Jos Loves Buddha: Guided Meditations for the Moon's Phases
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHosted by Joslyn B. Hitter, Jos Loves Buddha: The Podcast offers guided meditations for each phase of the moon - new, quarter, full - along with the equinoxes and solstices. Joslyn is an Insight Meditation teacher with a masters degree in depth psychology and somatic studies, In each episode, Joslyn offers a short dharma talk that can touch on seasonal changes in the natural world, mythology, and astrology as well as a guided meditations as we move through the lunar phases.
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A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Scorpio
April 22, 2024 05:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBHappy Full Moon! For this full moon meditation, we will be doing a compassionate breathing practice. In this practice we will be cultivating our soft power by deliberately practicing non-reactivity and genuine care for all beings.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Aries
April 07, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBHappy New Moon! In this guided meditation, we are practicing equanimity, loving-kindness and compassion. As we launch into a new cycle, we are remembering our intentions to wish people well, be kind and gentle, and let go whenever possible.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Libra
March 24, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBHappy Full Moon! In this guided meditation, we are cultivating generosity by practicing wishing loving kindness to our friends.
A Guided Meditation for the Spring Equinox
March 19, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBHappy Spring Equinox! For this extra special equinox meditation, we are practicing cultivating joy together :-)
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Virgo
February 23, 2024 06:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBHappy Full Moon! In this guided meditation, we will be finding harmony between the earth and water element, working with opposing forces to find balance and create ease.
A Guided Meditation for the Lunar New Year and New Moon in Aquarius
February 09, 2024 16:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBWelcome to the year of the Wood Dragon! Happy Lunar New Year and Happy New Moon in Aquarius. For this guided meditation, we will be working with the element of Wood in Chinese Medicine. Wood is represented by the energy of spring: the time of year when green buds push burst from the ground. For this meditation, we will be working on cultivating this type of new, fresh and vibrant bright green energy in our meditation practice.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Leo
January 25, 2024 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWelcome to the first Full Moon of 2024! The Abenaki people refer to this moon as the Greetings Moon, recognizing a traditional practice of greeting friends, family and community members with the phrase: "Anhaldamawi kassi palilawaholan." When translated into English, its meaning is "Forgive me for any wrong I may have done you." This Full Moon meditation will feature a forgiveness practice that I have adapted from the Insight Meditation tradition.
A Guided Meditation for the Cold Moon
December 25, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBHappy Full Moon! In this meditation, we will be cultivating compassion because it is never a bad time to become more skilled at giving and receiving kindness, love, and compassion.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Sagittarius
December 11, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBHappy New Moon! Welcome to the season of gathering by the fire and sharing in our own well-being. In this guided meditation, we will work with fire element in traditional and creative ways.
A Guided Meditation for the Freezing River Maker Moon
November 27, 2023 13:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBHappy Full Moon! In this meditation we will be working with water element and letting go, sending any difficulties downstream.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Scorpio
November 11, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBHappy New Moon! Welcome to the season of celebrating the darkness! In this guided meditation, we will embrace quiet stillness and find clarity by calming and quieting our minds through a mindfulness of breathing practice.
A Guided Meditation for the Hunter's Moon
October 28, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBHappy Full Moon! This full moon and lunar eclipse is a wonderful opportunity to practice "holding steady." In this meditation, we will cultivate a place of peace and stillness in our own hearts and minds, with the hope that this peace will ripple out to the world around us. May we all learn to be more peaceful.
A Guided Meditation for the Corn Maker Moon
August 29, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBHappy Blue Moon! This guided meditation is a mindfulness of emotions practice geared specifically for working with difficult emotional patterns. We will practice being mindful of a particular emotional pattern and softening and soothing around this pattern with the hopes of building a different and more kind relationships with the emotional patterns that may feel stuck and/or unworkable.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Leo
August 14, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBHappy New Moon! In honor of Leo season, I will be guiding us in an equanimity practice. In this practice, we will cultivate an attitude of balance and ease with the ups and downs of this very human life.
A Guided Meditation for the Cutter Moon
August 01, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBHappy Full Moon! For this guided meditation, we will embrace the magic of forgiveness practice. We will practice offering and receiving forgiveness for ourselves and for others.
A Guided Meditation for the Thunder Moon
July 03, 2023 05:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBHappy Thunder Moon! For this Full Moon Meditation, we are learning together how maintain a steady and continuous application of appropriate energy in our formal meditation practice. We will explore this together by practicing mindfulness meditation in the standing posture.
A Guided Meditation for the Summer Solstice
June 21, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBHappy Summer Solstice! In honor of the summer season, I will be guiding us in an appreciative joy and gratitude practice. We will have an opportunity to celebrate and delight in all that is going well in our lives and the lives of our beloved beings together.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Gemini
June 17, 2023 05:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBHappy New Moon dear ones! In this guided meditation we will tune into the particular qualities and aspects that Gemini does best, mainly air element and space element. We will settle ourselves in with a mindfulness of breathing practice and then open our awareness to include the element of space, practicing resting in an open and spacious awareness together.
A Guided Meditation for the Field Maker Moon
May 05, 2023 05:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome to the Field Maker Moon! In this guided meditation, we will practice mindfulness of emotions. Together, we will practice recognizing and allowing our emotions, even the sticky and icky ones, giving the emotions space to flow through us so we don't get too stuck in an emotional experience that is naturally coming and going.
A Guided Meditation To Welcome Taurus Season
April 20, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBWelcome to Taurus Season. In this meditation, we will practice grounding into the earth element internally and externally, as we plant ourselves into the spring season here in the Northern Hemisphere. We will also practice appreciating the natural abundance that surrounds us and offer gratitude for these breathing bodies.
A Guided Meditation for the Passover Moon
April 05, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBHappy Passover Moon. In this guided meditation, we are invited to connect with the earth element and ground and settle our nervous systems. We also have an opportunity to practice being with our senses, hearing and smelling and feeling into all the different body sensations to connect more deeply with the natural world this precious spring season.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Pisces
February 19, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWelcome to the New Moon in Pisces. For this new moon meditation, we will be practicing a basic mindfulness meditation emphasizing the moments when we have a chance to start over, and making sure we begin again with so much kindness and care. Plus a poem by Joy Harjo to start out meditation with a sense of freshness and newness.
A Guided Meditation for the Snow Moon
February 05, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBHappy Snow Moon! Phew, we made it to the 2nd phase of winter. We are steadily climbing towards the Spring Equinox and more light is coming our way, meanwhile the world is feeling dark as we process mass shootings in California and the brutal death of Tyre Nichols. What do we do with all the feels? I suggest this "Strong Back and Soft Front" Meditation. This is an equanimity and compassion meditation that I learned from the wise elder and abbot of the Upaya Zen Center, Roshi Joan Halifax. Muc...
A Guided Meditation for the Lunar New Year
January 21, 2023 04:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBWelcome to the year of the Water Rabbit! For this meditation we will be practicing with the water element, allowing our practice to flow like water and giving ourselves an opportunity to deepen into our sensitivity and listen to our intuition.
A Guided Meditation for the Wolf Moon
January 05, 2023 15:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBWelcome to the Wolf Moon! In this meditation we will be practicing self-compassion, because honestly there is really nothing better we could be doing with our time.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Capricorn
December 22, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBFor this New Moon Meditation we will explore how to skillfully work with the quality of determination in our meditation practice. This will be a fairly basic mindfulness meditation where we will practice grounding and anchoring our attention in the body. We will also bring some awareness to our relationship to the object we are using to anchor our attention and see if we connect more firmly with this object, aiming and sustaining our attention in a focused way. We will practice balancing our...
A Guided Meditation for the Winter Solstice
December 20, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBWelcome to the Winter Solstice, an extra special time of year. For this meditation, we will be practicing equanimity. We will do our best to embrace the quiet and stillness here at the cusp of winter and embody balance, peace and ease while the comings and goings of our busy lives swirls around us.
A Guided Meditation for the Freezing Moon/Lunar Eclipse
November 07, 2022 06:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBFor this Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse Meditation, we are practicing leaning into our wholesome desire for meditation practice. Together in this meditation, we are cultivating a practice of savoring our wholesome intentions and basking in the worthiness and enough-ness of just simply meditating.
A Guided Meditation for the Falling Leaves Moon
October 08, 2022 05:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBFor this Full Moon Meditation we are embarking on the tender and sacred journey that is forgiveness practice together. We are grounding and centering in our bodies while we experiment with asking for forgiveness from others and offering forgiveness to ourselves and others. We move slowly and carefully feeling into our messy, imperfect and so very human lives, asking and offering as much and as little forgiveness as we are able to in this moment.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Libra
September 25, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBThis New Moon meditation is a classical mindfulness meditation infused with self-compassion. This powerful combination gives us a precious opportunity to rewire the way we talk to ourselves and to change the emotional tone of our inner lives. This is a guided meditation for creating harmony inside our hearts and minds.
A Guided Meditation for the Fall Equinox
September 22, 2022 05:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis Fall Equinox Meditation is here to help us ground and center. We will be grounding in the body through the earth element, feeling our feet and resting in our bones. We will also be connecting with the body through the air element, bringing our mindful awareness to our breathing bodies, breathing with the trees our best teachers in practices of grounding and centering.
A Guided Meditation for the Harvest Moon
September 10, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBThis Full Moon Meditation is all about surrendering to the flow and relaxing. In this meditation, we will be relaxing the body by practicing a body scan and then opening up to a sound meditation where we can rest our awareness in an open and spacious way. This Harvest Moon meditation is for relaxation, letting go and flowing with the sound scape.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Virgo
August 27, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBFor this New Moon Meditation, we will be practicing compassion honoring our inherently good and kind nature, treating ourselves with love, kindness and reverence and then extending those good wishes to all beings everywhere.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in August
August 11, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBFor this Full Moon Meditation we will be practicing mindfulness of breath and body, spending some time cultivating the fundamentals of our mindfulness practice. We will also be training our attention towards what is going well and savoring the peace and happiness that is available to us in each and every moment of mindfulness.
A Guided Meditation for the Meow Moon
July 28, 2022 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn this new moon meditation, we are grounding and settling our nervous systems, softening and soothing our minds, hearts and bodies. We are offering ourselves a kind and generous space to feel our feelings, care for ourselves, unwind and invoke kindness.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Capricorn
July 13, 2022 03:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBThis full moon meditation is here to help us ground while going with the flow. We will be grounding in the body through the earth element, feeling our feet and resting in our bones. We will be connecting with the body through the water element as well, embracing the flow, practicing letting go and releasing whatever is not needed downstream.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Cancer
June 28, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBIn this new moon meditation, we are practicing a meditation technique called mental noting, or labeling. This is a useful technique on and off the cushion. On the cushion, it helps us build concentration and stay present and attuned to this present moment experience. Off the cushion, it helps quiet reactivity and build spaciousness, giving us the opportunity to pause before reacting.
A Guided Meditation for the Strawberry Moon
June 14, 2022 03:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis full moon meditation is a basic mindfulness practice. In this meditation, we are focusing on the quality of our awareness, deepening our commitment to embodying loving awareness, and paying attention in a nonjudgemental, open, curious and friendly way.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in Scorpio and Lunar Eclipse
May 16, 2022 15:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBThis is a meditation to help you rest and relax. It is so important to rest and truly relax between the big waves of emotional, physical, mental and spiritual upheaval you might be feeling during this Full Moon and Eclipse. This meditation is here to help you catch your breath and drop-in during the sporadic, and few, quiet moments.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in Taurus
April 30, 2022 03:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThis week's meditation is all about spaciousness, embodying equanimity, and allowing our preferences to be slippery.
A Guided Meditation for the Sugar Maker Moon
April 16, 2022 03:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBFor this meditation, we will be doing a guided practice of cultivating patience. We will practice not being in a hurry, maintaining an open heart, and cultivating non-impulsiveness, while quieting reactivity.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in April
April 01, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutes - 17.4 MBIn this meditation, we do a guided gratitude practice. This is not so different from a normal mindfulness practice. It just has an extra special focus on what is going well in this moment, and we reflect on our good intentions.
A Guided Meditation for the Worm Moon
March 18, 2022 05:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBIn this meditation, we will look at how to be peaceful. In it, we will practice cultivating a peaceful relationship with our meditation anchors: breath, body and sound. We will notice how our mind has preferences, and a tendency towards drama. And we will practice letting that relax, letting go, and being neutral towards all experience.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in March
March 02, 2022 06:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBThis week's meditation is a Guided Giving and Receiving Love and Good wishes meditation, traditionally known as a Metta Meditation, working with the category of benefactor. In this meditation, we practice wishing our nearest and dearest good wishes like safety, good health, and happiness, and we also practice receiving these same good wishes from them. PS - Jos has cold right now, and she is sorry that she sounds so congested in this meditation, but this is real life :)
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in February
February 16, 2022 06:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBThis week's meditation is a space element meditation, where we will feel into energetic space, taking up as much room as you need. We will notice the beginning, middle, and end of sounds in this guided sound meditation.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in February
January 31, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBHappy Lunar New year, the year of the water tiger! This week's meditation is a guided meditation on the air element. It includes a Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation.
A Guided Meditation for the Full Moon in January
January 17, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBThis week's meditation is a guided fire element practice. In it, we do a body scan to track temperature at the level of our skin, noticing heat and coolness. We also tune into our hearts and cherish our flame of intention love and care as another way of connecting with fire element.
A Guided Meditation for the New Moon in January
January 01, 2022 05:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBThis week's meditation is a guided water element practice. Water is an excellent dharma teacher because water does not stress; it flows, changes and morphs from snow to hail to rain to ice and does not mind. Water has much to teach us about responding wisely to all of life's ups and downs.
A Guided Meditation for December’s New Moon
December 03, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThis episode is a grounding and resourcing meditation using the six elements: ground with earth, breathe with air, listen to sounds with space, float with water, and connect to our hearts with fire.
A Guided Meditation for the Beaver Moon and Lunar Eclipse
November 18, 2021 15:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBThis episode contains a guided meditation and visualization exercise where we intentionally cultivate a loving presence to support us while we turn towards difficult emotions like anger, grief, and fear. Joslyn also offers light reminders and guidance on how to to stay grounded and resourced in our bodies during meditation.