Medium Meditations
Between 5 to 15 minutes
Explore finding steadiness in times of change. Using the timeless image of a mountain, you’ll to connect with your inner strength and stability amidst life’s shifting seasons.
Go on a journey of cultivating compassion for yourself and others by expanding awareness of and connection to life’s joys and challenges.
Emotions change, shift, and come and go. RAIN, which stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture, helps you to recognize that difficult feelings are temporary.
Explore gratitude in the present moment. When you recognize that experiences, emotions, and situations are fleeting, you can find gratitude for what is.
Explore simple mindfulness phrases or 'gathas' to support presence, awareness, and care to return to ourselves and what is true.
Cultivate awareness and compassion for the full range of the sensations you’re experiencing—whether they’re tense, neutral, or at ease.
Learn to use the natural rhythm of the breath as an anchor for presence, self-compassion, and connection.
Learn to release your habits around tensing against pain and allow yourself to rest in a more fluid and open experience.
Explore how a sense of purpose can be an anchor during times of change that allows us to feel a grounded sense of meaning in each moment.
This guided meditation helps to soften anxiety, especially in stressful moments.
This visualization meditation helps to cultivate feelings of connection and belonging.
This practice uses conscious breath to reduce stress, anxiety, and a slow down a racing heart.
In this meditation, we use our breath to slow down, and then direct our attention, to different places within our bodies.
Using the breath as an anchor for your attention, you will be invited to begin to notice, without judgment, the weather patterns of thoughts that float across the expansive sky of your mind.
In this meditation, explore three techniques to calm, soothe, and ground your nervous system.
RAIN (acronym for Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Nurture) is a mindfulness meditation technique that invites us to begin to untangle from the reactivity that often stems from difficult and challenging emotions by beginning to turn towards these emotions with friendliness, curiosity and care.
In this guided Metta meditation, we explore cultivating a heartful, compassionate response to these challenging emotions through intentional offerings of kindness and strength as a means to help us reconnect to a felt sense of worthiness.
In this meditation, we use our imagination to bring to mind various things that we love, and then we notice our bodies response.
This practice will bring mindful attention to thinking, and then use simple phrases to help the mind stay present.
In this practice, we’ll explore how to transform our suffering into the freedom that we seek by feeling the fullness of our experience.
This is a short practice of sensing the body as a way of activating the relaxation response.
This practice focuses on the breath as an anchor of attention and a pathway for soothing rest.
This body scan practice taps into the power of patience.
In this practice, we’ll explore how to slow the momentum of expectations and other aspects of life using breath and visualization.
In this practice, we’ll explore the Zen phrase of ‘right effort’, which means the balance between effort and ease.
This practice focuses on staying in the present moment through mindful breathing.
Today's practice focuses on how to work with a difficult situation, painful emotion or uncomfortable physical sensation in the body through the gentle and compassionate guided practice of soften, soothe, and allow.
Today's practice focuses on how to handle challenging emotions. This practice invites you to use the tools of Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture (R.A.I.N) to create more ease in the mind and body.
This practice will foster a sense of connection with others, joy, and resiliency to decrease negative emotions like anxiety and depression.