[Talk] Somatic Soul Repair (Using Embodied Practice to Prepare for a Psilocybin Journey)
A talk about how embodiment practices inform and prepare us for a psilocybin journey.
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Guided Meditation: Release Tension, Let Go, Surrender to Sleep, Insomnia Visualization (12 min)
A 12-minute visualization to listen to at bed time, where you are guided through a technique to release tension from specific parts of the body and the body in general, for a deeper, better night’s rest. Sleep well.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Sky Time Deep Sleep Metaphor Medicine to Ease Insomnia (17 min)
In this visualization, we breathe deeply and envision the sky changing through all the color shifts of a day and night. We remind ourselves we are safe as we meld into the colors of the sky, become the deep night and soften into a state of rest.
Read MoreEl Desierto: a Calming, Restorative, Stress Relief Guided Meditation in Spanish from Body Land (11 min)
Vamos a enfocarnos en los colores de un desierto. Imagina la tierra roja, rica y vibrante, que se extiende ante ti, mientras las capas de colores se despliegan a través de las mesas, los acantilados y las dunas de arena.
Visualiza como el cielo abierto esta pintado con un hermoso degradado de amarillo y rosa al amanecer. A medida que el día avanza, observa las tonalidades de azul que van cambiando. Inmensas extensiones de nubes entran y salen. Pesadas nubes de lluvia, con tonos azul-púrpura, se desplazan en el cielo, entrando y saliendo, adornadas por un flequillo de lluvia lejana que parece colgar en el aire. A veces, estas nubes lucen inmóviles, antes de que el sol vuelva a brillar, iluminando con rayos celestiales en configuraciones transitorias. Colores rosas y lavandas estallan en el cielo. Permite que esta escena se anide en tu cuerpo.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Deep Sleep: A Cartography of Rest (18 min)
We talk a bit about the four levels of being (and reality) and how metaphors of the earth apply to the body. We tune into four layers of the body and coax each one into a relaxed safe state. Listen before bed and let me know how it feels.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Drift into Darkness while Glowing (13 min)
The pattern of the mycelium network is around us and within. Let it transform into a softly glowing nightlight that protects you and feel yourself soften into a resting state.
Guided Meditation to Release Stress and Tension: Cloudbody (8 min)
Need some levity? Let’s drop it like it’s hot and be clouds.
Erase everything in the room. You get to be a cloud just like those dreams when you are flying. But this time, something special happens when you drop your baggage.
Guided Meditation for Teens and Kids: Ruby's Yurt (11 min)
In this visualization we envision the ribcage as a shelter for both rest and play.
This one goes out to Ruby.
Guided Meditation for Stress, Tension, and Anxiety: Fly Free (7 min)
Feeling a little lighter?
Let’s amplify that sensation with this visualization to help you somaticize the sensation of freedom.
Guided Meditation for Stress and Pelvic and Low Back Pain: Sanctity of the Sacrum (7 min)
Make a palapa in your pelvis. Really. It feels so good. Especially for lower back pain and gynecological conditions. Under 7 minutes.
Your sacrum is a shovel-shaped bone between your spine and your tailbone. It is cupped like a palm. Settle in to a peaceful vacation deep in your own body.
Recharge the Heart: a Guided Meditation for Social Change and Connectivity (18 min)
This visualization goes out to the leaders working for positive change. Thank you for your efforts, your passion, and your sacrifices. We use metaphor as medicine to land in our bodies. We send ripples through the body with our breath, ignite the heart, and entrust the pelvis and the mind to support our nervous system so we can rest and recharge.
What is Metaphor Medicine? An Explanation of my Method of Guided Meditation
This episode is not a guided visualization, but rather it’s a talk about doing this work on one’s own. I walk you through the way I use guided visualization as a practice in my self care. If you listen and give it a try for yourself, I’d love to hear how it works out for you.
All the Jellyfish Feels: A Calming Guided Meditation to Reconnect you to the Natural World (19 min)
Today’s jam is about poetry and jellyfish and feeling them deep in your being to regulate your Central nervous System.
Read MoreAwaken and Empower the Immune System
This GV (guided visualization) is 22 minutes. Allow some extra time on the end to rest and continue the visualization in your own mind-body or else just space out. You can listen solo or with your family and then all compare experiences. Your immune system contains a dynamic and rich blueprint of biodiversity which runs without your input largely, but in this visualization, we offer our input, using language to speak directly to our cells, to communicate our intentions and desires for all hands on deck throughout this magnificent system in our bodies and in each others.
The Darkest Dark: a Guided Meditation to Help you Center, Ground, and Manage Stress from Body Land (14 min)
If you are feeling the depths of dark winter or a dark soul, try this.
Dive into the deep yin of darkness to let go of static emotional states through some wild and colorful methods.
There's a little explanation first and then it shifts into the meditation.
Art Rx for all the Dark Feels:
Visionary artists who paint themselves and others flying and floating: Faith Ringgold and Marc Chagall
Check out the cosmic connectivity of Chani Nicholas
Jing-a-Ling! An Earth-Based Guided Meditation for Vitality and Vigor (16 min)
Juice up your jing, which, in Chinese Medicine, is your deep essence goo, kinda like how oil is the deep essence goo of the Earth. People with BJE (Big Jing Energy) live long, love hard, and run strong.
Read MoreJust Me Being a Tree: An Earth-Based Guided Visualization to Practice Self-Care and Stress Relief (17 min)
No shade in pretending to be a tree.
Let's get basic and be trees together. We'll go through the seasons and feel all the shedding and growing and windfall and snow. Get ready to get leafy and stuff.
Need a Rx of art along with your visualization? Check out:
Stunning Aerial View Photography
Artist Nils-Udo
Artist Agnes Denes
Let's Get Real about the Diaphragm: A Deep Breathing Deep Sleep Guided Visualization to Feel Better (22 min)
Really, it would be more accurate to call this “Let’s Get Surreal About the Diaphragm!
For real, when your diaphragm is in a pinch you can feel all kinds of crummy symptoms: anxiety, shortness of breath, heartburn, ribside pain, poor circulation, headaches, and more, but I'll stop there. Sheesh. Let's ambush the diaphragm with lots of imagery to help you release tension from this beast of a muscle.
(P.S. the diaphragm is particularly influenced by creative expression, that's why we are going this route. P.P.S. Never worry if you are visualizing something different or at another angle from what I'm trying to describe. Just let your imagination do its thing.)
Art Rx for curious people who want to look stuff up:
Images of treetops and a phenomenon called crown shyness
Listen to Chavela Vargas, one of the most expressive singers ever
Artist Hiba Schabaz imagines the self immersed in natural
Be a River: a Guided Meditation to Reduce Stress and Practice Eco-Embodiment (10 min)
One River. One Body. Feel them merge. Be the current.
Water is soft and silky, mighty and powerful, and deeply cleansing.
We have a lot of work ahead of us to make our rivers as clean and fresh as they are in our imaginations. If you feel called to make a donation, here are some organizations doing deep work:
This is Body Land: Welcome to your Source for Imaginative Guided Meditations
Body Land is a collection of guided visualizations designed to help you feel better using the super powers of your imagination. Have a dose of metaphor medicine to relax, restore, and rejuvenate.
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