A brief adventure into open or choiceless awareness meditation. I hope that it's of benefit to you and leads to some fruitful practice.

Open Awareness Meditation

Yoga Nidra, or "yogic sleep," is a meditation practice that feels like a warm hug. Play this recording whenever you need to slip into deep ease and relaxation. Gather plenty of blankets and pillows to create your practice nest and support your joints. This helps to evoke a delicious sense of weightlessness.

25min Tension Release Comfort Meditation

Embodiment Practice: When the Body Speaks
 Guided Body-Scan Meditation
This guided meditation helps you reconnect with your body’s wisdom — the part of you that speaks through sensation rather than words. Through a gentle body scan, you’ll learn to listen to your body’s messages without judgment or analysis. Each breath becomes an act of curiosity, each sensation a doorway back to presence.


When the Body Speaks


Embodiment Practice: Mapping What’s Within
(Guided Somatic Practice — “What new understanding arises from seeing my inner landscape on paper?”)
This guided practice turns sensation into reflection — helping you translate what you feel into form. Through breath, body awareness, and creative expression, you’ll map the emotions, memories, and energies that live within you. It’s not about analysis; it’s about seeing what’s real.
Optional Embodiment Practice: Body Mapping
	1	Sit comfortably with a pen and blank page.
	2	Outline a simple figure of a body.
	3	Shade or mark where you feel tension, warmth, heaviness, or openness.
	4	Add short notes: what emotion or memory lives there?
	5	Step back and look—what patterns do you see?
Prompt: What new understanding arises from seeing my inner landscape on paper?

Mapping What’s Within

Embodiment Practice: The Simplicity of Presence
(Short Somatic Practice — “True presence doesn’t need to prove itself—it simply is.”)
This short practice invites you to experience presence without effort or performance. Through gentle breath and awareness, you’ll notice how the body naturally finds stillness when it stops trying to impress, achieve, or fix. Presence doesn’t need to prove itself; it only asks to be felt.


The Simplicity of Presence


Embodiment Practice: Dropping the Mask
(Short Guided Practice) What changed in my breath, posture, or thoughts as I let the mask drop?
This short meditation invites you to soften the layers you wear to stay composed. Through breath and gentle awareness, you’ll learn to notice where you hold tension and how to release it — not by force, but by allowing. Each exhale becomes an act of honesty, revealing what’s true beneath the surface.


Dropping the mask,

Embodiment Practice: Heartfelt Transformation
(Short Somatic Practice — “When the Heart Softens, the Body Follows”)
This short embodiment practice invites you to explore the connection between emotional and physical release. Through breath and gentle awareness, you’ll feel how softening the heart naturally allows the body to follow — how openness in one creates openness in the other. Tenderness isn’t weakness here; it’s movement, truth, and permission to rest in what’s real.


Heartfelt Transformation

Embodiment Practice: Simply Feel
(Short Somatic Practice — “What happens inside me when I stop reaching and simply feel?”)
This short practice invites you to release the need to reach or fix and return to the simplicity of feeling. Through quiet breath and gentle awareness, you’ll discover how stillness creates space for truth to surface. Feeling isn’t doing — it’s remembering.


Simply Feel


Embodiment Practice: Letting Go to Make Space
 Guided Reflection Audio
Love doesn’t require proof—it asks for presence.”
This guided meditation invites you to soften your grip on what’s no longer meant to stay — old habits, identities, or expectations. Through breath and reflection, you’ll explore how release isn’t an ending, but an opening. Letting go becomes an act of trust, creating space for what’s ready to unfold next.

Letting Go to Make Space

Embodiment Practice: Allowing Space to Receive
(Short Somatic Practice — “What emotions arise as I allow more space for others to give?”)
This short embodiment practice invites you to soften the instinct to give and open to the art of receiving. Through breath and awareness, you’ll notice where your body resists or welcomes care — and how trust begins to expand when you let support in. Receiving isn’t passive; it’s participation in connection.

Allowing Space to Receive

Welcome to An Invitation to Shine: The Meditations — a companion channel to An Invitation to Shine: The Workbook and book series.

Each track is a guided practice in remembering what’s already true — grounding, feeling, releasing, and coming home to yourself.
These meditations aren’t about striving or self-improvement. They’re invitations to pause, breathe, and listen beneath the noise.

Here, transformation begins quietly — one breath, one truth, one moment of presence at a time.

I am an RYT200 yoga teacher, writer, community organizer, and advocate for equitable access to wellness. With 15 years of personal practice and certification from Soma Yoga Institute in therapeutic yoga, I bring a deep understanding of yoga as a tool for physical, emotional, and community healing. My teaching emphasizes safe, sustainable practice rooted in structural integrity, alignment, and accessibility for all body types.

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