This week’s regular Open Field Substack Live is being replaced by a free 90-minute workshop on Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, September 3, 2026.
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Mountain
Also, on October 7, I’ll host special guest Sasha Chapin for a Substack Live session to discuss our respective approaches to creative work and how contemplative practice shapes the way we make things. Details to follow.
Meeting Difficult Emotions
Difficult emotions rarely arrive as clean, uncomplicated experiences. Almost immediately, we begin interpreting, rehearsing, resisting, and building a story around what we feel.
Tomorrow, we’ll investigate that cycle using body, breath, and attention. We’ll look at how rumination and reactivity shield us from difficult experiences that can feel almost unbearable. Then we’ll practice returning from interpretation to kindness toward our immediate, sensation-level experience.
Expect guided practice, teaching, and time for questions.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Mountain
Live on Zoom · Free
If you usually join me for the weekly Substack Live, this is where I’ll be instead.
Public Instruction in Autumn
Everyday Awakening is a three-month practice cohort for people who have benefited from meditation, therapy, retreat, or nervous-system work, yet still find themselves captured by familiar patterns in relationships, emotional difficulty, and periods of stress. Through the sophisticated views and practices of the inner tantras, we investigate these patterns and invite greater openness and deeper shifts in experience. Learn More