Mindful Moments with Mayouti: Recent Episodes
Mayouti Yoga
Do you keep hearing about the benefits of meditation but don’t know where to start? Join me every week for a mindful moment. I will guide you through one new meditation that you can practice anytime, anywhere before you go back to your busy life with a clearer head and a calmer mind.
Join us this Mother’s Day for a special episode dedicated to all the mothers around the globe. We’re embracing the heartfelt practice of Metta meditation to send love, strength, and gratitude to mothers everywhere. Whether you are a mother, have one, or know one, this guided meditation is a moment to connect, appreciate, and send well-wishes across the miles. Let's celebrate the nurturing spirit of motherhood together.
In this episode, we explore the Five Remembrances—aging, illness, death, change, and consequences—through guided meditation. We learn to accept them, enhancing our day-to-day resilience and gratitude. This session encourages practical reflection on how our choices shape our lives.
Here’s more help for the daily stresses at home and at work! Embracing the principles of interconnectedness and impermanence can profoundly enrich our daily lives, fostering a deeper sense of empathy and adaptability both at home and in the workplace. By acknowledging these truths, we cultivate resilience and a greater capacity for embracing change, enhancing our interactions and decision-making in every facet of life.
Today's brief, guided meditation encourages us to take a moment, think, and enjoy every bite, recognising the path our food takes from the earth to our plates and the lives it supports and enriches. This mindful eating habit nourishes us and builds a feeling of kindness and connection with all life, making every meal an expression of love and thanks.
In this episode, we explore how the spring season's sense of renewal can inspire a fresh start and kind-hearted interactions in our work life, using guided visualization to see our workplace as a vibrant garden where kindness and support flourish. We focus on cultivating an environment of growth and positivity through mindful acts of encouragement, active listening, and shared successes. Springtime, yay!
Let’s journey through a guided meditation focused on cultivating peace for women and girls and lay the inner foundation for global harmony. Using visualisation and mindful breathing, let’s embrace the power of peace as a present reality, capable of illuminating the world with compassion and equality.
Let’s incorporate mindfulness into meetings to improve focus, empathy, and efficiency. With this, we’ll increase engagement and productivity, give thoughtful responses, and transform meetings into more effective and collaborative sessions.
Dive into Episode 56 of our podcast for a breath of fresh air! Discover a simple Mindful Breathing Practice that fits seamlessly into your daily routine—whether you're at work, in your car, or standing in line. It's your on-the-go tranquility toolkit. Let's breathe together and transform everyday moments into oases of peace.
Today, I’m excited to offer you 3 mini-guided practices that you can easily incorporate into your work day. Tune in to discover how you can bring mindfulness to your job and enhance your focus, productivity, and overall well-being.
Inspired by the teachings of Thigh Nhat Hahn, today’s episode explores the art of addressing injustice at work and in life, while embracing kindness and compassion.
Enhance your emotional intelligence (EQ) at work and discover the ease that comes with understanding, empathy, and positive communication.
Today’s practice recalls the importance of speaking our truth and speaking out for humanity.
This episode explains why we feel so nervous when we have to engage in public speaking, then shows a simple and fast way to tame the nervousness by using the breath as a bridge to calm and confidence.
Today’s practice is an exercise that helps you integrate your daily routine, background noises, and small distractions that usually come with a busy workout environment.
In this episode, we’re using a powerful yet very simple breathing technique to handle workplace stress like a pro!
In this episode, we remember and actively practice recalling our oneness, interdependence, and interconnectedness as members of the human family.
At work, we often base our decisions on analytics. Metrics. Hard facts. Expert opinion. What if we also trusted our gut? What if we listened to a hunch?
Dear friends, this is an invitation to cultivate compassion, love, and peace within and to send them to those experiencing harm and suffering 🙏
Want to feel more confident and calm before an important meeting or presentation? This episode provides simple tips to help reduce stress, increase focus, and keep you in the present moment in times of professional stress.
We all experience stress. But what if there was a better way to deal with it? What if there was a way to navigate difficult emotions and get to the other side: calm and grounded?
Driver into the power of mindfulness for stress reduction! Learn practical techniques to manage stress and cultivate resilience in your everyday life.
Unplug and unwind. This episode provides practical tips for embracing mindfulness in nature. Learn how to find peace amidst the great outdoors.
Paying attention to the here and now can improve your mental well-being. This is mindfulness: noticing what’s going on inside and outside of yourself, moment by moment. This episode will guide you through a few simple steps to being fully here and now.
Ready to savour every bite and see your relationship with food transformed? This podcast episode is serving up a delicious dose of mindful eating and ends with a guided meditation.
Body scans are a powerful tool to nurturing a connection with the body despite physical sensations. This helps with promoting a deeper acceptance of our own physical and emotional states.
In this episode, we learn why it’s important to start taking a step back and observing what goes on inside. Then we practice together, using a guided meditation about observing as a practice.
This episode covers the basics of mindfulness meditation with a short mindfulness practice to get started on the journey. It is also a refresher for long-time meditators looking to re-Ignite the spark.
We end the 3-part series about loving-kindness meditation with a summary, new information, and a guided practice.
This 35th free guided meditation is a step-by-step guide to Loving-Kindness (Metta) meditation, taking your practice from “I” to “You” then to “All.”
In today’s practice, we will focus on the “I” portion of every metta meditation. It’s important to be comfortable with self-care, self-compassion, and kindness to self.
Today’s basic meditation method uses mindfulness of breathing, or conscious breathing. You can practice it while sitting or walking.
This simple mindfulness practice is offered to help you nurture and maintain equanimity in challenging circumstances.
This free guided meditation offers a moment to sit in mindfulness and find peace amidst the turmoil that can be caused by loss.
In today’s free guided meditation, we learn a practice that helps when emotions are high.
Welcome to our 27th episode. Today, I offer a few tips and suggestions on how to meditate in a noisy environment.
This practice gives you the opportunity to thoughtfully respond to something or someone that is challenging you right now.
This free guided meditation walks you through a self-compassion practice when you get distracted while meditating.
This free guided meditation uses a practice offered by Thich Nhat Hanh and helps you to be present and to build your non-judgement muscle.
This week, we find that connecting our practice to something that’s bigger than ourselves helps us to cultivate the inner environment we seek.
In this episode, we go over various ways that self-reflection on and off the meditation cushion can enhance your mindfulness meditation practice.
This week, we talk about how we can build a meditation practice with the enthusiasm and dedication that Tapas brings.
This episode introduces meditating on contentment, which helps achieving a sense of calm and grace as we go about our daily lives.
Today's session shows us how we can engage in our mindful meditation practice for a clear head and a pure heart.
As we continue to develop our mindfulness meditation practice, it helps to integrate healthy internal habits using the Yogic Niyamas.
Our senses are the gates to our human experience. Let’s practice moderation so we can stay away from flooding our senses with pleasure - which often leads to dissatisfaction.
Asteya is one of the Yamas in Yoga philosophy. It shows us how to gift ourselves and others the joy that mindfulness can bring. It teaches us how to respect our and others’ boundaries. It extends the definition of “non-stealing” to every-day life.
When we meditate with Satya in mind, we can see things as they are and now as we wish they were. This increases our resilience as we practice mindful meditation.
We continue to enhance our meditation practice through the use of Aparigraha, or non-attachment, which is another one of the self-disciplines of Yoga (called the Yamas).
In this episode, we apply on of the self-disciplines (called the Yamas) to our mindful meditation practice.
Take a moment to be mindful of the emotions swirling around you. Resilience to them starts with identifying them and noticing that they’re here.
Give yourself space to breathe. In doing so, bring your awareness to yourself and to the present moment.
Body scan meditations are mindfulness meditation techniques that allow us to manage physical and emotional stress. Join us for this short practice to get a sense of the results.
This week, we close our study of the 7 Attitudinal Foundations of Mindfulness and practice Trust. Trust allows the practitioner to access basic wisdom, which is essential to meditation.
Today we learn how patience allows us to be kind to ourselves as we practice mindfulness meditation.
We continue to learn the basics of mindfulness meditation. Today, patience helps the mindful meditator accept the discomforts that this practice may bring and patiently continue meditating, one session at a time.
This guided meditation helps the practitioner recognise that the mind chatter is highly likely; but you can move past uncomfortable resistance just by beginning again.
This is the “post hurricane Fiona” episode. Loved ones are safe, and we still have no electricity. The kitten is restless… And we forge on, creating a moment of mindfulness for a few minutes, engaging in the practice of Letting Go.
Acceptance helps the meditator be here now, without expectations. Together we’ll do a mindfulness practice in a way that reduces disappointment and suffering. Just with Acceptance.
When we’re meditating, we’re bound to be distracted by thoughts that have nothing to do with this one meditation session. Then we’re disappointed in ourselves and say that “We’re no good at this.” Well… That’s simply not true. In this episode, we learn how to use Non-Judgment as we continue our mindful meditation practice.
This week, we will practice meditating for 5 minutes simply by focusing on our breath. We’ll do this through the lens of the beginner’s mind: we’ll have no expectations.