Sometimes, when our thoughts get the better of us, it seems impossible to meditate. In this case, we can still use affirmations to calm and center ourselves and remember that we are not our thoughts, we are observers.

When meditation seems impossible, use affirmations to calm and center yourself, remember you are not your thoughts, you are an observer.

Affirmations For A Chaotic Mind

A relaxation with affirmations for self-acceptance. We will begin by relaxing the body and the breath, finding a nice, safe space in your mind, and then repeating some affirmations for self-acceptance and self-love. This relaxation also exists in a shorter version to start your day with a boost.

Relaxation with affirmations for self-acceptance and self-love in a longer and shorter version to start your day with a boost.

Affirmations For Self Acceptance

When the world rewards burnout, resting can feel like failure. This session uses affirmations to help you reclaim rest as a right — not a reward. Through calming, reassuring phrases, you’ll begin to soften internal guilt, let go of pressure, and invite your body to truly exhale. Whether you’re lying down or just needing to mentally pause, these words are here to help you feel permission to rest deeply, without shame.

Affirmations help reclaim rest as a right, not a reward, by releasing guilt and pressure to allow deep relaxation without shame.

Affirmations for Rest and Recovery

This session gently addresses the inner voice that says, “You should be doing more.” These affirmations help you name, normalise, and soften guilt — whether it’s about productivity, politics, caregiving, or simply existing. You’ll learn how to interrupt harsh inner loops and replace them with phrases that offer grace, boundaries, and self-trust. Let these words be a balm for your conscience, a reminder that you are allowed to be human in complicated times.

Combat feelings of inadequacy with affirmations that promote self-compassion and self-trust in challenging times.

Affirmations for Letting Go of Guilt

A lot of people who label themselves "stressed out", are nothing of the sort. They are just tired. Learn about how you may be confusing the two and why it is essential to look out for both stress and fatigue in your daily life.

Don't confuse stress with fatigue, many labeled "stressed" are simply tired. It's important to identify and manage both in your daily life.

Are You Stressed or Tired?

In this session, we will talk about the science of naps. I like to know how things work. I find that, if I know how my brain and body will respond to a certain thing, it works better for me. What makes a perfect nap? What timing should we choose? An hour or 15 minutes? Where should we nap? What happens to our brains and our bodies when we nap? How can it benefit us in the long and in the short run?

This session discusses the science of naps, including optimal timing, location, and benefits for the brain and body, in short and long-term.

The Science Of (Power)Naps

Not all affirmations work for all brains, and that’s okay. This theoretical episode helps you understand different “mind types” (anxious, overthinking, shut-down, ADHD, etc.) and how to shape affirmations that land. You’ll learn how to test, personalize, and refine language so it supports your nervous system, rather than triggering resistance. A must-listen if affirmations have ever felt fake, frustrating, or ineffective. You’ll leave with tools for making this practice truly yours.

Learn how to tailor affirmations to your unique "mind type" to support your nervous system and make the practice truly effective and personal.

Adapting Affirmations to Your Mind

We practice gratitude at the beginning of the day, gratitude for everything that will come towards you on this day.

Start each day with gratitude for everything that will come your way.

Start The Day With Gratitude

When we go to bed with the express goal of falling asleep quickly, we can often get in our own way. Getting to relax the body and the mind before we drift off can be very useful. In this exercise, we will relax our bodies and then take some time to visualize ourselves at the beach. The body, the breath, and the visualization come together to get you to accept rest in your life.

Relaxing the body and visualizing a beach can help improve sleep quality by accepting rest into your life.

Sea Visualization For Sleep

Your breath is a powerful tool in meditation and mindfulness, in this exercise, we will use the breath to relax our minds and our bodies before going to sleep. Sleep is such a natural part of life on our beautiful planet, but sometimes, we struggle to fall asleep when the time comes. In times like these, we need a little help and a little guidance, to get us to let go of the day and drift off. Crawl into bed, enjoy and sleep tight!

Use your breath to relax your mind and body before sleep in this meditation exercise, to help you let go of the day and drift off into a peaceful slumber.

Breathing Before Bed

This meditation is focused on what surrounds us. This is traditionally known as a 'cosmic meditation', but I like to think of it as a zooming out-exercise. One that will put things in a different perspective, by bringing different things into our awareness. The exercise may not be so suitable for beginners, so I recommend you try a body scan or a breathing meditation before you jump right into this one. We'll start with a quote from the Sutras, an awareness of our breathing, and then we start to explore what else we can bring into our awareness.

A cosmic meditation that zooms out and offers a different perspective, focused on the surrounding environment, recommended for experienced meditators.

Cosmic Meditation

Gratitude is a beautiful practice for any time of day, but practicing it right before bedtime, allows you to put your worries aside and instead fill you heart, body and mind with warm and fuzzy feelings. Get comfortable, relax your body, and fill yourself with gratitude tonight.

Practice gratitude before bedtime to ease worries and fill your heart and mind with warm feelings.

Fall Asleep With A Grateful Heart

How do you usually talk to yourself? Are you soft, gentle, and kind to yourself, or are you harsh and critical? In today's meditation, I'll encourage you to give yourself words of love, so you can go about your day with plenty of self-love.

Practice self-love by being kind, gentle, and encouraging in your inner dialogue for a positive and empowered day.

Start Your Day With Self Love

In today’s session, we will take a journey with our nap. Today is the day we can use our imaginations and find ourselves in a visualization of sorts. After a guided breathing exercise, I will guide you and invite you on a journey. We will visualize a walk through the forest. The natural imagery will help us relax and find some rest. Perhaps it can also inspire you to take a forest walk later.

Guided meditation session involves visualizing a forest walk for relaxation and inspiration.

A Nap In Nature

You are strong, you are capable, you are courageous and brilliant, but sometimes, you forget. So today, we'll start the day off with building some extra confidence, so you can tackle whatever comes your way!

Boost your confidence to tackle any challenge by reminding yourself of your strength, capability, courage, and brilliance

Start Your Day With Confidence

We can all use a little more joy in our lives, but sometimes it's hard to know where to start or where to fit it in our days. So today, we'll start the day with exploring, feeling, and cultivating joy.

Learn how to incorporate joy into your daily routine by exploring, feeling, and cultivating it for a more fulfilling life.

Start Your Day With Joy

Esta meditación te invita a empezar el día con buenas energías y agradecimiento. Sumérgete en el momento presente de la mañana, tómate un momento para respirar profundamente, liberar el estrés y conectar con tus intenciones para el día. Guiado(a) por afirmaciones positivas, cultivarás la gratitud por tu día, el sol que amanece, las personas en tu vida, tu cuerpo y tu mente. Una meditación relajante que crea espacio para apreciar las cosas y te prepara para recibir cada experiencia con gratitud.

Meditación matutina para comenzar el día con energía positiva, agradecimiento y conexión con nuestras intenciones, guiada por afirmaciones.

Comienza El Día Con Gratitud

Mildness is the counterbalancing force for perfectionism. In this meditation, we give ourselves permission to be mild, to let go of the push for perfection. We allow ourselves to be.

This meditation encourages embracing mildness and letting go of perfectionism, giving ourselves permission to simply be.

Mildness Meditation

We'll be taking a nap together in this exercise. First, we'll relax the body, and then, I'll tell you a story. You can let me chat in the background while you relax or sleep, or you can treat it as a guided visualization, where we leave our worries of the day behind. Although this is a nap exercise, you could also use it to relax and clear your mind before you go to bed. Curl up, cover-up, and enjoy.

Relax and nap with a guided visualization exercise that clears your mind and leaves your worries behind before sleeping or taking a nap.

A Transformative Nap

A meditation for when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't seem to get back to sleep. If you're worried about tossing and turning at night, here is a guided relaxation for you to drift back off into your dreams.

Guided relaxation meditation to help you fall back asleep when waking up in the middle of the night, ensuring a peaceful transition into dreams.

Falling Back Asleep

Today, we'll start the day with an open awareness meditation. Together, we'll look for calm and grounding, so we can move through our days with awareness and alertness.

Start the day with open awareness meditation to find calm and grounding, promoting awareness and alertness throughout the day.

Start Your Day With Presence

In this exercise, we will use our breaths to come into a state of relaxation. An excellent starting point if you are new to breathing meditation, or would like a quick relaxation exercise for the middle of your day.

Learn how to relax using breathing meditation in a quick exercise suitable for beginners or as a midday relaxation technique.

Relaxing With Your Breath

Can you feel the stress in your shoulders, your neck, and your face? Do you need to relax quickly and let go of anxiety? Then this meditation is for you. In just 8 minutes, we will let go of stress and tension in the body with progressive muscle relaxation. Give this small gift to yourself.

8-minute meditation to relieve stress and tension in the body through progressive muscle relaxation - a gift of relaxation and anxiety relief for yourself.

Quick Muscle Relaxation

Abundance is all around us, just think about the abundance of blades of grass, the abundance of stars, and the abundance of breaths you take every day. Today, we'll take a moment to enjoy the abundance within us.

Recognize the abundance in everyday life and appreciate the abundance within yourself.

Start Your Day With Abundance

To start, we'll bring some intention to our morning, and our day. In this meditation, I'll encourage you to pick an intention for the day, so you can tackle your day feeling strong and confident!

In this meditation, choose an intention for the day to feel empowered and confident while tackling your tasks.

Start Your Day with Intention

Today, we'll start our day by finding balance and equanimity. Cultivating equanimity can help us stay grounded and centered on ourselves, even when the day doesn't go exactly as we planned.

Cultivating equanimity helps us stay grounded and centered, finding balance despite unexpected events in our day.

Start Your Day With Equanimity

Even if we've practiced mindfulness and meditation for a while, it's possible our thoughts go into overdrive when bedtime comes. This mindfulness for bedtime exercise will help you transition between your waking and sleeping life and send you off on a good night's sleep.

Mindfulness for bedtime exercise helps transition into sleep and improve sleep quality for those with busy minds.

Bedtime Mindfulness

You might not remember sleeping as a baby, but your body does. In this meditation, we'll get in touch with the sensations of sleep itself, slow down our breathing, our heart rate, and our brainwaves and let our body rest. Fall asleep in no time and let your inner child rest and relax.

This meditation helps you reconnect with the sensations of sleep, allowing your body to slow down and find deep relaxation, like your inner child.

Sleep Like A Baby

A short, effective practice to regain some calm and clarity at the moment. With gentle guidance, I'll invite you to become aware of your breathing, and then use the awareness of your breath to gain acceptance for your present moment. The practice contains no music and can be done anywhere, anytime, in any position. A great way to start or end your day or take a break right in the middle of it.

A quick breathing exercise to find peace and clarity anytime, anywhere, with no music, just gentle guidance.

Breathing For Calm And Clarity

In this bedtime meditation, we take a moment to become aware of the wonders of rest. We become mindful of the place that sleep and rest have in our lives and give ourselves permission to rest, to sleep, to give our bodies what they need.

This bedtime meditation reminds us to embrace rest and sleep, allowing our bodies to rejuvenate and acknowledging their importance in our lives.

Sleep Appreciation Meditation

In this session, the technique we will employ is passive muscle relaxation. Although it has ‘passive’ in the name, we will still need to do a little bit of work to relax. I will explain; in the technique, we will relax different muscles in our bodies, but we will do it without movement. This is to show you that it is possible to will your body to relax. Your mind has the power to relax your body. I hope you can keep the immense and humbling power of your brain in mind, while you do this relaxation, but also for the rest of the day. Enjoy your nap

Learn passive muscle relaxation, a technique to will your body to relax without movement, and discover the immense power of your brain to relax.

Relaxing The Mind, Relaxing The Body

A series of affirmations for self-acceptance and self-love for when you need a quick boost in the morning or throughout your day.

Affirmations for self-love and acceptance to boost your day!

In this lesson, we practice concentration meditation, in the Zen tradition. We can use our thoughts to relax by focusing on one thing at a time. In this way, we can become still.

Practice concentration meditation in the Zen tradition to relax and become still by focusing on one thing at a time.

Relaxing Zen Concentration Meditation

Walking is an excellent way to meditate. I learned this technique during my stay at a Buddhist monastery. Walking helps your body and your mind, it gives us a mental boost and works to help calm us. This walking meditation helps you on your way.

Walking meditation is a beneficial practice learned at a Buddhist monastery; it promotes physical and mental well-being, providing a mental boost and fostering calmness.

Walking Meditation

In this guided lesson, we’ll nap together, relax our bodies, and visualize a calm train ride through nature that brings us to a new moment in time.

This guided lesson focuses on relaxation techniques, including napping, body relaxation, and visualizing a calm train ride through nature.

Guided Nap - Trainride Through Nature

This is a sleep story. I will invite you to imagine a lush, green, tranquil forest where you can take a relaxing walk before finding a little cozy house where you can lie down and rest, surrounded by easy, beautiful nature sounds. Lie back, relax, breathe, and let me talk you to sleep.

Sleep story set in a peaceful forest guiding listeners to imagine a cozy house and soothing nature sounds to help them relax and fall asleep.

Forest Walk To Fall Asleep

In this nature meditation, we will use a deep, tranquil lake as a metaphor, to explore and release our feelings and thoughts in a safe, comfortable way. I'll invite you to remember or imagine a lake, and in this lake, explore the surface and the depths.

This nature meditation guides you to use a tranquil lake metaphor to safely explore and release your emotions and thoughts.

Release Emotions For Deep Sleep

Relaxing sleep story set in a peaceful forest with calming nature sounds, guiding you to a cozy house to rest and drift off to sleep.

Forest Walk Sleep Story

You cannot pour from an empty cup, so let's fill your cup together in this guided nap. We'll first relax our bodies and then visualize ourselves in a lush, beautiful garden with a fountain. The water that runs through the fountain is there to refresh and renew you and fill your heart with gratitude. You can use this exercise as a guided nap or a sleep story, there is no cue to wake up at the end.

Guided nap to relax and visualize a lush garden with a refreshing fountain to renew and fill your heart with gratitude, no cue to wake up.

A Nap To Fill Your Cup

In this sleep story, I'll invite you to imagine a quiet, relaxed stroll through the mountains. We'll enjoy the sights, smells, and sounds of nature together and then find a comfortable spot to rest in a little mountain cabin. Let my voice carry you off into a peaceful sleep.

Escape to the tranquil mountains, guided by soothing narration, to peacefully drift off to sleep in a cozy cabin.