The Snowglobe Project: settling your world one breath at a time

In episode 21 of the Snowglobe Project podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of how we all get attached to what we want, need or desire, how to cultivate awareness of attachment in practice, and then how to shift our relationship with it all. Within each practice we do is an opportunity to rebuild our relationships with our human tendency for attachment. Enjoy  

In episode 20 of this gentle meditation podcast, Simon Heale guides you through an insight practice focussing on how we can deal with our internal difficulties, in practice, applying a very simple question: is this in or out of my control? By stepping back with anything that arises, we may be able to be with our experiences with more flexibility, choice and ultimately a greater sense of freedom. E...

As the Sufi poet Rumi suggested: Being human is like a guest house, every meditation, every moment is an opportunity to welcome each new arrival:  a thought, a feeling, a sensation. In this episode of the Snowglobe Project, Simon Heale guides you through the warm-up check in and then through a long 20 minutes of welcoming, being open and kind to every experience that passes our awareness. A lovely...

In this episode Simon Heale guides you through an exploration of the true value of settling our body and minds and the effect it can have on the ability of the body to self regulate or to heal. A short visualisation then imagines empowering resilience and immunity throughout our systems. Enjoy

Relax, unwind, re-tune and re-charge with this 26 minute full body scan from Simon Heale. This practice is a fundamental insight and mindfulness meditation to awaken our awareness into the minutiae of our experiences: the senses rather than our thoughts.

In this episode Simon Heale guides you through a short check-in practice, followed by the main practice which is all about the language or internal dialogue we experience moment to moment and specifically during our meditation. How do we relate to these words? Are we open to them or do we push them away with frustration? This episode is a chance to change how we relate to this constant exchange. E...

This is not a sing-along, sorry! It is a meditation practice to explore one of the foundations of insight practice, to be able to deliberately let go of any attachment to a thought, a feeling or a sensation and to settle on a single place. Mindfulness is the zeitgeist but sadly it has been stripped of its true meaning and is now sold off as a cheap imitation around the world. Here, you can experie...

In this podcast Simon Heale poses the possibility for us to sit and be with our experiences, our 'sea of troubles' as Hamlet says in his famous soliloquy, and to 'suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'. Do we fight them or can we oppose them? So in this practice, it is an opportunity to sit back, to practice non-attachment, distance and allow our 'sea of troubles' to pass or rage or s...

The Loving Kindness or Metta practice invites you to offer yourself, others and the world four affirmations or requests to be well, to be happy, to live with ease and to be free from suffering. These are not demands but offerings or possibilities from the heart. The practice opens with Simon Heales check-in and then leads into the 22 minute main meditation. Enjoy.

Inspired by the poem Leisure by WH Davies, Simon Heale guides you through a practice to encourage you to simply take a stand and stare at your experiences, to let these be enough for you and to give you a break from the tyranny of your thinking mind, albeit for 30 minutes or so. But with a little bit more practice.........

In this practice we examine the constant need for need and how in practice we can check whether just sitting and breathing can be enough, a real challenge for most of us mere busying mortals. I have included four short emergency interventions or exercises which are wonderful for all ages, especially at this time of massive uncertainty. 

With all your fears, doubts, perhaps pain, can you still be grateful? In this new episode, Simon Heale guides you through ways to see if you can bring gratitude to your experiences that would otherwise be ignored such as your breathing, your body, your feelings. By narrowing our focus onto our micro world in practice, we may be able to be with our macro world with a renewed awareness. Perhaps.

In episode 9: Simon Heale shows you how practice is the ideal place to watch our human tendency to avoid our pain, loss, suffering and the need to experience more pleasure or what we know we like and need. By recognising our feelings, by trying not to follow our stories or thoughts and by settling on the physical: breath and body, we will change our relationship with our own pleasure and loss expe...

In episode 8 Simon Heale guides you through a settling 10 minute check-in and breathing space, followed by the 18 minute main practice which involves bringing kindness and curiosity to how we relate to ourselves in practice. Enjoy it. All of the Snowglobe Project episodes are recordings from Simon Heale's online meditations during our recent lock-down.

In this practice, Simon Heale will guide you through 28 minutes of insight meditation, focussing on bringing patience to our experiences, through the language we use and the quality of patience. The simple phrase "its OK" can be so effective to bring patience to ourselves not only in practice but moment to moment and day to day. 

Settle down while Simon Heale guides you through his personal favourite settling practice utilising imagery, language, imagination and somatic awareness. This peaceful settling meditation is the foundation of a solid daily practice. Enjoy.

The bodyscan is a lovely practice to calm the whole body and mind and if done at night can aid a restful sleep, due to the effect on your nervous system. This episode is one of the lock-down sessions with Simon Heale, so the recording is raw and untouched. Simon would love to get your feedback, even requests for further episodes info@corehealthsuite.com

Two short practices: a walking or moving meditation to bring you into the present moment, followed by how we can utilise the quality of and language of softness (13:30) The last practice focusses on the language we use on a daily basis internally and how in meditation awareness we can modify and alter our relationship with it. (14:20)

Learn to settle thoughts, feelings and the body with these four short and easy practices from Simon Heale for younger and more curious minds: Short Daily Meditation 1:36-4:12, FOFBOC practice 4:16-9:35, Short Snowglobe practice 9:37-15:26, 10 Minute Breathing Space 15:27-25:35

In this episode Simon guides you through three short practices: Being Present 11:49, Winding Down 11:10, and A Body and Breath Practice 9:12

The Snowglobe Project is a series of short meditation practices taken from Simon Heale's online lockdown sessions for anyone who desires to have more stability, more choice, more control and perhaps more freedom in their lives.  In this episode Simon guides you through his short Bookend Practices: a morning and an evening practice. Simon would love to get your feedback, suggestions or questions to...