This collection includes the meditations done by guests of the Methods podcast on the "Being-With" episodes of seasons 2-4. From contemplative writers such as Alexander John Shaia, to Gurus such as Acharya Das, these gifted teachers lead us through meditations designed to expand our awareness, and deepen our compassion towards ourselves and the world. https://restoresby.org/
These meditations were a special collection of reflective readings from season three: Vision. In this limited series, we look at different accounts of Divine Vision, or Illumination from Augustine to Arjuna. https://restoresby.org/
Imaginative prayer, also known as Ignatian Contemplation is the name given to prayer which helps us enter more fully into the passage of Scripture we are reading, by using our ability to form pictures or inner impressions in our minds. We live in a rational, left brain world where information and analysis is the highest priority. But as humans, our…
This collection includes the background music for all meditations in seasons 1-4, as well as the Zen Koans series. Feel free to use it to prepare for your time of prayer and meditation, or to use it as a way to draw your focus deeper into a practice. https://restoresby.org/
This is the first season of Methods, created for and by The Restoration Project in Salisbury, Maryland. In this first series, we explore the tried and true practices of prayer and meditation from the Christian tradition and the Book of Common Prayer, while also learning new takes on old stories and parables. All proceeds go to The Restoration Project. https://restoresby.org/
This is the second season of Methods, where we explore the nature of breath-work as it pertains to spiritual practice. Breath is an incredible meditation anchor that is both powerful, as well as portable. This collection of meditations gives practitioners a base for a simple and straightforward practice that can be transformative in its own right, or used as a…
This is the third season of Methods, where we explore the faculty of physical and intuitive vision as it pertains to spiritual practice. In, season 2, we explored the meditation anchor of the breath as a base of practice. But in this season, we'll explore the way both interior and exterior vision can serve as an anchor for our practice.…
In our modern culture, we are often pulled in countless directions. We are pressured to perform, produce, perfect, often at the cost of our own well-being. We are told to ignore experience and emotion, in favor of knowledge and information, but this way of thinking about humanity is largely a product of the enlightenment, a European intellectual movement in the…
The Contemplative Journey course takes listeners through a quick but in-depth look at the path of interior silence, solitude, and stillness practiced by Christian mystics through the ages, and gives a birds eye view of the path to help the seeker orient themselves with the lay of the land, the guideposts, and the potential pitfalls along the way. Listeners will…
These meditations were a special collection of reflective readings from between seasons 3 and 4, created during the Covid-19 lockdown. In this limited series, we explore the contemplative method of the Zen Koan - letting the discursive and analytical mind drop into the emptiness of this. https://restoresby.org/
