PRACTICES & TOOLS
Guided Meditations
Insight Timer – for FREE guided meditations for sleep, relaxation, mindfulness, mental health and spiritual well-being with over 300,000 tracks from leading psychologists, spiritual leaders, and meditation teachers.
The 10% Happier Podcast with Dan Harris hosts leading authors, spiritual leaders, and meditation teachers offering insights and practices from modern science and ancient wisdom. Here are a few that include helpful guided meditations:
- Sebene Selassie, writer, meditation teacher, speaker
- Vinny Ferraro, meditation teacher, speaker, practitioner
Tara Brach Ph.D., psychologist, spiritual teacher, author, has a weekly podcast where she hosts free talks and guided meditation practices. Here is a core practice she offers:
Movement Practices
- Arielle Schwartz, developer of Resilience Informed Therapy, somatic psychologist, and trauma informed yoga teacher. Schwartz’s youtube channel offers FREE yoga classes and polyvagal informed yoga sequences for trauma healing and well-being. Here is a sampling:
- Annie Hau is the creator of Trauma Informed Yin Yoga Teacher Training. With 12 years of experience in leading yoga teacher training globally, she weaves neuroscience with ancient wisdom in the training, designed to help others regulate their nervous systems through the practice of yin yoga and somatics. She offers free yoga classes and trauma informed sequences on her youtube channel: Yin Yoga With Annie. Here are a few to get started:
- SomaSJ with Staci Haines, a place for purposeful, collective practice. We need places to be together, to remember, to be reminded, to lift each other up, and to be lifted up. Here is a guided embodiment practice to get started:
Websites with helpful information to support collective healing
- Generative Somatics: Somatic Transformation and Social Justice Access videos, tools, and resources to bring the principles of embodied liberation into your daily life. Transform how you show up in the world through intentional, community-supported practices.
- The Embodiment Institute, is a training institute, research entity, and culture change engine that strategically develops people and organizations to be agents of transformation in families, social movements and the environment. Access guided practices with Prentiss Hemphill and the team at TEI