After sitting and walking meditation, we watched a video featuring Lama Tsultrim Allione. In it, she explores a very different way to work with difficult emotions, called Feeding Your Demons:

Anything that drains our energy and blocks us from being completely awake is a demon. The approach of giving form to these inner forces and feeding them, rather than struggling against them, was originally articulated by an eleventh-century female Tibetan Buddhist teacher named Machig Labdrön (1055–1145). The spiritual practice she developed was called Chöd, and it generated such amazing results that it became very popular, spreading widely throughout Tibet and beyond.

We then did the actual practice, which took about 20 minutes. Several people reported a surprisingly deep experience, so we'll definitely work with this again.

This techique is based on one developed by an eleventh-century female Tibetan Buddhist teacher named Machig Labdrön. The video we watched isn't public, but there is one on YouTube. You can also read about this practice on Lama Tsultrim's Web site and on Lion's Roar.