

Songs of Awakening
Songs of Awakening was birthed over a three year period in the process of discovering presence. The teachings captured in my book spontaneously arose while engaging in rigorous meditative practices first in extended periods of silent retreat and then in daily life. As my mind became increasingly concentrated, words arose, from a mysterious place, in an attempt to capture Awakening experiences that are ultimately beyond words. While language can point to the capacity within us all to know the deepest dimensions of what we are, it only brings us so close.
Each meditation teaching in Songs of Awakening has been carefully matched with photographs taken by my mother, Christina Giebisch. It is our hope that the braiding together of images, colors and teachings offers you a new landscape through which to journey, as you explore the expansive terrain of your own human experience.
The teachings are an invitation.
They are an invitation to gradually release expectations, concepts and beliefs, and to open to a sense of embodied joy, wonder and possibility.
They are an invitation to know that which is beyond language, and can only be experienced directly.
Songs of Awakening was birthed over a three year period in the process of discovering presence. The teachings captured in my book spontaneously arose while engaging in rigorous meditative practices first in extended periods of silent retreat and then in daily life. As my mind became increasingly concentrated, words arose, from a mysterious place, in an attempt to capture Awakening experiences that are ultimately beyond words. While language can point to the capacity within us all to know the deepest dimensions of what we are, it only brings us so close.
Each meditation teaching in Songs of Awakening has been carefully matched with photographs taken by my mother, Christina Giebisch. It is our hope that the braiding together of images, colors and teachings offers you a new landscape through which to journey, as you explore the expansive terrain of your own human experience.
The teachings are an invitation.
They are an invitation to gradually release expectations, concepts and beliefs, and to open to a sense of embodied joy, wonder and possibility.
They are an invitation to know that which is beyond language, and can only be experienced directly.
Songs of Awakening was birthed over a three year period in the process of discovering presence. The teachings captured in my book spontaneously arose while engaging in rigorous meditative practices first in extended periods of silent retreat and then in daily life. As my mind became increasingly concentrated, words arose, from a mysterious place, in an attempt to capture Awakening experiences that are ultimately beyond words. While language can point to the capacity within us all to know the deepest dimensions of what we are, it only brings us so close.
Each meditation teaching in Songs of Awakening has been carefully matched with photographs taken by my mother, Christina Giebisch. It is our hope that the braiding together of images, colors and teachings offers you a new landscape through which to journey, as you explore the expansive terrain of your own human experience.
The teachings are an invitation.
They are an invitation to gradually release expectations, concepts and beliefs, and to open to a sense of embodied joy, wonder and possibility.
They are an invitation to know that which is beyond language, and can only be experienced directly.