The Natural Refuge Tree

Refuge meditation is a traditional Buddhist practice of connecting to benevolent presences as a way to establish a sense of joy, love and safety at the beginning of every meditation practice. It is traditionally done in the morning as a way of setting the tone for the day. When repeated over the course of many days (or years), it helps a meditation practitioner develop a deep sense of joy at the start of mindfulness practice, and self-compassion overall. At first, the practitioner learns to receive love, but over time, the practitioner begins to experience him or herself as worthy of love.

Reviews

Excellent. Its easy to lose oneself in the meditation and to feel it deeply. I also very much appreciate the lack of music so I can add my own with the app if I please (the “towards the higher worlds” track makes this meditation feel especially transcendent).

Lovely. Thank you. I will revisit this one often. I am deeply grateful for this offering.

Beautiful refuge practice. Thank you.

Very gentle and loving, released a lot of sadness. Thankyou 🙏

Love the image of the tree and the sap pouring down and through me. Thank you

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Just what I needed this morning…Feeling grateful to Insight Timer and Will Blythe Baker…

Powerful and healing.

Awe inspiring thank you

Thank you. Today is the gathering for my mom who transitioned out of this world six months ago. She was/is my deepest benefactor. This meditation was exactly what I needed

Wonderful feeling about my own posibilities.

Maravillosa sensación sobre mis propias posibilidades.

Wow! That was a powerful session! Thank you!

Beautiful tears streaming down my cheeks through the dedication at the end. Thank you Willa for your wisdom and compassion your big heart.

Wow. Extraordinarily lovely.
Deep bows and much gratitude to Lama Willa.

Profound and helpful

Excellent!

Exactly what I needed. So healing and comforting. Thank you.

A quietly magnificent meditation that I will return to often. You have a stellar understanding of meditation and how to impart it to others. With heartfelt thanks.

That has to be the best self compassion meditation I have ever done in my 61 years ..Thankyou x

Lovely, grounding. Thank you!

Grounding and soothing. Thank you!

Terrific

Grounding and nourishing

Most relaxing meditation had in a while. Thank you.

Lovely. 🙏🙏💫🙏

I love your meditations. They get me in my body and go deep. Thank you.

Your Voice is so calming, bring down my hypertension, and relax my mind and body. Thank you 🙏

Exceptional!! Very meaningful

Deep and profound. Deep gratitude to you, Lama Willa.

Thank you .. inspirational

Thank you for this beautiful meditation.

Like a homecoming. So complete. "May I recognize my benefactors in every person who comes my way." Thank you.

In tears having experienced the beauty of this practice. Deep gratitude.

Deeply nourishing, healing and grounding, a true refuge. bowing with gratitude and appreciation, Lama Willa.

Awesome!

Wonderful ~ thank you and bless you, Lama Willa, for this gift of deep love, compassion, and primordial awareness

Restful & relaxing

Awesome meditation

Excellent

Amazing. Thanks.

This was an amazing experience 💝

That was powerful. Nourishing for me after a hard day yesterday.
Thank you 🙏🏼

Absolutely excellent. So grounding and full of love.

A truly beautiful practice 🙏🏽💜

Deeply nurturing meditation.

Absolutely wonderful 💘

So grounding and so centering thank you!!!

A beautiful meditation Willa Blythe. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

Nice calm voice, completely guided with some moments in between for quiet. A little long but I think my allergies and the summer heat have been making it difficult for me to sit with the longer meditations whether or not they're good.
I think early in the morning, before the sun comes up, when it's still cool would be lovely.

Really wonderful

One of the best on the app. A personal favorite. 💖🙏🏻 Thank you, Willa Blythe.

Not usually one for visualisation meditations but this one brought me a wonderful feeling of peace- thank you!

Very cool!

thank you so much for this calming meditation and for sharing.
health and happiness 😊 🙏

The words & telling of the words steeped into me.

A very powerful practice! Thank you Lama Willa! Grateful that I get to study with her through Natural Dharma Fellowship at naturaldharma.org

Feeling profound connection ♥️

Beautiful, thank you

Thank you for this inspiring and healing meditation 🙏

Peace 🙏🏼♥️✨

I'm learning with Willa right now in her somatic mindfulness course at sangha.live. This is a beautiful and powerful practice. I thoroughly recommend Lama Willa's teaching

Thankyou

Sublime, thank you

Thank you

Unique and beautiful! Love the imagery x thank you x

A true refuge, receiving loving kindness 💖 radiating it and recognizing it in others, beauti-fully aware.

So wonderful! Thank you Willa 🙏🌳💜✨

Soooooo needed this today. Will use regularly!

Thank you for this gift of love and openness and connection with our incredible guides and our own trye, inner being. 😊 💕 🙏

Lovely soothing meditation. Calming and grounding. Bookmarked! 🙏

Beautiful

Thank you so much for this meditation. I feel nourished and calm. I will come back to it often. 🙏🏽

Thankyou 🌺💚💫

Lovely imagery and good pacing. Thank you!

Beautiful connection of body and nature

A beautiful meditation experience 🧘‍♀️. Suitable for those with 2+ months of meditation practice. Thank you Willa Blythe Miller 🙏

very powerfulWill take some time and practice to absorb, and so beautiful. thank you🙏🏻🕉

Beautiful and uplifting😊🙏🌳.

Thank you.

Care and dedication to all for everyone.

Very healing visualization. Thank you!

A gorgeous practice to soak in true presence of Self and nature’s connection to melt as one.

Beautiful - Thank you.

This was truly wonderful, fhankuou

Lovely thank you

Helpful and timely thankyou

Thank you.

Fantastic!

So beautiful! Thank you. I shall weave this into my regular practice.

May all beings rejoice in this meditation and find space here.

Just what was needed. Thank you. Namasté 🙏🏼❤️

This was a gentle guide for me. The visual was perfect. Much gratitude throughout.

Beautiful. Thank you.

So beautiful. I love the visualization.
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Wonderful visualization! I only suggest creating another version with a soft music in the background.

Very calming. Thank you🙏

Peaceful and effective. Namaste.

Insightful

Wonderful!

Healing,soothing. Wonderfully grounding meditation. Thank you