Guided Meditation Podcast with Erin Joy: Recent Episodes
Erin Joy
Managing your emotional & physical health, life, relationships, and self care can seem overwhelming at times. Having a meditation practice can help. As a yoga instructor I regularly incorporate meditation into teaching yoga classes, the combination of movement and meditation pairs beautifully together. However, you do not need to be in a yoga class to practice meditation. This podcast was designed to help make your meditation practice the most portable and accessible practice available to you anywhere and anytime.
Hi friends,
I'm so happy you've taken some time out of your day to check in with yourself! This meditation was inspired by a journal entry that turned into a poem, then shifted into a short meditation.
I hope you find this helpful and comforting in a time when you need it most.
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Until next time,
Namaste
-Erin Joy
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What are the benefits of a body scan meditation?
- Helps lessen anxiety. You may not even be aware of the anxiety-based tension you're holding in your body until you do a quick body scan. ...
- Decreases stress levels. ...
- Improves sleep quality. ...
- Reduces chronic pain. ...
- Improves self-awareness. ...
- Helps you relax. ...
- Improves focus.
How to do it-
This is a great practice for when you are getting ready to fall asleep or when you just need to relax. You can do this meditation in a seated or laying down position, whatever you prefer.
After you're comfortable, close your eyes and begin focusing on your breath. Notice the sensation of your breath filling and leaving your lungs as you inhale and exhale. As you slowly scan through the body, open your awareness to sensations of pain, tension, discomfort, or anything out of the ordinary. Breathe, and spend anywhere from 20 seconds to 1 minute observing these sensations. Continue the exercise along your body in a way that makes sense to you, whether you move from top to bottom or up one side and down the other.
As you continue to scan across your body, note when your thoughts begin to drift. This will happen probably more than once, so don’t worry. You haven’t failed, and you can easily get your thoughts back on track. Just gently return your awareness to where you left off scanning. Once you finish scanning parts of your body, let your awareness travel across your body. Visualize this as liquid filling a mold. Continue inhaling and exhaling slowly as you sit with this awareness of your whole body for several seconds. Slowly release your focus and bring your attention back to your surroundings.
Enjoy this guided body scan meditation practice for today!
Namaste,
Erin Joy
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What Is Loving Kindness Meditation?
Put simply, loving kindness meditation is a practice that cultivates and nurtures feelings of unconditional kindness and love towards oneself and others using silent mantras or phrases. Like mindfulness, the technique has its origins in the Buddhist tradition, where it’s known as Metta Meditation, meaning benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, and goodwill.
For example, you might use a phrase like, ‘May I be happy’. Or, ‘May I feel peace’.In this meditation practice, find a comfortable position to settle into seated or laying down, and close your eyes or take a soft gaze to the ground in front of you. Listen and follow along by staying focused on the questions and affirmations I offer during this practice to cultivate.
Happy meditating!
May you be happy. May you feel peace.
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Who else finds it hard to believe that September is next month already?!
Listen in on todays episode as I chat with a special guest, Becca Phelps. Becca is the owner and instructor of Gracious Dance and shares her mission for the business along with exciting news for this coming school year. If you are a parent with kids looking for a new hobby or have always thought about signing your kids up for dance, listen up! Becca has a wonderful kids program that involves a variety of dance classes right here inside our studio at The Barre Dance & Fitness!
Get your kids registered for dance classes starting this September and find out more information by clicking the links below. If you have any questions at all or have a child with special needs, Becca is ready and happy to chat with you!
Website: https://www.graciousdance.com/contact-us
Email: dancegracious@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/graciousdance/
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Let's chat about the difference between mental health and mental wellbeing. Jennalyn shares with us some tips for encouraging self care along with some resources for dealing with a wide scale of mental illnesses and emotions.
Links & Resources-
Jennalyn Long IG
https://www.instagram.com/jennalynbeth/
Headspace App - Meditating
https://www.headspace.com/
Insight Timer App
https://insighttimer.com/
Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us
Warmlines
https://www.nami.org/NAMI/media/NAMI-Media/BlogImageArchive/2020/NAMI-National-HelpLine-WarmLine-Directory-3-11-20.pdf
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In this episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with a local health coach Kim Della Porta about managing our time and looking into a more productive routine. Kim works with clients 100% virtually to help provide consistent accountability and help achieve health goals whether it's nutrition based, physical activity, stress management, overall wellbeing.
Listen to find out some tips on what a good example of planned out and productive week looks like and some take aways to help better manage your time.
You can find Kim online at www.kimdellaporta.com for more.
Thank you for listening and supporting this show, until next time!
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Today I have the pleasure of chatting with Lora Catalino, a functional nutritionist from Rochester NY.
We talk about how the relationship we have with food relates to your relationship with your body, how the food that comes into our body makes either a positive or negative effect, how to understand the confusion of what is "good for you" Vs. what is not, and much more!
After listening to todays episode be sure to check out Lora's website for more information, link to website and more:
Website : https://www.loragrace.com/about
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/loracatalino
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Today's episode is very special because my guest on the show today is my very own Mother, Wendy Dunham! Get to know my mom a little bit as I celebrate her and her accomplishments in this episode.
I brought her on to chat about what it's like to be a mom, what challenges she faced as a new mom and how she overcame those with her faith in God. We also talk about her biggest joys of motherhood and some of her favorite (and slightly embarrassing for me) memories of my brother and I when we were little.
Check out some of Wendys most recent book publishings here :
https://www.harvesthousepublishers.com/author/wendy-dunham
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Today I'm talking with Stella Jones from Stellas Bridal Boutique about body image and encouraging women to start talking positive to themselves! During this episode she shares her personal story and journey to get where she is today in order to boost up and inspire other women around her. Let's start being confident and comfortable in the skin we are in, I want you to look yourself in the mirror and say "I've got this" in a world that tells you otherwise.
Link to find more information about our guest today!
https://www.stellasbridalboutique.com
https://www.instagram.com/wander.w.o.m.a.n/
Thanks for listening!
Lots of love,
Erin Joy
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Listen in as I talk with Jennie Marie (Aka Star of Mama Medium) about her decision to get stronger and healthier everyday this year in 2021. Jennie reached out to me several months ago about wanting to start yoga with her and her son Anthony for the very first time, she shares with us how its going and what has changed since we started our sessions together!
Find more information about the wonderful Jennie Marie at her website :
https://jenniethemedium.com
Thanks for tuning in!
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In this episode I have the pleasure of chatting with exercise scientist Omega Zumpano about how us woman can hack our hormones by syncing our cycles with what we eat and how we exercise! She shares her personal story about body building, weight gain, weight loss, her fitness flow method, along with simple ways to reduce bloating and inflammation.
LINKS
IG - @omegafitlifeofficial
Link to Omega’s Webinar How to Get Fit, Reduce PMS & Understand your hormones - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BCiOd_S9AcL1jduShlLgue4h677XtkS9/view?usp=sharing
Uforia - https://uforiascience.com/nutrition
Viome Gut Sensitivity Test - https://www.viome.com/products/gut-intelligenceHappy hormone guide - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49914371-the-happy-hormone-guide
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Listen in as I chat with Ashley Casacelli, author of the blog “Life’s Craziest Blessings”. She shares about her journey through endometriosis, being a role model for her daughter in a challenging world, staying healthy and motivated, and also her tips on making fitness a priority even with a busy schedule.
Find Ashley on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/lifescraziestblessings/
Thanks for listening in and stay tuned for more each week!
Peace & Love,
Erin Joy
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