Raking Light
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Guided Meditations with Michael Namkung that reconnect you with your deepest self and lovingly accepting the places where we’ve been wounded. Together, we'll walk through the darkness, uncover the gifts of healing within us, and discover how the creative power of our own emotional expression brings us alive, and brings us to wholeness.
Meditation casts a gentle raking light over the surfaces of our lives. Raking light is horizon light. We approach meditation like the rising sun, slowly bringing what was dark into the higher relief of our slowly transitioning awareness.
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Episodes
Poem: The Fly
December 08, 2021 18:43 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBWhat's the particular window that needs to be opened? What's the particular vulnerability you're afraid to reveal?
Poem: The Running
November 15, 2021 20:32 - 4 minutes - 3.73 MBThere are always forces beyond our control that call us to change. To embrace change is to take what we need for the next part of our journey, and to leave everything else behind to burn. What words will we leave behind? What new ways of listening and speaking will we need to learn?
Slow Down Time - A Short Story
November 10, 2021 04:06 - 6 minutes - 6.17 MBJoin Michael for the debut of his new performance, Good Pain: The Art of Being Hurt on January 8, 2022 at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Visit albertarosetheatre.com for tickets.
Poem: Hallways
October 14, 2021 16:13 - 3 minutes - 3.21 MBHallways offers a kind of sanctuary or invisibility—a room between rooms where no one thinks to look for you. The psychological space of a poem creates an intimate space that is both a passage to somewhere, as well as no place at all—a place where no one can find you. Join Michael for the debut of his new performance, Good Pain: The Art of Being Hurt on January 8, 2022 at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, Oregon. Visit albertarosetheatre.com for tickets.
The Fire of Change
October 13, 2021 15:42 - 6 minutes - 5.2 MBChange calls us to let what we have outgrown to burn away in the heat of transformation. When we sit in the fire of change, we enrich the ground we stand on and make space for new creative powers to emerge.
The Courage to Surrender
September 11, 2021 00:38 - 13 minutes - 11.2 MBThe pain of loneliness is an essential aspect of being human. In order to feel the fullness of love and belonging in the world, we must first experience its opposite—the isolation of being completely alone and in the dark. Once you articulate the painful details of your loneliness, you’re on your way to healing and to understanding how you belong in the world.
Rilke on Healing Loneliness
September 11, 2021 00:38 - 13 minutes - 11.2 MBThe pain of loneliness is an essential aspect of being human. In order to feel the fullness of love and belonging in the world, we must first experience its opposite—the isolation of being completely alone and in the dark. Once you articulate the painful details of your loneliness, you’re on your way to healing and to understanding how you belong in the world.
The Guest House: Welcoming Your Emotions
August 26, 2021 15:58 - 16 minutes - 13.5 MBThis is the place of allowing. This is the place where you surrender your need to control and where you become open to witnessing the deepest aspects of yourself. The greatest courage is to keep your heart open, no matter what you’re feeling.
Kahlil Gibran on Being Whole
August 03, 2021 21:48 - 13 minutes - 11.8 MBThis meditation guides you into honoring your pain as a way to heal your wounds, to reconnect you to the truth of your belonging, and to open yourself to beauty. Your pain wants to show you how to live a life of courage, a life of deeper meaning, a life that you create. In becoming aware of pain, you open yourself to receive its gifts.
Honoring Pain
August 03, 2021 21:48 - 13 minutes - 11.8 MBThis meditation guides you into honoring your pain as a way to heal your wounds, to reconnect you to the truth of your belonging, and to open yourself to beauty. Your pain wants to show you how to live a life of courage, a life of deeper meaning, a life that you create. In becoming aware of pain, you open yourself to receive its gifts.
Reclaiming Your Creativity
August 03, 2021 21:33 - 10 minutes - 8.42 MBA meditation to guide you back into your childlike wonder to a time when you felt safe and free to play and create your world, when your imagination was fully alive. Through the acts of honoring and remembering, you begin to reclaim your creative power.
Reclaiming Your Creative Power
August 03, 2021 21:33 - 10 minutes - 9.17 MBA meditation to guide you back into your childlike wonder to a time when you felt safe and free to play and create your world, when your imagination was fully alive. Through the acts of honoring and remembering, you begin to reclaim your creative power. Music by Steven Gosvener www.rumestudio.co
Trailer
August 03, 2021 20:44 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MBGuided Meditations with Michael Namkung that walk you step-by-step into reconnecting with your deepest self and lovingly accepting the places where we’ve been wounded. Together, we'll walk through the darkness, uncover the gifts of healing within us, and discover how the creative power of our own emotional expression brings us alive, and brings us to wholeness.