Saybrook University Mindfulness Moments: Recent Episodes
College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences, Saybrook University
Saybrook University College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences faculty, students, and alumni lead our community and guest through a regular short mindfulness meditation free of charge and designed to bring balance and calm to your daily life. Download the podcast series on your favorite podcast app!
In this 15 minute mindfulness session, Dr. Jei Pearcey will lead you to your own unique place, designed to help you relax and reframe your perspective on stress. The meditation begins by guiding you to imagine yourself in a serene, quiet natural setting. You are encouraged to engage your senses, feeling the ground beneath you, the air around you, and any sounds or scents that may be present.
As you connect and relax in this peaceful environment, the meditation invites you to visualize yourself as a unique world. Consider what elements make up your world, such as your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Reflect and relax on what surrounds you, including the people, places, and things that influence your life.
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As spring arrives, it brings forth a vibrant energy of emergence, growth, and renewal. In the northern hemisphere, as we emerge from the metaphorical cave of winter, there is a palpable surge of vitality. In this season of transition, it becomes valuable to equip ourselves with tools that aid in supporting this emergence. Join Dr. McLain for a purposeful "pause," allowing time for reflection on the seeds of potential sprouting in your life. Together, we will cultivate a sense of patience to embrace the growth unfolding within and around us.
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Dr. Cliff Smyth leads you though using attention and gentle mindful movements to develop awareness ease for your face. Relaxing the face, shifting the subtle tensions, can help relax the whole body. The ability to sense ourselves in our faces can help us respond appropriately in our day.
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Dean Donald Moss explores the theme of Gelassenheit, which can be defined as letting be. It is a German word with historical and spiritual origins, and Dr. Moss touches upon its contemporary existential meaning of release, acceptance, and redirection in today's meditative session.
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Description: In this session, Dr. Smyth takes us briefly though some of the basic steps of the mindfulness of breath practice found in Sattipahtana Sutta from the Buddha’s time. Steps that you can benefit from in this recording, or take into more extended practice for yourself.
Dr. Gina Belton kicks off our Spring 2024 Mindfulness Moments program with a heartfelt practice. She guides us to connect with our heart space and tap into our capacity for loving kindness.
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Description: Autogenic Training is a self-regulation technique that produces profound relaxation and relief from the negative effects of stress. 'Autogenic' means 'generated from within.' The German Johann Schultz developed this procedure in the 1920s and 1930s and his colleague Wolfgang Luthe promoted Autogenic Training in North America. Dean Moss will guide the attendees in a brief experience of Autogenic Training.
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Description: In honor of personal and world peace, join Dr. Luann Fortune as she uses Metta meditation to guide us in exploring our inner awareness and projecting our loving kindness to the spaciousness of the cosmos.
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Description: Need a short break or a mindful intention to help set your day? Join Dr. Jenny DeDecker as she invites us to settle into our body and tune into our breath for the next 15 minutes together.
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Description: Join Dr. Gina Belton as she invites us to tune into our breath and drop into our own dew drop moment through the guidance of a haiku by Kobayashi Issa.
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Description: The solar eclipse is a powerful event that invites us into a relationship of reverence with life. As the moon momentarily covers the sun, it creates a unique shadow on our world and hints at new beginnings as the brightness dims for a short while, which can be a welcome and natural moment for reflection. This guided meditation invites a deeper look into the shadow side of our human experience, creating space for contemplation about where you've been, what you are healing from, and where you are headed next.
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In today's meditative practice, join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she creates space for us to honor Hispanic Heritage Month through a series of reflective quotes and poetry from notable Hispanic figures.
Description: Join us for today's Saybrook Mindfulness Moments as we rest in the buoyant depths of ocean mind and the expansive awareness of sky mind.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites you to tune into your breath and explore how you are intimately connected with all the elements of life, from people and nature to the universe and beyond.
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Description: Centering and grounding are often used interchangeably, but they are slightly different from each other. The former begins with looking inward while the latter occurs by connecting to external supporting forces. Join Dr. Luann Fortune as she guides us through the process of centering and grounding in today's meditative practice.
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Description: Drop in for a gentle guided meditation practice grounded in the Kriya yoga tradition. Breathe the luscious air surrounding you, engage the work (kri) of the breath and soul (ya), and join in the union of yoga. The goal of Kriya yoga is to embody the breath and balance the mind and body as a pathway for deepening spiritual connection within yourself and the world around you.
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Description: When times are rife with confusion in the outer world, it is wise to build a calm sanctuary within. Dr. Donna Rockwell leads us in a Mindful Awareness practice to help cool the heat of fear and cultivate in its place equanimity and calm.
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Description: As we navgiate the fluctuating weather changes of summer, Dr. Jenny DeDecker invites us to gently reconnect with our breath as a way to recenter into the root of our being.
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Description: In today's meditative space, Dr. Valerie Worthington invites us to reflect on her shared observations of spiritual and religious core tenets and traditions from cultures around the world.
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Description: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) guides the individual to perceive the difference between relaxed and tense muscles, and to develop a differential awareness of muscle tension, and a corresponding ability to release tensions. The presenter will introduce PMR and guide the attendees through a brief PMR experience.
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Description: Dr. Luann Fortune leads us through a metta practice, sending loving kindness and compassion to ourselves, others, and the world.
Description: Join Dr. Jenny DeDecker as she guides us to bring our awareness inward to gently settle on our entire body for today's meditative practice.
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Description: This meditation invites you to embark on a journey into the vibrant embrace of a rainbow, exploring the spectrum of colors and how they feel in your mind, heart, and body. In recognizing the impermanence of one of Nature’s most radiant gifts, we cultivate mindful appreciation for the transient beauty of each moment and recognize the interwoven tapestry of experiences that nourish our life.
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Description: Join Dr. Jenny DeDecker as she invites us to drop into a meditative practice of observing ease and stillness.
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Description: In today's session, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites you to reflect on the various stages of life and appreciate how we transition through the changes.
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Description: Join Dr. McLain Sims for a guided meditation that invites you to connect with and appreciate the unique path you are on. Come along for an introspective journey to acknowledge choices, experiences, and various growth opportunities that have brought you to the present moment.
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Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she invites you to reflect on her observations of synergy or the concept of how things can be greater than the sum of their parts.
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Description: Join Dr. Luann Fortune as she kicks off our return to our regularly scheduled 15-minute meditations. Today's session is focused on exploring the generation of an energetic ball of light between our hands.
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Description (Originally recorded on May 15, 2023): Join Dr. Cliff Smyth in this special one-hour didactic and experiential workshop on the Feldenkrais Method, which is focused on developing awareness through gentle movements.
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Description: From the Taoist tradition comes a meditation on cultivating one's 'inner smile.' Join Dr. Sims for a guided practice that will encourage you to soften the edges and focus your loving gaze inward to energy centers within the body.
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Description: Join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega as she invites us to connect with our inner selves, each other, and the world in this guided meditation practice.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard invites us to expand our acceptance of good in our lives.
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Description: Join Jenny DeDecker as she invites you to envision and embody how gratitude manifests in your life.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard invites us to visualize alignment and healing, starting with the spine and continuing throughout the body.
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Join Dr. McLain Sims in a gentle guided meditation that focuses on the energy of spring, which brings in a new awareness, growth, and fresh vitality. As the Earth awakens from the long, dark days of winter, this is also a time for our inner spirit to emerge. Connect with your inner knowing and sense the budding of growth within you while calling upon how you nourish this growth to flourish.
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Description: As you arrive and settle in for today's meditation, Dr. Gina Belton guides us through haikus or short poems reminiscent of nature's transition to Spring.
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Description: In this integrated practice of Faradarmani meditation and visualization techniques, Dr. Maryam N. Tafreshi invites us to celebrate the Persian New Year through the offerings of well-wishes and renewal for life.
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Description: In an externally focused meditation for today, Dr. Valerie Worthington shares a series of inspiring and light hearted quotes centered on the theme of national observances established on March 20th.
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Description: In today's meditative practice, join Dean Donald Moss as he invites us to take a mental retreat and open ourselves up to the inspiration of nature.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Valerie Worthington offers a series of quotes that validate, support, and inspire us as we continue to cycle through the next ventures of our lives.
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Description: In this Mindful Moment, Dr. Cliff Smyth leads a body and breathing-focused practice taking us back to the importance of using relaxation, physical and mental, as a beginning and a ground for mindful practice.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for part four of her series on the science of breathing. This practice focuses on rehabilitating and correcting the breath by consciously altering the oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2) ratio in our tissues and body. Together, we explore why we over breathe, the importance of carbon dioxide, and what makes for a healthy breathing pattern. Dr. Sims will introduce you to a simple CO2 test, and then you will practice a meditation specifically designed to rehabilitate and correct the breath based on your CO2 tolerance.
Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Kristin Jamieson invites you to conjure up a sense of your best self and radiate loving kindness to the loved ones in your life.
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Description: Join Dr. Gina Belton as she invites you to envision and embody the healing waters of life with an open heart and mind.
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Description: Guided imagery has been shown facilitate a connection to nature and the associated health and wellness benefits. In this guided imagery meditation, Dr. Luann Fortune leads us through being with nature for tranquility and centering.
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Description: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads a meditation using the experience and metaphor of touch to gather and direct our attention to the places where we meet the world, and inward.
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Description: Join Jenny DeDecker as she takes us on a journey to our heart center and encourages us to explore the felt experiences that it has to offer.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for part three of her series on the science of breathing. This practice focuses on the restorative power of slow, resonant breathing and how it can bring our nervous system into a state of coherence. Together, we explore the science behind coherent breathing and practice a meditation specifically designed to leverage the 'perfect breath'.
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Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she shares her personal experiences with defining moments of serendipity and invites us to reflect on what the term means for us in our lives.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to work with our parasympathetic ventral vagal system in creating feelings of safety and relaxation.
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Description: Dr. Luann Fortune leads us through a popular mindfulness exercise known as 5-4-3-2-1 grounding to connect with our somatic and sensorial present moment experience.
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Description: Join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega as she guides us in a meditation focused on exploring our external and internal sensory modalities.
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Description: Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard invites us into a practice of expanding our perceptions of time and space.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for part two of her series on the science of breathing. This practice focuses on the critical role of the diaphragm on our health, and how we can leverage the inner workings of the breath to support our vitality. Together, we explore the science and practice a meditation specifically designed to expand and strengthen our "second heart".
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Description: As we are nearing the holidays and the end of 2022, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to slow down, tune into our breath, and follow the movement that is happening inside our bodies.
Description: In a unique Mindfulness Moments session, Dr. Luann Fortune leads us in five different mini mind body practices that are focused on recentering and anchoring the self in the present.
Description: Join Dr. Luann Fortune as she guides us on a meditative journey to the sanctuary residing within each of us. Take some time to recover and recuperate here before heading out to your next venture.
Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for part one of her series on the science of breathing. This practice touches on the importance of nostril breathing and its influence on our health. Together, we explore the science and practice a meditation specifically designed to engage alternate nostril breathing to restore balance in the body.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr. Luann Fortune invites us to focus on gratitude and find things that we are grateful for as we reflect on this time of community and connection.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to somatically explore the resources that our bodies have to offer and to take what resonates with us.
Description: In the midst of our busy schedules, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to slow down, pause, and rest in the space between before heading off to our next endeavor.
Description: Let's take a pause to enjoy the RAIN. This guided RAIN meditation, first coined by insight meditation teacher Michele McDonald, has been widely shared and experienced over the decades. Together, let us drop Into this simple practice of recognizing and allowing mindfulness into the heart, investigating with kindness, and non-identifying with natural, loving awareness.
Description: Imagery can be a powerful tool for exploring the self in positive ways. In this guided imagery meditation, Dr. Luann Fortune leads us through imagining our superhero selves to promote self-knowledge and empowerment.
Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Gina Belton invites you to gently summon your ancestors and greet them as you remember their legacy of resilience that has been gifted to you.
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Description: It’s important that mindfulness not be used as just another chance to feel like we’re doing something wrong, or that we are somehow not enough. So rather than striving toward a goal, this mindfulness meditation practice helps us lighten up by sitting with kindness and exploring what mindfulness is not.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to gently explore how our body is grounded and connected to the space that supports us from below.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for a gentle guided movement meditation that attends to the workings of the body's major joints and areas of mobility. This experience may be enjoyed seated or standing, whichever feels more accessible.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Gina Belton holds space as she invites viewers to recognize the history and impact of colonialism, as well as honor various indigenous perspectives and resiliencies.
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Description: Join Dr. Gina Belton as she invites you to gently reflect on the state of curiosity and how it may open the doors to imagination, innovation, and creativity.
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Description: In light of recent world events, Dr. Kristin Jamieson invites you to join her in a safe space as she guides us to gently explore the opportunity to sit with uncertainty or feelings of the unknown.
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Description: As the days become shorter and the nights grow longer, autumn is a reminder to wind down and slow down. Fall provides us with an invitation to reflect inward and see the changing natural environment mirrored within our internal landscape. During this time nature shows us the importance of letting go, releasing, and making way for the new. Join Dr. Shannon Sims for a grounding meditation that reflects deeply on these concepts.
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Description: Dean Donald Moss invites you to join his guided meditation that acknowledges and honors the Islamic holiday, Eid al-Adha, which was held on July 9, 2022 in the U.S and celebrates the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Description: Dr. John Patterson agrees with the premise that moral, ethical, and spiritual progress is best measured by the degree to which we are becoming increasingly kind. Mindfulness is also translated as heartfulness. We will practice kindness.
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Description: Guided imagery can be a powerful tool for health and healing. Join Dr. Shannon Sims for a guided meditation that invites you to conjure an image of wellness for yourself - whatever that means to you.
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Description: In today's guided meditation, Dr. Valerie Worthington invites us to join in community as we reflect on our challenges and create some inner peace that aligns with our highest selves.
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Description: Connectiveness to nature through guided imagery is shown to improve mental health outcomes and promote pro-environmental behaviors. It can boost enhanced spirit and calm in everyday living. In this guided imagery, Dr. Luann Fortune guides us through a visit to an imagery treehouse, sounded by the nourishment and nurturance of nature, to support a better mood through imagination and creativity.
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Description: In today's Mindful Moments session, Dr. Kirwan Rockefeller invites us to travel inward to our own wishing wells and to use a metaphorical bucket to raise our gifts to the surface and to bring support to our well-being.
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Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she holds space for us in this guided meditation and shares powerful quotes on the appreciation of the little moments in our everyday lives.
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Description: The practice of loving kindness, or unconditional love encourages us to soften the mind and heart, and open to deeper and deeper levels of the feeling of kindness, of pure love. Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard leads us in this practice, with a focus on the suffering around the world.
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Description: In this time of great suffering, Dr. Shannon Sims leads a heart-opening Tonglen meditation. This active compassion practice invites the mind, body, and heart into a state of empathy by acknowledging the existence of suffering in the world around us. Rather than seeking to avoid suffering, this meditation allows us to accept its presence as a way to open and soften our hearts.
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Description: In light of the recent tragedy in Buffalo, New York, we invite you to join us in a guided meditation led by Dr. Valerie Worthington in which she holds space as we reflect on the wise words of Audre Lorde.
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Description: Join Dr. Kirwan Rockefeller as he walks us through a progressive muscle relaxation that focuses on breathing and finding a place in nature to pause and harvest some fruits of reflection.
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Description: Dr. Cliff Smyth guides us through a meditation practice using the natural imagery of mountains and their qualities to help us evoke and embody in our lives those many qualities.
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Description: Join Dr. Luann Fortune in taking a break from your day as she guides us in a self-care meditation that invites gentle movement into our bodies as well as explores various exercises to reduce eye fatigue.
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Description: Join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega as she opens up the first Mindful Moments of the summer term with a guided meditation centered on a gentle body exploration of what needs to be let go so that space can be created for restoration and balance.
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In the final Mindful Moments session of the Spring semester, join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega as she guides us in a serenity prayer centered on the gentle somatic exploration of our feelings surrounding change, courage, and acceptance!
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Description: Join Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard as she invites us to become aware of the connections within our body systems, and with the energies of earth and beyond.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for an inquiry-based meditation. Allow yourself to be gently guided through a practice that invites you to consider how you can move through change with dignity, love, and self-respect. Begin to see more clearly the opportunities for profound growth as you shed the "old" and step into the "new". You may choose to engage with a journal or notebook, or simply sit and bathe in the experience.
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Description: One understanding of mindfulness is awareness or consciousness of what is: of something being known. Dr Smyth takes us on a process of sensing into the body to explore somethings simply being known.
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Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she guides us through a meditation filled with motivational quotes that inspire us to turn inward and reflect on the value of time.
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Description: Join Dr. Shannon Sims for a gentle guided movement practice that focuses on self-care and self-compassion. Connect breath with movement as you mindfully soothe the nervous system.
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Description: Join Dr. Luann Fortune as she takes viewers back to the basics with a gentle body scan that invites an inward reflection on the deep wisdom that our flesh has to offer.
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Description: The meditation practice is from the Buddhist tradition evoking a state of well-being and connection to one's self and the larger world.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to tap into our somatic awareness and to gently explore any movement that arises in our bodies as well as sensations of stillness that may settle in with our breath.
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Description: With the recent time change and more sunlight throughout the day, doctoral student Jenny DeDecker guides us in a meditation that focuses on opening up our awareness to the transition of spring.
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Description: In this mindful moment Dr. Gina Belton will guide us in a meditation turning us toward the promise of complexity by exploring the joys of inter-being. As we are reminded by the environmental philosopher John Muir, "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, they find it is attached to the rest of the world.”
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Description: The changing of the seasons invites a new energy and an invitation to explore within. Join Dr. Sims for a guided meditation to cultivate awareness around the emerging and nurturing of new growth that is welcomed with spring.
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Description: Dr. Valerie Worthington guides us through a meditation interspersed with motivational quotes that inspire us to reflect and appreciate the hallmarks of what defines a friendship either with ourselves, loved ones, animals, and those we have yet to meet.
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Description: The meditation today will be an exercise in listening, using passages of the poetry of Rumi, translated and inspired by the scholarship of Coleman Barks.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides an exploration of being with what is familiar and what is new, unexpected, and uncertain.
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Description: In light of recent world events, Jenny DeDecker invites us to join her in a meditation that reflects upon our inner resilience and how we can channel that resilience to our loved ones and to those whom we have yet to meet.
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Description: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads an exploration of images to evoke the experience of how we gather ourselves into the present moment.
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Description: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads an exploration of images to evoke the experience of how we gather ourselves into the present moment.
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Description: This morning Dr. Gina Belton, coordinator of the Contemplative End of Life specialization, will offer gentle guidance in opening to the wisdom of our own heart medicine with our tending to heartfulness. Dr. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, describes heartfulness as “a way of BEING in mindfulness, in compassion and in responsibility. Heartfulness, expressed as active caring, manifests an expansive sense of living with openness and clarity, being true to ourselves and in empathy with all beings.
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Description: Dr. Sims guided a reflective practice to bring awareness around the inner critic and compassionately call on the wisdom and compassion of the inner nurturer.
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Description: Dr. Sims guided a reflective practice to bring awareness around the inner critic and compassionately call on the wisdom and compassion of the inner nurturer.
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Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she guides us through a reflective meditation filled with inspirational quotes on the process of learning as an opportunity for sacred transformation and connection.
Description: Join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she guides us through a reflective meditation filled with inspirational quotes on the process of learning as an opportunity for sacred transformation and connection.
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Description: This meditation focuses on the body and inviting a feeling of pleasantness through softening and letting go.
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Description: Join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega as she invites us to slow down from our busy lives and to take a pause as we breathe and embrace this moment of stillness and being.
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Description: This Mindfulness Moments episode is dedicated to the late Thich Nhat Hanh, a revered Zen Buddhist, peace activist, and mindfulness practitioner. Spend these moments with Dr. Sims in honor of the life and legacy of this world-renowned spiritual leader and beloved teacher.
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Description: Using imagery and sensorial images from an oceanside nature experience, Dr. Luann Fortune leads this guided meditation to lead participants to awareness of their breath, their individual rhythm, and their connection to collective mindfulness.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to gently explore movement and sensation throughout the body, coming to rest in this moment.
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Description: The pandemic has been traumatic for our nervous systems – from lockdown to possibly being sick with COVID, to the loss of a loved one, and so much in between. In this Mindfulness Moment episode, Dr. Shannon Sims introduces a few simple (but powerful) nervous system soothers to help offset the "fight or flight" stress response.
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Description: Dr. Valerie Worthington leads us through a meditation filled with motivational quotes that inspire us to view and appreciate our body as the gift that the universe has offered us to navigate through life with.
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Description: Brother David Steindl-Rast reminds us that “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.” In this mindful moment participants are invited to open to the grace of gratitude in the everyday moments and challenges of our lives.
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Description: Dr. Donna Rockwell will guide us in a "movie meditation." We often get caught up in the thoughts in our mind. We see thoughts as solid and real. But if we sit in meditation and watch our mind like a movie, we can learn healthy detachment and attain greater personal agency.
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Description: The holiday season can sometimes be challenging for the heart and mind. Dr. Sims guides us into our bodies through an experience of grounding in compassion with a brave and fierce heart. This meditative journey invites you tap into your brave and fierce compassionate heart. This practice pairs well with journaling as you consider how to support yourself, set boundaries, and state your own needs.
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Description: Dr. Elena Gillespie guides us in an imagery session through the magic of storytelling and invites us to visualize our connection to the gift of music and the universe.
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Description: Dr. Gina Belton leads us in a gentle inquiry exploring the truth of our interconnectedness. An invitation, encouraging us to savor stillness and feel deeply into the ways our lives are interconnected, that we belong to each other.
Description: Dr. John Patterson guides us through a mindfulness meditation that attends to our breath and gives special attention to our 4th chakra, the heart, and our body.
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Description: Dr. Valerie Worthington guides us through a reflective meditation on the concept of nothingness and how it can be seen as something positive within the busyness of our daily lives.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides us through Shari Geller's acronym PRESENCE: Pause, Relax, Enhance awareness, Sense your inner body, Expand sensory awareness outwards, Notice what is true in this moment, Center and ground, Extend and make contact.
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Description: Dr. Smyth leads us through a simple appreciation practice. It can take some skill to attend to what is good, pleasant, delightful, joyful, and this practice helps you notice and attend to these aspects of your bodily experience, environment, and life.
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Description: Join Dr. Elena Gillespie as she leads us through a light hearted self-care meditation that begins with bathing our bodies in colorful energies and then expanding our awareness out to the limitlessness of the universe.
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Description: In this guided meditation, Dr. Luann Fortune takes us through a journey of forest bathing supplemented by the beautiful nature sounds of the woods.
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Description: Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard leads us in meditation breathing techniques taught by Thich Nhat Hanh.
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Description: Dean Moss will introduce the biological phenomenon of heart rate variability HRV), describe the link between breathing and HRV, and guide attendees in a simplified heart rate variability exercise.
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Description: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads us on a journey into five parts of the body - using awareness to create ease, and ease to enhance awareness, to explore the first foundation of mindfulness: mindfulness of the body.
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Description: Dr. Valerie Worthington leads us through a meditation interspersed with inspirational quotes as we all reflect on how we can make an impact on ourselves, our loved ones, and the world that we reside in today.
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Description: Dr. Elena Gillespie guides us in attempting to achieve a transcendent level of consciousness through meditation.
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Description: Dr. Sims guides us through an experience of tapping into infinite space through gentle movement and a seated pranayama practice of sama vritti. Elevate your day as you ride the waves of mindful exploration through time and space through all directions.
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Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega explores the feeling and idea of finding and experiencing center (body and mind) through gentle movement.
Description: Dr. Dorianne Cotter-Lockard leades us in a gentle body scan and progressive relaxation, followed by guided imagery about being in a restful place
Description: Dr. Shannon Sims invites a compassionate journey through forgiveness, not only of the self, but forgiveness of others.
Description: Dr Cliff Smyth leads us through detailed awareness of the experience of breathing. Drawing on inspiration from the Anapanasati Sutta, he invites us to evoke and engage with the potential for positive feelings of calm, ease, and joy that can arise from practicing being present to the breath.
Description: Inspired by Joanna Macy & Molly Brown's book Coming Back to Life, Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides a meditation on gratitude for the gift of life and all that supports us.
Description: Dr. Donald Moss guided a meditation on internal self-love, based on scripts developed by Drs. Claire Frederick and Shirley McNeal.
Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides us into creating and experiencing a sanctuary of the heart, bringing in images of love, caring, and comfort to hold and heal whatever might need soothing.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr Luann Fortune guides us to offer loving kindness to ourselves and others.
Description: Dr. Sims leads a guided imagery practice to encourage relaxation and wellness. This meditation can be used to help promote emotional resilience and a sense of calm when facing a stressful situation, or to simply invite feelings of inner peace and balance.
Description: Dr Elena Gillespie, a reiki practitioner as well as Saybrook faculty, shares a personal story of energy healing and leads us to connect with the healing energy within each of us.
Description: Dr. Valerie Worthington leads us in a collection of classic quotes to reflect on the joys and inspirations of summer time experience.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr. O'Dell Johnson leads us in an exercise with primordial sound. This mantra mediation is geared to detached us from thoughts and cognition through repetitive mantra sounding.
Dr. Selene Kumin Vega takes us on an exploration of our resources from personal and collective ancestors, the community of people and beings we connect with in our present lives, and the ripples into the future of those we have touched.
Description: Concentrating on or simply following our breath is a cornerstone of mindfulness. In this guided meditation, Dr Luann Fortune leads us to focus our attention on our breath and invite other thoughts to drift off in mindfulness bubbles.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr Luann Fortune leads us to imagine yourself flying, soaring, gliding, and sensing the experience of moving through the air in flight.
7 June 2021: In this guided meditation lead by Dr Dorianne Cotter-Lockard, we are invited to broaden our awareness as we use our senses of hearing and vision in combination with breath awareness.
4 June 2021: In formal mindfulness meditation practice, we are instructed to notice when the mind has wandered from the object of meditation, the breath. Once we notice that we are “thinking,” we are invited to gently return focus to the breath: the in-breath, the out-breath, as well as the tiny space between breaths. Dr. Donna Rockwell will lead us in shamatha-vipashana (mindful awareness) practice, where “returning” to the breath is emphasized to train the brain to do this noticing and returning in daily life.
28 May 2021: Dean Moss will facilitate an imagery experience consulting with one's Council of Advisors. Participants will construct an inner circle of advisors and consult their wisdom and direction.
24 May 2021: Dr. Valerie Worthington invites us to reflect on being a good neighbor and how we can engage that principle in our everyday lives.
21 May 2021: In recognition of the first annual Mental Health Action Day, Dr. Sims guides us through a moment of stillness that aims to turn mental health awareness into action. This mindful moment is dedicated to an experience that invites us to check in with ourselves.
17 May 2021: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides us through an exercise adapted from Molly Brown, based in Roberto Assagioli's Psychosynthesis, exploring awareness and the inquiry of who is aware.
14 May 2021: Loving Kindness Compassion meditation, also known as metta, is a foundational method in the collection of mindfulness practices. In this guided meditation, Dr. Luann Fortune adopts words from Kabat-Zinn's writing to lead us through offering loving-kindness to ourselves and others.
10 May 2021: Tara is a fully enlightened female Buddha, called the Mother of all Buddhas, who emulates compassion in action. Meditating on Tara helps us see reality and ourselves more clearly. Dr. Donna Rockwell will lead us in a Green Tara meditation to help us awaken our buddhanature, the basic goodness in everyone.
In this guided mindful moment, Dr. Luann Fortune combines the ayurvedic technique of abhyanga (self-massage) and guided imagery to lead a brief visit to a spa experience for restoration and renewal. Mindfulness Moments will be on break now until the summer term. We start up again Monday, May 10 for live sessions on Mondays and Fridays through the end of July.
5 April 2021: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads you through a process, using the breath and imagination, to bring gentle and spacious presence to the whole body.
1 April 2021: In this guided meditation, Dr Luann Fortune invites us to put down the busyness of our tasks and mental world to focus on our breath to take a mindful moment pause. This simple break can help restore while enriching our continual awareness as we create each day.
29 March 2021: The past year has been tumultuous, and the world continues to experience upheaval. In this session, Dr. Valerie Worthington invites us to ruminate on hope and how we can make room for it even in the face of our challenges.
Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites us to find the resources and connection available from the earth beneath us, the universe above and beyond us, the environment and community around us, and in our bodies and deepest sense of being.
Description: It is important to understand that being in the present moment is not a constant state but a place to continually return to. Dr. Donna Rockwell will lead us in a mindful breath meditation, guiding us on how to return home, to the present moment, to now.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr Luann Fortune leads us to visit transcendent calm through the words of a poem by mindfulness master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Description: Dr Cliff Smyth guides you through a meditation practice using imagery of a lake – to help you explore equanimity, even as the lake passes through many moods.
Description: Dr. Shannon Sims leads a guided meditation on cultivating gratitude and appreciation through exploring the senses.
Description: In this guided meditation, Dr Valerie Worthington leads us to quiet our minds and reflect on a progression of affirmations on knowing and living our priorities.
Description: Dr Cliff Smyth leads an exploration of the calming effects of breath awareness, using sensitive self-touch and sounding to explore the three breathing spaces.
Description: In this guided session, Dr Julie Cerrato introduces us to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to improve inner awareness. This version varies from classic EFT, following principles of acupressure and pranayama.
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22 February 2021: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega guides us through an exploration of taking in and sending out, filling up and releasing, sharing and protecting, and coming back to center.
19 February 2021: Dr. Cliff Smyth leads a process of getting in touch with the different sensory channels of experience, and using that awareness of for greater openness and equanimity.
15 February 2021: Dr Dorianne Cotter-Lockard leads us through a form of meditation developed by Sri Aurobindo and his students, called Integral Yoga. This form of meditation brings energy and light down through the crown of the head into the chakra centers of the body.
12 February 2021: Dr Shannon Sims leads us in this short series of yoga stretches that are helpful for releasing tension in the neck, shoulders, and upper back. Whether you are seated on a mat, a cushion, or in a chair, these gentle and restorative movements will invite a soothing release of tightness, pain, and tension.
1 February 2021: Dr. Donald Moss will guide a meditation on mindful awareness, using the breath to guide and deepen awareness.
29 January 2021: Dr. Cliff Smyth takes you through a process of focused attention, listening, with acceptance, for to and sounds from the world, your body, and mental activity.