The Moved To Meditate Podcast is a place for vibrant discussions about mindfulness, movement practices, and ways to find more balance and presence in daily life. Here, you’ll find down-to-earth resources to help you progress on your path, as well as insightful conversations with mindful movement, yoga, meditation, and dharma teachers from a range of traditions.
On this podcast, we spotlight embodied approaches to mindfulness and the more contemplative aspects of movement practice. Together, we’re exploring topics like gentle therapeutic yoga, meditation, somatics, yin yoga, qigong, nervous system practices, and more.
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This week’s podcast episode is a guided breath meditation for sleep. I made this recording a while back, and I felt inspired to share it on the podcast now, since the last episode was a guest intervi…
This week on the podcast, I have a conversation with Monica Le Baron, the author of Sleep Simplified: Simple Tools To Reduce Anxiety, Finish The Stress Cycle and Sleep Like a Queen.
Sleep is crucial …
This episode of the podcast is a gentle moving meditation, exploring what it feels like to slow down. We’ll be playing with pace as we do two very simple motions, observing the sensations in the body…
In this episode of the podcast, you'll hear from two experts on neurodiversity-affirming mindfulness practices, Sue Hutton and Jan Wozniak.
We’ll be talking about how Mindfulness Meditation programs …
This week’s episode is a 10-minute guided meditation designed to help you cultivate joy. To include an awareness of the good, delightful, and joyful aspects of our experience is an important practice…
Today’s podcast episode continues our discussion on Mindfulness Skills, picking up from Part 1 (which was Ep. 83). This topic explores the possibilities for growth and greater freedom that come from …
This episode of the podcast is a conversation with Neil Pearson about how yoga and mindfulness can help you improve pain, understand your body’s signals better, and find relief. Neil is a physical th…
In this podcast episode, I’m addressing the question: What Are “Mindfulness Skills?” We’ll be covering a list of learnable abilities and characteristics we are developing through mindfulness practice…
In this episode, I have the joy of interviewing Dr. Tamara Russell about how to practice and train mindfulness in movement.
Dr. Russell is not only a neuroscientist and mindfulness researcher, but a…
Today's podcast episode is a quick update and preview of what's to come in 2024!
I will be taking a holiday break from the podcast in December, so I can get organized for upcoming episodes in the new…
This week's podcast episode is a 15-Minute Body Scan Meditation. The Body Scan is a classic practice to cultivate mindfulness of the body and develop embodied awareness.
For many of us, it’s difficul…
This podcast episode is a fascinating conversation with Scott Odom, about what happens when we start to see the world through a lens of “basic goodness.”
Scott is a retired police officer, dedicated …
This week's podcast episode is a guided meditation using compassion phrases. We can always benefit from giving and receiving more compassion - as individuals, and as a collective of interdependent be…
In today's episode of the podcast, we'll be exploring Wise Effort. Practicing Wise Effort means being mindful of how you’re using your energies and your attention - and whether that is moving you tow…
In this episode of the podcast, we're talking about the Bio Psycho Social Spiritual model and Mindful Movement. I believe this framework can help us understand the full potential of Mindful Movement …
This week's podcast episode is an Equanimity practice. Join me for a guided meditation, exploring the potential for steadiness in the heart and mind.
Equanimity, or Upekkha (in Pali), is a natural by…
This week on the podcast, I’m talking about ADHD and Mindfulness Meditation with my guest Ying Deng. Ying is the founder of ADHD Asian Girl, a platform that provides support and resources for people …
This episode of the podcast is a guided meditation using Loving Kindness phrases.
Metta (or Loving Kindness) Meditation is one of the heart practices from the Mindfulness tradition, and it’s a way o…
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a Mindful Movement class and a Yoga class? That question is a little more complicated than it may first appear, and so that’s what we’re going to…
In this episode of the podcast, I have the honor of speaking with Dr. Kate Truitt about the Havening Techniques, which use mindful touch and intentional attention to change how your brain responds to…