If you’ve ever longed for a bedtime story that feels both magical and deeply calming, you’re in for a treat. ✨

In this week’s episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’m sharing a special feature from the beloved podcast Sleep & Sorcery, created by Laurel Hostak Jones. 🌙

Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Laurel weaves together original folklore and fantasy-inspired tales with soothing meditations, wrapping you in magic while gently guiding you toward deep rest.

I truly love her creative and soothing stories! 💖

This fantasy sleep story is called Sea of Stars. In it, you step into the role of a cosmic caretaker, tending to constellations on a gentle journey across the night sky. As dawn approaches, you return to your own cozy resting place in the cosmos. It’s a dreamy and restorative way to drift into sleep.

I hope you enjoy this special episode! I’ll be back next week with a new somatic meditation for you. 🌸

xoxo, Karena

Learn more about Sleep & Sorcery here

Related: Enjoy more Deep Sleep Meditations here

Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴

I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.

If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.

Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!

👉 Support your sleep and save!

https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

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You might feel completely exhausted at night, but if your nervous system is still “on,” your body won’t fully let go into rest. 🌙 This is why so many of us lie awake with racing thoughts, tension in our bodies, and a sense that deep sleep is just out of reach.

The truth is, the quality of your sleep is directly tied to the state of your nervous system. If you go to bed dysregulated, your system stays on high alert, which makes it harder to stay asleep through the night.

😴 But when you regulate before bed, everything changes. Your breath slows, your muscles release, your heart rate settles, and your mind begins to soften. In this state, sleep not only comes more easily, it’s also deeper and more restorative. ✨

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Bedtime Nervous System Reset - a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you regulate, release the day, and prepare your whole body for the kind of nourishing rest you’ve been longing for. 💤💤💤

🎧 Give yourself these few minutes before sleep and notice the difference: falling asleep more quickly, waking less often, and rising in the morning with more clarity, energy, and ease.

#forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation

Episode timing:

00:00 - Deep Sleep and Nervous System Regulation

04:32 - Bedtime Nervous System Reset (Gently Wind Down for Deep Sleep)

Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here

Read more about this Bedtime Nervous System Reset here

Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴

I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.

If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.

Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!

👉 Support your sleep and save!

https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

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😴 Do you find yourself lying in bed, exhausted… yet unable to fully let go? You’re not alone.

So many of us carry the tension of the day, or even the weight of years, into the night. Our bodies may be tired, but our nervous systems haven’t yet gotten the message that it’s safe to rest.

🌙 This soothing somatic sleep meditation is here to help.

Designed to gently calm your nervous system and guide your body into a deeper state of regulation, this practice supports rest from the inside out. Through breath, soft inner attunement, and a gentle body scan, we’ll begin to send a powerful signal to your system:

🫶 You’re safe now. You can let go. There’s nothing you need to do.

💤 You can’t force good sleep. But when you give your body what it needs - support, regulation, and nervous system calm - deep rest begins to emerge on its own.

✨ That’s what this Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm is here to offer.

#forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation

Episode timing:

00:00 - Why Calming Your Nervous System Is the Key to Deep Rest

05:10 - Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm

Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here

Read more about Somatic Sleep Meditations here

Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴

I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired.

If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it.

Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)!

👉 Support your sleep and save!

https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

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Connect with Karena:

✨ You’re more YOU when your nervous system feels safe.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind what it really means to be your best self (and how nervous system healing makes that possible).

When you're dysregulated, you have less access to your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for clarity, compassion, nuanced thought, emotional regulation, and values-based decision making. Instead, your system shifts into survival mode, leading to reactivity, rigidity, or disconnection.

But when you’re regulated, you reconnect with the best qualities that make you who you truly are. You become more grounded, more present, and more able to live from wisdom, compassion, and care. 🌿

I’ll also guide you through one of my favorite gentle regulation practices, a tool you can return to again and again as you reconnect with your best self.

This episode is an invitation to pause, settle your system, and expand into more of who you really are. 🌸💫

In this episode:

Read more about how nervous system regulation helps you be your best self here!

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

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What if your emotions aren’t the problem? What if it’s the resistance to them that’s making everything feel harder? 💭

So many of us were taught to push down our emotions, power through, or stay “in control.” But that constant inner tension doesn’t bring peace … it keeps your nervous system stuck in a state of stress and overwhelm.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore how resisting your emotions actually activates your nervous system, and how allowing (even just a little) can begin to bring relief, calm, and connection. You’ll learn why this shift matters, and how to begin making it in a safe and supportive way. 💗

Then we’ll move into a soothing somatic meditation to help you practice that shift. Through self-havening and gentle “iffirmations,” you’ll be guided to soften resistance, reconnect with your body, and experience the peace that comes when every part of you is allowed to be here.

This is a powerful, body-based way to calm your nervous system and return to yourself with more compassion and ease. 🫶

In this episode:

Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them

Learn all about Iffirmations here

Read more about how to allow your emotions here!

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

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🌿 Iffirmations to Allow Your Emotions

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No one taught you how to love yourself. We’re learning now. 🌿

No one taught you how to meet your needs with kindness. Or how to sit with emotion without shame. Or how to stop performing worth, and begin feeling it instead. 💗

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a quick (but powerful) self-love practice.

Just 12 minutes to slow down, check in, and begin building the kind of inner relationship that helps you feel safe, grounded, and truly supported from within. 🧘‍♀️

Because self-love isn’t a feeling you chase. It’s a relationship you cultivate through presence, honesty, and care. ✨

💫 Listen now and take a moment to return to yourself.

In this episode:

Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

(If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 )

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We all struggle to love ourselves sometimes.

Even when we truly desire to be kind to ourselves, to feel our worth, and to see ourselves through loving eyes … something inside of us resists, or pulls away, or shuts down.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the deeper reasons why we experience blocks to self-love.

You’ll be gently guided through a Somatic Meditation to Heal Your Blocks to Self-Love using Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM®). This practice invites you to connect with the parts of you that may be holding fear, pain, or resistance - and to meet them with warmth, curiosity, and compassionate attention. Together, we’ll create space for those parts to soften, so that self-love can begin to feel safer and more possible.

If self-love has felt distant or unreachable, this episode offers a quiet turning point. A space to breathe, to reconnect with yourself, and to take one soft step closer to the love that’s already waiting within you.

In this episode:

Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself (Because Self-Love Isn’t a Feeling. It’s a Relationship)

Self-Love Body Scan Meditation

Try more Regenerating Images in Memory Meditations here!

Read more here about our blocks to self-love here: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/struggling-to-love-yourself-somatic-meditation-to-heal-your-blocks-to-self-love

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

(If your heart is whispering yes to this retreat, but your mind needs a bit more clarity, I’d love to connect! You can book a free 20-minute chat with me right here: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16736577&appointmentType=80654090 )

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Authentic self-love is something we practice into being. 🌸 It’s something we cultivate gently, over time. And when we do, something beautiful happens: our relationship with ourselves starts to feel like home. A place where we can soften, rest, and meet ourselves with compassion, no matter what we’re feeling.

This week’s Self-Love Body Scan Meditation is a soothing, regulating journey to connect with an authentic sense of self-love in your body. We’ll begin with gentle breathwork, followed by a series of iffirmations - open-ended, curiosity-based prompts to soften into authentic self-love. From there, you’ll be guided through a slow, spacious body scan designed to help you connect with yourself with true compassion and care.

Think of it as an invitation to discover what self-love feels like in your body … and to anchor that feeling a little more deeply with every breath. ✨

If you’ve ever longed to feel more love from within, this episode offers a gentle path back—one breath, one moment at a time. 💗🌸

In this episode:

Related: Try more Deep Relaxation Meditations here!

Read more here: helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/self-love-body-scan-meditation

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Early bird discounted spots are almost gone!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

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What if self-love isn’t something you feel… but something you create? 💫

In this episode, we explore a completely different way of understanding self-love. It’s a view rooted in developmental psychology, somatic healing, and the attachment patterns that shape our inner world.

You’ll learn how the four-step attachment cycle becomes a powerful, research-backed blueprint for creating secure attachment with yourself.

Even if you didn’t grow up with consistent emotional attunement, your body can still learn what it feels like to be truly seen, supported, and loved from the inside out.

We’ll talk about why so many of us struggle to feel safe with ourselves, how to gently re-pattern those old dynamics, and what it means to create a felt sense of inner trust and belonging. 🌱

Then, I’ll guide you through a somatic meditation based on the attachment cycle using Regenerating Images in Memory®. This is a deeply intuitive process that helps you attune to your real needs and respond with care.

💗 If you want to move from thinking about self-love to feeling implicitly loved, this episode is for you.

In this episode:

Learn more about secure attachment and self-love here.

🌟 If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

Enroll for free now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

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Have you been feeling disconnected from yourself - like you’re going through the motions but not really here? Like somewhere along the way, you lost touch with your own presence?

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided through a calming somatic meditation to help you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. Through breath, gentle touch, and Havening Techniques®, you’ll be invited back into your body with care and curiosity.

You’ll also be guided through soothing “iffirmations” to support your compassionate return to yourself.

If you’re longing to feel more grounded, more like yourself, and more at peace in your body, this meditation is for you.

Take a breath. Let go of the doing. Come home to you. 💗

In this episode:

Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them

Learn all about Iffirmations here

https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-healing-meditations/reconnect-with-yourself-deeply-a-somatic-meditation-to-come-home-to-yourself

✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛

Learn more and enroll now!

🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self.

Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited!

Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats

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🌿 Iffirmations to Reconnect With Yourself

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