Calista's 5 Minute Mondays

It has been wonderful to experience and grow Calista's 5 Minute Mondays with you. Engaging in these practices for myself has shown me that I need to take a sabbatical from Calista's 5 Minute Monday for 2022 to recharge, renew, and refocus. I hope that the last 113 episodes will stay with you as they have with me.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Body Scan episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. While this week's episode isn't a direct breath practice, it is one that relies entirely on the breath to succeed. Body scan meditations help us to offer ourselves compassion and to trace the connection to our mind, body, spirit, and heart through focus and breath.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Breath Focus episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week's is Breath Focus sets the inhale and exhale up as an easy gift to give ourselves. Paying attention to our breath, breathing with intentions and mantras as we do, can help us calm our bodies and focus our minds and hearts.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Restful Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week's is Restful Breath—one of the easiest breathing techniques. Calming techniques don't have to be multi-step or complicated. Sometimes, just exhaling fully is enough.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Belly Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week's is Belly Breath—a breathing technique that can bring us centeredness and congruence. Belly breath, and techniques like it, can help our body in all aspects of processing. It can help our nervous system process information, our minds, our emotions.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Mindful Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week's is Mindful Breath—an easy, important way to make space for mindfulness. It will literally calm our nervous systems and helping us create clarity.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Breath Walk episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week's is Breath Walk—a meditative walking practice to connect your mind, body, and spirit.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is the first breath practice of our Just Breathe Calendar. The “STOP” breath practice is a way to help us slow down and recognize how we are breathing.

Welcome back to Calista's 5 Minute Monday! After our summer sabbatical, 5 Minute Monday resumes with The Just Breathe Calendar focusing on finding moments of calm, peace, and mindfulness, in easy breath practices.

This week's 5 Minute Monday announces Calista's summer sabbatical. 5 Minute Monday #105 marks just over 2 years since Calista's 5 Minute Monday got started, and this summer will provide a short break, a time of renewal, of tending to what comes next, and discovering where our series will take us in the fall starting with #106! See you in the autumn!

This week marks the final 5 Minute Monday of our Personal Retreat series as well as the final 5 Minute Monday of our Nourish series. We wrap up with a discussion of connecting with our spirits as we move from “the brink of doing to being” and connect with ourselves and our intuitive wisdom through our personal retreat.

Our mini-series on the practice of a personal retreat continues this week with a focus on connecting to our minds. We take this third step into simply “being with” and nourishing our minds.

This week's 5 Minute Monday continues our mini-series within the Nourish series. This mini-series is all about building a retreat to care for yourself. This week, we focus on steps to support our hearts and noticing our feelings.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on creating a personal retreat to help find depth and clarity within ourselves. Step #1 for creating a personal retreat is nourishing and nurturing our bodies.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on the use of compassion and compassionate acts to create change in our lives—viewing our lives compassionately can allow us to take healing and kind actions to make change in our lives.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on adapting as a way to nourish and renew ourselves. Being able to change from an old idea, an old expectation, to a new one is an important part of nourishing ourselves in a changing environment.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is all about the power of art-making. Taking time to make art, of any kind, has been shown to lower our levels of stress and anxiety.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on the idea of a “Do-Nothing Day”. Setting aside a day in which you intentionally do nothing, where you intentionally let go of the busy-ness in your life is a powerful and positive form of nourishment for our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits.

5 Minute Monday #96 continues our journey through methods of nourishment. This week, we focus on beauty, specifically flowers, as a way to nourish.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is all about poetry—reading it, writing it, feeling it. Poetry offers us a way to connect to ourselves, to our hearts, without rules or restrictions.

#94 is all about the power of relaxation to nourish us. Relaxation—allowing ourselves to actually relax, be still, let go for several hours—can significantly benefit both our physical and our emotional bodies.

To celebrate this week's beautiful weather in Northern California, we're rerunning 5 Minute Monday #59: Sunshine. Sunshine is crucial to our physical health and our mental health, and this week is a simple encouragement to all of us to get a little sunshine every single day.

5 Minute Monday #93 discusses the power of body scan meditations to help us offer ourselves compassion and connection to our mind, body, spirit, and heart.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is all about water—how it nourishes and supports, the science behind it, and how it can benefit our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

This week's 5 Minute Monday continues our Nourish series. This podcast discusses the importance of sleep to nourishing ourselves and supporting our physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

This week's 5 Minute Monday begins a new series called Nourish. This week's Nourish podcast is focused on nutrition, touching on research about the gut-brain connection, and the impact that nutrition can have on our psychological and emotional health.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on empathy as a practice of love and a form of listening.

This week's 5 Minute Monday offers the practice of mirroring. By practicing mirroring, and by mirroring as accurately as possible, we can begin to discover if we are truly listening to ourselves and to others.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on the power of noticing to facilitate love of self and others—taking a breath, clearing the mind, and being in the present moment.

#86 begins our new series for the month of February “Practices of Love”. In order to be able to love, we also need to be able to listen. These 5 Minute Mondays will focus on practices that help us to listen, help us to know, help us to recognize, and help us to love ourselves and others.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is all about loving-kindness and how to best hold the energy around our intentions for the coming year. We've discussed the practice of peace, the practice of goodness, and now the practice of love.

This week's practice of goodness focuses on centering yourself around goodness—a breath practice, a calming practice to focus on goodness.

The first new 5 Minute Monday of 2021 is all about holding your center in the energy of intention.

In our first 5 Minute Monday for 2021, we focus on the power of creating a physical item, a vision board, to help us manifest our intention and vision for the new year.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is a re-run from 2019! Choosing a vision word for 2021 can help us to center and focus our hearts, minds, and bodies around what we intend for the new year.

This week's 5 Minute Monday begins our 3-week series on intention and vision for 2021. The power of intention helps us focus on our vision for the new year.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is about good sleeptime practices again. Sleep isn't just something that we have to do to live. Rather, it is an important time for our unconscious to help us find process and flow.

5 Minute Monday #78 is the first of two weeks focusing on sleep practices. This week, we discuss the rituals of winding down as we prepare for sleep.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is the last in our series on mindful moments. Even cleaning can be a way to spend 5 minutes in mindfulness. Something like doing the dishes—feeling the water, the rhythm of washing—can help us clear our minds and calm our systems.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is the next in our mindful moment series. It focuses on walking as a simple tool for mindfulness—for being in the here and now and for reducing stress and anxiety.

This week's 5 Minute Monday offers up another way to find a mindful moment. Time spent driving can offer up an opportunity to find a mindful moment to feel, observe, and notice yourself, the road, the cars, all of it.

This week's 5 Minute Monday on mindful moments focuses on the particulars of being present and on the idea of eating mindfully—in the present and without distractions.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on ways to calm the vagus nerve. Running from brain to gut, the vagus nerve is one of the parts of the body that can retain stress from our daily lives.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on the power of choosing positive change. As we follow up from our series on joy, we take these moments of joy we've found and step forward. Choosing to see the good, choosing an action step that creates positive change for ourselves, no matter how small.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is the next in this series on joy. Working to notice the little things that bring a smile or a moment of peace to us is an important way to increase joy in our lives.

This week's 5 Minute Monday carries on from last week's focus on offering support to fresh air. A breath of fresh air can clear our minds, increase our oxygen, and allow us a moment to change our perspective and find joy.

This week's 5 Minute Monday is the next part in our series on joy. We've talked about the importance of smiling, now we are talking about how offering support to others can bring us joy.

Moving from last week's 5 Minute Monday on dance, we focus a joyful clue: smiling. Pay attention to what makes you smile, pause a moment and notice.

This week's 5 Minute Monday celebrates blue skies (at least if you've been dealing with smoke like me) and joy and, as a part of that, the power of dance.

This week's 5 Minute Monday #66 discusses the power of hope, to energize us, to empower us, to help us work towards our hopes, dreams, and goals even when the timing is unsure.

This week's 5 Minute Monday focuses on the power of silence. Research has shown that even short moments of silence, like 2 minutes, can improve health and wellbeing.