Resonance of the Atlas (to get better sleep)
Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.
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Night Time Ripple Breathing (12 min guided visualization before bed)
Bring this ripple-inducing breathwork into your pre-sleep awareness for deeper rest.
Read MoreA Cartography of Rest
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.
Drift into Darkness while Glowing
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.
My Body is a Habitat and I am Safe
Your body is a safe place. Coax your spine into this story and let it become something new and generative.
Read MoreSeason Four Welcome
Welcome back to Body Land Metaphor Medicine, an archive of guided visualizations that engage the superpowers of your imagination to help you relax and restore. These salutary stories are informed by Surrealist art, Eastern Medicine, and Somatic methods for self-regulation. I’m your creator and host, Liz Asch Greenhill. I am an author and artist, and the acupuncturist at Night Sky Acupuncture and Ideaphoria.
Waterfall of the Hips
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.
Cloudbody
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.
Tree Within Tree
Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes
Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees.
You've Got Glands!
Work your head’s inner teardrop until it glows up your brain.
This one’s like a brain massage. But anywhere you got a gland you can do this. Don’t stop here. Google glands and keep going.
Settle the Spine
Calm stress and ease anxiety while nourishing your neck and back. This is a 12 minute guided visualization.
Find yourself in a quiet stream in the forest where everything aligns around and within.
Recharge the Heart
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.
#boundaries
Feeling a bit drained these days? Working on your hashtag boundaries? We’ve got some six feet of separation self-care for ya. I talk super briefly about how fractal patterns of self:other are part of the body’s defenses from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and then we drop into a super soothing visualization that helps you disentangle your energy from others which ultimately benefits your immune system.
Read MoreLove Nest for Kids
Our first visualization for kids! This exercise is designed to help kids feel surrounded by safety and tenderness as an experiential antidote to anxiety, worries, and fear. I recommend that adults do the exercise alongside the kids so that they can share their experiences afterwards. Let me know how it goes!
All the Jellyfish Feels
Today’s jam is about poetry and jellyfish and feeling them deep in your being to regulate your Central nervous System.
Read MoreJust Me Being a Tree
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
Spine of Pearls
Cave Body ft. the Heart and Pelvis
Step into the ancient sensation of embodiment and trace the petroglyphs on the back of your skin.
Art Rx:
Hourglass
Sifting sand brings you back to a balanced, grounded state.
Read MoreThis is Body Land
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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