Guided Meditations
Heart-Opening Meditation for Beltane
Welcome Beltane, or May Day, with this short heart-opening meditation. Connect with the themes of High Spring including hope, connection, love, and intentions as we work on opening and listening to the wisdom of the heart. If possible, do this meditation laying down with a bolster or pillow under your upper back to enhance the heart-opening experience.
Listen to the Wisdom of Anger
Rather than trying to tame or quiet your anger, what if it had something important to tell you? This guided meditation invites you to listen to your anger, to feel it in your body, and to explore what wisdom it might have for you. If it's helpful, listen with a journal by your side.
Gut Medicine: The Healing Tea
Chronic gut illnesses like IBS, Crohns, and SIBO often have a relationship to the way the mind is functioning through the gut-brain axis. Meditation can be a powerful way of working with the subconscious to rebalance things at the level of the gut. This meditation invites you to imagine sitting by a fire on a soft sand beach with a friendly community and a healing, medicinal tea that will heal you from the inside out.
Gut Medicine: The Healing Fruit Garden
Researchers have learned that chronic gut disorders like IBS can be treated by addressing the gut-brain connection. This gentle 8-minute meditation invites your imagination and your subconscious mind to receive healing in a beautiful garden of fruits created specifically for the healing of your gut. Enjoy the calming experience of eating this medicinal fruit and encourage your gut to feel better.
Guided Meditation for Heartache
Grief, anger, sadness, and frustration are parts of life, and these emotions, though uncomfortable, are all there for a reason. Rather than helping us eradicate these emotions, meditation can help us identify them, sit with them, and allow them to soften. Sometimes that’s enough to allow these emotions to flow through us, and sometimes there is a message we need to listen to coming from these emotions. This meditation will help us tune into our internal feelings and soften the sharp edges of our heartache.
Deeply Relax (Or Sleep) With Breath
Slow down and take a breath. Allow your nervous system to calm down as you focus gently on your breath, progressively relaxing your body and gently deepening your breath into your belly. This gentle, progressive breathwork will help your body return to the rest-and-digest state so you can calm down, detoxify, rest, clear your mind, soothe inflammation, and sleep.
Honoring the Womb: Postpartum Meditation
This meditation offers some care and some love to the womb after having given birth while giving space to any feelings of anger or fear and so on that may be leftover. This can be done anytime from early postpartum to many years after having given birth. You may like to have a bolster and a couple of cushions or blocks to do this one in a Restorative pose (which is optional). You can do this with a little one around if that’s the best way for you to access this meditation.
Sleep Meditation for Middle of the Night Insomnia
Awake in the middle of the night? Having a hard time getting back to sleep? Listen to this gentle relaxing meditation that encourages you to focus on your breath and slowly scan your body to help you relax and rest and hopefully drift back into dreamland.
Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain
Mindfulness meditation can help us befriend the pain sensations and teach the brain that it doesn’t need to sound the alarm so hard. With time, we lessen our suffering and, in effect, turn down the “volume” on the pain sensations. Studies have shown mindfulness meditation can be very effective for people experiencing chronic pain.
Cleansing Toxic Energy
If you've been sick, gone through something difficult lately, spent time with someone who left you feeling hurt, or just want to take a moment to clear your energy field of anything that might be toxic to you, this meditation is for you. Imagine yourself in a safe place and allow that energy to flow down out of your body into the earth beneath you. Clear it out, let it go, and feel better.
Gentle Self-Affirming Sleep Meditation for Anxiety and Stress
This guided meditation is a gentle sleep meditation full of reminders that you are doing okay. You are in the practice of loving yourself. It is okay to make mistakes. Sometimes we need to tap into our love for others before we can love ourselves, especially when we find we are being hard on ourselves internally. Allow yourself to drift off as you gently sit of all that is good and worthy within you. Sleep sweetly and well.
Magic Meditation for Sleep, Safety, and Protection
In this meditation, you will visualize a circle of protection around your body, creating a space where you can rest and rejuvenate in safety and calm. Let go of any worry, fear, or anxiety as you gently guide your body into sleep, knowing it's safe to do so.
The Shield: Meditation for Self-Protection
This guided visualization helps to release negative energy or any other energetic residue that doesn’t belong to you—anything from an overly critical family member to the stressful news cycle. We will imagine a protective sphere that keeps in positive energy and releases what is unwelcome. This meditation is excellent if you are feeling exhausted, especially if you are a caregiver, have a friend or family member going through something difficult, or if you just feel like you need to retreat from the chaos of the outside world.
Guided Meditation for Loneliness
Loneliness is a powerful emotion that, while uncomfortable, does have some important lessons for us in our lives about true connection. Explore your loneliness in this gentle guided meditation and allow it to teach you what you might need to know in a moment of isolation or simply when you're feeling disconnected.
Self-Loving Energy Healing Meditation
This simple meditation will help calm the mind, connect to the body, and offer healing and energy to your own heart through breath and visualization. It is excellent to practice anytime you are feeling exhausted, depleted, sick, injured, or just need a little self-love. This is also a lovely practice to fall asleep with to help calm your mind and welcome sweet dreams and healing rest.
A Gentle Self-Loving Sleep Meditation
This guided meditation is a gentle sleep meditation full of reminders that you are doing okay. You are in the practice of loving yourself. It is okay to make mistakes. Sometimes we need to tap into our love for others before we can love ourselves, especially when we find we are being hard on ourselves internally. Allow yourself to drift off as you gently sit of all that is good and worthy within you. Sleep sweetly and well.
Body as Compass: A Meditation for Decision Making
When you are trying to make a difficult decision, there are often many and complex factors to take into account. Our minds are intelligent, but they can also easily get tripped up on things like what other people want from us and what we think we should want. Tap into what you truly desire with this meditation that honors the mind, the heart, and the pelvic floor as valid sources of information.
An Energy Magic Spell for Pain, Sickness, or Sadness
This gentle energy healing meditation helps to release and cleanse unhelpful energy while bringing in nourishment and rest when we're not feeling our best. This is intended as a sleep meditation where much of the work can be done unconsciously, but you are welcome to explore it while awake as well.
Intuitive Movement Meditation
When we're stressed, anxious, or healing from something, we know body movement can help. But how do we know what to do with our bodies? How do we navigate movement especially if we experience chronic pain or simply hate exercising? This intuitive movement meditation allows you to slowly, gently tap into your body’s innate intelligence without “doing” anything in particular. Try it with an open mind and see how you feel on the other side.
Wind Down and Sleep for a Busy Mind
Sleep is a struggle when there's a lot on our minds. It can be difficult to let go of a stressful day and wind down to sleep. If your mind is busy, try this meditation to slow down, calm down, and progressively relax.