Meditations With Desi
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsElevate your spirit with Desi Hall, a trailblazing black theologian, consultant, and wellness expert from Alabama, as she shares guided meditations, visualizations, prayers, and engaging discussions about the divine and sacred. Focusing on mindfulness, spirituality, and wellness, Desi's meditations are tailored to help individuals cope with life's challenges and address specific needs like relaxation and sleep.
As the visionary founder of the Transgender Education Foundation, Desi has witnessed the incredible impact of mindfulness and spirituality in sparking personal and societal change. Her distinctive viewpoint and vast experience make her an exceptional guide for those aiming to nurture a healthier, more inclusive, and equitable life.
Desi's meditations cater to both beginners and seasoned practitioners, helping you connect with the sacred and divine within you and the world around you. Embark on a journey of healing and self-discovery with Desi, and experience the transformative power of mindfulness and spirituality.
To explore Desi's podcast or find out more about her work, visit her website at meditationswithdesi.com
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Episodes
Anxiety Relief Meditation: Finding Calm Amidst Health Worries
January 24, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBIf you've ever found yourself in the midst of a real or perceived health struggle, you're not alone. I've been there too. It's a situation where something feels off with your body, and your mind starts weaving tales of uncertainty and fear about what it could mean. It's okay; I understand because I've been through it. As someone who deals with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I know that health-related worries can be overwhelming. Every little ache or pain can trigger a bunch of anxious though...
Reconnect with Your Inner Child: Morning Meditation
January 24, 2024 04:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBEmbark on a transformative journey with this guided visualization as you travel along a radiant rose quartz road to reconnect with your inner child. This meditation serves as a 'second chance' at starting your day, offering solace for mornings when anxiety, frustration, or worry attempt to cast a shadow over your waking mind. By nurturing your inner child with loving affirmations, you'll integrate them into your daily routine, nurturing self-love and cultivating mindful awareness. As the me...
Reclaim Your Sleep: Transformative Meditation for Deep Rest
January 24, 2024 04:00 - 13 minutes - 9.56 MBOriginally created for a client, I'm excited to share this track with all of you as its message feels incredibly timely. In this session, my focus is on speaking powerful affirmations over you, guiding you through a transformative sleep meditation that challenges the norm of perpetual busyness. In a world that often undervalues the importance of rest, this meditation is a revolutionary act of self-care. It offers a collection of empowering affirmations specifically tailored to promote deep,...
New Year Tranquility: Guided Prayer and Healing Affirmations
January 24, 2024 03:00 - 11 minutes - 8.11 MBStep into the new year with a sense of calm and purpose. Join us for this soothing guided prayer and affirmation session, specially designed for those who may be feeling a bit apprehensive about the upcoming year. As 2024 approaches, allow this heartfelt prayer to be one of your tools for setting yourself up for success and positivity. In this episode, Desi will gently guide you through a series of healing affirmations and heartfelt prayers, helping you embrace the new year with open arms a...
Pride Through Time: Queer & Trans Ancestral Meditation
June 01, 2023 02:00 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MB"Pride Through Time: A Queer & Trans Meditation Journey" is more than just a guided meditation. It's an intimate voyage to the past, where you'll get to touch base with your queer and trans ancestors who have walked this path before you. Imagine stepping into a vibrant rainbow portal, with each color hinting at a spiritual value that awaits you. Then, picture yourself going back in time to witness firsthand the strength and bravery of your ancestors during challenging times, like the AIDS e...
You Are A Miracle: Morning Affirmations and Meditation
April 17, 2023 23:00 - 7 minutes - 5.44 MBStart your day on a positive note, even on those mornings when you wake up on the "wrong side of the bed," with the latest podcast episode, "You Are A Miracle: Morning Affirmations and Meditation" Join me as I guide you through powerful affirmations that will help you recognize your inherent worth, strength, and resilience. By connecting with your authentic self, you'll learn to embrace and celebrate every aspect of your being, including the parts you've been conditioned to hide. Perfect for...
Deep Sleep Meditation And Prayer
February 22, 2023 04:10 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBSometimes the thoughts flash across our minds like headlines and all we want to do is sleep. Thoughts of, 'This or that thing we have to do tomorrow,' 'the thing we said or didn't say,' or whatever situation our brain is busying itself with as we get prepared to rest. In this meditation we do a quick body scan to identify points of tension and pressure in your body, we do some breath work to lead us into visualization, and finally we will end with a prayer. Press play and fall asleep. W...
Talk with Me Meditation
February 02, 2023 00:22 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBHave you ever had a lot to say but no one to say it to? Whether it's the win of the day or you had a hard day it is always better to have someone to talk to and process with. In this visualization I provide a safe space for you to share the things you need to free your heart from. This is good if you've been feeling anxious or exicted and have needed a judgement free soft place for those thoughts to land. Thank you to Alex for giving me this idea for this episode. Want to book a 1:1 ven...
Declining the Call To Harden Your Heart
January 13, 2023 20:25 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBHead over to my website desiehall.com/desimeditates to book a group or individual meditation and to check out my other services! Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% discount!
New Year Release Guided Meditation
January 04, 2023 22:10 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBAs I mentioned above this episode was made for my grandma. I hope that if there are people in your life you need to release this meditation helps you to let go of them. You deserve peace. You deserve reciprocation. I hope you get what you need. Want to book a meditation with Desi? Head over to https://www.desiehall.com/desimeditates where I now offer 1:1 meditations. executive coaching, group meditation and corporate wellness consulting. Support the show Want to book your own guided medi...
Escaping the Headlines Part 3: A Journey Through The Park
May 09, 2022 17:54 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBThis episode we pick up with the theme of "Escaping the headlines," as this series has progressed world events continue to flood our phones. We become inundated with news of Celebrity death, legislation, and anything else our algorithms show us for the day. This visualization calls for you to leave the headlines behind, and go in the park and journey to find your inner child and play. May you get what you need. Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head ...
Escaping the Headlines Part 2: A Morning Meditation
May 04, 2022 16:23 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBWant to book a private meditation with Desi? head over to desiehall.com For the second part of our "Escaping the Headlines" series we will be inviting a little laughter. With the news of the possible overturning of Roe V Wade it has seemed like dispair is everywhere. That combined with the daily realities of racialized and gendered violence we are often subjected to we are in desperate need for an escape from the headlines. This episode is dedicated to Candace. Thank you for always being...
Escaping the Headlines Meditation
May 03, 2022 17:10 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBWant a private mediation session with Desi? Head over to desiehall.com and book your 1:1 today! With the leak of the Roe v. Wade document, news of the student debt crisis, and global violence it feels like we're constantly being bombarded with bad news and violent imagery. The pressure to respond is real. The feelings of hopelessness and despair in the face of marginalization are real. These very real moments and feelings can leave us overwhelmed. In this first meditation in this series ...
Trust Your Decision Making Guided Prayer
March 13, 2022 17:10 - 14 minutes - 9.99 MBThis week's prayer a follow up to the previous meditation uploaded that was designed to aid you in trusting yourself. Following that theme I wanted to start this week off with a centering prayer that will assist you in reinvigorating your trust in your decision making process. Learning to trust oneself is not a lesson that is learned overnight, and I pray that these meditations and prayers are supplements your journey back home. May you get what you need. Want to support the channel? Subscr...
Trust Yourself Guided Meditation
March 08, 2022 23:51 - 24 minutes - 17 MBIn this week's meditation I guide you through a series of visualizations in order to assist in helping reestablish or reaffirm your trust In yourself. Going through life it becomes easy to place our trust in everything besides ourselves. I hope this meditation brings you home. This meditation features BETA waves that are designed to aid in concentration.Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today....
"You are Safe" Morning Affirmations to start your day
February 27, 2022 16:21 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBIf your week has been anything like mine, the uncertainty, the anxiety, witnessing Global violence, then you could use a little affirming right now. The conditions of the world we live in can make us feel unsafe in our bodies, communities, and homes. I created this affirmation meditation intending to provide a second, a reminder, to the mind and the body that You Are Safe. I hope you get what you need. If you would like to support please consider becoming a paid subscriber to this podc...
Grounded in Gratitude Meditation
February 20, 2022 09:00 - 13 minutes - 9.15 MBI've often had a complicated relationship with Gratitude. I thought of it as spiritual gaslighting for the longest time. It got to the point where I felt like acknowledging anything good about me, or my life would negate or invalidate all the things that weren't right. Navigating Higher education and the nonprofit industrial complex, we're often taught to lead with our trauma first. It's what we're reduced to. We are so much more than our trauma and the worst moments of our lives. This medit...
Coming Home To Yourself Meditation
February 13, 2022 22:37 - 19 minutes - 13.7 MBFor more visit desiehall.com! Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% discount!
Forgiveness Meditation
May 20, 2021 01:03 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MBForgiveness not in the traditional sense that allows people to escape accountability. But forgiveness to give you the mobility to move forward in life. May you get what you need. Want to support? Spotify now has a feature where you can support creators monthly. If you are lead and able please support me and my efforts to expand this podcast. - Desi Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today...
Letting Go of All the Questions Meditation
January 05, 2021 22:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBIf you would like to support me on Patreon you can subscribe at patreon.com/TRANSfigure Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% discount!
A Meditation to help combat Gender & Body Dysphoria
November 23, 2020 21:54 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBFollow me on Patreon at patreon.com/transFIGURE Support via Cashapp: $Eshezafina Support via Venmo: desi-zafina Every day across the world trans & cis people struggle with various forms of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria. The world encourages these issues by constantly feeding us messaging rooted in transphobia, ableist, anti-black, and fatphobic about our bodies. It is my intention that this meditation is useful in helping you to learn to love your body and recognize the untruths...
Good Morning Meditation
October 21, 2020 17:10 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MBThis week's episode is dedicated to those that need help starting their day. Sometimes how you start your morning will define how you start your day. Use this guided meditation to help set good intentions and speak lovely words over yourself. You deserve it. Subscribe to my patreon. Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% discount!
Sanctuary Meditation and Visualization
October 11, 2020 16:52 - 13 minutes - 9.62 MBThis episode is for the moments when you need to escape. When the world around you is chaotic and you need time to yourself find some time and meditate with me. I hope that this visualization is comforting and safe for you. Ase. Amen. Support me by subscribing to my patreon. Patreon.com/transfigure This was originally recorded for my previous podcast TRANSfigure but has been released for the the first time here on Meditations with Desi. Support the show Want to book your own guided meditat...
Sleep Meditation
September 30, 2020 03:56 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBThe first of a series of sleep and anxiety meditations. This meditation is dedicated to Naomi. For those nights when you have too many things on your mind but you need rest. I pray this episode helps you find safe passage to the dream world. Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% discount!
An Affirmation of your Humanity
September 29, 2020 21:29 - 10 minutes - 7.55 MBThis episode was previously recorded for my other podcast TransFIGURE and it was made right after Tony McDade had been murdered by police and his death was pushed to the side. There is always something coming at our minds and psyches wishing that we do not see our own humanity. This is a reminder of that humanity. Support the show Want to book your own guided meditation session with desi? Head over to desiehall.com/desimeditates and get a session today. Use the code "MEDesi2023" for a 30% di...
A Meditation for Grief
September 29, 2020 06:02 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBPreviously recorded in early June this meditation and visualization is designed to help one deal with the onslaught of grief we are all collectively experiencing in this moment. Things like coronavirus, the uprisings, and the assault on Black trans lives are heavy. May this help you navigate the chaos. When this episode was recorded we didn't have nearly as many COVID-19 related deaths so the numbers mentioned here are lower than we are currently at. I pray you ease. Support the show Wan...