Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

In this guided meditation you'll visualize a majestic tree - and ground yourself through its roots into the earth. In celebration of Pride month, held every June, Julie Potiker completes the meditation with the poem "I love you to the moon and..." by Chen Chen.   I Love You To The Moon And by Chen Chen   Not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of  queer zest & stay up  there &...

Feel your body release and relax as you melt into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potiker.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www. MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful...

Scan your body and breathe in love and appreciation through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker.  She completes the meditation with timely words from Rabbi Jordan Braunig, "A Prayer for Peace".   A Prayer for Peace, Rabbi Jordan Braunig It is possible to pray for peace. Our prayer life need not know our boundaries. No green lines, no dashes, no subtle demarcations. Our longings can transce...

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll focus on compassion - for yourself an others.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www. MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful...

Connect to yourself  - and others through this loving kindness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading by Hafiz, "With That Moon Language". With That Moon Language, by Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky) Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise, someone would call the cops. Still though, t...

In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker you'll breathe in what you need right now - and breathe out what no longer serves you. She completes the meditation with a poem by Franciscan Brother Richard, Ordinary Miracles. Ordinary Miracles by Brother Richard, a Capuchin Franciscan priest-friar, living and working in Ireland.   Today I am so tired - I have no space in me for big. I must return t...

Are there any words that would describe what you need to hear right now? Such as, " I am worthy? It's okay? I've got this?  Join Julie Potiker in this guided meditation where you'll focus on breathing in those words and phrases while also sending them out to others.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods...

Who is it that puts a smile on your face and warms your heart?  In this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker, you'll bring this being on a journey with you to your favorite place - feeling the warmth, affection and love you have in your heart for your them.  Julie Potiker completes the meditation with a reading of a poem by Ed Crowley.   "I asked many Masters how I should sit in formal meditatio...

Contemplate your link in the chain of history - as you settle into this meditation led by Julie Potiker, marking Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. She completes the meditation by combining quotes from Paul Tsongas and Rabbi Tarfon. Quotes: "We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our childr...

Settle into this compassion meditation led by Julie Potker. She completes the meditation with a passage from the the book ,“Wintering: The power of rest and Retreat in Difficult Times”, by Katherine May.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www. MindfulMetho...

We mark Passover 2021 - with a meditation of love and being loved in a pandemic. Join Julie Potiker for this guided meditation where she brings you comforting words from poet Ralph Waldo Emerson to inspire and help you make it through difficult days. “ This is my wish for you : Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunse...

In this guided meditation, Julie Potiker helps you bring the warm, golden light of Spring into focus. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem "Poppies", by Mary Oliver. Poppies by Mary Oliver The poppies send up their orange flares; swaying in the wind, their congregations are a levitation of bright dust, of thin and lacy leaves. There isn’t a place in this world that doesn’t soone...

Sit into your own space, your imagination, your peace - as Julie Potiker leads you through this relaxing guided meditation. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "You Have Become a Forest", by Nikita Gill. One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest. You have grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had. You have become stronger an...

Take a journey into a garden, sit under a tree, and bring an umbrella -  because it might rain - as you listen to this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem," The Breather", by Billy Collins.   The Breather, by Billy Collins Just as in the horror movies when someone discovers that the phone calls are coming from inside the house so too, I r...

Bring in the cosmos, the night sky, the planets and constellations as you consider the vastness of the universe while sitting in meditation in your safe space.  Julie Potiker completes this guided meditation with a reading of the poem, "Antidotes to Fear of Death", by Rebecca Elson. ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH by Rebecca Elson   Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nigh...

Breathe in, breathe out...and connect to your inner-self and the world around you as Julie Potiker leads you through this guided meditation. She finishes the meditation with a reading of the poem,"Sojourns in the Parallel World" by Denise Levertoy. Sojourns in the Parallel World, by Denise LevertoyWe live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue i...

Enjoy this moment of self care as Julie Potiker leads you through this guided meditation. She completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, At My Window", by Mark Nepo." At the Window, By Mark Nepo I was at the window when a fly near the latch was on its back spinning — legs furious, going nowhere. I thought to swat it but something in its struggle was too much my own. It kept spinning and...

Julie Potiker leads this Metta meditation helping you bring love, compassion, positive energy and kindness to yourself and others. The meditation concludes with a reading of the poem, "Your Mind Feels Big Today", by Ying Choon Wu.   Your Mind Feels Big Today, by Ying Choon Wu You watch as leaves skate off on a gust of wind. When you were five, you galloped—because you were a pony; because the sun...

Sit back, close your eyes and feel your connection to everything around you through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. Julie completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Speaking Tree", by Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate. (Tu'Bishvat is the New Year for the Trees in Israel)   Speaking Tree, by Joy Harjo Some things on this earth are unspeakable:Genealogy of the broken—A shy wind th...

It's been a month of transition for the United States as we ushered in a new president and look toward the future. Julie Potiker brings you healing words and phrases from the inauguration including excerpts from the poem, "The Hill We Climb", by 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. Gorman presented her timely poem before the nation during the inaugurat...

This guided meditation takes you on a journey through the galaxy, wherever you want to go, while in the safety of an orb. Julie Potker leads you through this guided meditation ending with a reading of the poem, "Singularity" by Marie Howe,which was composed in tribute to Stephen Hawking. SINGULARITY by Marie Howe Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody n...

Use this guided meditation to heal the anger, sadness or confusion you may be feeling after watching the siege unfold at the U.S. Capitol. Julie Potiker finishes the meditation with a reading of  "The Cure of Troy", Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. THE CURE OF TROY Human beings sufferThey torture one another,They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or songCan fully right a wro...

A gift for you on this last night of Chanukah. Julie Potiker leads this guided meditation where you'll visualize beams of love moving through your body to radiate, love, peace, ease.   Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www. MindfulMethodsForLife.com and als...

Visualize light, white light golden light to help bring healing to those around you - and also yourself. Julie Potiker ends this guided meditation with a reading of the poem, "Home Alone," by Innarenko.   Home Alone, by Innarenko My family's gone, there's no one home; It's only me - who's home alone. I should not hear a single squeak, There shouldn't even be a creak, So what's that thumping that I...

Connect to yourself and the world around you through this Metta meditation led by Julie Potiker. The loving kindness meditation concludes with a reading of the poem, "The Afterlife", by Billy Collins. The Afterlife by Billy Collins While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth, or riffling through a magazine in bed, the dead of the day are setting out on their journey. They’re moving off...