mindfulness unscripted with Jon Orsini

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Guided Practice: When anxiety keeps your mind running at night, this 7-minute breath-based body scan gives it somewhere gentle to land.

Lie down in bed, close your eyes, and follow along. Soft background music guides you through a slow scan of the body, using your breath to release tension and quiet racing thoughts.

No experience needed. No effort required. Just press play.

Episode length: 7 minutes Best for: bedtime, anxiety relief, winding down How to listen: in bed, lights off, headphones or low volume

Mindfulness Unscripted is a podcast for people who want inspiring convos, insights and practical tools for anxiety, sleep, everyday stress and embodied transformation - no fluff, no filler.

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Convo w Anabel Tonkovic - a former corporate professional turned Quantum Reiki Master and astrologer. She is the founder of Nuna Therapy, where she helps people shift their energy and return to a more awakened, centered and aligned state.

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Check out The Self Within Podcast with Anabel: “#18: Regulating your Nervous System through Breathwork with Jon Orsini”

Topics/Notes:

rick rubin and creative inspiration

the utility of selfishness

finding your voice and your audience

you can only take clients the depth you’ve gone yourself

people meet you at the depth they’ve met themselves

reiki, practical astrology, energy healing

how to understand yourself

year of the horse, chinese astrology

year one energy

chakras - overactive vs underactive

pragmatism of ancient practices

“the world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper” - wb yeats

how to best allocate your time as a wellness entrepreneur

nature and community

group power is stronger to willpower

wellness entrepreneur as a Mom and caretaker

mindful parenting

leaving corporate life behind

effectively and realistically balancing work and well being

Stress Less, Do More by Emily Fletcher

Anodea Judith: Chakras

Salted Soul Salt Cave - Acton, MA

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Convo with Chelsey Forbes - NYC based lover, court jester, Katonah Yoga teacher & practitioner. Dedicated to liberation and feeling good (most of the time). Instagram @goodcheech

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Convo with Will Reynolds - Award-winning musical theatre artist committed to spreading the idea that “art is an act of service.” IG: willcreynolds willreynoldsonline.com

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Convo w Ilana Beigel (Kripalu faculty) - a yoga, meditation, and dharma teacher and psychotherapist-in-training. Through ancient practices made relevant for today, she helps people reconnect with who they truly are and live with joy, clarity, and ease. IG: @ilanabeigel , ilanab.com

Topics:

journal prompts for life purpose self discovery

Stephen Cope - the great work of your life

the story we carry in our soul

path, soul and purpose

your mess is your message, your mess is your magic

the obstacle becomes the way

Victor Frankel Man’s Search for Meaning

RISE resilience training - Kripalu Center

Butterfly effect

surviving vs thriving

practice makes progress

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Convo w Krystina Bailey Brawer - an award-winning actress known for her work on “The Savant” starring Jessica Chastain, “Beyond the Gates” (CBS), “The L Word: Generation Q” (Showtime), Jordan Peele’s “Weird City” (YouTube Premium), “Blue Bloods” (CBS), and “The Family Business” (BET+). A graduate of Manhattanville College with a double major in theater and education, and a holder of a Business of Entertainment Certificate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she has starred in six independent films, co-producing one that received multiple honors including an “Award of Recognition” from the Accolade Global Film Competition. Her play “Showtime” earned her a nomination for Best Playwright in the Midtown International Theater Festival, and her book “Actors! What You Need to Know Before Moving to LA” hit #1 in Amazon’s Performing Arts Industry new releases.

Website: Actorswhatyouneed.com

Socials: @krystinabaileybrawer (on all platforms)

Notes:

the business side of acting

getting an agent

create your own opportunities

the savant apple tv with Jessica Chastain

how to get your own train moving

taking control of your own career

industry shift - streaming services and ai

soap operas

line memorizing tips

“diving board” memorization technique

playfulness in the work

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Convo: Rhonda Robinson is a mindfulness guide, life-coach and reiki master who supports people in reconnecting with their essential selves while embracing (rather than bypassing) this human experience. She enjoys long-distance train travel, dancing in the rain, meaningful connection and pondering the unanswerable questions of being human.

Website: rhondarobinson.net

Email: [email protected]

Social Media: intentionally abstaining in favor of other types of connection

Topics:

Overcoming illness - a second chance at life

A process for inspired decision making (simple, heart centered, effective)

Logic vs feeling

Appeasing the logical mind

Enforcing loving boundaries

Practical tools for anger expression

Rumi - when we start to walk on the way, the way appears

Following your soul’s sparkle

How to make decisions when the way isn’t clear

Spiritual platitudes/bypassing vs practical perspectives

Taking the sh*t of life and making it fertilizer

Turning sh*t into fertilizer

Post traumatic growth

Love vs fear

Boundaries, defining them

Secure attachment, conflict, deepening relationships

“Breaking Surface” by Mark Nepo

Let no one keep you from your journey - deep self love

Overcoming cultural and family conditioning

Wayne Dyer

Losing ego identity - finding core identity

Lessons from the brink of death

The need to be seen

Self observation without judgement

Clarity and effective solutions

Responding vs reacting

“We can’t solve a problem from the same level of thinking that created it” - Einstein

Expressing anger, practices to healthfully express anger

Healing happens in the presence of an empathetic witness

Dr. Peter Levine

David Elliott

Steven Jaggers

Wiliam Blake

Being hooked on emotions

Pranayama by Yoganand

Anger as an enforcement of boundaries

Catalyzing anger into productivity

Returning to essential nature

Martha Beck, Wayfinder Life Coaching

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Convo - Walter Anderson is a former Marine sergeant and Vietnam veteran, an American editor, author and playwright, best known as the former editor-in-chief and CEO of Parade Magazine. His impact and influence has been felt in magazine and newspaper media as well as through five books including the bestsellers Meant To Be and The Confidence Course and three plays: “Talkin’ Stuff” a one-man show he performed at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, “Almost Home” which was produced Off-Broadway in New York City, and “The Trial of Donna Caine” which opened at the George Street Playhouse.

Topics:

Stages of human development

Trust, identity, self transcendence (seeing others, beyond self)

Sublimating anger through writing

Catalyzing anger into an act of hope

If you hate, they win

Those who anger you, control you

Think globally, act locally

Emergent evolution

The search for life meaning

Living from a place of service

Getting negativity out of your life

Life starts at 40?

Elie Wiesel

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Convo - Kaveri is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor who offers private sessions and workshops in the Hudson Valley, the Berkshires at Kripalu as well as at Down Under Yoga in Boston and beyond. She brings forth her South Asian roots through the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda making it practical and accessible for all. It’s her goal to spread this wisdom and to inspire everyone that they too can live Ayurvedic lifestyle to find balance in their minds, bodies and spirits. instagram: kaveri.ayurveda

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