The Mindful Teacher: Recent Episodes
Gail Neely
The Mindful Teacher podcast is offered each Monday to educational professionals looking to cultivate their personal and professional health and well-being.
This is a guided compassion practice that came from Mirabi Bush at the Center for Contemplative Mind Society. It is intended to help us find compassion for ourselves and especially for others we may be having difficulty with while we are living in such challenging and uncertain times.
In this episode, join Gail as she talks about some of the cultural misconceptions surrounding self-care and the the difference between self-care and selfishness. Listeners are encouraged to dip deep and come to find those aspects of self-care that tend to both their heart and soul, creating nourishment and vitality, both individually and collectively. The episode concludes with introduction to the 4-4-4 breathing technique and a heart-centered metta designed to initiate the cultivation of your personal self-care journey. Background music is by Jan Von Wille entitled "Deep Healing Frequencies - Activating your Immune System" and toy squeaking courtesy of Rumi, Gail's German Shepherd!
This is a guided meditation written by Hugo Alberts and Lucinda Poole designed to visualize the eye of the hurricane as a metaphor to access that calm steady place within that is always available when we connect to our breath.