Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

Feel grounded through this compassionate breath meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Hope Watches", by James Crews. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Hope WatchesHope watches from the windowlike a small child waitingfor his parents to come home. His eyes are the lightshope keeps burninglong into the night, even whenit seems...

Feel grounded through this compassionate breath meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Hope Watches", by James Crews. Hope WatchesHope watches from the windowlike a small child waitingfor his parents to come home. His eyes are the lightshope keeps burninglong into the night, even whenit seems no one will return. Hope breathes on the glass,asks each of us to w...

Join Julie Potiker as she leads this open awareness meditation. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Before Dawn". This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Before Dawn, by Julie Potiker. Even with fences, even with locks, I’m not always safe from the thoughts in my head. The second sleep—that strange, lucid hour before dawn—can be a dangerous place. My mind unspoo...

Join Julie Potiker as she leads this open awareness meditation. She completes the meditation with her poem, "Before Dawn". Before Dawn, by Julie Potiker. Even with fences, even with locks, I’m not always safe from the thoughts in my head. The second sleep—that strange, lucid hour before dawn—can be a dangerous place. My mind unspools anxieties, wild and uninvited. I climb out from under the dogs a...

Join Julie Potiker for this quiet meditation. Using your breath as an achor - focus on the message you feel you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Promise", by Barbara Crooker. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. PROMISEThis day is an open roadstretching out before you. Roll down the windows. Step into your life, as if it were a fast car. Ev...

Join Julie Potiker for this quiet meditation. Using your breath as an achor - focus on the message you feel you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Promise", by Barbara Crooker. PROMISEThis day is an open roadstretching out before you. Roll down the windows. Step into your life, as if it were a fast car. Even in industrial parks,trees are covered with white blossoms,festiv...

Julie Potiker leads you through this self compassion meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "The Endless Waltz", by James Crews. This version ends in music allowing you to drift off into sleep. This Endless Waltz, by James Crews In this endless waltz of give and taketrust and receivetoday, I am the one who must open his armshold the door for whatever wants to entertap of rain on g...

Julie Potiker leads you through this self compassion meditation. She completes the meditation with the poem, "The Endless Waltz", by James Crews. This Endless Waltz, by James Crews In this endless waltz of give and taketrust and receivetoday, I am the one who must open his armshold the door for whatever wants to entertap of rain on glass, scurry of tiny flyacross the window screen, beaded with dro...

Breathe in peace and tranquility through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "All the Ways to Name a Dragonfly", by Ellen Rowland. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. All the Ways to Name a DragonflyWhat if your first thought upon wakingwas not of all you have to do, or how sadand frightening the world is, but this...

Breathe in peace and tranquility through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "All the Ways to Name a Dragonfly", by Ellen Rowland. All the Ways to Name a DragonflyWhat if your first thought upon wakingwas not of all you have to do, or how sadand frightening the world is, but this:I am alive. In a body. On a day I have never met. Hello, you beaut...

Breathe in what you need right now, and then breathe out what you want to send to others through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Can You Imagine", by Mary Oliver. Can You Imagine? Mary OliverFor example, what the trees donot only in lightning stormsor the watery dark of a summer's nightor under the white nets of winterbut now, and now, and...

Breathe in what you need right now, and then breathe out what you want to send to others through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Can You Imagine", by Mary Oliver. Can You Imagine? Mary OliverFor example, what the trees donot only in lightning stormsor the watery dark of a summer's nightor under the white nets of winterbut now, and now, and...

Enjoy this open awareness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "I Pray to the Birds", by Terry Tempest Williams. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. I Pray to the Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I...

Enjoy this open awareness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "I Pray to the Birds", by Terry Tempest Williams. I Pray to the Birds, by Terry Tempest Williams I pray to the birds. I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each...

Join Julie Potiker as she leads this gentle meditation practice focusing on what you need right now. Is it love, energy, calm, peace? She completes the meditation with two poems, "Spring", by Ellen Rowland, and "Bring Me The Sun", by Julie Potiker. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Spring, by Ellen Rowland    -after James PearsonHow can I love this springwhen winte...

Join Julie Potiker as she leads this gentle meditation practice focusing on what you need right now. Is it love, energy, calm, peace? She completes the meditation with two poems, "Spring", by Ellen Rowland, and "Bring Me The Sun", by Julie Potiker. Spring, by Ellen Rowland    -after James PearsonHow can I love this springwhen winter still holds hate quivering in its jaws,holds hope frozen in fear,...

Julie Potiker leads this guided meditation focusing on what is needed in your life right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, " Hawk and Crow Surf the Wind", by Moudi Sbeity. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Hawk and Crow Surf the Wind, by Moudi SbeityWhether it was for play or rivalry, I could not tell.                          Crow cawed. Hawk was si...

Julie Potiker leads this guided meditation focusing on what is needed in your life right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, " Hawk and Crow Surf the Wind", by Moudi Sbeity. Hawk and Crow Surf the Wind, by Moudi SbeityWhether it was for play or rivalry, I could not tell.                          Crow cawed. Hawk was silent.            They glided in massive signatures,nearing then dri...

Visualize a calm lake, a reflective, peaceful body of water, to help you relax into this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with an untitled poem from Mark Nepo's book of poems (in progress), "Tales of the Ferryman". From Mark Nepo's, Tales of the Ferryman. A German proverb saysthat windows are the eyesof the house. And an old Jewish beliefsays that the heart is t...

Visualize a calm lake, a reflective, peaceful body of water, to help you relax into this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with an untitled poem from Mark Nepo's book of poems (in progress), "Tales of the Ferryman". This is from Mark Nepo's book of poems in progress, Tales of the Ferryman. A German proverb saysthat windows are the eyesof the house. And an old Jew...

Using your breath, breathe in what you need for yourself - and then breathe out what you want to send to others. Julie Potiker completes her meditation with the poem, "Drifting Ochre", by Sam Aureli. This meditation ends with music to allow you to drift off into sleep. Drifting Ochre, by Sam AureliA single leaf of yellow ochrefloats along the water's gentle current. It spins and twirls, as if reme...

Using your breath, breathe in what you need for yourself - and then breathe out what you want to send to others. Julie Potiker completes her meditation with the poem, "Drifting Ochre", by Sam Aureli. Drifting Ochre, by Sam AureliA single leaf of yellow ochrefloats along the water's gentle current. It spins and twirls, as if rememberingall it had known - the warmth of spring,the quiet labor of beco...

Find yourself in stillness as you listen to this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Invitation", by Mary Oliver. Invitation, by Mary OliverOh do you have timeto lingerfor just a little whileout of your busyand very important dayfor the goldfinchesthat have gatheredin a field of thistlesfor a musical battle,to see who can singthe highest note,or the...

Find yourself in stillness as you listen to this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Invitation", by Mary Oliver. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Invitation, by Mary OliverOh do you have timeto lingerfor just a little whileout of your busyand very important dayfor the goldfinchesthat have gatheredin a field of this...

This meditation focuses on using your breath to breathe in loving kindness for yourself and out for others. Julie Potiker completes the meditation with the poem, "Reciprocity - When redpolls arrive in Minnesota," by Holly Lamond. This version ends with music allowing you to drift off into sleep. Reciprocity- when redpolls arrive in Minnesota, by Holly Lamond - Poetry Tracks in the SnowA gallup of...