Chris McDonald

Licensed Therapist, Yogi and Podcaster

It's easy to get caught up in the stressors of the day and forget to connect with your body. With this meditation, you will learn how to connect with the earth's energy to relax and release what you don't need.

Learn to connect with the earth's energy through meditation to relax and release stress.

Relax And Release

In this meditation, you will move into grounding and centering practices. With some gentle movements and visualizations, you will be guided to a state of calm and present-moment awareness. This is a great meditation to start your day or anytime you need to get started.

Meditation for grounding and centering with gentle movements and visualizations to achieve calm and present-moment awareness. Great for starting the day.

Ground And Center

Sleep can be a struggle at times, especially when stress is keeping you up. In this meditation, I help you calm your body slowly. I help you find physical and mental calm through the power of your mind. This can help slow your breathing, release stress, and ease your way into sleep.

Meditation to calm your body and mind for better sleep by slowing breathing and reducing stress.

Ease Into Sleep

In this mediation, you will have a moment of connection, grounding, and being in the present moment. I will lead you on an imaginary journey into the woods. You will discover all the sights and sounds. You will find one place of refuge, a safe space within. You can be your total self and relax at the moment.

Meditation: Connect with nature, find inner safe space and relax with an imaginary journey led by the guide.

Find Your Safe Space Within

Come immerse yourself in this breathing exercise to release the stress of the day and connect to the calm inside. This breathing practice is easy to learn and can be a wonderful way to start your day.

Learn a simple breathing exercise to release stress and find inner calm - a great way to start your day!

Release Stress With Bamboo Breath

In this visualization, you will find yourself walking in a peaceful field. You will discover a hot air balloon and decide to take a ride. While riding you will be able to release many burdens that are holding you back. Relax, unwind, and take a break from the stresses of the day.

Visualize a peaceful field, ride a hot air balloon, and release your burdens to unwind and relax.

Release Your Burdens

You are faced with challenges daily that throw you off center and make it hard to relax. In this gentle breathwork practice, you will learn how to practice ratio breathing which helps calm your nervous system and bring some peace into your day.

Learn ratio breathing in this gentle practice to calm your nervous system and bring peace amidst daily challenges.

Ratio Breath For Stress And Calm

Are you feeling overwhelmed and stuck in your head? This meditation can help get you back into your body and build your resilience. It will take you through a visualization to calm you and ground you. It helps you find the center of calm inside of you.

Meditation helps calm and ground you, finding the center of calm inside of you and building resilience for those feeling overwhelmed and stuck in their head.

Mountain Meditation For Resilience

In this meditation, you will learn the practice of cultivating loving-kindness. This is a calming meditation that has numerous benefits. You will learn how to bring to yourself, to someone you love, and to someone you are in conflict with.

Learn how to cultivate loving-kindness towards yourself, loved ones, and those in conflict with you in this calming meditation with numerous benefits.

Cultivating Loving Kindness

In this meditation, you will be taken to a comforting space to get cozy and listen to the sounds of rain. Through visualization, it takes you from a dark day into the light and embraces you with comforting words of encouragement.

Meditation guiding you to a cozy space, listening to rain sounds, visualization to light and comforting words of encouragement.

Soothing Meditation For Difficult Days

Welcome to this Morning Meditation! The transition to morning can be difficult especially if you have to get up early and don’t feel fully rested. A good morning meditation can help you start your day with a clear and focused mind, and set a positive tone for the rest of your day.

A morning meditation can help start your day with a clear and focused mind, and set a positive tone for the rest of your day.

Morning Intention Meditation

In this track, you will learn what are self-soothing practices, when to use them, and how they can help you. I teach you some soothing practices such as gentle self-touch, tapping, how to use words of encouragement, and how to use your senses to further ground and soothe your nervous system.

Learn self-soothing practices, including gentle self-touch and tapping, how to use words of encouragement and senses, to ground and soothe your nervous system.

Soothing Practices For Overwhelm

Come join me in this 3-minute affirmation guide on how to keep a positive mindset to start your day and welcome the possibilities, new experiences, and radiant positivity available to you.

A 3-minute guide on affirmations to start your day with positivity and open yourself to new experiences and opportunities.

Affirmations For A New Day

Life can be full of challenges that lead us to feel overwhelmed. This breathwork is a way to soothe your nervous system and bring more peace into your day.

Breathwork can calm your nervous system and bring peace to your day amidst life's overwhelming challenges.

Breath For Calm

In this short breathwork, I guide you through a simple breathwork practice that can help you to feel grounded or give you a boost of energy to start your day. This practice can help you feel centered and help when you feel stuck in your head.

Breathwork practice to feel grounded or energized and overcome mental blockages.

3 Part Breath For Stress

In this short meditation, through visualization, you will feel experience a golden light that fills you from head to toe with soothing energy and peace.

Meditate with visualization of golden light filling you with soothing energy and peace.

3 minute Soothing Light

In this practice, you will experience relaxation and peace by noticing breathing and moving through a calming golden light body scan. You will create your sankulpa or intention. You will take a journey through nature and a secret garden.

Experience relaxation through a calming body scan, create intention, and take a journey through nature in this guided practice.

Yoga Nidra Practice

In this meditation, you will connect with anxiety in your body and learn how to breathe into it to release it. Through a body scan, you will be led onto further relaxation that further releases what no longer serves you. You will be led through a shielding practice to help protect you from others' negative energy.

Meditation helps release anxiety and negativity, through breathing and relaxation techniques, while also shielding against negative energy.

Energy Reset Meditation

In this track, you will practice affirmations to help you remind yourself of your inner strength and how you can overcome any problems or issues you face. These affirmations can help you empower yourself to move past negative beliefs and thinking, to a more helpful and fulfilling mindset.

Practice affirmations to empower yourself and overcome negative beliefs, reminding you of your inner strength and ability to overcome any issues.

Affirmations For Resilience

In this breathwork, you will practice taking slower breaths in and out. You will practice breathing in positive qualities for yourself such as kindness, compassion, love, or peace on the inhale. On the exhale, you will visualize who you want to send these positive qualities to. You will practice breathing in for yourself and out for someone else. You will also experience breathing out these for all living beings and bathing yourself in the ocean of compassion.

Practice breathwork with positive qualities for yourself and send them to others while also breathing out for all living beings and bathing in compassion.

The Experience Of Compassion Breath

The meditation involves walking along the shore at sunset, focusing on the sensations of the surroundings while being fully present in the moment. Deep, slow breaths and observing the environment without judgment, or allowing yourself to let go of the worries of the day and escape to a place of beauty and calm. This can induce a sense of peace.

Meditate by walking on the shore at sunset, feeling present in the moment, breathing slowly, and observing the environment without judgment.

Tranquility By The Sea

In this track, you will experience a soothing meditation that helps you tune into the present moment and release the stress of the day.

Meditation track for present moment tuning and stress release.

Body Scan For Calm

Ready to start your day with ease? In this meditation, you will connect to present-moment awareness, with gentle movement, stretching, and breath you will gradually wake your body up. I will guide you through setting intentions for the day and help bring a sense of aliveness and awareness to your day.

Meditation to connect to present-moment awareness, set intentions, and awaken the body for an alive and aware start to the day.

The Morning Wake Up

Color can affect our minds, our moods, our behavior, and our ability to cope. In this breathwork and visualization, you will be guided to imagine bringing in what you need into your life with color and releasing what you want to let go of with color. You will imagine being surrounded by this color and notice the positive impact it has on your mind, body, and mood.

Visualization exercise using color to improve mood, behavior, and coping skills by bringing in what's needed and letting go of what's not.

The Power Of Color Breathing

In this visualization, you will take a journey through a secret garden. You will immerse yourself in this calm space releasing the stress of the day. You will explore this garden and discover the beauty and centeredness you find in the beautiful surroundings.

Visualize a calming journey through a secret garden to release stress and discover beauty and centeredness in the surroundings.

The Secret Garden

In this breathing practice, you will learn how to use the breathing practice of Alternative Nostril Breathing. With this practice, it will help you breathe better, calm your nervous system, release stress, and bring a sense of ease into your day.

Learn Alternative Nostril Breathing to improve breathing, calm nervous system, release stress, and bring ease into your day.

Alternative Nostril Breathing

Take a journey to a magical waterfall that brings you soothing energy and helps you release the stress of the day. Through a magical shower of light under the waterfall, you can fill yourself up with peace and a deep sense of balance. You will feel more connected to nature and your more centered self.

Visit a magical waterfall for soothing energy and stress relief, experiencing peace, balance, and connection to nature.

Magical Waterfall For Peace

In this meditation, you will visualize a beautiful place and discover a wonderful calming energy that helps you find connection, peace, and contentment.

Meditation helps you find peace and contentment through visualizing a calming energy in a beautiful place.

Bringing In Positive Energy For Today

In this talk, you will learn how your thoughts impact how you feel and what you do. I discuss thought-provoking questions to help you challenge unhelpful thinking and find ways to rethink a difficult situation in your life by exploring how you can change, accept or let go.

This talk explores the impact of thoughts on emotions and actions, providing thought-provoking questions for challenging unhelpful thinking and finding solutions.

How To Change, Accept Or Let Go

In this breathwork practice, you learn a simple breathing exercise that you can practice and utilize throughout the day. It is easy to remember and access. This exercise also includes a visualization to help you picture stress releasing from you leaving you in a place of peace.

Learn a simple breathing exercise with visualization to release stress and find peace in this accessible and easy-to-practice breathwork technique.

A Simple Breathing Exercise

In this visualization, you practice getting out of your head and into your body. You will learn how to access your inner resource, the place you feel most calm and grounded. You experience how to expand your inner resource to your full body from head to toe. You can fully connect with your entire physical being and move from feeling stuck in your mind to free in your body space of calm.

Visualize and practice accessing your inner resource to feel calm and grounded, connecting with your body and freeing your mind from stress.

Find Your Inner Resource

In this track, you will learn some easy-to-learn tapping techniques for acupressure points that can help release stuck energy, release stress and bring energy to your day.

Learn tapping techniques for acupressure points to release energy, reduce stress, and boost your day's energy levels.

Gentle Tapping For Depression

In this track, you will learn about CBT, how your thoughts impact what you feel and do, and how you can change your thoughts to experience a change in feelings and behavior. I take you through a series of questions to help you reflect on a worry you are having to help challenge it and explore the worst possible outcome, the most likely outcome, and the best possible outcome. I take you through some information on catastrophizing and the importance of learning to trust yourself.

Learn about CBT and how changing thoughts can impact feelings and behavior by reflecting on worries and exploring worst, likely, and best outcomes.

Take Control Of Your Anxious Thoughts

In this meditation, you will experience a visualization of inner light within you that releases what you don't need and brings you peace and relaxation. You will be able to share this light with loved ones and all beings on the planet.

Experience the visualization of inner light, find peace and relaxation, and share this light with loved ones and all beings on the planet.

Meditation On The Inner Light

In this meditation, you will experience a calming practice that allows you to focus on your breathing, acknowledge your thoughts, and let them go. You will notice what is there for you in the present moment and feel further connected to yourself through this meditation.

A 3-Minute Mindfulness Meditation

In this meditation, you will journey through finding stagnant energy left from the day and visualize releasing it into the earth. You will breathe into the energy you don't need and let it to. The visualization of a golden light that brings with it a soothing peace and safety surrounds you.

"Release stagnant energy and find peace through visualization of a golden light in this soothing meditation."

Release The Energy From The Day

In this meditation, you will be taken on a journey to a place of serene beauty. In this space, you will be releasing the stresses of the day, and be filled with peace and tranquility. You will witness the mesmerizing sunset turn into a blanket full of stars above. Under the starlit sky, you are left to allow your imagination to wander, the the gentle hold of sleep soon finds you.

This meditation takes you to a serene place of beauty, allowing you to release stress and find peace, while witnessing a mesmerizing sunset and starlit sky.

Under The Starlit Sky Bedtime Meditation

In this magical journey, you will be taken away to a place of beauty, wonder, and awe. These woods hold special powers to help you find peace, tranquility, and deep calm. You will meet many magical creatures on your journey including fairies, horses, and an enchanting garden. Your guardian fairy will guide you into a deep, soothing, and restful slumber.

Embark on a magical journey through enchanted woods to find peace, tranquility, and deep calm with the help of fairies and an enchanting garden.

Journey To The Whispering Woods

In this meditation, I help you imagine yourself grounded under the warmth of the sun. Here you will embrace the warmth and allow it to melt away your stress, worries, anxiety, and anger from the day. I guide you through grounding in the earth and facing storms with strength, solidity, and calm.

Experience a guided meditation to find peace by grounding under the sun, releasing stress and facing challenges with strength and calmness.

Release And Ground Yourself

In this short but calming meditation, you will practice engaging with your breath and fully arriving into the present moment. You will be led into an inward-facing journey of contemplation and stillness. You will leave feeling connected, centered, and more at ease.

A calming meditation focusing on the breath and bringing you into the present moment, leaving you feeling connected, centered, and at ease.

Witness And Be Present

In this track, you will practice some slow inhales and exhales and allow yourself to rest in the rhythm of your breath. You will also use mindfulness to tune into your emotions, body, and sensations with kindness.

This track helps you relax and focus on your breath while being mindful of your emotions, body, and sensations.

Create A Mindful Space Within

Relax, release, and unwind into this calming visual meditation. This meditation brings your imagination into an experience of colors. Connect with many colors, immerse yourself fully, and allow them to help release you into a gentle and peaceful sleep.

Immerse yourself in a calming visual meditation of colors to relax and achieve a gentle and peaceful sleep.

Release Into Sleep Color Meditation

In this short practice, you will learn how to notice your breath and follow it. You will be guided to use a prayer pose with breathwork. This practice ends with creating an intention for your day.

Learn mindful breathing techniques in a guided practice with a prayer pose and intention setting for a focused start to your day.

A Prayer Pose Breathwork Journey

Life can bring challenges and tension. It can be hard to find the time to meditate. This meditation brings a solid practice of tuning into the body, gentle movement, and checking in with your mind, heart, and energy. The meditation also includes a short breath practice and visualization to further calm your body and help you find some peace in your day.

Meditation practice for tuning into body, mind, heart, and energy to find peace amidst life challenges and tension.

Rooted In Serenity: Grounding Meditation

In this track, you will experience some grounding and gentle deepening of the exhale. This track uses visualization of a colored light throughout your body to bring you peace through breath.

Meditation track guides deep breathing and relaxation using visualization of colored light for grounding and peace.

Bringing Peace Through Breath

In this meditation, you can release the stresses of the day and escape to where white sands and blue-green waters beckon you. Immerse yourself in the peace and tranquility of this calm space and escape from all the stresses of today.

Escape to peace and tranquility by meditating on white sands and blue-green waters to release daily stresses.

A Peaceful Ocean Escape

In this meditation, you will connect with your breath to release stress from the day and ground into the earth. This will help you feel more centered, grounded, and calm.

Meditation to release stress and ground yourself, promoting feelings of calm and centeredness.

Grounding Through Body Awareness

This 15-minute guided visualization meditation helps bring ease and calm to racing thoughts and anxiety. It helps promote a night of deep and restful sleep. It begins with deep breathing and a body scan to release tension and relax the body. The meditation then takes you on a journey into a serene forest at sunset, where you walk along a path and find a cozy cabin by a clear stream. Inside the cabin, you lie in a plush bed by a crackling fireplace, feeling safe and warm. The meditation includes calming affirmations to reinforce feelings of safety and tranquility. It concludes with focusing on your breath, allowing you to let go of any remaining tension and drift into a peaceful sleep.

15-minute guided meditation for racing thoughts and anxiety, leads to deep sleep by visualizing serene forest, cozy cabin, and calming affirmations.

Forest Haven: A Sleep Journey

In this meditation, you are guided through a series of relaxation exercises to help notice your anger and physically release it. Through guided tension and release, breathwork, and affirmations you will discover how you can release and transform your anger into a more manageable emotion. You will finish feeling so much calmer and relaxed.

Guided meditation helps release anger through relaxation exercises, breathwork, and affirmations, leaving you feeling calmer and more relaxed.

Release Your Anger

In this track, you will be enveloped through affirmations to help you empower yourself and positively start your day. These affirmations help you bring energy, positivity, and confidence to start your day with the right mindset and help you feel more grounded, centered, and connected.

Energize your day with empowering affirmations for a positive mindset, increased confidence, and greater connection.

Empower your Day, Morning Affirmations

Get ready for a morning meditation to help you feel more centered and connected to yourself. This meditation brings you fully to a place of calm and clarity as you release any stress and connect to present-moment awareness.

Start your day with a calming morning meditation to feel centered and connected, releasing stress and gaining clarity in the present moment.

Morning Meditation For Calm & Clarity

This meditation will help you bring a state of calm and peace as you gently start with sleep meditations and journey through some moments of stillness at sunset on the beach. This journey takes you through some breathwork practice to further deepen your state of relaxation into a state of soothing, restful sleep.

Sleep meditation for calm and peace, beginning with sleep meditations and transitioning to breathwork for deep relaxation at sunset on the beach.

A Soothing Meditation For Restful Sleep

Ready to build an abundant mindset? In this meditation, you will learn affirmations to help you build space for abundance to grow gain more of what you want, and let go of what you don't need.

Meditation to cultivate abundance mindset with affirmations for attracting what you want and releasing what you don't need.

Affirmations For Abundance

Feeling weighed down by stress? In this grounding practice, you will learn skills for grounding yourself in the present moment and feel more settled. You will discover increased self-awareness and some gentle practices that will help you to release the heaviness felt from stress and open up space for calmness and ease.

Grounding practice helps reduce stress by increasing self-awareness and teaching gentle techniques for releasing heaviness and finding calmness.

A Grounding Practice For Stress Release

Do you struggle with overwhelm? In this visualization, you learn how to Cultivate Calm with Coping and journey to your inner garden. In this Garden, you will discover your coping garden. As you journey through, you discover reminders of what coping is for you and take a moment to relax and restore your inner calm. The music in this meditation is, “Arctic Breeze,” by Sean J. Stevens, which you can also listen to here on Aura”.

Learn to Cultivate Calm with Coping in your inner garden through visualization and music on Aura.

Cultivating Calm With Coping

In this calming Rainbow Light Meditation, you’ll journey through the vibrant colors of a rainbow, each offering its unique energy to soothe your body and mind. By the end, the colors merge into a radiant rainbow, leaving you centered, peaceful, and ready to carry this balance into your day. Let this meditative experience invite you into a space of total relaxation and a sense of peace.

Experience a calming Rainbow Light Meditation to soothe body and mind, leaving you centered, peaceful, and ready to carry balance into your day.

Unwind Under The Rainbow of Light

Have you had a difficult event that you have had difficulty releasing? In this track, you will be slowly guided through some relaxation exercises and how to develop a circle of allies. You are led to recall the difficult or traumatic event. You will be guided on how to create an alternative ending for healing and notice your empowerment and peace unfolding.

Guided relaxation exercises help release trauma, create healing, and find empowerment in difficult events through ally support and alternative endings.

Creating Alternative Endings For Healing

In this short meditation, listeners are guided to sit in a comfortable position and gently focus on the sounds around them. Using mindfulness techniques, they are invited to observe each sound without judgment. The practice encourages cultivating awareness of both distant and nearby sounds, fostering a sense of groundedness. Listeners are reminded to return to the present moment whenever their minds wander. By the end, they are encouraged to appreciate the simplicity of mindful listening as a tool for relaxation and finding peace within.

Guide to mindful listening: focus on sounds without judgment, cultivate awareness, find peace in the present moment.

Mindful Listening for Presence and Peace

In this track, engage with some mindfulness techniques to ground and center you in the present moment. The listener is guided to extend forgiveness and well-wishes, warmth and compassion to self, a loved one, and, finally, to a neutral person or stranger. The meditation fosters a sense of interconnectedness and healing, cultivating inner peace and empathy.

Practice mindfulness techniques to ground in the present moment, extend forgiveness, warmth, and compassion to self and others, fostering inner peace and empathy.

Loving Kindness & Forgiveness Meditation

Experience the magic of Christmas with this soothing sleep story! In this story, you move through some relaxation to help you settle in for your magical journey. Guided through this story you travel through a peaceful, snow-covered village. You wander through the quiet streets, a beautifully decorated tree, and hear the comforting hum of distant carols. The air is refreshing and filled with the scent of pine and gingerbread. Experience a sense of calm and warmth on this night. Upon returning home to your cozy cottage, the gentle magic of the night lulls you into a deep, restful sleep.

The Magic Of Christmas Eve Sleep story

Do you struggle with difficult emotions? Are you having a hard time making space for them? In this track, discussion on the importance of accepting emotion and the negative impact when you don't. You will also learn different ways to use mindfulness and how to come to accept your emotions in several ways. You will get an opportunity to practice these skills in MIndfulness of emotion meditation and leave feeling calmer and feel more at ease.

Track discussing importance of accepting difficult emotions, using mindfulness techniques to make space for emotions and feel calmer and at ease.

Relieve Your Stress Accept Your Emotions

Are you experiencing overwhelming emotions? In this track, I gently guide you through understanding the importance of managing these emotions and the 3 keys to manage these emotions. Through self-awareness exercises, grounding, breathwork, and somatic practices I will help you find your center and discover more ease in your body and emotions. Developing these skills empowers you to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and self-compassion.

Learn to manage overwhelming emotions through self-awareness, grounding, breathwork, and somatic practices for resilience and self-compassion.

Tracks by Chris McDonald