The Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford

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Guided meditations to support you in your practice. Meditations led by Danny Ford, a psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher based in Wakefield.

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04.24.2020

Live recording of a guided meditation led on Zoom in April 2020. More episodes are on the way. May we all live and practice with care. Care for ourselves and care for others. #stayhome #alonetogether #mindfulness

The Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford episodes:

04.24.2020 Guided meditation: Meditating with gentleness and care Live recording of a guided meditation led on Zoom in April 2020. More episodes are on the way. May we all live and practice with care. Care for ourselves and care for others. #stayhome #alonetogether #mindfulness
04.17.2020 30 minute guided meditation (led on Zoom) A guided meditation I led for a group on Zoom. Recorded 8th April 2020. To get early access to upcoming episodes of the podcast sign up at https://www.mindfulnessandpsychotherapy.com/mindfulness-meditation-podcast.
02.21.2019 Guided Meditation: Welcoming Awareness A guided meditation led by mindfulness teacher and psychotherapist, Danny Ford.
04.15.2018 Guided Meditation on Sound A guided mindfulness meditation on sound.
03.16.2018 Guided Meditation: Introduction to Mindfulness A guided meditation exploring the practice of mindfulness of breathing. The meditation includes helpful reminders relating to the wandering mind. The meditation is led by Danny Ford, an Integrative Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Teacher. Recorded at a live class.
11.24.2017 Guided Meditation: A Safe Environment In this episode of the MIndfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we offer a trauma-informed mindfulness practice to support a sense of presence and safety in the face of fear. The meditation is led by psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher, Danny ...
11.18.2017 Guided Meditation: Feeling breathing and resting in being Gently inviting attention to settle into your body and feel breathing at the level of sensation. Resting in being. Meeting yourself with sincere, simple, caring presence. A guided meditation led by psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher, Danny Ford.
09.16.2017 Guided meditation on mindful breathing (from the archive) This episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford comes from our archive of guided meditations. Settling into a comfortable posture and asking yourself: How do I know I have a body? This open question is a way of ...
08.11.2017 Meditation talk: Loving ourselves authentically In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast, we offer a short reflection on learning to love ourselves deeply is a gift to others as well as to ourselves. This short talk was recorded at a mindfulness class in Leeds, ...
08.05.2017 30 minute Guided Meditation on Embodied Presence and Love In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we offer a trauma-informed guided meditation. We begin with receptive listening, before gently shifting to mindfulness of breathing. We spend the last few minutes practicing metta or loving-kindness. The ...
07.22.2017 Guided Meditation: Embodied Listening Using sound as an anchor to ground attention. Sensing your body from the inside. Cultivating presence. Recorded at a meditation class in Leeds.
07.01.2017 Guided Meditation: Embodied Attention Mindfulness of the body is one of the foundations of mindfulness. In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we offer a guided meditation for grounding our attention in the body and gently inviting relaxation in both ...
06.10.2017 Guided Meditation: Relaxing in Presence A guided meditation on opening to sounds, resting into a spacious awareness, relaxing with the breath and letting yourself be. If you enjoy this meditation and know someone who might find it useful, please take a minute to share it ...
05.20.2017 Meditation Instructions: Presence, kindness and your breathing belly In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast, we offer meditation instruction for mindfulness of breathing, with particular support for feeling breathing in your belly.
04.29.2017 Guided Meditation: Open Awareness, Presence and your Heart Sati, the Pali word usually translated into English as “mindfulness”, could equally be translated as presence. In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we invite you to rest in the naturalness of awareness and simply sense ...
04.15.2017 Relaxed and Upright: A Guided Mindfulness Meditation In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast, we offer a guided meditation inviting you to sit in a way that is both relaxed and wakeful. Relaxing and allowing your breath to be natural, we can also give caring attention ...
04.01.2017 Guided Meditation: Sitting Together This guided meditation was recorded specially for the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford. We are sitting in different times and places, yet we are also sitting together. In this 10-minute guided meditation I invite you to gently incline your ...
03.15.2017 Silent Meditation – 3 Minute Meditation Timer (No Guidance) This episode of the podcast offers you a short period of silence as a support for your meditation practice. A bell is rung once at the beginning and three times at the end of the meditation. There is no spoken ...
02.04.2017 Mindfulness Meditation with Metta – Love Trumps Hate Welcome to the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford. In this episode, we begin settling into meditation with receptive listening before practising mindful breathing and then concluding with metta or compassion practice. We offer metta for ourselves, for all people ...
01.21.2017 3 Minute Meditation In this meditation, you are invited to simply allow whatever sensations and sounds arise during the meditation. This short meditation practice can be used to support mindful presence and invite some relaxation at any time during your day.
01.07.2017 Guided Meditation: Can You Return to the Breath with Care? This episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford is a guided meditation on mindfulness of breathing. In the meditation, I offer encouragement to care for the way you return to the breath. We are cultivating a caring, kind ...
12.17.2016 15-Minute Guided Meditation on Breathing This episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford is a guided meditation on mindfulness of breathing. If you enjoy this meditation, please share it with someone you know who might also find it helpful.
10.15.2016 Guided Meditation from the Deepening Mindfulness course (Week 1) Recorded at a mindfulness course in Leeds called Deepening Mindfulness. The meditation is led by mindfulness teacher and psychotherapist, Danny Ford.
06.24.2016 Reflections on Jo Cox, mindfulness practice, and a guided meditation Last week, I offered some brief reflections on hatred in various forms, including racism, xenophobia and homophobia. As I was leading that meditation and reflecting on those themes, Jo Cox was being murdered less than a mile from my home. ...
06.18.2016 Orlando: Pain of world events – guided meditation and reflection In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast, we offer a short reflection and a guided meditation recorded at a mindfulness class in Leeds. I opened the meditation class on Thursday with some brief words of reflection in the wake ...
06.04.2016 Guided Meditation: Caring for this experience, just as it is. Welcome to the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford. Mindfulness meditation is not a goal-driven practice. When practising meditation you are opening to the natural unfolding of our moment-to-moment experience. You are developing mindful awareness. Mindful awareness is not just ...
05.13.2016 Guided meditation: Mindfulness of body and sounds In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we offer a guided meditation recorded at a class in Leeds. Mindfulness of body and mindfulness of sound. The periods of silence are part of the instruction. If you ...
04.30.2016 Guided meditation: Mindfulness of body sitting and breathing This guided meditation was specially recorded for the podcast and invites you to gently find your way into a comfortable and wakeful way of sitting, before resting into a caring awareness of breath. If you enjoyed this guided meditation and ...
04.23.2016 Guided Meditation: Caring for your experience This guided meditation was recorded at a meditation class in Leeds the day after I learned of the passing of one of my individual students. We are all touched by grief and losses in life. May this guided meditation be ...
02.27.2016 Guided Meditation: Being with how you are In this guided meditation, mindfulness of breathing, and mindful reflections invite you to dwell in a simple, kind awareness of how you are right now, and to simply be. Inviting yourself to just be as you are, feel your breath, ...
02.20.2016 Standing meditation: a guided meditation In this episode of the Mindfulness Meditation Podcast with Danny Ford, we wanted to offer some guidance on standing meditation. We tend to focus on sitting meditation, but there are three other postures: standing, walking, and laying down. In standing ...
02.13.2016 Guided Equanimity Meditation In this guided equanimity meditation, I invite you to explore the heart quality of equanimity. Equanimity is a quality that develops and strengthens as mindfulness deepens. It’s not indifference or detachment. Rather than becoming closed down, equanimity is a sense ...
02.06.2016 Guided Metta Meditation Metta meditation is a complimentary meditation to mindfulness of breathing.
01.02.2016 Guided Meditation: Awareness of Sounds A guided meditation on Awareness of Sounds. Mindfulness of breathing is commonly taught as a foundational practice, but isn’t suitable for everyone: Mindfulness of sound is an excellent alternative to the practice of mindful breathing. Even in mindfulness of breathing ...