Have you ever found yourself in the midst of scorching summertime temperatures and extreme heat? How about the threat of wildfires and smoky skies? How do you take relief from the heat? Soaring temperatures affect our mood. As our bodies try to regulate and cool off - whether it is a river, the ocean, sprinklers, fountains or reservoirs, even wet washcloths on our wrists - I offer this calming breath practice for more ease.

Heatwave - Equal Breath

Are you feeling low energy upon waking in the morning after a lack of quality sleep? How do you greet the new day upon rising? Deep rest and morning ritual sets the tone for the quality of your experiences throughout the day. Access the flame of truth within you and come closer to a sense of wholeness. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

New Day - Flame of Amazement

We are often challenged in our relationships with different love languages and styles of communication. We can learn to access deep listening and loving speech in our interactions. How do we view conflict within and conflict around us? This is a lighthearted story about an interaction of a couple and the sharing of a lesson about chaos within and chaos without by the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

Brightness in Relationships

When we are suffering because of distance, cancellation, or conflict with someone in our life, we can learn to sense how we are triggered and become aware of the stress or anxiety we are holding and our relationship to it. Turn to this mindfulness meditation practice to access different ways of seeing conflict, for the expanded perspective of your emotions, and to witness the relationship with yourself and others in moments of vulnerability.

Ways of Seeing - Truth & Conflict

As we get ready for sleep, thoughts may be flashing at high speed in our minds. You may be feeling stuck on one prevailing thought or be feeling a general sense of overwhelm as you process the highs and lows of all of the day's micro experiences. Unwind before bed with this relaxation meditation to restore equanimity and for a deeper sleep. To find out more about Sascha and her work, please see: alexandraadvisoryservices.com

Rest Well - Before Sleep Meditation

There are links between meridians and our emotions. Meridians are channels of energy within the body that circulate, Qi, vital energy. Sometimes we experience blockages and imbalances in the body caused by insomnia, lack of healthy eating, stress, substance abuse, anxiety. Our individual energy flow conditions how we feel in many ways. With this meditation, increase awareness of the energy flowing in the body, as you come closer to a deep state of relaxation.

Peaceful Sleep Meridian Meditation

If you are going through something of an emotional hurricane, tune into this meditation. In our raw and natural states, embodying various emotions, the memories and traumas we carry, we can sit in the fullness of our lives. Your practice can reveal the mysteries, the fears, the beauty of your inner world. The hardest of circumstances often hide something of infinite value.

Invisibly Supported

Getting entangled in difficult emotions is natural; there is an infinite number of events in daily life that can trigger us. Mindfulness emphasizes acceptance of emotions and openness, a willingness to experience them as part of life. In this meditation, you will observe how a particular emotion feels to you and rest into letting it be. Be with things as they are as you learn to cultivate balance and fortitude to be with emotions as they arrive.

Emotional Landscape - Awareness

Are you grieving? Heartbroken? Going through a personal loss and having mixed-up sleep cycles, difficulty concentrating, feeling energetically depleted? You are not alone. Grief is a universal experience. There is a lot of grief, fear, and frustration in the world and these emotions affect our health and well-being. We can learn to work with grief and heal from our sense of loss or sadness.

Grief Meditation for Wild Sleep Cycles

Do you have a hard time accepting yourself just as you are? Acceptance refers to the ability to stay present. We can take a step back from resisting things as they are. In the twinkling of an eye, we may observe the compassion in one another. The tone of life is altered when we approach concerns with unconditional love and acceptance. When sitting in quietude and contemplation there is an unfolding, an opening that occurs towards greater acceptance.

Acceptance

Is drama in your life keeping you awake at night? Drama can be a distraction, it can pull you in. I imagine you want peace. We all want peace. Can you think of someone recently that has disrupted your inner peace? If drama has entered into your world in a persistent way, you can learn to work with it in a skillful manner.

Detach From Drama Before Sleep

It's not always easy to believe in yourself and your infinite potential when obstacles and fear arise. Our narratives matter. Mindfully engage in self-compassion practices and try working with these affirmations - to free energy your journey and radiate strength and confidence.

Affirmations Encompassing Beauty

If you are having trouble falling asleep, tune into this meditation to unwind and bring you into a state of deep relaxation. I share my walk at twilight in the woods as I become still before bedtime and then invite you to visualize the sky as night descends - the first stars, then the moon, and the essence of the mystery of the sky above. We tune into the light of these ancient photons that have traveled unfathomable distances to reach your eyes.

Blue to Orange to Black Sky at Nightfall

The pressure of images we see throughout mediums in our digital culture, whether stylized or curated, imaginative and raw behind-the-scenes, may knock at our self-esteem, create a comparison, doubt, worry, or misery. This meditation expands your sense of the meaning of beauty and your relationship to it in an imperfect multi-cultural world.

Self-Image and Beauty

Do you feel sturdy on your particular patch of earth? How do you drift away in thought, play small or limit the expansiveness of your spirit? A meditation to illuminate your relationship to yourself and the earth. We have changes to absorb in life, and we can come back to the breath, to a restful place, amidst that turbulences come our way.

Patch on Earth

This healing meditation is an encouragement to bring fresh ritual and light to your life in times of worry. To align with the radiance that comes from deep with you and to connect with the grand mystery, to pray in times of worry. Included is brief teaching from the Buddha on happiness and inner peace.

Healing Meditation

We can all relate to uncertainty and worry about the future. Are you inspired by optimism to never give up and to rest in a place of unity in a diverse world? Meditation is a form of surrender, and in this meditation, we look at our fragility, the different spaces we find ourselves in, and calm the fears and desires inherent to our limbic system.

Fragility on this Planet Meditation

Have you created a restful sleep environment to experience quality rest? Reimagine your relationship to the breath and quiet the mind with this before-bedtime practice, working with the breath and inner body awareness.

The Bedroom and Breath

Are you feeling alone in your suffering? This meditation invites an exploration of moving from a sense of separateness towards togetherness. With loving awareness, we can access that place of unity. When you feel one with another, there is a glorious transfer of energy.

We Are One

What realities are you trying to forge in your group, community, or family? For fortitude and flexibility and to come back to a peaceful state - a relaxing meditation for those times of questioning. Letting go of an inner critique. A mature mind is a peaceful mind. Answers arise in the silence.

Roots Deep - Clear Mind

Before rest, the overwhelmed, energetic parts of our lives can be balanced with the taking rest part. If you are in busy mode, or plodding along having trouble sleeping, even experiencing temporary insomnia, allow yourself time to pause and experience deep relaxation with this meditation. Cultivate awareness towards a restorative, healing state. Information is offered on natural ways to work with temporary insomnia.

Restorative Before Rest

Are things feeling a little prickly and it's time to take a breather? Are you interested in working with a Jain mantra of Surrender? This is a sharing of a spectrum of explorations from the imagination to Ashram life to contemplation and action, science, and spirituality. After a bit of listening, take time for part meditation and part reciting of phrases.

Higher Worlds - Surrender

What is your relationship to prayer in troubled times? If you are feeling alone, in pain or dealing with uncertainty, you can turn to prayer. Prayer is a part of our desire for wholeness, an expression of our deepest Being.

Prayer Regenerates

A captivating and inspirational story about bringing favorable circumstances to ourselves, following our dreams, giving back, and lifting each other up. This is a sharing of a story I was moved by, about an inspirational and brilliant woman with a sacred dream. Born in a rural African village in the '60s, we learn of her deep relationship to ritual and to her elders, the wisdom whisperers of the community.

Ancestral Wisdom and Self-Empowerment

When we tune into a slower pace, we harness a certain kind of energy. This is a story to listen to you as you are trying to fall asleep, of a walk, hand in hand with a loved one. An exploration of how when someone takes your hand with full presence, mindfulness naturally comes front and center. You can begin to sense in a deep way how the universe surrenders as you bask into the stillness and sweetness of meaningful connections in your life.

Holding Hands on a Dreamy Morning

This is a story of an artist, a creator of colorful, dreamlike, and exotic sun catchers. The sea beckons her into contemplation as she walks with mindfulness collecting unusual shells by the sea for her designs. Oxygen flow and mood are improved with good posture, you will hear more about this. The story ends with a space for meditation.

Dreamlike by the Sea - Awareness

Sleep peacefully after tuning in to this visualization meditation where you'll connect to the light of the sun and moon and stars. The sun carries a divine intelligence. We connect with our aliveness and give gratitude not only for the light of the sun, central to life but also for the light of our inner wisdom and insight.