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Take a moment to relax with our collection of short guided meditations designed to soothe the daily stresses of everyday modern life. Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned pro, have a listen and take a break with us.
In this short breathwork practice, we show you how to use 2 breath techniques for pain relief. Shifting the attention to the breath and away from the pain sensation can help reduce the felt pain experience.
This is a guided breath-work and meditation practice for relieving tension in the body. Whether feeling anxious and stressed, tired and stiff or just in need of a "time out", this is for you. Take 10 minutes to sit comfortably and melt away your tension now.
A breath-work practice to reduce stress and anxiety in the body and mind. By bringing awareness to a long, slow breath we can shift into the parasympathetic nervous system. We use a three-part breath in this practice and focus on feeling the breath as it comes in and goes out. With just 5 minutes of conscious breathing, we can relax the entire body.
This Meditation cultivates serenity in body and mind, especially when practiced regularly over time. It is designed to open the heart space both physically and emotionally. It can transmute lower-frequency emotions like anger, envy, resentment, and jealousy to the highest frequency - LOVE. It takes time and repetition. If you are feeling anxious or moving through heartbreak or grief, this meditation will bring space into the chest and calm and help to release tension around the heart and lungs.
This is a guided deep relaxation practice. Yoga Nidra is often referred to as "the yoga of sleep" and can certainly help with deep sleep, but it is actually more of a daydream state. You are between wakefulness and sleep and the body can benefit from this deep resting state. Use this practice mid-day to reset or wind down towards the end of the day.
This is a ritual we can do ANY day of the year. Every day we can begin again. Every moment of the day, we can choose differently, more wisely and in greater alignment with our true self.
So we can exhale, relax our shoulders, and we can let go of our great expectations around the New Year goals, and rest in this knowing - every day can be a ‘Happy New Day’.
This guided meditation is a practice of accepting what is. Wherever you are in your life, at this moment, is exactly where you should be.
This guided meditation focuses on gratitude. First, we clear the body of tension, stuck emotions, or lingering thoughts and distractions and then we move in deeper to feel gratitude for all the various aspects of our life from the simple to the mundane. Toward the end, you focus on what you are most grateful for.
Nature is within and around us all the time. In this guided meditation we will embody and connect to the 5 elements; Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space/Ether. As we align ourselves with these elements, we feel a sense of harmony and connectedness to the world around us.
In this episode, Lindsay and Laura talk about what it was like to run Retreat and Retreat Kitchen, their yoga and wellness studio in the Turks and Caicos Islands, inspired by the article available here.
This is a guided meditation where we tense and soften the whole body from head to toe so that by the end of the practice the entire body has settled into deep relaxation.
This is a meditation for slowing down. The pace at which many of us are moving is going so fast, we barely have a moment to breathe. In this practice, we will slow our breathing to a steady, long, and even pace and we will find silence and stillness between each breath. We will linger in the silent and still space, together.
This guided meditation is all about cultivating unity and oneness with ourselves and the world around us. Using the 5 elements, earth, air, fire, water, and ether, we move through a deeply connecting practice.
On kyn.co, we wrote a 5 part series of articles delving into the story of our lives and how KYN came to be. In this episode, we dive even deeper into the second article discussing our childhood, our relationship with our mother, the beginnings of adulthood, and our wellness journey. Stay tuned for more episodes in the Our Story series!
This meditation cultivates Loving Kindness from within. Mediating on loving kindness helps to still our thoughts, open our hearts, and heal our own wounds. We want to be loved. We want to be happy, healthy, safe, free and connected to the world around us. In this meditation, we will offer loving kindness to someone we love, to someone whom we have difficulty with (big or small), to ourselves, and finally out to the world. You may feel a great deal of emotion coming up with this meditation. If so, remember to be gentle with yourself, if you can, allow any emotions that come up to be there. You may not feel much at all, and that’s okay too! Every day is a new day, every meditation offers a new experience. Be open to the idea that simply through a sustainable meditation practice, we are shifting and growing, we are expanding our minds and hearts.
On kyn.co, we wrote a 5 part series of articles delving into the story of our lives and how KYN came to be. In this episode, we dive even deeper into the first part discussing growing up in the Turks and Caicos and Canada and the beginnings of our wellness journey. Stay tuned for more episodes in the Our Story series!
In this guided meditation, we balance our sacral chakra, the second energy center in the body that governs our emotions, creativity, passion, and sexuality. We connect to the inner waterways of the body, ebbing and flowing like water.
In this guided meditation, we bring our awareness to the 1st chakra, The Root Chakra, located at the base of the spine. This chakra, our foundation, has an earth element and houses our basic needs for survival; our bodies, our health, security, stability, material, and monetary existence. As we connect to the pull of gravity downward, we can both shed stress and tension out of this energy center and also cultivate earth energy to feel more grounded and stable in our day to day.
This meditation guides you through the body, briefly acknowledging the different parts of the body, and releasing them for a full-body relaxation effect. This is a grounding and restorative practice and can be useful in preparation for sleep.
This meditation is for moms. Lindsay guides you through connecting to a deep diaphragmatic breath to bring the nervous system back into balance. Through a focused breath, we can take a 'timeout' from life and settle into the still waters of the present. Take 5 minutes or 10, whatever you can spare, at a time when you can let the lists and To Do's go. This practice is about giving yourself space to just breathe. Whatever you are moving through, whatever your world is like, this meditation will help to ground the body and calm the mind and heart.
A meditation to keep you present for all of the small moments of joy happening around you.
This guided meditation was made to help pull resilience from within ourselves and help us overcome moments of crisis or trauma. We will practice being self-aware and compassionately and honestly looking inward to help separate ourselves from our thoughts and dig deeper to discover the tools needed to overcome moments of hardship.
This guided meditation will help you to cultivate one of the most important tools for healing and growth -- Self Love.
This is a guided meditation on embracing change. We move through the process of change together, acknowledging all the emotions and feelings around a change in your life. Towards the end of the meditation, you are making space and welcoming change into your life. We invite you to take time, if you wish, to journal your experience.
A guided meditation practice bringing awareness to a sense of gratitude for our breath and our bodies.
A short guided meditation to step away from the "To Do's" of the day and reconnect with your breath. This is a relaxing visualisation to sense expansion and unity with the big blue sky and the world around you, leaving you feeling peaceful, calm, and refreshed.
This meditation offers a safe space to feel all the feelings that come with grief, understanding that grief is how we process the pain of loss. We offer ourselves compassion for the journey we are on, we give space to feel, to breathe, to be, and we practice gratitude and appreciation for the joy and love in the memories we keep.
This meditation journey is perfect for those days when you feel overwhelmed with life around you. It highlights the beauty we have within us using a simple mantra, "it's a beautiful day inside". We cultivate our pure light from the inside so that it may shine outward into those areas of our life we need it most.
This guided meditation is the perfect TIME OUT from the busyness of the Holidays - it allows you space to acknowledge your emotions or anything that comes up for you, to clear and reset your energy and mood, and to focus on the heart of the holidays - connection, peace, and joy!
In this meditation, we identify our WISE SELF, the voice that is calm, collected, strong, resilient, brave, kind, compassionate, loving, and deeply true to who we are in the present moment. The saying "wisdom is within" is quite literally true. This meditation practice first connects you to your Wise Self and then offers space for you to form questions you are seeking solutions for. Just asking the question can be transformative. We learn, through this meditation, how to listen to our Wise voice within.
Meditation can be daunting especially if you're just getting into it. Remember that it's a practice. It takes time, experience, and a daily or weekly routine for it to become a habit. Play this 10-minute practice to help you start training your awareness and seeing the benefits of meditation.