In this meditation in the style of Kristen Neff, cultivate greater understanding and ease by exploring the power of self-compassion to hold suffering with healing awareness.

Meditate with Kristen Neff's style to cultivate self-compassion that heals and holds suffering with greater understanding and ease.

Self Compassion Check-In

It is said you can search the entire universe looking for someone more worthy of receiving your love than you - and that person is not to be found. This simple lovingkindness practice helps you connect to your own desire for happiness and well-being.

Love yourself first, because you are the only one who deserves it. Simple lovingkindness practice can help you connect with your own well-being.

Lovingkindness for Self

Why it's important to get in touch with the "being" in human being - and why that intentional act of coming home to ourselves makes our lives richer and more peaceful.

Connecting with our inner being brings richness and peace.

Being Vs. Doing - Spoken Word

There are five basic challenges in meditation - and knowing how to deal with them is essential if our practice is to become effective and sustainable. Photo by Bekah Allmark from Pexels

Knowing how to deal with the challenges of meditation is essential for effective and sustainable practice.

The 5 Hindrances - Spoken Word

Connecting to your own natural desire for happiness, then extending that to a good friend.

Connect with your own happiness and share it with a friend.

Lovingkindness for Self, Friend

The STOP meditation is a simple way to reconnect to yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally. You can do this practice throughout your day whenever you feel disconnected from yourself. Photo by Simon Berger from Pexels

STOP meditation is a quick and easy way to reconnect with yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally whenever you feel disconnected.

S T O P Meditation

This visualization is a wonderful grounding practice that helps us connect to the innate qualities of our resiliency: stability, presence, openness, and receptivity.

Visualization practice helps us connect to our innate resiliency qualities of stability, presence, openness, and receptivity.

The Mountain Meditation

Exploring how mindfulness helps us let go of self-limiting narratives and habitual thoughts. Photo by luizclas from Pexels

Mindfulness helps eliminate self-limiting narratives and habitual thoughts.

Letting Go of Your Story - Spoken Word

As long as we are alive the breath is available to help us center ourselves, reflect, gain insight, and heal. Awareness of breathing also activates the parasympathetic nervous system to ease stress.

Breathing helps with centering, reflection, healing, and stress relief by activating the parasympathetic nervous system while we are alive.

Awareness of Breathing

This short body scan is an opportunity to cultivate awareness by attending to your body, just as it is, with kindness, care, and a gentle curiosity.

A short body scan cultivates awareness by attending to the body with kindness, care and curiosity.

Body Scan

The meditation on sounds is an effortless practice of resting in awareness. There is nothing you need to do in this practice - the hearing is already happening naturally. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels

Meditation on sounds is effortless as hearing happens naturally, without needing to do anything.

Sounds Meditation

Because the mind and body are intimately connected, paying attention to physical sensations helps bring mind and body together while promoting greater relaxation and decreased stress.

Paying attention to physical sensations unites mind and body, leading to relaxation and reduced stress.

Mindfulness of Sensations

This full (35 min) body scan in the tradition of mindfulness-based stress reduction is a powerful tool for decreasing stress, cultivating awareness, and supporting resilience and clarity.

35-min full body scan is a powerful tool for reducing stress, cultivating awareness, and supporting resilience in the tradition of mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Body Scan - 35 Mins

Bill Scheinman

Mindfulness Teacher & Coach

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