Meditation Movement - LoveYourBrain

Be guided through a longer relaxation practice to explore the feeling of leaving obligations behind, so that you can give yourself the space to rest completely.

Explore finding steadiness in times of change. Using the timeless image of a mountain, you'll to connect with your inner strength and stability amidst life's shifting seasons.

Go on a journey of cultivating compassion for yourself and others by expanding awareness of and connection to life's joys and challenges.

Emotions change, shift, and come and go. RAIN, which stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture, helps you to recognize that difficult feelings are temporary.

Explore gratitude in the present moment. When you recognize that experiences, emotions, and situations are fleeting, you can find gratitude for what is.

Explore simple mindfulness phrases or 'gathas' to support presence, awareness, and care to return to ourselves and what is true.

Cultivate awareness and compassion for the full range of the sensations you're experiencing—whether they're tense, neutral, or at ease.

Learn to use the natural rhythm of the breath as an anchor for presence, self-compassion, and connection.

Learn to release your habits around tensing against pain and allow yourself to rest in a more fluid and open experience. 

Explore how a sense of purpose can be an anchor during times of change that allows us to feel a grounded sense of meaning in each moment.

This guided meditation helps to soften anxiety, especially in stressful moments.

In this meditation, we'll let the mind be free to find greater acceptance of the present moment.

This visualization meditation helps to cultivate feelings of connection and belonging.

Cyclic sighing - also known as physiological sighing - is a breathing technique that you can use to reduce anxiety and stress.

This practice will foster a sense of connection with others, joy, and resiliency to decrease negative emotions like anxiety and depression.

The 4-4-6-2 practice can create a fresh start to the day by bringing balance, energy, and clarity into the body, breath, and mind!

Mindful breathing can result in a number of proven health benefits such as pain relief, stress, reduction, anxiety reduction, and less negative thinking.

This practice uses conscious breath to reduce stress, anxiety, and a slow down a racing heart.

In this meditation, we use our breath to slow down, and then direct our attention, to different places within our bodies.

This guided relaxation practice will support you to find rest and settle your mind and body for sleep.

Using the breath as an anchor for your attention, you will be invited to begin to notice, without judgment, the weather patterns of thoughts that float across the expansive sky of your mind.

In this meditation, explore three techniques to calm, soothe, and ground your nervous system.

RAIN (acronym for Recognize, Allow, Investigate and Nurture) is a mindfulness meditation technique that invites us to begin to untangle from the reactivity that often stems from difficult and challenging emotions by beginning to turn towards these emotions with friendliness, curiosity and care.

In this guided Metta meditation, we explore cultivating a heartful, compassionate response to these challenging emotions through intentional offerings of kindness and strength as a means to help us reconnect to a felt sense of worthiness.

Led by Jenni Foltz Pendulation offers us a skillful way to work with intense or difficult sensations in the body. It was developed by Peter Levine who founded the trauma therapy modality, Somatic Experiencing. First, we find a place in our bodies that feels open, spacious, or resourced--we will call it our home base. Once we've identified this place, we pause and rest our attention there, giving ourselves time to settle and nourish in sensations that feel good. When we are ready, we gently move our attention towards an area of discomfort or pain, making sure to stop at a comfortable distance from the outer edge of the pain, so that we can be in safe relationship to it rather than overwhelmed by it. We pause and then move our attention back to home base and let our minds rest. We continue to alternate our attention back and forth--to pendulate--between home base and the place of tension or pain to allow the difficult sensations to disarm and release. Many people have found that with repetition a sense of confidence grows in having a way to be with uncomfortable experiences. Jennifer Foltz (she/her) serves as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist, yoga teacher, and compassion-centered coach. She is passionate about understanding the nervous system and how to resolve stress and trauma imprints held there. She works with a variety of neurological and nervous system disorders including concussion and traumatic brain injury. Having traversed her own recovery from TBI, she genuinely understands the importance of slowing down, deep listening and opening to one's inner resilience and health. At the same time, she feels it is essential to nurture creativity, playfulness, and joy. Her teaching and private practice are richly informed by her work with animals (horses & dogs), various dance, sound, breath & movement practices, as well as meditation rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition She is devoted to kindness, compassion, and fostering a deep sense of connection, inspiration and joy for herself and others.

In this meditation, we use our imagination to bring to mind various things that we love, and then we notice our bodies response.

This practice will bring mindful attention to thinking, and then use simple phrases to help the mind stay present.

In this guided relaxation on self-acceptance, I'll guide a practice focused on deepening the trust we have in ourselves.

In this practice, we'll explore how to transform our suffering into the freedom that we seek by feeling the fullness of our experience.

This is a short practice of sensing the body as a way of activating the relaxation response.

This practice invites you to take a break from the tension and striving of daily life to fully rest your body and mind, and reveal your inner beauty. 

This practice focuses on the breath as an anchor of attention and a pathway for soothing rest.

This practice is designed to support you in cultivating a sense of inner stability, peace and ease.

This body scan practice taps into the power of patience.

In this practice, we'll explore how to slow the momentum of expectations and other aspects of life using breath and visualization.

In this practice, we'll explore the Zen phrase of ‘right effort', which means the balance between effort and ease.

This practice focuses on staying in the present moment through mindful breathing.

Today's practice focuses on how to work with a difficult situation, painful emotion or uncomfortable physical sensation in the body through the gentle and compassionate guided practice of soften, soothe, and allow.

Today's practice focuses on moving away from negative thoughts, feelings, and emotions and learning how to turn toward ourselves with love and compassion.

Today's practice focuses on how to handle challenging emotions. This practice invites you to use the tools of Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture (R.A.I.N) to create more ease in the mind and body.

Today's practice helps to let go of something negative - thoughts, feelings, or situations that are keeping you stuck and enhance your ability to take in the positive from the world around you.

Today's practice is a brief mindfulness practice for grounding, stabilization, and coming back to the present moment. 

Today's practice helps to work with negative thoughts, feelings, or emotions through a visualization practice that allows the thoughts to be placed in “a safe container” for a period of time.

This practice uses awareness of the body as a starting point for pausing and paying attention to that present moment.

Today's practice is an awareness practice, similar to Yoga Nidra. Come home to the part of you that is already perfect, unchanging, pure awareness.

Led by RJ Lisander Having had two TBIs RJ (she/her) understands the challenges and effects of recent and long-term injury. I have worked hard to overcome many of these challenges, yet it wasn't until I found LoveYourBrain that all the pieces fell into place. I am honored and humbled to share this program and witness the growth of each practitioner.Why LYB: I'm always inspired by the resilience of the human spirit. We can achieve more than we may think with practice, patience and kindness to self and others. I see this in every individual and every class with whom I am lucky enough to spend time on the mat.Superhero: My hero is always the person who took a risk, tried something new, pushed a boundary for growth (both personal and communal).Resources: I founded Lotus Seed Lifestyles to offer a space to work with individuals, non-profits, and community groups to offer yoga and meditation as paths to recovery and personal improvement. You can learn more about what I do through my website, www.lotusseedlifestyles.com.

This meditation includes an invitation to explore feelings of both sadness and happiness - recognizing these emotions as impermanent and ever-changing. Everything belongs.

Today's practice focuses on welcoming and feeling your body in its current state, no matter what is arising, while building a sense of okayness and wellbeing.

Today's practice focuses on building an Inner Resource which is a felt sense in the body that helps you feel relaxed, at ease, and in control of your experience.

Today's practice focuses on meeting and working with challenging emotions. We'll learn to welcome an emotion as sensation in the body, meeting it as a messenger that reveals information.

Today's practice will incorporate noting – which is when we meet pain as pure sensation – and peel off the conceptual label which may otherwise bind us to our habitual patterns.