remembering being
Whidbey Island Retreat - July 31, 2022
How to Know Equanimity Amidst Upheaval
Science and nonduality - July 2022
Releasing the Resistance to Resistance
Heart of Who We Are Sangha - May 31, 2022
what is mindfulness?
a collaboration with kenneth bourne
sinking the mind into the heart
presence collective winter retreat - december 31, 2021
Returning home to being
big heart city SF - December 17, 2021
Blamelessness
Sunday Sangha with Sangha Live - December 5, 2021
mINDFULNESS IN PARENTING
MODERN MAMAS PODCAST - NOVEMBER 30, 2021
moving from i to we
big heart city SF - October 1, 2021
A Kids Book About: The Podcast - April 12, 2021
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aCTING ON BEHALF OF CONSCIOUSNESS
sANGHA lIVE - jANUARY 10, 2021
As we move into this new year, most of us are ready to leave 2020 behind. So much hardship, for so many, has arisen in the last year. Many of us felt more isolated, more separate, than ever before. As we transition into 2021, rather than live and act on behalf of that felt sense of separation, how might we act on behalf of consciousness? How might we live on behalf of Truth?
I am not this voice. i am not this narrative.
Freakonomics Podcast - November 13, 2020
practice as a way of remembrance
sangha live - october 20, 2020
Many are referring to this time as apocalyptic. Fair enough. It can seem as though everywhere we turn a dismantling of some sort is in the works. While we might intellectually feel able to embrace the change upon us, for many it can be easy to fall into overwhelm, hopelessness, even despair. What do the teachings of the Buddha have to offer us now?
Everything.
Join Caverly in this session as we focus on the Udana sutta. Join us as we focus on remembrance.
presence collective wednesday night sit with caverly - april 1, 2020
In this video from the weekly Wednesday night meditation class, Caverly starts with an intro and community check-in, leads a meditation, and closes with a Q&A.
presence collective wednesday night sit with caverly - march 25, 2020
Instead of our in-person Wednesday meditation class, we’ll now be holding an online weekly meditation and discussion every Wednesday from 7:00pm-8:45pm PST. You can join using this link.
Here's a breakdown of the March 25th video:
00:00 intros and check-ins ("what are you present to?)
32:55 Caverly leads a meditation
1:06:38 Caverly leads a Q&A
Presence Collective Wednesday Night Sit with Caverly - March 18, 2020
Instead of our in-person Wednesday meditation class, we’ll now be holding an online weekly meditation and discussion every Wednesday from 7:00pm-8:45pm PST. You can join using this link.
Here's a breakdown of the March 18th video:
00:00 We begin with introductions and a check-in from each person
38:41 Caverly leads us into the meditation
1:10:51 We break into triads for mini group sharing
1:24:30 Caverly leads Q&A with the group
Liberation Now Retreat - Great Vow Zen Monastery - February 2020
guided meditation for the new year: Consciously Resting, Consciously Unwinding
In this half-hour meditation, Caverly guides you towards creating a conscious pause, taking stock of your internal landscape, and actively welcoming your moment-to-moment experience with gentleness and kindness.
Social justice: are we one? - with Konda Mason, Dr. Sará King, Orland Bishop, and Caverly Morgan
science and nonduality conference
Caverly was delighted to be part of a panel at the 2019 Science and Nonduality Conference with Dr. Sará King, Konda Mason, and Orland Bishop. They presented on the topic, "Social Justice: Are We One?"
liberation now: from the progressive path to direct experience webinar with worldwide insight - December 1, 2019
Watch the recording of Caverly's recent webinar with Worldwide Insight: "Liberation Now: From the Progressive Path to Direct Experience."
In a progressive path approach to practice, we sometimes fall for the idea that liberation is in the future. We are conditioned to believe that we must end thinking, master practices, meditate for years, and purify our minds. Without realizing it, our beliefs can maintain the conditioning that stands in the way of our direct realization.
Turning our attention outward to various objects in practice can be deeply helpful. And, what changes when we cultivate our effortless capacity to rest the attention in Awareness itself? What changes as we practice inquiry into the nature of consciousness? And what tends to get in the way?
caverly on the opt-in podcast - november 10, 2019
Caverly had a great time sitting down with the hosts of the Opt-In podcast and discussing her life’s journey with the themes of race, truth, and collective liberation.
Run by Blatina and white besties Aurora and Kelly, the Opt-In gets real about the hosts' divergent experiences and, with their guests, unpacks how we can opt-in to do better.
Aurora and Kelly describe their conversation with Caverly in this episode:
From growing up a white girl in Charlottesville, VA, to becoming a Zen Buddhist Monk for eight years to creating the first for-credit mindfulness course in Portland, OR high schools, Caverly Morgan's path has been anything but predictable, yet intriguing and purposeful. In this episode, Aurora and Kelly get intimate with Caverly as she shares personal stories from her life.
liberation now: from the progressive path to direct experience portland insight meditation community - OCtober 19, 2019
Watch the recording of Caverly's program with the Portland Insight Meditation Community: "Liberation Now: From the Progressive Path to Direct Experience."
In a progressive path approach to practice, we sometimes fall for the idea that liberation is in the future. We are conditioned to believe that we must end thinking, master practices, meditate for years, and purify our minds. Without realizing it, our beliefs can maintain the conditioning that stands in the way of our direct realization.
Turning our attention outward to various objects in practice can be deeply helpful. And, what changes when we cultivate our effortless capacity to rest the attention in Awareness itself? What changes as we practice inquiry into the nature of consciousness? And what tends to get in the way?
LIberation Now: From progressive path to direct experience
Guided Meditation & Dharma Talk
the insight meditation community of charlottesville
September 24, 2019
Why do we suffer?
Q&A video series - september 18, 2019
In this Q&A video, Caverly responds to a rich question written in by a meditation student: "Why do we suffer?" Caverly touches on how suffering happens, as well as how we can relate with our desire to make it go away.
The Need for Non-Straight, Non-White Mindfulness Spaces
Q&A video series - july 18, 2019
In this Q&A, Caverly Morgan responds to a question written in by a meditation student: "Can you speak to the need for non-straight, non-white spaces in the mindfulness world? As a queer person, I've seen some new, queer-specific spaces developing, but not everywhere. Same for folks of color too."
Moving Beyond the myth of loneliness - June 23, 2019
What changes as we consciously turn toward our suffering, rather than away? We are conditioned to experience ourselves as separate from life. When we identify with this perceived separation, a natural byproduct is loneliness. In an attempt to resolve the angst created by that experience, to heal the wound, we are habituated to look externally. In that outward gaze, we often overlook an experience of belonging that is inherent.
In this habit of focusing outside ourselves, we tend to turn away, rather than toward, our pain. How does our habit of seeking shift when we recognize that what we long for can never actually be lost?
This teaching was presented through the Worldwide Insight Sunday Insight Sessions.
Caverly on Be Here Now Network - June 3, 2019
Listen as Caverly shares a conversation with Ethan Nichtern on his podcast, The Road Home, via the Be Here Now Network.
They talk about Caverly's time in a Buddhist monastery, as well as bringing mindfulness and meditation practices into the education system, including Caverly's creation of Peace in Schools, and the growing trend of introducing secular mindfulness practices into classrooms.
what are some helpful ways to remember presence in a moment of great stress?
Q&A video series - february 22, 2019
In this Q&A video, Caverly Morgan responds to a question written in by a meditation student: "What are some helpful ways to remember presence in a moment of great stress?"
peace in schools fosters awareness & kindness
interview on kboo community radio - January 23 2019
In this interview on The Recovery Zone on KBOO Community Radio, host Stephanie Potter talks with Peace in Schools Founder and Guiding Teacher Caverly Morgan and Program Director and Lead Teacher Janice Martellucci about their program as well as how and why it has been so well-received.
what’s the most important thing to know about meditation?
Q&A video series - January 17, 2019
In Caverly’s new Q&A series, she'll release a new video each month, responding to a question written in from a meditation student. She'll be joined by Barnaby Willett, Director of Innovation and Partnerships and Lead Teacher for Presence Collective and Peace in Schools.
In the first video in this series, where Caverly responds to the question "What's the most important thing to know about meditation?"
The Relative is the Absolute: Touching Race, Injustice, and Love
Worldwide Insight - Sunday insight sessions - October 7, 2018
When we engage in the distortion that the relative plane is separate from the absolute – that it is something to transcend or ‘just an illusion’ – we ignore the reality of the illusion. When we know ourselves as a whole which subsumes everything, we cease to diminish or dismiss the mystery of being human. We experience viscerally that “the world is my family.” From this understanding, we recognize that liberation is not a singular experience and ease our suffering in this remembering.
This teaching was presented through the Worldwide Insight Sunday Insight Sessions.
Being a Buddha
Dharma Rain Zen Center - September 2018
Caverly was honored to be invited to offer a dharma talk at the Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon, in September 2018. Her topic was “Being a Buddha.”
buddha at the gas pump with rick archer - may 2018
Can Teens Help Us Collectively Awaken?
Science & Nonduality Conference Presentation - 2017
In this powerful presentation shared with the Science and Nonduality community in October 2017 as part of their annual US conference, Caverly shares stories from teens that the Peace in School program has reached - and the profound affect it's had on their lives.
Interspersed with moving video from students and parents, Caverly tells how Peace in Schools started as an unlikely after school program, how it's grown to serve thousands of teens and adults, and her vision for the future.
Sacred Activism
Science & Nonduality conference Panel Discussion - 2017
Vera de Chalambert chairs a panel with four sacred activists: Caverly Morgan, Charles Eisenstein, Rev. Deborah Johnson and Rory McEntee. Describing their own particular paths, especially how ordinary activism becomes sacred activism, they attempt to answer the question: How can I best serve? And in the closing Q&A session there are striking and refreshing perspectives on the current political situation.
AGAINST THE STREAM SAN FRANCISCO SANGHA - FEBRUARY 2018
In February 2018 Caverly was honored to offer a dharma talk at Against the Stream in San Francisco, CA. The practice group was welcoming and engaging, and this video features a recording of the evening's sit and teachings.
The ultimate Relationship: opening to love
worldwide insight - sunday insight sessions
We are deeply conditioned to look for love outside ourselves. In that desperate search, we not only experience the frustration and the futility of grasping, we lose sight of who we authentically are. In this session, Caverly offers practices that not only remind us of our true nature, but guide us to a direct experience of it.
This teaching was presented through the Worldwide Insight Sunday Insight Sessions.