Awakening Embodied Presence
UPCOMING COURSE
A Contemporary Approach to Tummo, Dzogchen, and Healing.
In this experiential course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. You'll learn to safely engage with intense sensations, emotions, and bliss states while remaining grounded in the experience of immediate, open, non-interpretive awareness.
Awakening Embodied Presence
UPCOMING COURSE
A Contemporary Approach to Tummo, Dzogchen, and Healing.
In this experiential course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. You'll learn to safely engage with intense sensations, emotions, and bliss states while remaining grounded in the experience of immediate, open, non-interpretive awareness.
Awakening Embodied Presence
UPCOMING COURSE
A Contemporary Approach to Tummo, Dzogchen, and Healing.
In this experiential course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. You'll learn to safely engage with intense sensations, emotions, and bliss states while remaining grounded in the experience of immediate, open, non-interpretive awareness.
We're honored to feature special guest speakers Bruce Tift and Jonny Miller in our "Awakening Embodied Presence" course. Jonny will share cutting-edge methods for promoting healthy nervous system response and recovery. Bruce, with his remarkable 40-year background in both Vajrayana Buddhism and marriage and family therapy, will offer insights at the forefront of integrating Buddhist practice with therapeutic approaches. This course offers a rare opportunity to learn from experts who bridge traditional wisdom with modern understanding, providing you with practical tools for transformation.
Recent Events
Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
I recently enjoyed a lively discussion with my esteemed colleague Michael Taft on his podcast, "Deconstructing Yourself." Many of you know Michael through his extensive activity in the meditation training and podcasting space.
We explored various topics, including embodied immediacy, navigating disturbing experiences, cultivating open awareness, and how the traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tummo helps us to be more familiar with any refusal to go into experiential intensity. I hope you have time to tune in to this fun discussion!
Over 60 meditators participated in the Winter Tummo Course. Tummo offers an opportunity to examine the origins of emotional unrest and apply healthful interventions that can breed confidence that our distress is workable. The confluence of posture, breath retention, and visualization is an arena where we can challenge habitual ways of framing our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
Natural Awakening Podcast
I recently appeared on Wystan Bryant-Scott's podcast, Natural Awakening. Wystan teaches Unified Mindfulness, a secular system of meditation designed by Shinzen Young. He has hosted some exciting guests in the past, including Stephen Zerfas, who was recently featured in The Atlantic for his work in creating practical access to the jhanas—a tough act to follow!
During the interview, we discussed tummo, Mahasandhi, and my work in using embodied presence to help people find more freedom, manage anxious feelings, and improve their relationships.
For Men's Health Awareness Month, Michael A. Tennant and I co-created a space for men to discuss mental health. My contribution focused on the practice of embodied immediacy and working with disturbance. According to Mental Health America, 10% of men live with anxiety or depression, 20% develop severe depression, and half of those develop alcohol dependency during their adult lives. Men's mental health is often overlooked, and we do our best to bring attention to the looming men's mental health crisis.
For Men's Health Awareness Month, Michael A. Tennant and I co-created a space for men to discuss mental health. My contribution focused on the practice of embodied immediacy and working with disturbance. According to Mental Health America, 10% of men live with anxiety or depression, 20% develop severe depression, and half of those develop alcohol dependency during their adult lives. Men's mental health is often overlooked, and we do our best to bring attention to the looming men's mental health crisis.
For Men's Health Awareness Month, Michael A. Tennant and I co-created a space for men to discuss mental health. My contribution focused on the practice of embodied immediacy and working with disturbance. According to Mental Health America, 10% of men live with anxiety or depression, 20% develop severe depression, and half of those develop alcohol dependency during their adult lives. Men's mental health is often overlooked, and we do our best to bring attention to the looming men's mental health crisis.
Nervous System Regulation BSW '24
Renowned nervous system regulation expert Jonny Miller and I co-facilitated an event at Boulder Startup Week focused on embodied presence and nervous system balance.
It was thrilling to work alongside Jonny and experience his gentle, pragmatic, and inclusive teaching style. We focused the event through the practical lens that the more we stay in touch with what is most alive within us, the better we can manage the negative consequences of disembodiment, such as burnout, numbness, and relational bypassing.
Over 60 meditators participated in the Winter Tummo Course. Tummo offers an opportunity to examine the origins of emotional unrest and apply healthful interventions that can breed confidence that our distress is workable. The confluence of posture, breath retention, and visualization is an arena where we can challenge habitual ways of framing our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
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Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
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Senior Cloud Engineer
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Long-time Yogin
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Biomedical Engineer
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Hospice Nurse
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Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
😊 Human Practices
Being human is the only requirement to practice meditation with The Field. Outdated cultural and sectarian distortions sometimes deter people from meditation practice. We aspire to encourage the simple practice of honoring embodiment and stillness
🫶🏼 What Do We Offer
We provide modern methods that promote awareness, kindness, and mindful living. We tailor the practice to your specific needs. There are a range of methods that promote stress reduction, enhanced sleeping patterns, and the reduction of healthcare costs.
🌈 Who Are We?
We are veteran meditation practitioners committed to propagating mind-training methods that ease unnecessary suffering. Our focus is to provide instruction and support for meditation practitioners that are balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands.
Meditation is an opportunity to recognize that we have all the necessary tools. We can choose to fully engage with our human hurt and fragility. We work with what arises. We do not need to court a fantasy of 'resolving' our lives.
Meditation is an opportunity to recognize that we have all the necessary tools. We can choose to fully engage with our human hurt and fragility. We work with what arises. We do not need to court a fantasy of 'resolving' our lives.
Heart-Centered Practice
Meditation honors our connection to the natural world as well as our connection to the human community. Practicing with other humans provides a rich and dynamic experience.
How We Work With You
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There is no time like the present. Start a meditation practice today!
Instruction is structured for practitioners who want a daily practice that supports open-hearted awareness and unconditional embodiment.
There is no time like the present.
Start your meditation practice today.
Instruction is structured for practitioners who want a daily practice that supports open-hearted awareness and unconditional embodiment.
There is no time like the present. Start a meditation practice today!
Instruction is structured for practitioners who want a daily practice that supports open-hearted awareness and unconditional embodiment.