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A 12-Minute Meditation for Cultivating Compassion in Racial Awareness with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein
12 Minute Meditation - May 10, 2024 18:25 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Tovi Scruggs-Hussein invites us on a transformative journey through mindfulness aimed at racial healing and understanding our deep-seated biases. Through her guided meditation, we delve into the roots of implicit biases—those "carefully taught" lessons of childhood that subtly shape o...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Embracing Your Inner Mountain with Elaine Smookler
12 Minute Meditation - May 02, 2024 18:33 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Elaine Smookler invites us to explore the Mountain Meditation, a practice aimed at grounding us in the present moment through an upright and dignified posture, reminiscent of a mountain's enduring presence. With Elaine's guidance, we will embody the mountain's steadfast calm amidst th...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Calm and Clarity with Nadene Cherry
12 Minute Meditation - April 25, 2024 18:54 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Nadene Cherry will guide us through practices uniquely tailored for moments when the world demands more than we might be ready to give. Imagine standing at the edge of a calm lake early in the morning, the world around you just waking up, and you're about to step into an important day...
A 12-Minute Meditation of Learning How to Sit with Uncomfortable Feelings with Diana Hill
12 Minute Meditation - April 18, 2024 18:43 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Diana Hill invites us into a soothing space where we learn to embrace our uncomfortable feelings, much like finding shelter in a serene greenhouse while a storm rages outside. In this practice, guided by principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dr. Hill helps us turn t...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Coping with Grief with Elaine Smookler
12 Minute Meditation - April 12, 2024 19:50 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Elaine Smookler invites us to explore how grief, a complex and often overwhelming emotion, shows up in our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations. Through grounding exercises, Elaine helps us find a sense of stability and gently guides us to acknowledge our losses and meet the p...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Working with Difficult Emotions with Carley Hauck
12 Minute Meditation - April 05, 2024 17:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Carley Hauck introduces us to a simple yet profound meditation practice aimed at helping us navigate through the ups and downs of everyday life. In a world that feels increasingly complex and uncertain, Carley's guidance is like a gentle hand on the back, encouraging us to slow down a...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Rediscovering Your Essence with Cara Bradley
12 Minute Meditation - March 29, 2024 14:32 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Cara Bradley invites you on a meditation journey that starts in the familiar setting of your daily life:smack in the middle of the commotion, distractions, and obligations that often fill your hours. . Imagine stepping off the noisy city street into a quiet courtyard, a space where t...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Cultivating Daily Gratitude with Kim Armstrong
12 Minute Meditation - March 21, 2024 19:32 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, join Kim Armstrong as she leads a gratitude visualization practice. This gentle meditation invites you to shift your gaze inward and discover the often-overlooked moments of joy and contentment that punctuate your day. Kim guides us to visualize the warm embrace of our morning coffee,...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Cultivating Connection to Yourself and Beyond with Nadene Cherry
12 Minute Meditation - March 14, 2024 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, join Nadene Cherry for a 12-minute meditation journey aimed at Cultivating Connection to Yourself and Beyond. Amid the rapid pace of everyday life, it's common to feel isolated, with our attention tightly focused on our personal experiences—our physical sensations, our thoughts, our e...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Understand Your Expansive Mind with Nate Klemp
12 Minute Meditation - March 07, 2024 20:01 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, we join Nate Klemp, who will introduce us to a unique three-stage meditation practice aimed at broadening and deepening our understanding of our own minds. Picture your mind as a flashlight, narrowly focused on a single point. This practice, "From Flashlight to Floodlight," is about l...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Challenging Emotions with Kim Armstrong
12 Minute Meditation - February 29, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, join Kim Armstrong as she leads a practice called "Meditation for Challenging Emotions," similar to a lighthouse guiding ships through the stormy seas of the mind. This guided meditation offers a sanctuary for those seeking to confront and process difficult emotions with grace. Sta...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Honor Our Connection to Ourselves and Others
12 Minute Meditation - February 22, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Tovi Scruggs-Hussein invites us to explore our inner selves as the foundation for connecting authentically with others. Through mindful awareness, deep breathing, and envisioning a world bound by love and respect for our unique differences, we embark on the first steps toward embracin...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective with Nate Klemp
12 Minute Meditation - February 15, 2024 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, join Nate Klemp as he leads us in a meditation practice to widen our perspective. In our world, brimming with constant information and rapid change, it's common to feel overwhelmed and resort to narrowing our focus, often manifesting as stress and anxiety. This practice proposes a di...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Turning Awareness into Action with Michelle Maldonado
12 Minute Meditation - February 08, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Michelle Maldonado leads a meditation designed to cultivate awareness and inspire action. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused about how to engage with the world from a place of strength, groundedness, and calm. As we navigate through the layers of self, family, community, and ...
A 12-Minute Meditation to R.E.S.T with Rashid Hughes
12 Minute Meditation - February 01, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week’s meditation is led by Rashid Hughes and is based on the acronym REST. This practice specifically takes into account that every one of us show up to mindfulness practice with our life experience. In the REST meditation, R stands for Relax your attention. Release. E is for Exhale all...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Act on What’s Important with Shalini Bahl
12 Minute Meditation - January 25, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to make some space and time to reconnect with ourselves and ask the question, “What’s most important to me?” Research shows that we are most energized when we find purpose and meaning in what we’re doing. We feel depleted when we don’t take t...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Replenish Cognitive Energy with Shalini Bahl
12 Minute Meditation - January 18, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to help us take in and process information efficiently. When we use our senses—touch, sight, hearing, taste, and smell—our thinking mind rests. So here, we focus on our senses and relax the mind. This practice is part of a four-part series...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Explore Emotional Energy with Shalini Bahl
12 Minute Meditation - January 11, 2024 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to explore the relationship between our emotions and our energy. High-intensity emotions drain our energy—not just the unpleasant ones like anxiety and fear, but also pleasant ones like excitement and elation. This meditation helps us channel...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Energize the Body with Shalini Bahl
12 Minute Meditation - January 04, 2024 19:58 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Shalini Bahl offers a 12-minute meditation to intentionally give your body the rest it needs and replenish your physical energy by checking in, softening, and letting go of tension. This practice is part of a four part series rooted in the lessons and wisdom from Shalini’s new book...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Defuse Holiday Stress
12 Minute Meditation - December 21, 2023 21:12 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, Mark Bertin guides us in a practice to find harmony amidst the holiday hustle. Release the grip of the "comparing mind," and embrace imperfect moments. Through intentional reflection, gratitude, connection, and self-compassion,this meditation offers a serene path to a joyous holiday e...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Come Home to Your Heart
12 Minute Meditation - December 13, 2023 17:40 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsJenée Johnson extends a warm invitation to reconnect with our inner selves, embracing love and care. This practice guides us in being present with ourselves in an aware, kind, and loving way, which can help us foster an interior refuge from life’s storms while also building strength and resilien...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Focus the Mind By Tuning Into The Present Moment
12 Minute Meditation - December 07, 2023 18:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsToday, Barry Boyce guides you through the latest episode of our Focused Attention Series,.building on last week's session, where we explored meta-awareness and focused the mind using the breath as an anchor.. Mindfulness, as Barry emphasizes, is about noticing thoughts without judgment and foste...
A 12-Minute Meditation to Focus the Mind By Tuning Into Your Meta-Awareness
12 Minute Meditation - November 30, 2023 16:41 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsToday, Barry Boyce guides you to focus the mind using the breath as an anchor. Mindfulness involves noticing thoughts without judgment, fostering a natural awareness beyond the constant stream of mental chatter. In this particular practice, Barry introduces you to the power of “meta-awareness”—t...
A 12-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation to Connect With Compassion
12 Minute Meditation - November 22, 2023 17:53 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsToday, Diana Winston guides us through a loving-kindness meditation by encouraging us to focus on someone who brings joy—be it a relative, friend, or beloved pet. As you extend well-wishes for their safety, happiness, health, and ease, notice the calm and contentment you feel. And as you practic...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Resting in the Flow
12 Minute Meditation - November 16, 2023 21:15 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Ed Halliwell guides you through "A Guided Meditation for Resting in the Flow," inviting you to envision the human experience as a flowing river—comprised of countless moving droplets forming a dynamic stream. Just as a river undergoes continuous change while maintai...
A 12-Minute Meditation To Fully Experience the Present
12 Minute Meditation - November 08, 2023 18:17 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Jay Vidyarthi leads us through a practice that helps release racing thoughts and immerse us in the present moment. In a world where self-care can feel like an added task, Jay offers a new approach. Rather than pushing for change, this practice encourages you to simp...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Directing Compassion Toward Ourselves
12 Minute Meditation - November 02, 2023 18:13 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Vinny Ferraro leads us in a practice that helps us direct compassion to ourselves. We often strive for perfection and can become our harshest critics as we try to hide our flaws and mistakes. This meditation guides us to embrace self-compassion, a shift that allows ...
A 12-Minute Meditation for Moving On
12 Minute Meditation - October 26, 2023 20:50 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Holly Rogers leads us in a guided meditation for moving on. Life often presents us with challenges and discomfort. This practice is a gentle guide to navigating those moments with grace and clarity. Acceptance, as Holly reminds us, is not about liking or agreeing...
A 12-Minute Guided Meditation to Cultivate Kinder Self-Talk
12 Minute Meditation - October 19, 2023 16:08 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Adam Ortman leads us through a guided meditation that explores our inner dialogue. Our inner voice often constructs a limited narrative that obscures the full picture of our experiences. By paying close attention to this inner voice, especially when it tends to focu...
A 12-Minute Guided Sound Meditation for Present-Moment Awareness
12 Minute Meditation - October 13, 2023 16:10 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 105 ratingsThis week, meditation teacher Charisse Minerva guides us in a unique sound meditation for greater awareness and self-discovery. Explore the symphony of sounds that surround us and learn to navigate stress through mindful breathing. Join us to embark on a sensory adventure with sound. This epi...
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