Disembodiment - Listen Online

 

Sunday AM: Sitting

 22 Bodywork and Sitting in Daily Practice - Listen Online

 23 GM: Resting in the Depths of the Earth - Listen Online

 24 Inner Pilgrimage of the Body - Listen Online

 25 D: Sitting, Sharing, Stability, Embodiment, Tibetans - Listen Online

 26 D: Sensations, Visualization, Fear, Psoas, Depth, Chakras - Listen Online

 

Sunday PM: Body

 27 GM: Leaping Into the Threat - Listen Online

 28 GM: Opening to Space Through the Gateways - Listen Online

 

 

The Path of Desire: Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism

Stanford University, November 12, 2009

This talk was given to the Buddhist Studies department of Stanford University during Reggie's 2009 teaching tour. Unfortunately the quality of the audio recording was quite poor, but the content is very rich.

 

 1 Tantric Saints in India - Listen Online

 2 Vajrayana as the Path of Desire - Listen Online

 3 D: Emptiness, Warmth, Sexuality, Tantra, Psychology, and Bön - Listen Online

 

 

Beside Ourselves: The Embodied Spiritual Journey in a Time of Crisis

A public talk given at the Star House in Boulder, CO on December 4, 2009

1 The Practicality of Spirituality - Listen Online

2 Guided Meditation: Releasing Tension in the Body - Listen Online

3 Guided Meditation: Rooted in the Earth - Listen Online

4 Learning to Live From the Depths - Listen Online


 

What is the Refuge Vow?

Winter Dathün 2006-7

Reggie Ray introduces the refuge vow to meditation practitioners considering taking the vow.

The Universe Holds Your Vow - Listen Online

Refuge In the Buddha - Listen Online

Refuge In the Dharma - Listen Online

Refuge In the Sangha - Listen Online

 

 

Trust is the Gateway

Trust is the gateway to spiritual growth and human fulfillment. Trust is the price of admission for experiencing life in all of its fullness and beauty. Trust is willingness to trust our bodies as we do the work on the journey.

Trust is the Gateway - Listen Online

10 Points Practice and Earth Breathing - Listen Online

 

 

Union of Heaven and Earth

What is the problem with disembodied meditation in modern people? A brief explanation of the heaven and earth principle and working with our relative truth through embodiment.

A guide prana breathing meditation and extending awareness exercise are also included.

Guided Prana Breathing (lying down) - Listen Online

Extending Awareness (sitting up) - Listen Online

Problem with Disembodied Meditation - Listen Online