Your Calm Coach David

In this episode, your comm coach David shares their personal journey of living with diabetes, transitioning from type 2 to type 1 after pancreatitis. Addressing the trauma and fear associated with unpredictable blood sugar levels, David introduces a series of trauma-informed breathwork techniques. This practice aims to calm the nervous system and provide a safe space of stability for those experie...

In this soothing 25-minute breathwork session, Your Calm Coach David guides you through a gentle journey designed to melt emotional heaviness and ground your nervous system. Using simple, accessible breathing techniques—like the Heavy Cloud Exhale, Heart-Warm Breath, and Wave Breathing—you’ll learn how to regulate your inner world with ease, warmth, and a touch of humor. Each practice helps you re...

In this calming 25-minute guided breathwork session, Your Calm Coach David invites listeners to “pause between tasks” and reset the internal operating system that drives their daily lives. The episode begins with grounding and body awareness—encouraging participants to settle into either a seated or lying position, release physical tension, and notice sensations without judgment. Through mindful s...

In this guided meditation podcast, David, your Calm Coach, introduces a series of breathwork exercises designed to help listeners release the stress of the workweek and prepare for a peaceful weekend. The episode features a calming sequence of breathing techniques, including the 4-6 calming breath and full circle breath, allowing participants to visualize letting go of weekly burdens. Listeners ar...

Join David Burns in this calming podcast episode as he takes you on a 15-minute meditation journey designed to help busy professionals de-stress and refocus. Perfect for anyone feeling overwhelmed by their daily workload. The session emphasizes the importance of taking a break, observing one's breath, and releasing physical tension. Through gentle instructions on posture, breathing, and visualizat...

Join David Burns in a calming meditation designed to aid concussion recovery. This session provides a peaceful space for your brain to heal, emphasizing the importance of rest without pressure or goals. As you relax, visualize a soothing moonlight gently washing over you, releasing tension and welcoming healing energy. Breathing naturally, repeat the mantra 'I rest, I release,' allowing your body...

In this 15-minute guided meditation, Calm Coach David invites you into the dance of Roots and Wings —grounding deeply into the earth while opening into freedom and possibility. Through breath, visualization, and gentle affirmations, you’ll discover how stability and expansion are not opposites, but partners. This practice is perfect for moments when you feel pulled in two directions, craving both...

In this episode of the Calm Coach Meditation podcast, host David Burns guides listeners through a soothing meditation focused on self-kindness and compassion. The session invites participants to connect with their breath, allowing them to release stress and embrace a more peaceful state of mind. Through gentle prompts, listeners learn to approach their own struggles with the same warmth they'd off...

In this meditation podcast episode, host David Burns guides listeners through a journey of self-compassion and trust in one's internal timing. The meditation focuses on addressing feelings of being behind in life and encourages embracing the present moment. Listeners are invited to settle into a comfortable position, engage in deep breathing exercises, and repeat a mantra that affirms safety and p...

David Burns' meditation podcast guides listeners through a transformative journey of intentional pause and mindful breathing. By focusing on the natural rhythm of the breath, listeners are encouraged to create space in their nervous system and let go of tension. This meditation emphasizes the importance of simply noticing and accepting thoughts without judgment, while encouraging gentle awareness...

Join David Burns in this calming guided meditation as he leads you through visualizations inspired by the freshness of spring. This meditation encourages you to relax, release tension, and embrace the possibilities of new beginnings. Visualize the warmth of the sun and the energy of new growth as you hold space for your intentions and cultivate renewal within yourself. Allow the gentle imagery of...

David Burns guides listeners through a meditation with a focus on detachment from material possessions. He instructs listeners to visualize being without their possessions, understand they are not defined by them and feel a sense of lightness upon releasing them. This practice is said to provide a deeper sense of peace within listeners' home by reducing attachment to mere objects.

In the eighth episode of the calm coach meditation podcast, Yogi David discusses the challenges we face during the festive season and provides mindful ways to manage them. He delves into five primary sources of stress - high expectations, overindulgence, hosting pressure, social overload, and loneliness. Yogi David offers practical advice, such as budgeting, setting boundaries, or volunteering to...

Join David Burns in a soothing morning meditation session that aims to ground your mind and prepare it for the day ahead. This episode pushes listeners to breathe deeply and consciously, relax their facial muscles, and engage in self-affirmation, promoting a healthy mind and a healthy body. Ground yourself in the present, embrace positivity, and let go of negative energy.

Listeners are guided through a soothing meditative practice that focuses on recognizing and releasing bodily tension. David creates a meditative space where the listener can explore their body, find spots of tension, and – through visualization and targeted breathing – can shift energy to these areas, letting go of tension during exhalation.

This podcast episode is a guide for those who are starting their meditation journey. Host David Burns dissects the basics around meditation from finding a comfortable place, being mindful during meditation, and how to end a meditation session. Burns emphasizes the importance of not judging oneself during meditation and viewing wandering thoughts as normal.

In this episode, David Burns guides listeners through the execution of a Yoga Nidra practice, a profound form of relaxation dealing with the more subtle layers of one's consciousness. Compared to traditional meditation, Yoga Nidra segues into sleep, creating an awareness of surroundings yet giving way to relaxation. This practice is said to ease anxiety, stress, help with type 2 diabetes, and impr...

David Burns, the host of the podcast episode, talks about the practice of gratitude and how it is significant to one's emotional wellness. He discusses detailing moments of gratitude in journals and articulating gratitude to individuals in one's life. The episode emphasizes appreciating others' efforts and seeking happiness in each given moment.

When I was in the ashram in Rishikesh, India, my My guru, uh, Vishva ji, talked about these ones and zeros, and this was the first time I'd heard of this. And in his mind, the way he described it, that our body is filled with millions of ones and zeros. And these ones and zeros, uh, are represented by cells, by muscle fiber, chakras, by nerves, all of these things all together, all the things that...

In this podcast episode, David Burns talks about the importance of labeling in meditation as a key to calm the 'monkey mind'. He emphasized that meditation is about observing thoughts and detaching from them emotionally rather than eliminating them. He encouraged listeners to label their thoughts such as worry or planning to better manage them.