Be still and know that I Am is God…
~ Psalm 46

In every spiritual path there is a central teaching concerning stillness. It is not possible for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, that state of awakened awareness, with the mind incessantly busy and burdened like the camel that seeks to pass through the eye of the needle. This is not a moral judgment, it is simply a fact. Stillness allows us to be open to receive the Truth. It is the foundation.

Those who take up a practice of stilling the mind are not essentially more worthy as human beings than those who do not. However, they have a better chance of realizing that inherent worthiness. The mind keeps us dwelling on the past and the future and takes us out of the only moment in which we can directly encounter the Truth of who we are – the Present moment.

Many of us have been trained in a practice of stillness in Eastern traditions and many have been students of Centering Prayer and Christian meditation. There is no compulsion to abandon or modify a practice of stillness that is achieving the desired results of Present moment awareness. However, for those who do not have an established practice or wish to expand their technique we teach a very simple, but endlessly profound, breath-based practice of embodied awareness.