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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: A Guest House: Welcoming Impermanence
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: A Guest House: Welcoming Impermanence
Key Focus: Observing the transient nature of thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
Description: View your mind and body as a guest house, welcoming each thought, sensation and emotion as temporary visitors. Remember that all experiences, including life itself, are impermanent.
Reflection: "How does acknowledging impermanence affect your experience of the present moment?"
Takeaway: Embrace the ebb and flow of life with openness and gratitude.

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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: Holding in Loving Attention During Crisis
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: Holding in Loving Attention During Crisis
Key Focus: Loving presence without agenda.
Description: In moments of crisis, sit quietly and cultivate a space of loving attention for yourself or others. Strengthen the heart’s capacity to hold pain with compassion and tenderness.
Takeaway: The practice of simply “being” allows for healing to unfold naturally.

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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: Landing into the Present Moment: Honoring Presence and Wakefulness
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: Landing into the Present Moment: Honoring Presence and Wakefulness
Key Focus: Finding stillness and clarity amidst suffering.
Description: Explore the unmoved, penetrating awareness that underlies the mind's chatter. This pure consciousness serves as a lens to view suffering with clarity and compassion.
Reflection Question: "Using this state of mind to look at your suffering, what are you experiencing?"
Takeaway: Rest in the purity of awareness and allow it to illuminate the path through difficulty.

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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: The Observer: “Here I Am” in Service
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: The Observer: “Here I Am” in Service
Key Focus: Welcoming and receiving all that arises.
Description: This meditation emphasizes the role of awareness as an open, receptive observer. Thoughts, feelings, sensations, and memories are invited to land gently in the spaciousness of your awareness, much like water nourishing the earth.
Prayer/Reflection: "How can I serve?"
Takeaway: Practice being a vessel for presence and grace.

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Loving Kindness - Circles of Humanity: Expanding Loving Kindness
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: Circles of Humanity: Expanding Loving Kindness
Key Focus: Extending love to broader circles.
Practice: Begin by inviting your close family and friends into a circle around you. Expand your heart to connect with them. Visualize wider circles, including your community, strangers, and eventually the entire world. Imagine filaments of light extending from your heart to these circles.
Reflection Question: "How does this experience of spreading love benefit you?"

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Loving Kindness: Reading the Metta Sutra
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: Embodiment of Loving Kindness; Reading the Metta Sutra
Key Focus: Integrating mindfulness with loving-kindness.
Practice: Read the Metta Sutra and reflect on the words of the Buddha. Pair this with mindful breathing, where each in-breath and out-breath becomes an act of loving-kindness. Throughout your day, pause to notice what you are present to.
Reflection Question: "What arises in your awareness during these pauses?"

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Module 2 Loving Kindness - Embodiment of Love Energy: The Golden Ball of Light
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: Embodiment of Love Energy; The Golden Ball of Light
Key Focus: Directing love energy to areas of need.
Practice: Create a ball of golden energy in your heart and extend it to parts of your body that need attention. Spread this energy to your loved ones and beyond.
Use this golden light to send healing to projects, homes, or pets, remembering its presence throughout your day.
Reflection Questions: "How do you feel in that moment?" "What do you see during the golden light journey?"

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Module 2 Loving Kindness - Embodiment of Love Energy; Creating a Flow with Breath
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: Embodiment of Love Energy; Creating a Flow with Breath
Key Focus: Energizing love through breath and sound.
Practice: Use the sound "HAHAH" with your breath to create a river of love flowing through every cell of your body. Imagine this golden energy spreading light and healing to all parts of your being. Remind yourself during the day to reconnect with this love energy and let it flow.
Reflection Question: "How does this experience of love energy feel to you?"

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Loving Kindness: Cultivating Connection, Healing, and Grace - Embodiment of Love Energy: Activating the Heart’s Light
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: Embodiment of Love Energy; Activating the Heart’s Light
Key Focus: Igniting the heart’s light.
Practice: Visualize a golden dot of love at the center of your heart. Focus on this soft spot and energize it with your awareness. Allow this golden light to expand, filling your entire body. Use this practice as a daily reminder of your innate capacity for love, activating it in any circumstance.
Reflection Question: "How does it feel to activate and expand this love energy?"

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Loving Kindness: A Heart Prayer of Kindness
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Loving Kindness
Loving-kindness is our birthright and the center of our heart's desire to love and be loved, to connect and express grace. In these embodied meditations, you begin by activating self-love and then extend it outward in ever-widening circles. The heart’s divine light is ignited by your visualization and sent to your body and to each body part. This light is extended to your loved one and to your environment, nurturing your own healing and the healing of the world.

This Episode: A Heart Prayer of Kindness
Key Focus: Sending blessings to yourself and your body.
Practice: Repeat these phrases, allowing their meaning to sink into your heart:

• "May I be at ease."
• "May I be free of suffering."
• "May I be at peace."
• "May I be happy."
• "May I cultivate the seeds of joy in me."

Spread these blessings to every part of your body, acknowledging and appreciating how each part sustains you.
Reflection Questions: "How do you receive the blessing you are sending?" "How do you feel in your body after this meditation?"

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