Make Space Meditation + Care

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? I’ve been awake for some time, but it still feels like a slow and sleepy start to the day. I’m noticing the quiet of the morning (well, aside from the tiny dog snores), allowing it to sink in, something I can take with me for the day. I’m hoping that if you need it, you’ll find a little quiet here too: something that feels like a good start to whatever...

Hello and good morning, friends. Welcome to Friday. As we often do on Fridays, we’re spending a little time with the exhale. I know that I often find myself holding my breath or maybe not breathing fully. Whatever it is, there’s some sort of feedback happening with the breath. Maybe you have found this happens to you too? Today, we’re just allowing ourselves to spend some time with the exhale, sen...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’ve arrived back together on this Monday. I thought it might be nice to take a little time before the week gets going to find a little quiet, maybe a feeling of stillness. Perhaps you’re wondering why we talk about quiet so much or practice being in it. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the one I’m thinking about today is that the world and our days can be...

Good morning, friends. First, my apologies to the daily subscribers for a late start to the month. I think the delay is most aptly summed up by: what a time to be alive. 😜 We are here now though, a couple of days into this new month. When we find ourselves at a beginning of some sort, I do love to feel into that new energy and what it might hold. For us together, does it hold consistently showing...

Hello and good morning, friends. Today’s meditation is a little breath and quiet, a little intention, or maybe a whole lot of both? We’ll see how things go. We’re winding down the month and so maybe intentions are on my mind. I have a lot of ideas for October and what I’d like it to hold. But that’s still a couple of days away, so I find myself asking what I’d like today to be like? Not just what...

Hello, hello, friends. How are you? How’s your week been? Letting go is one of those themes that we come back to regularly. I know in my life, I could use a reminder to take the exhale and let something go. So I offer that as a reminder to you today also. We carry so many things in our days and lives. Sometimes we don’t need to. I remember talking with my teacher last year about this idea of holdi...

Hello and good morning! How is your day so far? We often come back around to the idea of possibility at the beginning of the week or month, even the day. I know that it can be really easy to get sort of stuck in our expectations of what things will be like rather than being open to what they could be like. And what’s the fuss about being open? Even if things do happen exactly as you expect, I thin...

Hello and good morning! I find myself thinking often about the changes that can happen from just one person. Even the difference that you can make in a person’s day by seeing them. It’s easy sometimes to not really look at the parking attendant or not engage with the person at the store’s register. Lots of people don’t. If you’ve ever worked jobs like these, you know. I had an interaction with a n...

Hello and good morning and a happy Monday to you. I was truly surprised to find it was Monday today, despite knowing yesterday was Sunday. I lost track of time around last Thursday and I think I’m only just arriving back to the present. Time is a funny thing, as is our focus. We can get so distracted and lose ourselves in the many things going on: the to do lists, the urgent calls, the pleasant na...

Hello, friends. How has your week been? We’re spending time sort of decompressing at the end of the week (if it as such for you). This is a great meditation for after your work week ends or maybe taking some time as you shift into your nighttime routine. This week has been a lot for a lot of reasons and I hope that this practice of the exhale will help you to take a little time away from All The T...

Hello and good morning, friends. Welcome back to Monday. Whether your day has started out just as you expected or things have already gone off the rails, we’re sitting with ease today. I often think about how our expectations really influence both our experiences and the outcomes. If I’m expecting a Monday to be a real “case of the Mondays,” that’s probably what I’m going to find. But if I find my...

Hello, friends. The day is winding down (perhaps your week is too) and today’s offering is a little chance to relax. Whatever your day has held, I hope you’re able to let it drop away for these few minutes and really be with the breath and body. Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care. (This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared 04.07.24.) ✨ If you’re looking for a chance for a...

Hello, friends. How are you? Welcome to September. I’m so happy we’re here together. Today’s meditation is holding this idea of beginning again along with our intentions for the month. Perhaps more meditation is your intention. Perhaps finding more presence in the every day. Maybe it’s something entirely different. However you approach today’s meditation, we’re staying with the breath, letting our...

Hello and good morning, friends. Before anything else, I want to say that I am deeply grateful for to the daily subscribers who have been so understanding while I took a couple of days away this week following the passing of my beloved cat, Maus. It makes a big difference to be able to step away. To ease back into our regular schedule, today’s offering is one of our shorter breath breaks. Let’s ta...

Hello and good morning, friends. I know on a Monday morning you might be like “slowing down? No… I gotta go!” And if that’s the case, I hope you will especially take these ten minutes to be with the breath today. It’s one of my favorite things to be reminded to notice how you’re holding the coffee mug or to take a look at the sky. You may indeed be running late or feel like there’s a need to be qu...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? Sometimes I find myself believing that I know something. I know what comes next or I know what this person is going to do or I know what the day is going to be like. Then it turns out I don’t know anything and things have gone awry. Have you had this experience of thinking that you know? Today, we’re working with expectations and letting them go. It’s...

Hello and good morning, friends. I’m thinking a lot today about the changing times we’re in and the shifts of late summer. Maybe you’ve got your own things happening that are leaving you feeling a little ungrounded. Maybe the world feels a little ungrounded. Whether you’re feeling a little of that or not, finding a kind of steadiness at any point in the day I think feels nice. Today, that’s what w...

Hello and good morning, friends. While I was thinking about what to share with you this morning, the idea that kept coming up was just how special it is that you’re here, that we’re all here. It is a radical act to even attempt to be really here with what is in this moment. There are so many things that take us away from ourselves, from each other. Meditation is a path back, I think, back from the...

Hello hello hello. Do you ever have those days or weeks where time just passes so quickly that you can barely believe it? This meditation is here to help us slow down for the night, take some breaths, and maybe find a little rest. Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ma...

Hello and good morning, friends. We’ve made it here together to a brand new week. Folks I’ve been talking with lately have been bringing up this sense of transition and change. Summer is starting to wind down, kids are going back to school, there’s a shift in the air… And how do we greet those things? Today’s practice is one of finding a little openness and possibility where we might otherwise hav...

Hello friends. How was your day? For tonight’s meditation, I hope you will find your way to being as comfortable as you’re able. The name of the game this evening is rest and relaxation. You don’t have to have had a hard week or day to deserve a little rest. However you might be arriving to tonight’s meditation, let’s find that quiet place to rest the body and the mind. Thank you for spending a li...

Hello and good morning, friends. How are you? This morning I’m thinking about what kind of day and week I’d like to have. What do I want things to feel like? My usual answer is some form of quiet and ease, which are two things we hold a bit of in our meditation today. When I say that, I don’t mean that things are just quiet and easy the whole time (though sometimes that is nice). What I really mea...

Hello and good morning, friends. As we often do at the start of a month, we’re coming back to an invitation to practice. If you’ve wandered away from meditation, been intimidated to start, or you’re not just sure what’s going on, today is especially for you. I hear often from folks that they’d love to have a steady practice but once they miss a day or feel like maybe their mind is too busy, they d...

Hello and good morning! We’ve made it back around to a Monday. Maybe you’re off to work. Maybe you have appointments. Maybe you love Mondays. New day, new week, new possibilities are themes we often talk about on Mondays. I know that sometimes a prevailing story can be that feeling of “ugh! Monday!” But what if it was just that: a story? What if we could change the story if it isn’t working for us...

Hello, hello, friends. How was your day? This evening’s meditation is a little treat from the archive. I kept thinking today about the exhale and this feeling of letting go that it can bring. Regardless of what your day or week has been like, I hope you can find a little rest with the breath tonight. Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care. (This meditation is from the archive. It was originally of...