Meditation and Conversation Library
Senior iRest Trainer, Stephanie Lopez hosts a live online Meditation and Conversation gathering every month.
Each session explores a different theme, and includes a guided meditation and Q&A section.
Watch or listen to the recording of any previous session by choosing from the list below and clicking on the green link. The most recent session is first on the list.
The purpose of these sessions is to offer free support, resources, and access to community gatherings to as many people as possible.
Note: These online gatherings were formerly known as ‘Sangha Sessions’ and many of the recordings are still labeled as such. The format is the same.
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2023
MAY 2023
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - May 23, 2023: Heartfelt Intention and Inner Knowing
APRIL 2023
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - April 25, 2023: Inherent Strengths and Basic Goodness
MARCH 2023
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - February 21, 2023: Quiet Clarity to Meet What Is
FEBRUARY 2023
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - February 21, 2023: Resting in Knowing You Are Enough
JANUARY 2023
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - January 24, 2023: Listening and Flowing with a Natural Rhythm
2022
DECEMBER 2022
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - December 20, 2022: Meeting Darkness and Emerging Light
NOVEMBER 2022
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - November 22, 2022: Living Gratitude
OCTOBER 2022
Meditation and Conversation with Stephanie Lopez - October 18, 2022: Improve Wellbeing: Meeting Stress and Anxiety with Compassionate Presence
SEPTEMBER 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - September 27, 2022: Navigating Times of Transition From Grounded Presence
AUGUST 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - August 30, 2022: Meeting life with grace: Pañcakṛtya—the 5 Acts of Consciousness Part 2
JULY 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - July 26, 2022: Meeting life with grace: Pañcakṛtya—the 5 Acts of Consciousness Part 1
JUNE 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - June 28, 2022: Relieve Anxiety and Rest in Ease
MAY 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - May 24, 2022: Brahmavihārās Part 4: Abiding Equanimity
APRIL 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 26, 2022: Brahmavihārās Part 3: Embracing Joy
MARCH 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - March 22, 2022: Brahmavihārās Part 2: Compassion
FEBRUARY 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - February 22, 2022: Brahmavihārās Part 1: Loving Kindness and Friendliness
JANUARY 2022
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - January 18, 2022: Surrender Into Intimacy
2021
DECEMBER 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - December 21, 2021: Heart of Connection–Walking Each Other Home
NOVEMBER 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - November 23, 2021: Heartfelt Gratitude and Thankfulness
OCTOBER 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - October 26, 2021: The Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment
AUGUST 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - August 24, 2021: Using iRest to Befriend Your Nervous System
JULY 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - July 27, 2021: Deep Rest–Resilience from Burnout and Stress
JUNE 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - June 22, 2021: Light of Connection
MARCH 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - March 30, 2021: Inner Resource and Working with Challenging Emotions
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - March 9, 2021: Dropping the Struggle
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - March 2, 2021: Pathways to the Heart
FEBRUARY 2021
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller and special guest Anusha Wijeyakumar - February 23, 2021
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - February 16, 2021: Love Starts from Within
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - February 9, 2021: Being the Unchanging Amidst the Changing
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - February 2, 2021: Shining from your Personal Essence: Unique qualities of Essential Nature
JANUARY 2021
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller and special guest Anat Baniel - January 26, 2021: Moving in Stillness
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez and special guest Antwinae McNeil - January 19, 2021: Welcome Home – How I Came Home to Myself with iRest
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller and special guest Jim Dreaver - January 12, 2021: End Your Story, Change Your Life: Living Untriggered
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - January 5, 2021: Resolution or Not: Welcoming Yourself Just as You Are
2020
DECEMBER 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller & Special Guest Roger Housden - December 29, 2020: Writing your life into the new year
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - December 22, 2020: Reverence and Resilience: Meeting the Shadow Amidst the Light
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller & Special Guest John Henry Parker - December 15, 2020: Service, Community, Healthcare, and the value of Scholarships
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - December 8, 2020: Fierce Gentleness
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - December 1, 2020: Nourishing Trust: Giving the World a Break
NOVEMBER 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - November 24, 2020: Embodying Gratitude and Giving Thanks
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller and special guest Sister Pat Farrell - November 17, 2020: Community
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - November 10, 2020: The Sacred Intimacy with Life
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - November 3, 2020: Navigating Oceans of Change in these Uncertain Times: Seeing no Stranger, Seeing no Other
OCTOBER 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez and special guest Fuyuko Sawamura-Toyota - October 27, 2020: The Aesthetics of Japanese Culture and Language
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - October 20, 2020: Awakening Creativity and Living an Inspired Life
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - October 13, 2020: Connecting to Inner Vitality and Ease
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - October 6, 2020: An Interview, Q&A, and guided meditation session with Dr. Gail Parker
SEPTEMBER 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - September 29, 2020: Resting in Calm and Ease
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - September 22, 2020: Love is our Ultimate Inner Resource
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller, Kamala Hayward, and special guest Justin Michael Williams - September 8, 2020: An Interview and Guided Meditation with Justin Michael Williams
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - September 1, 2020: Breathe Easy Reclaiming Calm and Releasing Anxiety through Breath Meditations
AUGUST 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - August 18, 2020: Welcoming Anxiety from the Ground of Being
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - August 11, 2020: Staying Connected, Responsive and in Harmony with Ourselves and the World
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - August 4, 2020: Senses as a Doorway to Essential Nature
JULY 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - July 28, 2020: Dancing with Opposites
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - July 16, 2020: Peace in Every Moment Part 2
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - July 14, 2020: The Opposite of hate and anger is love. Love has no opposite. Herein lies true peace.
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - July 9, 2020: Peace in Every Moment Part 1
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - July 7, 2020: The Wallpaper of Your Mind Becomes the Landscape of Your Life: Part 2
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - July 2, 2020: Listening from the Heart of Being
JUNE 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - June 30, 2020: The Wallpaper of Your Mind Becomes the Landscape of Your Life Part 1
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - June 25, 2020: The Evolution of Connection: Living from Embodied Presence
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - June 23, 2020: Essence/Sameness-Uniqueness/Difference: Meeting the Paradoxes of Equality that Meditation Reveals
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - June 18, 2020: Unicity within Diversity and the 5 Acts of Consciousness
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller & Kamala Berrio-Hayward - June 16, 2020: Meeting Racism, Nourishing Anti-racism
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - June 11, 2020: Opening to Right Action: What is Mine To Do?
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - June 9, 2020: Nourishing Connection and Right Action in a Time of Global Catharsis
MAY 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - May 28, 2020: Breathing practices for health and resilience
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - May 26, 2020: Embodying our innate resource of indestructible well-being
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - May 21, 2020: Tending yourself to care for others
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - May 19, 2020: Meeting emotions, building resilience: For frontline healtchare and mental healthcare workers
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - May 14, 2020: Nourishing the ground of inner trust
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - May 12, 2020: Finding meaning amidst our suffering
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - May 5, 2020: Walking through the world with heart open and feet on the ground
APRIL 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 30, 2020: Nourishing yourself with the gift of self-compassion
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - April 28, 2020: Nourishing unbreakable inner ground When outer ground gives way
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 23, 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - April 21, 2020: Nourishing Zen mind, beginner’s mind
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 16, 2020: Building a ground of safety and trusting our inner knowing as a foundation to meet our human vulnerability during challenging times
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - April 14, 2020: Tending our garden: Welcoming what is and our unique response to each moment
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 9, 2020: Creating an inner retreat and the emergence of the stillness of awareness
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - April 7, 2020: Embodying essential qualities of true nature for enhancing indestructible resilience and well being
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - April 2, 2020
MARCH 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - March 19, 2020
Online Sangha Session with Stephanie Lopez - March 21, 2020
Online Sangha Session with Richard Miller - March 24, 2020