Guided Meditation for Insomnia: Tracing the Body's Silhouette (Body Land Metaphor Medicine, 20 min)
A soft and gentle visualization to help you feel safe and guide you into a good night’s sleep.
Filtering by Category: anxiety relief for teens
Guided Meditation: How to Cope when Overwhelmed, Metaphor as Medicine to Help you Breathe and Stay in your Body (15 min)
When we are overwhelmed, distraught, deeply sad, and scared, it can be very hard to stay in our bodies and think clearly. This 15 minute guided meditation helps you ground, center, and re-orient so that you recognize yourself and your surroundings. Listen when still and quiet and follow along in your body. Take care. You are loved.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Starlight Dreaming for Better Sleep (20 in)
Settle into a quiet space where you can close your eyes and take time out to reconnect with yourself and your breath. We will ignite the imagination to restore a sense of connectedness with the cosmos and with our own bodies to feel more centered, grounded, and get better sleep.
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 MoreSpecial Guided Meditation en Español for deep sleep to promote healing: Estanque de Caida de Semillas: Cuerpo Tierra (17 min)
Imagina cómo el aire se extiende hasta lo alto, perdiéndose en la inmensidad del cielo, mientras el estanque se encuentra cómodamente acurrucado en este entorno vasto y abierto.
Read MoreUna Pluma: A Body Land Guided Meditation en Español for deep rest and breathing (13 min)
Comencemos con una visualización basada en una sola imagen: una pluma. Esta visualización puede ayudarnos a enfocarnos y practicar el arte de generar sensaciones internas usando nuestra imaginación como herramienta. Es una interpretación creativa del trabajo de respiración, pero en este caso, la imagen es la fuerza que guía la conciencia de la respiración.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Resonance of the Atlas (12 min)
Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.
Guided Meditation: Night Time Ripple Breathing to listen to before bed for deep restful sleep (12 min)
Bring this ripple-inducing breathwork into your pre-sleep awareness for deeper rest.
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 Low Back Pain and Anxiety: Waterfall of the Hips (10 min)
Your body is a landscape. You have a river running through you. It horseshoes into a waterfall in the hips.
Rest into nature and into your body through this image of a river running down your spine. This is designed to help increase qi flow in the hips and pelvis.
Guided Meditation for Brain Fog, Stress, and Depression: Cleaning the Senses (14 min)
Get soapy and a little sappy up in your head. This is meant to help with feeling lost or disconnected.
Let it be known I’ve been watching too many TikTok videos. Now it’s time to clear some energy and awaken to the senses. When we clear and clean our senses, we can participate in and appreciate the present moment. And that feels f-ing good.
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: Tree Within Tree (10 min)
Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes
Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees.
Guided Meditation to Help you Focus, Feel Calm, and Rest: Marble Drop (10 min)
Loosen up your joints while reducing anxiety.
Floating on a raft in a bay, we practice feeling safe and secure, and the act of letting go.
Juice Up (in a Jiffy): A Guided Meditation for Vitality, Depression, Stress, and Eco-Connection (8 min)
Replenish yourself with the flavors of the earth.
Help protect and repair the planet.
And maybe support your local juice joint?
A Room of Their Own: A Guided Meditation for Teens to Help with Anxiety, Stress, and Connection (22 min)
Tune in to my first visualization for teens wherein we do several somatic exercises with visualization to move energy in the ribcage and diaphragm, to land in our bodies with a sense of belonging and connection. Adults are welcome to do this too, of course. It’s really for anyone. Let me know how it goes for you! You can find me at Night Sky Acupuncture or on Instagram at Metaphor_Medicine.