Ruth King offers a guided meditation practice from her heart to yours. Ruth is a teacher, author, founder of the Mindful of Race Institute, and featured in the August issue of Mindful magazine as one of the powerful women of the mindfulness movement. In this first episode of 12 Minute Meditation, she invites us to savor stillness and feel deeply into the ways our lives are interconnected. “May we remember that we belong to each other.”

A Meditation on Belonging and Connection with Ruth King

An exercise to help you notice when you are in your senses as opposed to in your mind and when you are acting to move towards what's important to you as opposed to acting to escape from difficult internal experiences. 

ACT matrix warm up

Basic meditation focusing on breath and then sound

Basic Meditation: breath and sounds

Breath & Body with Fiona O'Donnell (10 mins)

Turning towards difficulties, a guided meditation with Josephine Lynch (15 mins) 

Turning Towards Difficulty Soften  Soothe Allow 2 (1)

Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Josephine Lynch Turning Towards Difficulty ( 17 Mins)

Josephine Lynch 17 Mins  Turning Towards Difficulty

Guided Self Compassion with Josephine Lynch

Josephine Lynch Affectionate Breathing  (11 Mins)

Guided Body Scan with Fiona O'Donnell (33 Minutes)

Guided Body Scan with Fiona O'Donnell (33 Minutes)  2017

Self - Compassion break with Dr. Kristin Neff

Many of us struggle to silence our inner critic on a daily basis. According to meditation teacher Tara Brach, that’s because we are living in a “trance of unworthiness,” and are addicted to self-judgment. Tara is the the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., a best-selling author, and a clinical psychologist who has been at the forefront of blending Buddhist meditation and therapeutic methods. She is perhaps best known for her teachings on RAIN, an acronym that stands for Recognize, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nurturing, and that describes a method for applying mindfulness to difficult emotions. In her new book, Radical Compassion, she focuses on using RAIN to cultivate compassion—beginning with compassion for ourselves.

Tara Brach: Radical Compassion

10-Minute Nourishing Breath Meditation

Developing Mindfulness helps us to find calm and stability in our relationships with ourselves and others in the midst of our busy, stressful lives.

Josephine Lynch 17 Mins Turning Towards Difficulty

Mindfulness and Compassion Centre