January 4, 2026 Live Meditation

This guided meditation was given to a live online class hosted by the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and the DC Center for Mindful Living on January 4, 2026. Participants are invited to begin by taking time to arrive and settle and take some deeper breaths, and then to open to whatever is arising in the body, heart, and mind with kindness and acceptance, and without judgment. Participants are invited to tune their awareness to different aspects of experience--sensations, emotions, feelings, thoughts, sounds--in the way we might tune in to different stations on a radio, and allowing whatever is arising to come and go in its own time. We finish with a reminder that we can come back at any time to the present moment and begin again with kindness and acceptance.

Reviews

A lovely meditation to make up for missing your last 2 Sunday sessions 🙏

Thank you Hugh!
Your meditations are always so deep, wise and soothing. This really helped me get on track again.
Many blessings to you.
Love and calm.
Rani

Lovely as always. A new one to bookmark. Thank you, Hugh. This meditation really helped me to come back to the experience of body and mind, and to just breathe and relax. Very soothing 🙏💕

Thank you, Hugh, for having me kindly and gently connect with what is, anchored and supported by the breath. Warm greetings from the Netherlands. Namaste 🤓🙏🏻

Really appreciate the way you hold space. Thank you.