Liesl van der Hoven

Artist, Author and Meditation Teacher

AFGHANISTAN

ALAND ISLANDS

ALBANIA

ALGERIA

AMERICAN SAMOA

ANDORRA

ANGOLA

ANGUILLA

ANTARCTICA

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

ARGENTINA

ARMENIA

ARUBA

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRIA

AZERBAIJAN

BAHAMAS

BAHRAIN

BANGLADESH

BARBADOS

BELARUS

BELGIUM

BELIZE

BENIN

BERMUDA

BHUTAN

BOLIVIA

BONAIRE, SINT EUSTATIUS AND SABA

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

BOTSWANA

BOUVET ISLAND

BRAZIL

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

BULGARIA

BURKINA FASO

BURUNDI

CAMBODIA

CAMEROON

CANADA

CAPE VERDE

CAYMAN ISLANDS

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

CHAD

CHILE

CHINA

CHRISTMAS ISLAND

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS

COLOMBIA

COMOROS

CONGO

CONGO, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE

COOK ISLANDS

COSTA RICA

COTE D'IVOIRE

CROATIA

CUBA

CURACAO

CYPRUS

CZECHIA

DENMARK

DJIBOUTI

DOMINICA

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

ECUADOR

EGYPT

EL SALVADOR

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

ERITREA

ESTONIA

ETHIOPIA

FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS)

FAROE ISLANDS

FIJI

FINLAND

FRANCE

FRENCH GUIANA

FRENCH POLYNESIA

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES

GABON

GAMBIA

GEORGIA

GERMANY

GHANA

GIBRALTAR

GREECE

GREENLAND

GRENADA

GUADELOUPE

GUAM

GUATEMALA

GUERNSEY

GUINEA

GUINEA-BISSAU

GUYANA

HAITI

HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

HOLY SEE (VATICAN CITY STATE)

HONDURAS

HONG KONG

Release what no longer serves you, and move into the new day with a fresh intention. This meditation will gently guide you through the process of letting go of thoughts or feelings from the past that may be bothering you. You are then guided to choose your own intention that will help guide your words and actions throughout the new day. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - A Fresh Start

Creating space for mindful moments throughout your day, can help you to create a bit of space between what you are feeling and thinking, and your actions. It can also help you become more aware of your true feelings, and with practice, can help you to know yourself better. This short meditation can be done at any time of the day, and will help you to become more aware of what you are feeling, thinking, and experiencing at a particular moment. Background music: Winds of Love by Music Of Wisdom

Mindful Check-In For Self-Awareness

Becoming grounded can help you to release overwhelming thoughts and refocus your attention in the present moment. This meditation will gently guide you through the process of reconnecting with your body, to help you slow down your thoughts and bring you into the Here and Now.  Now you can face your day with calm, centered awareness. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - Calm And Grounded

This meditation offers you the opportunity to rest in a feeling of pure love for a while. You are a part of a loving Universe from which you were created. You are just as worthy of receiving love and kindness as anyone or anything else. You cannot be loving or kind to other beings without being loving and kind towards yourself. Showing love and kindness to yourself is never limited only to yourself because the field of love and kindness is limitless. 
Background music: Our Peaceful Ocean by Music Of Wisdom

A Loving-Kindness Connection With Love

Our inner voice can help us to know who we really are. It can help us find answers when we find it hard to make a decision. In this meditation, the listener is guided through a series of listening exercises to help them get in touch with their own feelings and what their inner voice is telling them. We can return to this meditation as often as we need to, to help us get more in touch with our inner voice. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 02 by Kevin MacLeod


Listening to Your Inner Voice

This meditation will help you discover how you can treat yourself with kindness today. You will be gently guided through the process of checking in with your body, mind, and heart. By paying attention to how you are feeling, you can become aware of ways to be kind to yourself throughout the rest of your day. Background music: Meditation Impromptu 03 by Kevin MacLeod.

Magical Morning - Be Kind To Yourself

We spend so much of our time doing things, that we forget that we are human BEINGS. By connecting with the present moment, we connect with just being. If we practice being, even while we are busy doing things, what we are doing becomes far more integrated with our being. We can then learn to do more effectively, with greater attention to the needs of our bodies and our energy. This helps us to fully inhabit our own bodies and the present moment. Background music: I Am With You by Music Of Wisdom

Shift From Doing To Being

Sometimes we may find ourselves in a place where we’ve become so caught up in our responsibilities and what we “should” be doing, that we are no longer connected to our senses or to what brings us joy. This meditation will provide you with prompts to connect with your senses and start daydreaming about what gives you joy. Once you have identified the possibilities, I hope that you will make your dreams a reality and bring more joy into your life. Background music: The Inner Calling composed by Music Of Wisdom

Become Curious: Find Your Joy

Feeling grateful works a little bit like magic! If you can feel grateful for even the tiniest little thing, it will help you feel better. The better you feel, the more you will remember things to feel grateful for. And then you will feel even better than before! Background music: A Self-Love Song by Music Of Wisdom

Gratitude Meditation for Feeling Better

The sleep meditation gently guides you through the process of relaxing body, mind and heart, to help you drift off to peaceful sleep. You will be asked to visualize a beautiful star-filled sky into which you will release any thoughts that may prevent slumber. Once all thoughts are released, and you are gently guided to feel safe and loved, there is nothing left for you to do but to surrender to sleep. Background music: Music for Manatees by Kevin MacLeod.

Gently Drift Off To Sleep

Our physical bodies can be influenced by our emotions and other subtle energies. In this meditation, we will be helping our bodies to heal by visualizing healing energy moving through the entire body. During the first part of the meditation, you will be guided to send this healing energy through all of the different parts of your body. During the second part of the meditation, unguided time is provided to enable you to send this healing energy to any areas within your body that may need extra care and attention. Background music: Enlighten the Mind by Ajit Pramod Deshpande. Licensed by Sounds Of Nidra.

Healing Energy For The Physical Body

The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter is one of my favorite children's books and inspired me to write this story. This was the first book I remember choosing from the library myself when I was about 6 years old. I always felt that Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle worked too hard, and so, in my story, I gave her an opportunity to rest and enjoy life by becoming more mindful! The cover image features my copy of The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle with an illustration by Beatrix Potter.

The Story Of Busy Mrs. Hedgehog

A seated breath meditation that includes gentle hand and arm movements to help the young listener become present. This meditation aims to help children visualize themselves surrounded by a light feeling of their own choice, for example, love, happiness, or playfulness. This meditation can be done at any time of the day, but it can be a particularly lovely way to start the day. Background music: Waves of Hope by Music Of Wisdom

Bubble Fingers Breath Exercise

A teeny-tiny story and meditation in one! Please feel free to join Shy Bunny for a few moments, as she becomes quiet and breathes slowly while looking up at the sky. This little story aims to illustrate how meditation can help us to regain perspective if we tend to worry a lot. When we feel better, our worries feel more manageable too! Background music: Heaven is Here by Music Of Wisdom

Shy Bunny Learns To Meditate

This practice can help an overwhelmed child find a calm and safe space in his or her imagination. Anxious and/or introverted children have a tendency to feel overwhelmed or overstimulated by too much noise or activity. What often helps, is just spending some time in a quiet environment with few stimuli. Background music: Music for Manatees by Kevin MacLeod.

Safe Space Meditation

A sweet and gentle story about making friends, perfect for children's bedtime. In the story, a shy and lonely bunny learns that friends can be found anywhere if you are willing to look. All it takes to make a new friend is a willingness to play and have fun.

Bunny Bedtime Story

Shy Bunny has another dreamlike nighttime adventure, perfect for bedtime! When Shy Bunny wants to visit his star friends at their home in the sky, the stars help him to jump into the moon to visit the faraway galaxies where they live. Depending on where you live in the world, you may actually be able to see a bunny on the moon! Next time the moon is full, see if you can make out the shape of a rabbit in the dark markings on the moon.

Shy Bunny Takes A Ride In The Moon

This meditation invites you to become more aware of your own energy and to learn to distinguish it from the energies of others that you may have absorbed. We will be transforming all energies that are not our own into blessings, before sending them back into the world. This practice can help you to feel empowered when dealing with unwanted energy from another person, or even the collective consciousness. It can also help you to transform your own energy with love and compassion. Background music: Divine Nature by Ajit Pramod Deshpande. Licensed by Sounds Of Nidra.

Raise Your Energy Vibration

Although Meerkat and Hedgehog are very different from each other, they are best friends. In this story, they go on a little adventure together that demonstrates Hedgehog's daring spirit and Meerkat's kind and more patient nature. In spite of the trouble they almost get into, they remain loyal best friends. This can be a great story to start a conversation about diversity - both in physical appearance and character - with children.

The Day Hedgehog Almost Blew Away

Waterfalls symbolize the process of cleansing and letting go, and the continuous flow of energy and life. Opportunities are provided throughout this meditative journey for you to discover powerful messages from your inner wisdom. Undertaking this inner journey may be helpful to you if you are in need of a release of emotion, or rejuvenation and renewal of your spirit. Background music: River Flute by Kevin MacLeod.

Journey To A Magical, Healing Waterfall

We can help heavy feelings feel lighter when we connect with love, joy, and gratitude to lighten the heart. All emotions are valid and it is OK to feel them, but sometimes we need some help when heavy feelings hang around for too long. This meditation can be enjoyed by itself or accompanied by the "Feelings like Feathers story". Background music: The Inner Calling composed by Music Of Wisdom

Feelings Like Feathers Meditation

A story to help children with anxiety. Kiki the klipspringer is anxious about going to a school picnic. She worries about everything that could possibly go wrong, instead of looking forward to an exciting day with her friends. Listen to the helpful ways of dealing with anxiety that Kiki discovers in this story. 

Play therapist Lenka de Villiers-van Zyl acted as an advisor on the helpful exercises that were included in the story. This story is also available in printed and digital format. Find more details here: https://hereyourheart.com/shop/books/ 

Free downloadable exercises to accompany this story are available to our newsletter subscribers: https://hereyourheart.com/subscribe-to-our-newsletter/

What if worries weren’t wild?

Nightmares are scary and make children fear the dark and going to sleep. But what if we discovered the beauty of stars and fireflies that only come out to play after dark? What if we could have a little friend to watch over us while we sleep, to help keep nightmares away? Kiki doesn’t want to go to sleep. She is afraid of the dark, because that is when the nightmare comes to scare her. One night, at bedtime, she decides to run away and hide rather than go to sleep. But then she makes a new friend who shows her that there is nothing to be afraid of after dark!

Kiki And The Nightmare

Fantine's story shows how self-esteem can be built when a child is allowed to help in his/her own special way. It's also a good story for little ones to identify with when a new little brother or sister arrives and they have to share some attention with the new baby. One by one, the busy fairies refuse Fantine’s offer to help them take care of the Fairy Babies. Fantine feels sad until she discovers a way of showing everyone that she is good at helping after all!

Fantine & The Fairy Babies

This story shows us how we can make heavy feelings feel a bit lighter. All emotions are valid and it is OK to feel them, but sometimes we need some help when heavy feelings, such as sadness, hang around for too long. In the story, children will find out how to connect with love, joy, and gratitude to lighten the heart. Background music: The Inner Calling composed by Music Of Wisdom

Feelings Like Feathers Story