Jos Loves Buddha: Guided Meditations for the Moon's Phases: Recent Episodes
Joslyn B. Hitter
Hosted by Joslyn B. Hitter, Jos Loves Buddha: The Podcast offers guided meditations for each phase of the moon - new, quarter, full - along with the equinoxes and solstices. Joslyn is an Insight Meditation teacher with a masters degree in depth psychology and somatic studies, In each episode, Joslyn offers a short dharma talk that can touch on seasonal changes in the natural world, mythology, and astrology as well as a guided meditations as we move through the lunar phases.
Happy New Moon! Welcome to Libra season and fully Fall vibes! In this meditation, we are practicing letting go by purposefully letting go of our meditation anchor and actively practicing choiceless awareness.
Happy Autumn Equinox! In this guided meditation, we are practicing mindfulness of sounds.
Happy Full Moon and Happy Eclipse Season! In this meditation, we are connecting to the depth and breadth of compassion practice, touching into the strength and courage that is always available to us just below the surface.
Happy New Moon! Welcome to Virgo Season! In this meditation we are taking a trauma sensitive self-compassion break, a 15-minute guided practice to hold space for our feelings, connect to our humanity and be a good friend to our own sweet self.
Happy Full Moon! For this moon cycle, we are practicing a trauma sensitive body scan meditation. In this meditation there are many modifications offered and invitations to explore and go at your own pace as we soften and relax the body and generally invite a sense of curiosity towards our embodied experience in this moment.
Happy New Moon! In this guided meditation, we are practicing radiating metta to all beings in all directions. This practice is inspired by the classical Burmese style of radiating metta and Bhikku Analayo's sushine analogy.
Happy Full Moon! Welcome to the Thunder Moon! In this guided meditation, we are practicing a natural form of equanimity by remembering that we are the ocean, and the waves of pleasure and pain, gain and loss are just that, waves.
Happy New Moon! Welcome to the season of feeling our feelings wisely and compassionately. This meditation is here to guide us towards cultivating a softer and gentler relationship to our emotional landscape.
Happy Full Moon and Happy Summer Solstice! In this guided meditation, we are practicing seeing things clearly and wisely. We are inviting a reflection throughout our practice that whatever is happening is natural and okay, because it is just what is happening right now.
Happy New Moon! In this guided meditation, we are practicing Mindfulness of Breathing with a focus on experiencing and calming body sensations, mental activity, and touching into the spacious and empty nature of mind.
Happy Flower Moon! In this guided meditation, we will be cultivating gratitude. We are practicing connecting to inner and outer beauty and appreciating our good fortune.
Happy New Moon! In this guided meditation, we are continuing our loving kindness practice by practicing metta for self. We are practicing being worthy of kindness, compassion and love just as we are in this moment.
Happy Full Moon! For this full moon meditation, we will be doing a compassionate breathing practice. In this practice we will be cultivating our soft power by deliberately practicing non-reactivity and genuine care for all beings.
Happy New Moon! In this guided meditation, we are practicing equanimity, loving-kindness and compassion. As we launch into a new cycle, we are remembering our intentions to wish people well, be kind and gentle, and let go whenever possible.
Happy Full Moon! In this guided meditation, we are cultivating generosity by practicing wishing loving kindness to our friends.
Happy Spring Equinox! For this extra special equinox meditation, we are practicing cultivating joy together :-)
Happy Full Moon! In this guided meditation, we will be finding harmony between the earth and water element, working with opposing forces to find balance and create ease.
Welcome to the year of the Wood Dragon! Happy Lunar New Year and Happy New Moon in Aquarius. For this guided meditation, we will be working with the element of Wood in Chinese Medicine. Wood is represented by the energy of spring: the time of year when green buds push burst from the ground. For this meditation, we will be working on cultivating this type of new, fresh and vibrant bright green energy in our meditation practice.
Welcome to the first Full Moon of 2024! The Abenaki people refer to this moon as the Greetings Moon, recognizing a traditional practice of greeting friends, family and community members with the phrase: "Anhaldamawi kassi palilawaholan." When translated into English, its meaning is "Forgive me for any wrong I may have done you." This Full Moon meditation will feature a forgiveness practice that I have adapted from the Insight Meditation tradition.
Happy New Year, Happy New Moon! For this new moon meditation, we will practice beginning again with a back to basics Mindfulness Meditation.
Happy Full Moon! In this meditation, we will be cultivating compassion because it is never a bad time to become more skilled at giving and receiving kindness, love, and compassion.
Happy Winter Solstice! Welcome to hermit season! As we celebrate this moment of perfect stillness, I invite us to savor our goodness and rejoice in the beauty of the winter season.
Happy New Moon! Welcome to the season of gathering by the fire and sharing in our own well-being. In this guided meditation, we will work with fire element in traditional and creative ways.
Happy Full Moon! In this meditation we will be working with water element and letting go, sending any difficulties downstream.
Happy New Moon! Welcome to the season of celebrating the darkness! In this guided meditation, we will embrace quiet stillness and find clarity by calming and quieting our minds through a mindfulness of breathing practice.
Happy Full Moon! This full moon and lunar eclipse is a wonderful opportunity to practice "holding steady." In this meditation, we will cultivate a place of peace and stillness in our own hearts and minds, with the hope that this peace will ripple out to the world around us. May we all learn to be more peaceful.
Happy New Moon in Libra. In this meditation, we are learning how to work with unpleasant feelings. We are practicing how to relax and stay open despite afflictive states of mind and heart. We are coaching ourselves to befriend whatever we are feeling without judgment or reactivity. We learning to "it is okay to feel this."
Welcome to the season of celebration! We have a new moon in Virgo and the launch of a new lunar year in the Jewish calendar. In this guided meditation we will practice working with what is called in Buddhist psychology, the three characteristics of human experience. A fancy way of saying we will practice not taking this personally, not getting resisting change and not getting too caught up when things don't work out according to plan.
Happy Blue Moon! This guided meditation is a mindfulness of emotions practice geared specifically for working with difficult emotional patterns. We will practice being mindful of a particular emotional pattern and softening and soothing around this pattern with the hopes of building a different and more kind relationships with the emotional patterns that may feel stuck and/or unworkable.
Happy New Moon! In honor of Leo season, I will be guiding us in an equanimity practice. In this practice, we will cultivate an attitude of balance and ease with the ups and downs of this very human life.
Happy Full Moon! For this guided meditation, we will embrace the magic of forgiveness practice. We will practice offering and receiving forgiveness for ourselves and for others.
Happy New Moon! For this guided meditation, we will practice flowing with ease. This will be a guided open and spacious awareness practice with an emphasis on flow and ease.
Happy Thunder Moon! For this Full Moon Meditation, we are learning together how maintain a steady and continuous application of appropriate energy in our formal meditation practice. We will explore this together by practicing mindfulness meditation in the standing posture.
Happy Summer Solstice! In honor of the summer season, I will be guiding us in an appreciative joy and gratitude practice. We will have an opportunity to celebrate and delight in all that is going well in our lives and the lives of our beloved beings together.
Happy New Moon dear ones! In this guided meditation we will tune into the particular qualities and aspects that Gemini does best, mainly air element and space element. We will settle ourselves in with a mindfulness of breathing practice and then open our awareness to include the element of space, practicing resting in an open and spacious awareness together.
Happy Strawberry Moon! For this meditation, I will be guiding us in a basic mindfulness practice where we will connect with different objects in our field of awareness to help us ground and stabilize our attention.
Welcome to the Field Maker Moon! In this guided meditation, we will practice mindfulness of emotions. Together, we will practice recognizing and allowing our emotions, even the sticky and icky ones, giving the emotions space to flow through us so we don't get too stuck in an emotional experience that is naturally coming and going.
Welcome to Taurus Season. In this meditation, we will practice grounding into the earth element internally and externally, as we plant ourselves into the spring season here in the Northern Hemisphere. We will also practice appreciating the natural abundance that surrounds us and offer gratitude for these breathing bodies.
Happy Passover Moon. In this guided meditation, we are invited to connect with the earth element and ground and settle our nervous systems. We also have an opportunity to practice being with our senses, hearing and smelling and feeling into all the different body sensations to connect more deeply with the natural world this precious spring season.
Happy New Moon in Aries! In this guided meditation, we will practice cultivating an attitude of generosity. We will tune into the ways in which paying attention is actually a gift, and how being alive and aware is just like being in a circle of generosity.
Welcome to the Spring Equinox, a happy moment of perfect balance! In this guided meditation we will practice finding balance and working skillfully with our energy. We will bring our mindful awareness to whatever energy is present and try some fun tips and tricks for how to practice when we are feeling over energized and under energized.
Welcome to the Full Moon in Virgo. For our Full Moon Meditation, we will be taking a self-compassion break together. This is a short and sweet practice to acknowledge how hard life can be sometimes, and how the only actually helpful response most of the time is to meet the tough moments with mindfulness supported by compassion.
Welcome to the New Moon in Pisces. For this new moon meditation, we will be practicing a basic mindfulness meditation emphasizing the moments when we have a chance to start over, and making sure we begin again with so much kindness and care. Plus a poem by Joy Harjo to start out meditation with a sense of freshness and newness.
Happy Snow Moon! Phew, we made it to the 2nd phase of winter. We are steadily climbing towards the Spring Equinox and more light is coming our way, meanwhile the world is feeling dark as we process mass shootings in California and the brutal death of Tyre Nichols. What do we do with all the feels? I suggest this "Strong Back and Soft Front" Meditation. This is an equanimity and compassion meditation that I learned from the wise elder and abbot of the Upaya Zen Center, Roshi Joan Halifax. Much gratitude and appreciation for Roshi Joan Halifax for sharing this meditation with the world. This is my adaptation of her meditation, thank you Roshi Joan!
Welcome to the year of the Water Rabbit! For this meditation we will be practicing with the water element, allowing our practice to flow like water and giving ourselves an opportunity to deepen into our sensitivity and listen to our intuition.
Welcome to the Wolf Moon! In this meditation we will be practicing self-compassion, because honestly there is really nothing better we could be doing with our time.
For this New Moon Meditation we will explore how to skillfully work with the quality of determination in our meditation practice. This will be a fairly basic mindfulness meditation where we will practice grounding and anchoring our attention in the body. We will also bring some awareness to our relationship to the object we are using to anchor our attention and see if we connect more firmly with this object, aiming and sustaining our attention in a focused way. We will practice balancing our determination and using just enough effort to sustain mindful awareness and see for ourselves how we can use the quality of determination in a wholesome way in our practice and in our daily lives.
Welcome to the Winter Solstice, an extra special time of year. For this meditation, we will be practicing equanimity. We will do our best to embrace the quiet and stillness here at the cusp of winter and embody balance, peace and ease while the comings and goings of our busy lives swirls around us.
For this Full Moon meditation we are cultivating joy and gratitude. We are practicing appreciating what is going well in any given moment and refraining from acting on any ingrained habits or tendencies to judge and find fault with ourselves and others.
Welcome to the November New Moon. We are entering Sagittarius season and Thanksgiving holiday season in the U.S. For me personally, this is a complicated and difficult holiday time, as I am holding my fond and tender childhood memories of a beloved family holiday and the truth of settler colonialism and the genocide of Indigenous people. For this meditation, I am sharing with you a practice combining metta, compassion and equanimity as a means of holding the complexity of this holiday and giving us an opportunity to celebrate the goodness while honoring the heartbreak.
For this Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse Meditation, we are practicing leaning into our wholesome desire for meditation practice. Together in this meditation, we are cultivating a practice of savoring our wholesome intentions and basking in the worthiness and enough-ness of just simply meditating.
Welcome to the heart of the Fall Season. For this meditation we are taking a lesson from the trees and learning how to fall and let go with each and every exhale, contemplating the precious miracle that is to be alive and breathing.
For this Full Moon Meditation we are embarking on the tender and sacred journey that is forgiveness practice together. We are grounding and centering in our bodies while we experiment with asking for forgiveness from others and offering forgiveness to ourselves and others. We move slowly and carefully feeling into our messy, imperfect and so very human lives, asking and offering as much and as little forgiveness as we are able to in this moment.
This New Moon meditation is a classical mindfulness meditation infused with self-compassion. This powerful combination gives us a precious opportunity to rewire the way we talk to ourselves and to change the emotional tone of our inner lives. This is a guided meditation for creating harmony inside our hearts and minds.
This Fall Equinox Meditation is here to help us ground and center. We will be grounding in the body through the earth element, feeling our feet and resting in our bones. We will also be connecting with the body through the air element, bringing our mindful awareness to our breathing bodies, breathing with the trees our best teachers in practices of grounding and centering.
This Full Moon Meditation is all about surrendering to the flow and relaxing. In this meditation, we will be relaxing the body by practicing a body scan and then opening up to a sound meditation where we can rest our awareness in an open and spacious way. This Harvest Moon meditation is for relaxation, letting go and flowing with the sound scape.
For this New Moon Meditation, we will be practicing compassion honoring our inherently good and kind nature, treating ourselves with love, kindness and reverence and then extending those good wishes to all beings everywhere.
For this Full Moon Meditation we will be practicing mindfulness of breath and body, spending some time cultivating the fundamentals of our mindfulness practice. We will also be training our attention towards what is going well and savoring the peace and happiness that is available to us in each and every moment of mindfulness.
In this new moon meditation, we are grounding and settling our nervous systems, softening and soothing our minds, hearts and bodies. We are offering ourselves a kind and generous space to feel our feelings, care for ourselves, unwind and invoke kindness.
This full moon meditation is here to help us ground while going with the flow. We will be grounding in the body through the earth element, feeling our feet and resting in our bones. We will be connecting with the body through the water element as well, embracing the flow, practicing letting go and releasing whatever is not needed downstream.
In this new moon meditation, we are practicing a meditation technique called mental noting, or labeling. This is a useful technique on and off the cushion. On the cushion, it helps us build concentration and stay present and attuned to this present moment experience. Off the cushion, it helps quiet reactivity and build spaciousness, giving us the opportunity to pause before reacting.
In this extra special summer solstice meditation, we are practicing balancing our energy in our formal practice. We are using mindfulness to scan the physical and emotional body as a way of tuning our instrument. We are tightening our strings as needed, by bringing more energy to our physical posture, or using our intention for awakening to bring inspiration and ardency to our practice. We are loosening the strings as needed, bringing more relaxation and a more expansive open awareness, and reminding ourselves of the gradual path.
This full moon meditation is a basic mindfulness practice. In this meditation, we are focusing on the quality of our awareness, deepening our commitment to embodying loving awareness, and paying attention in a nonjudgemental, open, curious and friendly way.
This New Moon meditation is about welcoming the paradox. We will practice embodying a both / and mind state. This means we will be holding in our somatic awareness, both tension and spaciousness, and everything in between.
This is a meditation to help you rest and relax. It is so important to rest and truly relax between the big waves of emotional, physical, mental and spiritual upheaval you might be feeling during this Full Moon and Eclipse. This meditation is here to help you catch your breath and drop-in during the sporadic, and few, quiet moments.
This week's meditation is all about spaciousness, embodying equanimity, and allowing our preferences to be slippery.
For this meditation, we will be doing a guided practice of cultivating patience. We will practice not being in a hurry, maintaining an open heart, and cultivating non-impulsiveness, while quieting reactivity.
In this meditation, we do a guided gratitude practice. This is not so different from a normal mindfulness practice. It just has an extra special focus on what is going well in this moment, and we reflect on our good intentions.
In this meditation, we work with the worldly winds. We are learning how to go with the flow and be breezy. In it, we are simply witnessing things coming and going in our experience. And we practice not holding on - to any things - while keeping our heart open, and not becoming ungrounded.
In this meditation, we will look at how to be peaceful. In it, we will practice cultivating a peaceful relationship with our meditation anchors: breath, body and sound. We will notice how our mind has preferences, and a tendency towards drama. And we will practice letting that relax, letting go, and being neutral towards all experience.
This week's meditation is a Guided Giving and Receiving Love and Good wishes meditation, traditionally known as a Metta Meditation, working with the category of benefactor. In this meditation, we practice wishing our nearest and dearest good wishes like safety, good health, and happiness, and we also practice receiving these same good wishes from them.
PS - Jos has cold right now, and she is sorry that she sounds so congested in this meditation, but this is real life :)
This week's meditation is a space element meditation, where we will feel into energetic space, taking up as much room as you need. We will notice the beginning, middle, and end of sounds in this guided sound meditation.
Happy Lunar New year, the year of the water tiger! This week's meditation is a guided meditation on the air element. It includes a Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation.
This week's meditation is a guided fire element practice. In it, we do a body scan to track temperature at the level of our skin, noticing heat and coolness. We also tune into our hearts and cherish our flame of intention love and care as another way of connecting with fire element.
This week's meditation is a guided water element practice. Water is an excellent dharma teacher because water does not stress; it flows, changes and morphs from snow to hail to rain to ice and does not mind. Water has much to teach us about responding wisely to all of life's ups and downs.
This week's meditation is a guided earth element practice. Over the next several moon cycles, we will be systematically working our way through all the elements to cultivate an embodied sense of each element. In developing this, we can gain some autonomy over our practice and know how to balance the elements in our practice as needed.
This episode is a grounding and resourcing meditation using the six elements: ground with earth, breathe with air, listen to sounds with space, float with water, and connect to our hearts with fire.
This episode contains a guided meditation and visualization exercise where we intentionally cultivate a loving presence to support us while we turn towards difficult emotions like anger, grief, and fear. Joslyn also offers light reminders and guidance on how to to stay grounded and resourced in our bodies during meditation.
This is a guided, non-traditional self-compassion practice to help us hold and show up for our feelings of stuckness and resistance to whats happening. We explore what we can do when we feel like we need to fix something and something is "not right", how we can show up for ourselves in these moments, and the powerful mantra of "its okay, its not perfect and things are actually pretty okay right now".
Jos provides an overview of the podcast - what to expect - and a 5 minute guided meditation so you get a taste of the podcast experience.
In this episode, Jos takes us back to the basics, offering teachings on establishing a reliable refuge in our hearts, minds, and bodies and a guided meditation with basic mindfulness instructions for establishing a grounded presence by paying attention to the breath and body sensations.
And why does she have a podcast? Jos walks you through how she became a dharma teacher and her spiritual journey.