Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Meditation

Greetings and May the Fourth Be With You! Today is the second part of our new series on developing self control, and we are again focused on conflict management visualization as an anchor. This time, we introduce a three-part method in visualization to help change our attitude about and default response to conflict. Focus, repetition and discipline are what bring results here, so jump in the deep...

We are moving on from the self-care series to a several part series on conflict management. Today’s meditation focus was suggested by a participant wondering how he can develop self-control when in a high-conflict situation. He has been meditating for a long time, but still flies off the handle pretty quickly in a way that doesn’t align with his goals for psychological and spiritual growth. He’s a...

Today we sit in practice to honor Easter. Representing the renewal offered in the resurrection of Jesus, the rebirth of the earth in spring, and the rebirth of our hearts and minds in laying aside old grudges and judgements and planting the seeds for love and forgiveness in our future thoughts and actions. To watch this meditation in video, please visit https://youtu.be/vsvSTNHZBAA . For more info...

Greetings meditators, and welcome to our Sunday practice! As the final podcast in our self-care series, we explore Tara Brach's RAIN method as a means of seeing with greater wisdom, compassion and heartfulness, for ourselves and others. To join our practice live, please email CalgaryMindfulness @ Gmail.com . Thanks! Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness...

Greetings Sunday meditators! In this week's meditation, we continue our series on self-care, and following up from last week's practice on releasing anger and victimization, we undertake conflict management visualizations. To join our practice live, please email CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com . Thanks! Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder & Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings! We continue our series on promoting self-care, and in today's practice we explore how to let go of victimization. The idea of letting go of being easily offended is a key way to offer self and other loving kindness. There is a bit of enthusiastic discussion about the science behind why feeling like a victim harms us physically and mentally. Sick of being wishy washy? Watch, listen, try,...

Can we get enough of loving kindness? Nope! For self and other, loving kindness represents the highest level of appreciation and gratitude! In today's practice, we continue our series about self care, and further explore the practice of extending loving kindness to ourselves, which is often difficult for people used to caring for others! To join our practice live, please email CalgaryMindfulness@g...

Welcome back! How quickly the weeks pass. Today we undertake the next class in our self-care series, loving kindness for self. Often offering ourselves loving kindness is more difficult that giving it to others, and in today's practice, we guide you through how you can improve this important skill. To join our practice live, please email CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com. We meet Sundays 8am Mountain T...

Today we begin our next series for 2025, and we are focused on developing self-care within our meditation practice. Our first stop is a loving kindness meditation! To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/0n9IDGH6aLI To join our class live, please email CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com . Please visit CalgaryMindfulness.ca for schedule of events. Thanks! Rosanna D'Agnillo, founder and le...

Greetings meditators! Today I invite you to join me in a meditation recorded this weekend in the mountains, focusing on the mindfulness basics of listening and breath. I hope you enjoy! To join our practice live, please email Calgary Mindfulness@Gmail.com , and visit CalgaryMindfulness.ca for updates to events and more support materials. Thanks! Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder & Lead Facilitator, C...

Good day and apologies for the delay in uploading this practice! I have had some technical trouble with my laptop. You will also notice in this practice if you watch on Youtube that I have some technical trouble with shedding akita; Kuma has lost her entire coat of winter fur within a couple weeks and it is blowing around my partner's home like poplar pollen in June! *If you'd like to join this zo...

Greetings meditators, welcome to our weekly practice. In today's practice, we continue the series we've been working with for the last four classes, and that is how can we as meditators--that means we are committed to making change inside out rather than the other way around--manage increasing levels of stress as society seems to destabilize. In our previous sits, we sat with the emotions, thought...

Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation! To join our practice live, and to submit questions to guide our sessions, please email CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com . For more information about workshops and classes, please visit www. CalgaryMindfulness.ca . To watch this session live, please visit https://youtu.be/1dYe1TJ0jDE In today's practice, we continue with the important topic we s...

Greetings meditators! In today's practice, we continue our exploration of how to handle ourselves in meditation when under stress. Two weeks ago we explored mindfulness of where stress piles up in the body, and last week we reviewed mindfulness of our thoughts. Today's practice focuses on a breath mantra that reminds and connects us to our true nature of ease, joy, resilience, wisdom and peacefuln...

Greetings! In today's video, we employ the mindfulness anchor of thoughts as a tool for stress management. Many of my viewer and listener emails focus on how to manage stress in these difficult times, and in our next few episodes we will explore some other options. To join our class live, please write Calgary Mindfulness @ Gmail.com . We meet on Sundays 8am on Zoom (except for holidays) and will m...

Greetings meditators! This week's practice is in response to some listener questions about feeling very worried regarding the inauguration of Donald Trump tomorrow. For us Canadians, if tariffs are illegally imposed as suggested, this could lead to great economic hardship for many Canadians and increases in prices at a time when inflation makes daily expenses like food, utilities, and rent hard fo...

Happy New Year! May 2025 be a year of health and happiness for you and your families and other loved ones. In today's practice, we explore setting intentions for the new year, stepping away from the traditional idea of "resolutions". Our aim is to identify the heartful and holistic center of the goal and aim for that with mindful thought, word and action. For example, instead of wishing to lose 10...

Welcome to our final broadcast and podcast of 2024! Today we are preparing for the new year by reviewing the physical mindfulness anchors of body, breath, body scan, sound, sight, as well as thoughts an emotions. Why? To further develop the discipline of being in the present moment, appreciating, conscious, aware, intending, rather than being wagged by the tail of the dog. It's not about manifesti...

In this final advent meditation, where we focus on opening our hearts to nurture and grow the spiritual qualities we want to manifest in ourselves and offer to others, we remind ourselves of our true strength and resilience, and release thoughts of lack and limitation that no longer serve this higher purpose. To join our practice live, please email Calgary Mindfulness@gmail.com , and we invite you...

We continue our journey through the advent season about opening the heart to spiritual growth and strength; in meditation we can practice honoring and amplifying the highest and best in ourselves - wisdom, ease, clarity, patience, self-respect, kindness, compassion, and so on--so that by default we can share our highest and best with others. This is a great alternative to feeling like a victim and...

Good morning meditators! Meditations for the advent season continue...In today's practice, we respond to some participant questions about "why do I get so stressed out at this time of year?" I see it with my students, my friends, family and colleagues, and myself personally. I get pretty overworked by December and find it harder and harder to unwind. If anyone in my professional and personal spher...

Good morning! In today's practice we sit with our usual anchors of body, breath, and sound, and explore the passage of memories across our meditation practice. Thoughts and memories arise, and we aim to welcome them and allow them to pass, without getting stuck in reliving and/or punishing ourselves for what we did wrong. I would consider today's meditation intention part of the anchor of thoughts...

In today's practice, we begin with our previous three anchors of breath, body and sound, and sit in loving kindness practice. This fourth anchor brings many immediate health and emotional benefits. When working with children, I have referred to this anchor via the analogy of being a secret Santa. To join our practice live, please visit CalgaryMindfulness.ca and write CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com ....

Greetings! In today's meditation we explore the breath anchor, attaching a strength mantra to the inhalation. To join our practice live, please email me at CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com . Thanks! Rosanna

Greetings! We received many emails about election worry, and this past week, either election blues for people who worry about continued hate and fear mongering, and also a sort happy rage and relief from people who feel excited to inflict retribution, justice and right-thinking on those who have disagreed with them. Either pole consists of toxic thinking. Our role is to chose to be the change we w...