Embodied Mindfulness Meditation for Somatic and Emotional healing.

Send me a note, love to hear from you. This reflection offers a gentle meditation on meeting difficult emotions with loving awareness rather than resistance or fixing. guided from a place of personal and collective pain, it invites us to sit—especially when we are not well—and to discover the inner resource that can hold grief, anger, overwhelm, and tenderness alike. Through simple presence with t...

Send me a note, love to hear from you.  The Mirror Mind Take a breath. Let’s look into the quiet mirror of awareness together. Mindfulness is not a task or a state to achieve — it’s a way of seeing, a clear mirror through which life is quietly known. Mindfulness is like a mirror. Not something to polish for perfection, but something that simply reflects what is. Thoughts arise, emotions pass, sens...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Meet life moment by moment This meditation invites us to explore how we meet life in each moment — through sensations of warmth or coolness, comfort or discomfort, desire or aversion. By noticing our natural tendencies to grasp, reject, or drift away, we begin to see that true awareness lies in simply being with what is. Through gentle curiosity and presence,...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Focus and Awareness In this meditation I invite you to explore the two tools of mindfulness; Focus and Awareness- bare attention We practice mindfulness through the twin tools of focus and awareness or bare attention anchored in the breath and body sensation.  The practice of focus is simple, to return, again and again, with gentle persistence to the object o...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Living and dying with each breath In this meditation I invite you to explore a profound truth about aging, death, and what it means to truly live. Each breath is a complete cycle of life and death —learning to be present with the emptiness after the exhale teaches us to release our grip on life while paradoxically living more fully Slowing down is not giving...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Presence vs. Present Moment In this mindfulness of breath meditation, I invite to explore the direct experience of the Present Moment and explore the feeling of Presence as energetic all seeing feeling phnomena Present Moment vs. Presence ·       Present moment: Direct sensory experience (feeling breath, body sensations) ·       Presence: Spacious awareness t...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Peace #7: Entering the Heart - A Kabbalistic Journey to Peace The Hebrew letter Lamed , a symbol of the heart (Lev) , learning, and divine connection, through the lens of Jewish mysticism. It highlights the three aspects of the heart : Self-Care – The heart nourishes itself first to sustain others. Relationship – The heart and lungs work together, symbolizing...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Peace #6– “Lamed” and the Heart of Peace This blog explores the second letter of the Hebrew word Shalom — Lamed (ל) —through the lens of Kabbalah. Lamed symbolizes learning , divine wisdom , and the union of mind and heart . In Jewish mysticism, the mind (divine masculine) emanates wisdom, while the heart (divine feminine) receives and shares it. The Hebrew w...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. peace #5: The Divine Feminine Peace The Letter Shin: Gateway to Divine Reset We began our exploration with the letter Shin —the "Sh" sound that opens the Hebrew word for peace, Shalom . This same letter begins the words for silence ( Sheket ), Listening ( Shema ), Sabbath ( Shabbat ) the peaceful day of rest and reset  ( Shechiah) Divine Feminine, t...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Peace #4: Silence and Listening If we long for peace in the world, the words of Gandhi remind us to: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Peace begins within. When we cultivate it in our own body and mind, we ripple it outward into our relationships, our communities, and ultimately the world. For me, this exploration often returns to the roots of my...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Peace #3: The Sacred word SHALOM The sacred teaching of the word “Shalom” peace in ancient Hebrew This meditation reveals the profound teaching hidden within the Hebrew word "shalom"—peace as four sacred forces: silence , learning , grounding , and water consciousness . Our bodies are essentially sacred vessels of primordial water (97% water molecul...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Simple sitting with awareness of breath as a pathway to inner peace and renewal .  Recollect and Ground : Each breath awareness is an opportunity to recollect and gather the scattered thoughts and return to breath.  Use the "Ah" sound that activates the relaxation response of parasympathetic nervous system. Discover a "fountain" within, an...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. You are a vessel of peace  We become the vessel of peace through the practice of allowing everything as it is—no division, no separation, just radical acceptance. When the "missiles of thoughts" quiet down and the "screams of battle within our heads" settle, what remains is a simple, often unnamed peace that lives in our breath, breathing...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Radical Acceptance - Finding Your Center in an Unstable World This meditation guides us to find stability during turbulent times through "unstable stability" —the recognition that true balance comes from fluid responsiveness rather than rigid control, like how our bodies constantly make micro-adjustments while standing.  The core practice is radical...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Sitting at the river’s edge  This practice reminds us that beneath the ever-changing weather of our inner and outer worlds lies our precious, divine presence—the eternal awareness that sits peacefully by the river of life, blessing everything that flows. This gentle meditation teaching offers a metaphor for spiritual practice : we are pure awareness sitting b...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Finding the Infinite in the Pause between Inbreath and Outbreath From the Radiance Sutra: "In any quiet moment when you are breathing, the breath may flow out and pause of itself…  Here, in the pause, experience opens into exquisite vastness, with no beginning and no end." This guided meditation focusing on finding stillness and presence in the paus...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Pause between the breath From the Radiance Sutras comes this beautiful guidance: "In any quiet moment, when you are breathing, the breath may flow out and pause of itself. Or flow in and pause of itself. Here, experience opens into exquisite vastness with no beginning and no end. Dive into it. Drink deeply and emerge renewed." Simple Practice Steps...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Walking with exploration of sense perceptions In this recording, we will explore the senses and their consciousness: seeing, hearing, touch, and smell. Each "walking" in this practice will focus on one sense at a time. You can walk for 5-10 minutes, then rest and let your mind wander before returning for another brief session. The key to this medita...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Welcome to this series of walking and mindful movement meditations. These practices are an integral part of sitting meditation, especially in formal training, and are designed to help deepen your awareness of your body and environment through movement.  In this series, I will guide you through different forms of walking meditation that incorporate standing, w...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Welcome to this series of walking and mindful movement meditations. These practices are an integral part of sitting meditation, especially in formal training, and are designed to help deepen your awareness of your body and environment through movement.  In this series, I will guide you through different forms of walking meditation that incorporate standing, w...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Embodied Mindfulness Meditation with Dina Asher Kusnir An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this practice offers a gentle but powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we invite a more integrated, embodied way of experiencing life. When listening to the heart there are th...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Embodied Mindfulness Meditation with Dina Asher Kusnir An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this practice offers a gentle but powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we invite a more integrated, embodied way of experiencing life. When listening to the heart there are th...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Module 5: Heart Listening - The Flower of the sense of Taste: Three Levels, One Flow Embodied Mindfulness Meditation with Dina Asher Kusnir An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception In a world that often prioritizes head over heart, this meditation practice offers a gentle yet powerful rebalancing. By recognizing the heart as the root of perception, we welco...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Module 5: Heart Listening - The Flower of the olfactory sense (smell); Three Levels, One Flow Embodied Mindfulness Meditation with Dina Asher Kusnir An Invitation to Heart-Centered Perception In this episode, we explore the deep connection between heart listening and spiritual awakening, focusing on how the olfactory sense opens us to inner peace. By recogniz...

Send me a note, love to hear from you. Module 5: Heart Listening - The Flower of the sense of Hearing;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         ...