Body Awareness Meditations for Cultivating Calm and Insight.

Mindfulness of Body is a foundational meditation practice in modern, evidence-based mindfulness programs like MBSR and MBCT, with a history rooted in ancient systems of mental and spiritual development.

Mindfulness of Body helps to disrupt and weaken painful mind states like anger, anxiety, fear, and depression. And within the mental clarity cultivated by Mindfulness of Body, we can begin to see how these painful mental states obtain the momentum to overtake us. With this awareness we can begin to dismantle these states and work with them more skillfully.

Physical restlessness and mental resistance—frustration, for example, and boredom—are common, unpleasant reactions to Mindfulness of Body training. These reactions will weaken over time, but they can be difficult to tolerate in the beginning. This is natural, so please be patient with yourself and with the process, the best you can. Best wishes in your practice. Take heart. You can do it.

Mindfulness of Body Intro: Sensations

Body Scan: Part by Part and Whole Body

Survey: Top to Bottom

Body Awareness: Center Moving Outward

Playing w/ Body Awareness: Water Imagery

Mindfulness of Body: Periphery to Center

Whole-Body Sponge Breathing

Heart Breathing

Web of Awareness

Broad but Centered Breath Awareness: Candle in the Room

Midline Shining Outward

10-Minute Body Scan

Home Base Meditation

Allowing Experience to Come to You

Drop In

3-Anchor Meditation

3-Anchor Meditation: Extended Practice

3-Anchor Meditation: 10-Minute Practice

Feeling the Face

Sleep Series: Deepening Presence

Sleep Series: Fully Held

Sleep Series: Blanket of Awareness

Relationships: Being Right Vs Being Curious

Sleep Series: Space for Listening

The Listening Space

Finding Ground and Space in Difficult Times

Deanna Burkett, MA, MS

Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher

This meditation was an excellent lesson in mindfulness.  I hope to recall the suggestions through out my day🙏

3 anchor meditation 

I found taking one out as they suggested really did help improve the meditation 

Earbud advice

Mindfulness practice, being aware, is giving me a bigger perspective on my world, I feel calmer, gentle I my attitude to myself and others, less judgmental


Awareness

I felt every awareness that the instructor brought me to, all in such a short time. I have issues with dissociation and it’s pretty much constant lately. This really helped me ground into my body and it’s kind of exciting feeling my hands and feet tingling as I write this, when I’m usually completely unaware. I’m very thankful 

Grounding at 3am 

When we are stuck in reactivity--fear, sadness, anger, restlessness--awareness can feel tight and small, like tunnel vision, and in this contracted condition it's difficult to break old habits or to see possibilities for new thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This 3-Anchor meditation can help with softening and widening awareness, to give ourselves the space to move more freely and intentionally. Please feel free to reach out with thoughts, questions, or objections! I would love to hear from you. Deanna