Karen Anderson

Meditation Guide

Take a few minutes to settle your mind into your body. This practice uses the concepts of basic mindfulness to cultivate ease in the body and the mind, regardless of current circumstances. In encouraging simple embodiment, we create a foundation for moving through the world relaxed and alert, with a sense of groundedness and connectedness.

Mindful embodiment practice cultivates ease in body and mind, creating a foundation for relaxed and alert movement through the world.

Simple Embodiment

Give yourself an opportunity to ground and let go. This practice focuses on the natural exhale to help to release tension and excess energy. This is a great practice to do seated, but if you have a lot going on in the body or mind, it’s recommended to lie down for maximum benefit.

"Release tension and excess energy through natural exhale with seated or lying down practice for maximum benefit."

Simple Breathing

Meditation can be a wonderful antidote for physical tension and anxiety. This mindfulness-based practice encourages relaxation in the physical body, the energy body, and the mind, and encourages a gentle sense of well-being and internal kindness.

Meditation eases physical tension and anxiety, inducing relaxation in the body, energy, and mind, promoting internal kindness and well-being.

Releasing Tension

Fear is a natural emotion that doesn't need to hold us back from living fully. This mindfulness-based meditation encourages us to hold fear in a gentle way, to get to know it, and ultimately to find freedom in the midst of it.

Don't let fear hold you back - embrace it with mindfulness-based meditation to find freedom in its midst.

Embracing Fear

Discomfort in the body is inevitable. By relaxing with the body and slowly exploring it with the mind, we can train to be with physical pain, without needing to either avoid it or fixate on it. This practice cultivates a sense of freedom in the midst of pain.

Relaxing and exploring the body with the mind can help to be with physical pain, cultivating freedom in the midst of discomfort.

Being With Physical Pain

Peace is found naturally and effortlessly when we identify as the awareness that knows our experience. This intermediate-level meditation focuses on mindfulness of our own mind, through which we can drop into peace regardless of circumstances.

Find peace effortlessly by identifying as awareness that knows our experience. This intermediate-level meditation focuses on mindfulness of our own mind.

Finding Peace

When the mind feels small, even little things can be troublesome. If we instead allow the mind to expand into a feeling of openness and spaciousness, we become relaxed and clear. The understanding is that this is the nature of the mind, and so accessible to all.

Expanding the mind leads to relaxation and clarity, accessible to all.

Spacious Awareness

Take some time to observe the flow of experience instead of being overly involved with the content of the mind in a given moment. In knowing our experience in a relaxed and easy way, we find ourselves centered, open, clear, and connected.

Observe experience, not content of mind, to find center, clarity, and connection.

Relaxed Presence

Take some time out for yourself to cultivate relaxation, stillness, and clarity. This traditional yoga Nidra practice will guide you through the layers of your being to find your natural calm center. From here you will renew your being with a sense of vitality and presence. Leave feeling completely rejuvenated. This practice is for anyone.

Traditional yoga Nidra practice guides you to find your calm center, renewing vitality and presence, leaving you rejuvenated; suitable for anyone.

Yoga Nidra: Foundations

Yoga Nidra is a deliciously calming and enjoyable meditative practice that is appropriate for anyone. The benefits include deep rest and healing for the body and the mind. This traditional practice is designed to drop you into a sense of deep calm and inner peace.

Yoga Nidra is a calming meditation that offers deep rest and healing for the body and mind, leading to inner peace.

Yoga Nidra: Tranquility

Yoga Nidra is a deliciously calming and enjoyable meditative practice that is appropriate for anyone. The benefits include deep rest and healing for the body and the mind. This traditional practice is designed to drop you into stillness and open you to a sense of connectivity to all of creation.

Yoga Nidra: a calming, healing meditation suitable for all, inducing deep rest and connectivity to creation.

Yoga Nidra: Freedom

Yoga Nidra is a deliciously calming and enjoyable meditative practice that is appropriate for anyone. The benefits include deep rest and healing for the body and the mind. This traditional practice is designed to drop you into a deep sense of peace and connect you to the energy of the universe.

Yoga Nidra is a soothing meditation that promotes relaxation & deep rest, healing the body & mind while connecting practitioners to the universe's energy.

Yoga Nidra: Source

Yoga Nidra is a deliciously calming and enjoyable meditative practice that is appropriate for anyone. The benefits include deep rest and healing for the body and the mind. This traditional practice is designed to promote vitality and leave you feeling rejuvenated.

Yoga Nidra offers deep rest and healing for the body and mind, promoting vitality and rejuvenation. Suitable for all.

Yoga Nidra: Healing

Maybe the most important spiritual teaching is to begin where we are, to accept our current situation as it is. This may seem like condoning our own shortcomings and the problems of the world. But in practice, turning toward our experience with kindness and compassion opens us to the possibility of transformation.

Acceptance and compassion towards our current situation pave the way for spiritual transformation, despite condoning shortcomings and world problems.

Finding Acceptance

We have all had the experience of being derailed by powerful emotions, and losing our ability to act toward what we value. This practice will help to gently develop skillful navigation of emotional experience, by teaching the body and mind that it can hold powerful emotions safely, without taking them to be our identity.

Practice helps navigate powerful emotions by teaching the body and mind to hold them safely without taking them to be our identity.

Holding Challenging Emotions

Take some time for yourself to become centered, focused, and at ease. This approachable concentration meditation will guide you through the stages of settling the mind, with helpful tips such as balancing energy and fine-tuning effort. In cultivating a global sense of stability and peace, you will move into your day more grounded and collected, able to pay attention to that which you value in a relaxed way.

A concentration meditation to settle the mind, balance energy, and fine-tune effort, promoting a global sense of stability and peace.

Calming The Mind

This open awareness practice encourages deep letting go. Find yourself in spaciousness, ease, openness, clarity, and well-being.

Open awareness practice promotes deep letting go and fosters spaciousness, ease, clarity, and well-being.

Let Go

Considering that we won't live forever, it's incredibly valuable to contemplate what truly matters to us. This meditation is designed to orient us toward that which we deeply value while acknowledging our mortality.

Meditation helps us contemplate our values and mortality.

Contemplating Our Priorities

We have experienced many joys and sorrows over the course of our lives. This meditation is designed to remind us of the beautiful times and to help us process the more difficult memories. This way we can look back on our life with an open heart and feel resolution about our entire range of experiences.

Meditation helps to process joyful and difficult memories, enabling us to look back on life with an open heart and feel resolution.

Reviewing Our Life

In spiritual practice, it is considered traditional and incredibly helpful to practice dying. In this way, we will not only be more ready when the time comes, but we will also soften our fear of death, which will help us to live more openly and fully in the present moment.

Practicing dying in spiritual tradition helps us face death with less fear, leading to a more present and fulfilling life.

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