Embodied Meditation

This Embodied Meditation is a short, soothing bedtime ritual. It combines movement, breath work, and a guided sunset visualization to help your body shift its rhythms from the day’s bright, outward focus to a still, quiet state that’s ready for sleep. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Whether you’re feeling frazzled and scattered or just a little off course, a few minutes of focused movement and breathing can help gently coax you back to center. Today’s Embodied Meditation, another in the 7-Minute Reset Series, guides you there. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

One of the top findings in all the recent research on the benefits of being grateful? Gratitude begets gratitude. This week’s Embodied Meditation—our annual Gratitude Practice—invites you to cultivate it in a sincere and ordinary way by feeling into the ways your body supports and sustains you every minute, every day. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The height of summertime heat can sometimes feel draining and depleting. And all the bright, hot energy can also fan the flames of agitation and irritability. It’s nice to know you can draw on simple movement, breathing, and meditation practices to cool down and calm down – we’ll tap into them in this {Re-Embodied Re-Play } episode. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

We all feel out of sync with our creative selves now and then. This week’s {Re-Embodied Re-Play} drops you into a rhythmic flow and taps into ocean breathing and imagery to help you connect more naturally and deeply with your creative energy. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.  

Today’s Embodied Meditation, another in the 7-minute Reset series, is an efficient recipe for toning down stress. We’ll start by releasing physical tension, then use a simple breathing practice to soothe the nervous system. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Often, one of the least helpful things we can hear when we’re feeling stress or tension is to just relax. Fortunately, there’s another way in. Through body language, breath, and gentle visualization, we can lure ourselves out of a state of muscle-tensing high alert and toward ease, and it doesn’t have to take long. Today’s Embodied Meditation is a short, 10-minute practice you can use anytime you’d like to shift your energy. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

It’s so nourishing to align with the seasonal rhythms around us. It allows us to tap into our more instinctual rhythms and reminds us, on a deep level, that we are not separate from the energies and cycles of the natural world. This practice invites you to luxuriate in and celebrate the warmth and expansiveness of the Summer Solstice. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The combination of technology and stress can leave you feeling as if your shoulders are hunched up to your ears, your head is jutting forward, and your neck is a tightly wound cable. Today’s Embodied Meditation is a short, 7-minute practice to help you melt this frozen-in-place shape and release some of the tension it holds. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

You can settle right into bed for this progressive, full-body release, then sink into a guided relaxation that will help you drop into deep, restorative rest. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

One way to cultivate the sort of restful awareness that helps us sink into a meditation session is to start with a movement practice. Today’s Embodied Meditation includes a 10-minute sequence that helps open the hips and side body, stabilize the back, and relax the neck and shoulders. Then we’ll settle in for 5 minutes of seated meditation. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today’s replay of a popular episode  invites you to move and breathe through a simple morning ritual that sets the tone for hours to come. You’ll be ready to head into what’s next with intentionality and a gentle focus that can serve as a touchstone all day long. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

In our modern information-age, so much of our attention is localized in our head and face, where the pre-frontal cortex of our brain, along with our eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, are all processing data, decoding patterns, and working hard to help us make sense of the avalanche of information we’re bombarded with every minute. Today’s Embodied Meditation helps release contraction and tension in the head and face and then invites you to drop more fully into the rest of your body, balancing your energy and leaving you feeling more integrated and whole. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Anxiety is complicated, and I don’t pretend that a 7-minute practice can cure it. But it’s also reassuring to know that sometimes the simplest techniques—grounding poses and slowed-down breathing—can counter anxiety’s nervous tension, unfocused worry, and heightened sense of unease. Today’s Embodied Meditation is a short, anxiety-soothing go-to. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Especially during these early weeks of spring, our body’s joints can feel in need of a good thawing out and loosening up. Today’s Embodied Meditation, perfect for first thing in the morning, invites hydration, movement, and space into your joints, clearing anything stuck or blocked, so you can move on to your day and the whole season ahead feeling renewed. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today’s Embodied Meditation releases on the morning before the March New Moon, which symbolizes potential, possibility, and a tiny spark of fresh, beginning energy. This gentle practice taps in. You can do it just before dawn or anytime you want to invite in seeds of intention that can take hold in the dark of the moon and then begin to grow toward fullness and illumination. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

The Spring Equinox—a time when day and night are in perfect balance— coaxes us to align with the natural world and invite balancing energy into our bodies and our lives. Today’s Embodied Meditation explores and nurtures those parts of you that may feel ready to unfurl and stretch, ever-so-gently, toward the light. And it honors and tends to what’s still resting and taking shape beneath the surface. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

Today’s Embodied Meditation, another in our 7-Minute Reset series, is one you can do right in bed, first thing in the morning to wake up mindfully. No big preparation, no big fuss, just an easy way to start your day with movement, breath, and a minute of meditation. Want to be added to my mailing list, so you received word when new Embodied Meditations are released? Or have suggestions for future Embodied Meditation recordings? I’d love to hear from you: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

This week’s Embodied Meditation taps into the yogic practice of Pratyahara—a drawing inward, away from the stimulation of the sensory world—so you can cultivate a deep state of sleep. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.

We’re so hard on our bellies. Trying to contain and control them. Criticizing ourselves for what we do or don’t put into them. Clamping down on them when they try to send us signals. And then wondering why they don’t effortlessly digest, relax, look great, and let us get on with our lives. Today’s Embodied Meditation offers breathing, movement, and a guided meditation to relieve all that tension, then tap into the deep wisdom of your gut instinct. If you'd like to be in touch to get on my mailing list or offer feedback: pmgilchrist@gmail.com. Loving this podcast and want to contribute to its production? I'd be so grateful for your donation through the Paypal Donate function.