Watering Whole

This is a quick and easy meditation for grounding and centering. It can be done any time anywhere. It is a good meditation for getting your day going, and it is especially useful when you feel stressed, challenged by a particular person or event. I move you through it slowly here, but once you learn the technique of drawing up Earth energy on your inhale, and drawing down Sky energy with your exhale, it can be done with the natural rhythm of your breath as needed throughout your day.

This meditation opens and activates your chakras bringing harmony and balance by invoking and integrating both divine feminine and sacred masculine energies within.

In the midst of the the holiday rush take a moment to pause, hear a poem and share in a blessing!

Take 15 minutes to slow down and tune into the energies of Beltane, the Bright Light in your own heart and in the heart of Life. Mary offers a reflection on Beltane and its invitation to bring to center those things that are truly life-giving to us - Beauty, Joy, Truth, Love.

Join me for 8 minutes and set or reset your heart/mind orientation into gratitude, trust, honesty and kindness.  This is a wonderful way to begin your day or reset throughout your day and anchor into gratitude.

Take 10 minutes and join me in honoring Spring Equinox.  The Spring or Vernal Equinox is a time to celebrate rebirth, new life, and regeneration as it is unfolding on Earth and in our own lives.  Join me in contemplating how the Vernal Equinox invites us to become a devotee of Mystery.  Happy Spring! For more inspiration check out my website at https://maryhreaman.com

This episode is based on a sermon Mary gave at Tree of Life Community in Dayton, Ohio on the effects of technology and distraction on intimacy and friendship.  In this episode she touches on the gifts of friendship and intimacy and how the depth of such connections is threatened by our over-use of technology and the distractions associated with being connected 24/7.  In one of his poems Hafiz asks, "How can I be more loving? How Can I be more kind?"  It might be as simple as putting down your phone and giving your full attention to the person you are actually with in this moment!  Listen in for inspiration and encouragement to cultivate intimacy with self, others, and Nature as a way to enhance our connection with Life itself.  And this week, invite someone dangerous to tea!

This episode comes from a sermon given at Tree of Life Community in Dayton, Ohio, by Mary H. Reaman.  In it she talks about the power of longing that we so often try to satisfy with superficial things rather than listening to it, following it, and trusting that it is our longing that can lead us to meaning and purpose as well as the key to discovering the unity at the heart of Life. 

Compassion is often thought of as something sappy and sentimental, but if sincerely practiced it can be an authentic way to healing the fragmentation in ourselves, in our relationships, and in the world.  Today's episode invites thoughtful reflection on what compassion actually involves, ways to access it, and practice it.  So listen in and get a real spiritual workout!

Take 5 minutes and tune into the energies of the full moon with my poem, Mooning Around!

Today's talk was originally recorded from a sermon Mary shared with Tree of Life Community in Dayton, Ohio.  In today's talk, Mary explores the topic of mindfulness and the importance of trust in the process.  Encouraging us to trust ourselves, each other and the movement of Life, Mary uses a story involving a trapeze artists who explains that having complete trust in a "catcher" is essential for flying, and essential for living a mindful life.

Today's podcast looks at life through the metaphor of a garden and the power contained in seeds.  The seed is such a profound symbol for the mystery and manifestation of Life that all the religious traditions have incorporated it into their teachings.   So listen in and join Mary in considering more deeply just how our lives are like seeds and our world a community garden.  

We are seeds and we carry infinite seeds within us - dreams, visions, hopes, fears - and whether or not they manifest, whether not they take root and sprout depends on how we water, fertilize and tend them with our thoughts, emotions, and actions, as well as our ideas, beliefs and biases.  And they grow and blossom or wither and die accordingly.    What seeds are you wanting to plant and nurture in this season of your life?  What dream seeds are calling to you, are wanting to take root?  What part of your garden needs tending and what part needs to lie fallow and rest and regenerate for future plantings?

Today's podcast comes from a Sunday talk given by Mary for the spiritual community she founded, Tree of Life Community in Dayton, Ohio on the importance of questioning our perceptions, beliefs and traditions if we are really interested in creating something new for ourselves, humanity, and our relationship to Earth.  To learn more about the spiritual community Mary founded in 2006, check out the Tree of Life Community website at tlcubu.org.

Enjoy this 15 minute meditation focused on renewing your relationship with your body.  Mary dedicates this meditation to all who struggle in their relationship to their body.

Today's podcast comes from a sermon given by Mary at Tree of Life Community (TLC) in Dayton, Ohio. The theme is Physical Renewal and it is the first in a series entitled, Celebrating a Season of Renewal, where we look at the importance of physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental renewal for living a full and free life.  She shares her own journey of moving from self-hatred to Self-Love, and encourages all who are caught in self-hatred to undertake the challenging but worthwhile endeavor of healing that leads to Self-Love.

If you want to learn more about Tree of Life Community, the spiritual community Mary founded in 2006 and continues to steward, check out the website at www.tlcubu.org.

Today's podcast comes from a talk given at Tree of Life Community on the wisdom of John Muir.  Mary will touch on the idea that understanding ourselves as Nature and fostering our relationship with Nature is a mode of healing and finding ourselves.  Sometimes it feels as if life loses its magic, or we do, or our work does.  We have a sense of unease, feeling unsettled and uncertain, especially in these times. Life, we feel, gradually loses its flavor and we lose interest in the things that once satisfied.  This sense of discontent continues to grow as the false dichotomy between humanity and Nature is perpetuated by a culture that continues to indoctrinate us to believe that we should accumulate more debt to get more things, to make us feel better about the fact that we don’t have meaningful work or real relationships.  John Muir has some wisdom for us about how Nature can heal us from this discontentment, restore us to well-being, and inspire our passion.  

Today's conversation features Trebbe Johnson who is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places, The World Is a Waiting Lover: Desire and the Quest for the Beloved, and 101 Ways to Make Guerrilla Beauty, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places.

Our conversation touches on the relationship between humans and nature, beauty, grief touched by beauty, and the power we have to make and notice beauty anywhere and at all times.

Welcome to the Watering Whole with Mary!  Official launch will be Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Spring Equinox - so look for the first episode then!