Twenty Minute Pause
Twenty Minute Pause
Nichola Johnson
Inspired by what happens in the spaces between the moments, Life Doula Nichola Maa shares stories, wisdom, and musings to illustrate the potential and beauty of the embodied form. Uploaded are over 100 episodes, excerpts from the Saturday morning "The Fragrance of JOY" sangha. If you wish to join our online women's sangha, check out https://www.sharedwisdom.org. EnJOY as you take a PAUSE!
Right Speech or Self Violence?
Practicing Right Speech can be experienced to ourselves or out into the world. We must tend both avenues.
Feb 11, 2024
17 min
Sufism
What does DEVOTION look like?
Dec 11, 2023
11 min
Becoming
The mind always makes you interested in things far away, out there, so that you can be led away from here. 
Dec 3, 2023
14 min
Doing Love~Being Love
We offer love through our actions, and support; we also offer love through our presence.
Nov 25, 2023
23 min
WE ARE BOTH SPIRIT AND HUMAN BEINGS
Learning to see ourselves a BOTH spirit and human in all things dissolves the barrier of body centric or spirit centric. Are a woven tapestry of the finite and the infinite, the concrete and the subtle.
Nov 12, 2023
13 min
Finding Balance between our Inner and Outer Worlds
In the chaos of the world, it can be difficult to align our inner and outer life experience. While we each commit time and discipline to maintaining our inner life stability, the outer world is unpredictable. The aim becomes to balance our inner and outer life through intention and awareness.
Nov 5, 2023
15 min
The Practice of Maitri-Loving Kindness
The world needs loving kindness more now than ever. Use this recording to practice the Maitri meditation so that you might experience loving kindness and offer it to all sentient beings.
Oct 29, 2023
23 min
Confidence & Fearlessness
“Fearlessness" is the underlying request we make each and every time we sit on our meditation cushion, begin our spiritual sadhana or muse about our spiritual journey. Fearlessness=Expansion. Why else do we endeavor to navigate a spiritual life if not to cultivate our confidence to face and handle life as it comes to us? 
Oct 7, 2023
14 min
Commitment/Bodhichitta/Bodhisattva
Commitment comes in many forms.  As we develop along our spiritual journey we move towards a deeper attitude and behavior of commitment to consciousness and compassion.
Sep 25, 2023
17 min
I AM
Weaving together the tangible and intangible aspects of our spiritual journey.
Sep 16, 2023
11 min
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