Embodied Meditation

The beloved poet Mary Oliver said: My work is loving the world. We'll take that as our intention today and let this short practice of simple movement and meditation be a love letter – a Valentine – to the world. We'll start by stimulating the space around your physical heart, freeing any congestion or tightness in your chest, shoulders, and upper back. Then we'll allow the resulting openness and ease to settle into your body with some quiet meditation, letting the feeling to extend, ripple by ripple, out into the world. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This practice is quiet and still. Deeply nourishing and restful. It's especially for those of you who have asked for support around the fatigue and strain of Long Covid. I hope it will also benefit anyone recovering from illness, navigating a chronic condition, or simply feeling exhausted. It combines a guided relaxation for your whole system with a gentle intention you can draw on—like a mantra—anytime. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Listeners have been asking for a morning body scan without movement – a full-body meditation and some quiet intention-setting you can do right in bed. Today's free Embodied Meditation gives you just that. It requires no movement other than your breath and the gentle path of your awareness, tracing yourself awake, from your feet to your head. Spend the first 11 minutes of your day awakening in this luxuriously meditative way.

Today's free Embodied Meditation—a short 7-Minute Reset—invites you to slowly welcome the New Year. We'll gently move and breathe our way toward a posture and a mindset that's relaxed, receptive, and open hearted.

Winter Solstice, the still point when the natural world sinks into quiet hibernation and deep rest. Today's Embodied Meditation honors this time with our annual practice of slow, calming movement, following the energy down and in, and finishing with a candle-gazing meditation to tune into the ancient ritual of tending a gentle light during this darkest time of year. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Do your mornings sometimes feel hectic and chaotic? What if, instead of giving into the rush and noise, you could gift yourself a few quiet minutes of something more nourishing, more aligned with your true nature? This gentle morning practice of movement and meditation helps you cultivate a calm, easeful state that can set the tone for your entire day. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

One of the clearest and most direct ways to practice gratitude is to pay attention to the sensory experience of your body—to notice and honor the subtle sensations of simply being alive and in relationship with the world around you. In today's Embodied Meditation, we'll do that by moving gently and simply through a pared down, seated version of a Sun Salutation. This staple of yoga movement practices was designed to bring us into our bodies and into a state of gratitude. Our version today is one that's accessible anywhere you can find a comfortable seat, so it's perfect for inserting a dose of gratitude and soothing movement into any part of your day. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

It's remarkable how quickly the body can drop some of its surface stress. Today's Embodied Meditation is a 10-minute seated practice that helps you squeeze, wring out, and release physical tension from head to toe. As a bonus, you might find your mind following right along, getting clearer and calmer as you go. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Who doesn't love a crisp, clear fall day? But maybe you also long for those occasional rainy autumn days that lure you in, slow you down, and soothe your system. Today's Embodied Meditation helps you create that calming feeling, so you can tap into it anytime you could use a dose of cozy nurturing and letting go. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Feel you're juggling way too much, way too fast, without a moment to catch your breath, much less pause and reflect? Today's Embodied Meditation carves out a tiny pocket of time to help you Slow. Down. We'll shift the pace in just a few minutes, starting by slowing your breath, then linking it with meditative movement so you can reset your speed to a rhythm that's more soothing and sustainable. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The yoga tradition teaches how valuable it is to spend time quieting all the stimulation, chatter, noise, and distraction that can fill our senses. The practice of quieting and drawing in invites us to listen to ourselves and perhaps, eventually, to touch more focus, clarity, and peace. Today's Embodied Meditation combines slowing-down movements, a guided visualization, and some stillness to cultivate that state of quiet. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The Fall Equinox—a time when day and night are in perfect balance—invites us to welcome that energy into our bodies and our lives. This Embodied Meditation helps you do just that, and to attune to the seasonal tipping point toward shortening days, subtle slowing down, and gathering in toward rest. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Stop for a short 7 minutes, trace release all the way down your body from head to toe, and see if you don't feel just a little more grounded, present, and at ease. Today's free Embodied Meditation is a 7-Minute Reset Body Scan. Use it anywhere, anytime—sitting, standing, or lying down. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The height of summertime heat can sometimes feel draining and depleting. And all the bright, hot energy can also fan the flames of agitation and irritability. It's nice to know we can draw on simple movement, breathing, and meditation practices to cool down and calm down – we'll tap into them in this episode. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Are you wishing for a short, meaningful practice to help you awaken to your day with awareness and gratitude? Today's free Embodied Meditation is a Morning Body Scan with gentle movement. It invites you to be present and receptive to the daily gifts and lessons the world has to offer—and to take this reverence into your day. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This Embodied Meditation is perfect if you want to settle into bed for the night. You can also use it to settle scattered, swirling energy during your day. It's a calming, grounding practice that incorporates slow, earthy movements. We end with a guided relaxation, envisioning of a body of water settling, followed by a period of quiet stillness — creating a place where you can anchor and come to rest. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

It's so nourishing to align with the seasonal rhythms around us. It allows us to tap into our more instinctual rhythms and reminds us, on a deep level, that we are not separate from the energies and cycles of the natural world. This practice invites you to luxuriate in and celebrate the warmth and expansiveness of the Summer Solstice. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Most of us haul around way too much—stress, worry, overloaded calendars, endless to-do lists. Over time, we can start to feel the burden in our bodies— they might become tired, sluggish, weighed down. This Embodied Meditation is a practice to help you lighten up. It's short and fun, so you can tap release and ease. We finish with a traditional breathing practice that invites vibrancy, along with a few minutes of quiet meditation to let all the lightness radiate and expand. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today's Embodied Meditation gives you a short break from your screen. It's simple and efficient; you can do it anywhere, anytime. The gentle movement practice tends to your eyes, your shoulders and neck, your upper back, and your wrists. Most of all, it helps soothe your brain and coax your whole system out of cyberspace and back into your physical body. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This is a great one if you want to move and celebrate Spring. Today's free Embodied Meditation—a Morning Gratitude Practice—invites you to flow and breathe through a simple, energizing ritual that sets the tone for your day and the whole season. You'll be ready to head into what's next with a sense of deep gratitude for how you're supported, connected, and alive.

Finding it hard to shift from fragmented and scattered to focused? Today's Embodied Meditation, a short 7-min Reset, draws on simple, classic yogic techniques to help you get out of your head and into your body—and gather and settle your attention. You might be surprised at how just a few minutes of movement and breath can help you step out of the frenzy.

Especially during these early months of Spring, our body's joints can feel in need of a good thawing out and loosening up. Today's Embodied Meditation, perfect for first thing in the morning, invites hydration, movement, and space into your joints, clearing anything stuck or blocked, so you can move on to your day—or the whole season ahead—feeling renewed.

There can be a feeling of deep belonging in responding to the natural rhythms and cycles of the seasons—maybe doing so reminds us that we're a part of the natural order of things. Today's Embodied Meditation is a celebration of the Spring Equinox. It's a practice full of calm, uplifting movement, breathing and stillness, perfect for anytime during this early spring season. Think of it as an invitation to begin to unclench any hunched-in holding Winter has asked of you and gently, gradually unfurl toward the expanding light of Spring.

Do your hips feel on lock-down from too much sitting? This 6-minute, office-friendly practice gets you up out of your chair and moving your hips in all directions. You'll be ready to head into what's next feeling a little less tension and a lot more freedom and ease. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The beloved poet Mary Oliver said: My work is loving the world. We'll take that as our mantra today, and let this short practice of simple movement and meditation be a love letter – a Valentine – to the world. We'll start by stimulating the space around your physical heart, freeing any congestion or tightness in your chest, shoulders, and upper back. Then we'll allow the resulting openness and ease to settle into your body with some quiet meditation, letting the feeling extend, ripple by ripple, out into the world. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Many of us spend our workdays hunched forward and rounded in. This leaves the muscles in our backs—from our necks all the way down—over-stretched, over-stressed, weak, tired, and sore. Today's Embodied Meditation is a 5-minute break you can take anytime, anywhere to open up that compressed shape and find strength, length, and space. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

New year. New day. Or maybe a new project, adventure, or challenge. Whatever you're on the cusp of, today's Embodied Meditation is a luxurious, mindful, full-body practice to help you usher in new beginnings. We'll move, breathe, and call in your capacity for openness, curiosity, and awareness. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Winter Solstice. The still point when the natural world sinks into quiet hibernation and deep rest. Today's Embodied Meditation honors this time with a practice of slow, calming movement, following the energy down and in, and finishing with a candle-gazing meditation to tune into the ancient ritual of tending a gentle light during this darkest time of year. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today's Embodied Meditation is meant to help you turn in — whether you're using it as a seasonal ritual to move toward the quiet of deep winter or as a way to mark the shift in your day from outward focus to sleep. We'll start with gentle, seated movement, transitioning from outer stimulation to inner resources. Then we'll finish with a short, guided relaxation, with the option of lying down, so you can simply drift off to sleep, if you like.  Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This week's Embodied Meditation invites you to move and breathe through a simple, energizing morning ritual that sets the tone for your day. You'll be ready to head into what's next with a sense of deep gratitude for how you're supported, connected, and alive. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

If your shoulders are hunched up to your ears, your head is jutting forward, and your neck feels like a cable, it's time for a break. Here's a 5-minute one you can take right at your desk to melt your frozen-in-place shape and release some tension in your shoulders and neck. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Part of us is still attuned to more ancient ways of tracking time, and that part yearns to mark the shift from the fruitfulness of summer and the activity of early fall toward a quieter period of preserving, composting, and settling in for rest. Today's Embodied Meditation, a Harvest Season practice, is perfect for the evening. It will help you wind down from an entire portion of the year or just the day's doings and prepare for bed. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The poet Ellen Bass talks about how she writes poetry because she doesn't want to miss the world. I think that's such a beautiful way of describing how any contemplative practice—including the practices of yoga—can help us be more present and receptive to the daily gifts and lessons the world has to offer. Today's Embodied Meditation is a Morning Body Scan with Movement that invites you to bring this sense of attention and reverence into the start of your day. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The Fall Equinox—a time when day and night are in perfect balance—invites us to welcome that energy into our bodies and our lives. Today's Embodied Meditation helps you do just that, and to attune to this seasonal tipping point toward shortening days, subtle slowing down, and gathering in toward rest. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

It's remarkable how quickly the body can drop some of its surface stress. Today's Embodied Meditation is a 10-minute seated practice that helps you squeeze, wring out, and release physical tension from head to toe. As a bonus, you might find your mind following right along, getting clearer and calmer as you go. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Ready to bask in the glow of the full moon? This Embodied Meditation helps you draw on its nurturing, illuminating power anytime—a perfect practice to do right in bed before you drift toward sleep. Want to be added to my mailing list, discuss a private yoga session, or offer suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you. Please visit my website: paigegilchristyoga.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.  

Breath and movement help us connect – not only to ourselves, but to the natural flow and rhythm of life. This Embodied Meditation begins with a breathing practice, then progresses to gentle, breath-centered movement. You'll finish by riding your breath into stillness, resting into your place in the flow of things. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

We're so hard on our bellies. Trying to contain and control them. Criticizing ourselves for what we do or don't put into them. Clamping down on them when they try to send us signals. And then wondering why they don't effortlessly digest, relax, look great, and let us get on with our lives. This Embodied Meditation offers breathing, movement, and a guided meditation to relieve all that tension, then tap into the deep wisdom of your gut instinct. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This 10-minute Embodied Meditation is a body-scan relaxation you can do right in bed as you move toward sleep, or in any comfortable position anytime. It leads you on a soothing journey from your head down to your toes, relaxing everything as you go. As you finish, you can rest into the full-body knowledge that your whole—in a relaxed and present state—is so much greater than the sum of your parts. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Too much time on a screen or device leaves us feeling stiff, gripped, bleary-eyed, and disembodied. Today's free Embodied Meditation is a 7-minute reset to help you unwind all of that. We'll un-hunch your shoulders, breathe life back into your hands and wrists, tend to your aching neck, and give you some fresh perspective. Back away from your screen, and let's get started. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

It's so nourishing to align with the seasonal rhythms around us. It allows us to tap into our more instinctual rhythms and reminds us, on a deep level, that we are not separate from the energies and cycles of the natural world. This annual practice invites you to luxuriate in and celebrate the warmth and expansiveness of the Summer Solstice.   Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I'd love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

In our modern information-age, so much of our attention is localized in our head and face, where the pre-frontal cortex of our brain, along with our eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, are all processing data, decoding patterns, and working hard to help us make sense of the avalanche of information we’re bombarded with every minute. Today’s Embodied Meditation helps release contraction and tension in your head and face and then invites you to drop more fully into the rest of your body, balancing your energy and leaving you feeling more integrated and whole. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today’s Embodied Meditation invites you to move and breathe through a simple, energizing morning ritual that sets the tone for your day. You’ll be ready to head into what’s next with a sense of deep gratitude for how you’re supported, connected, and alive. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

If you find yourself feeling hunched over or closed off—physically or energetically—this 7-Minute Reset can do wonders. We’ll gently move and breathe our way toward a posture and a mindset that’s more relaxed, receptive, and open-hearted. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Our low backs are places of deep support—and they also often hold chronic stress. This 20-minute Embodied Meditation soothes your back with gentle movement, then helps you release tension with a guided breathing meditation, spreading warmth through the low back and leaving it—and your whole system—calm. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Something the yoga tradition has been teaching for thousands of years and that Western science has begun to stress more and more is that when you breathe well, you have a much better likelihood of being well. Relaxed, easy breathing can have a positive impact on everything from your digestion and sleep to your mood and your energy level. Pair that breathing with gentle, fluid movement, and your entire system can be both soothed and uplifted. That’s what we’ll explore in this Embodied Meditation practice. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The Spring Equinox—a time when day and night are in perfect balance— coaxes us to align with the natural world and invite balancing energy into our bodies and our lives. Today’s Embodied Meditation explores and nurtures those parts of you that may feel ready to unfurl and stretch, ever-so-gently, toward the light. And it honors and tends to what’s still resting and taking shape beneath the surface. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Don’t you love it when fairy tale meets fact? Scientitsts have been teaching us how trees communicate with and care for each other through networks hidden in the soil. Today’s Embodied Meditation invites you into the magic. It begins with gentle movement, then sinks into a guided visualization that conjures the grounding, connection, and deep support of the forest.   If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

There’s lots of commercial & cultural pressure this time of year to be partnered up and blissfully in love. But the ancient systems of yoga and meditation have been celebrating the deeper energy and symbolism of the heart for thousands of years. This week’s Embodied Meditation offers a short sequence to gently open and stimulate the space around your physical heart, then finishes with a classic Metta meditation practice designed to extend the energy out and remind us that we’re all connected. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Sometimes our hips feel as if they’re on lock down, whether from too much sitting, too much repetitive movement, injury, inflammation, or even stress. Today’s free Embodied Meditation, a 7-Minute Reset, helps melt tension-holding patterns of all kinds in your hips. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

At the start of a new calendar year, there’s lots of pressure to burst onto the scene with a shiny new to-do list—a stack of resolutions to tackle. But what our natural systems often want instead, in deep winter, is to gently nurture intuition, dreams, and tiny seeds of possibility. This week’s free Embodied Meditation is a simple ritual that invites you to go slow and stretch gradually into the year ahead. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.