Teachings

  • Let Your Light Shine

    Let the beauty that you are nourish yourself and everyone around you. Open your mind, open your heart, and really allow yourself to be available. Recorded 06/19/2017.

  • Already at Peace

    What if you knew that what you were trying to achieve was already done? Would you relax? Allow your authentic self to come to the foreground. Recorded on 05-15-2017.

  • What Do You Want?

    Eventually you come to see that you simply just want to be at peace. Something comes over you, you close your eyes, you stop, and there is a stillness that comes. Discover what you truly are. Recorded 4/24/2017.

  • Learning to Trust

    We learn along the way, each in our own unique way, how we are being guided to the essence of truth. Discover how trust can guide, open and liberate your being. Recorded 4/15/2017 in Santa Cruz.

  • Stop Thinking!

    We come here to allow clarity to arise to the surface. It may not be there at the beginning; there may just be a jumble of stuff. So you sit, and give yourself permission to relax, and breathe, and let go. And maybe you feel vulnerable, or uncomfortable in some way, and yet there’s something…

  • The Retreat Right Now

    Retreat is when you plant a seed in the fertile ground of mindfulness and attention — with as much tenderness, compassion, patience and open-mindedness as possible — letting go of the compulsion to compare, to analyze, to make conclusions and judgments about yourself and others. It’s amazing how much lighter you become when you let…

  • Allow Yourself to Be Transformed

    The silence is always here, even in the background of the words, the silence is still here. Listen to that silence. Feel into that silence, and allow yourself to be healed. Allow yourself to be opened. Allow yourself to be transformed. Recorded 3/6/2017 in San Francisco.

  • Let Transmutation Happen

    Whatever’s holding on; whatever’s resisting; whatever’s grasping; be the space of awareness that allows it to go through whatever it’s going through, and to let go when it’s ready. Be the spacious awareness within you and outside of you. Drop out of your thinking mind that wants the answers. Drop into your heart, and your…

  • Arriving at the Oasis

    The Oasis is where you are nourished, but it’s also where you are broken down; and where you are healed; and where you are liberated. Over and over and over, however much it happens, you’re always finding it. You’re always re-arriving here. Recorded 4/10/2017 in San Francisco. www.jonbernie.org

  • Spiritual Improvisation

    Can you, right now, let go of everything you’ve every learned, everything you’ve ever heard, everything you’ve ever experienced?