Skillful Means Podcast
Skillful Means Podcast offers practical wisdom for everyday life. Host Jennifer O'Sullivan explores navigating life's challenges through the lenses of Buddhist mindfulness, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and positive psychology.
Each month, episodes feature grounded guidance and accessible practices for meeting whatever arises with greater ease.
Jennifer is a Certified IFS Practitioner with over 20 years of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness.
Find out more: https://www.skillfulmeanspodcast.com and https://www.sati.yoga
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 126
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#23 Uncovering Conditioning & Biases with Buddhist Mindfulness
In this episode, Jen and Sarah Jane take a look through the Buddhist lens at the mind.
Specifically, they explore using mindfulness, being with discomfort, and taking responsibi…
#22 Meeting Difficulty with Ease and Presence in Sphinx Pose Guided Practice
In this episode, Jennifer offers guidance for creating space between a difficult stimulus and the response to it. Whether you are confronted by a challenging event or a triggeri…
#21 Dharmic Activism: Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita with Kaya Mindlin
In this episode, Jen is joined by her friend and colleague Kaya Mindlin to discuss the Bhagavad Gita and how to fully and authentically show up for social justice while staying …
#20 Embodied Awareness & Compassion for the Weary Guided Practice
This guided meditation encourages you to take up residence in your body in order to be present for the life that is inside you right now. With kind attention, we feel into the p…
#19 Resources for Social Justice in Intentional & Spiritual Communities
Today, we pivoted a bit to share resources on the intersection of mindfulness, Buddhism, anti-racism, and collective healing. We focus on the major voices, most of them people o…
#18 Yin Yoga To Awaken a Peaceful Inner Attitude Guided Practice
Inspired by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh's Pebble Meditation, Jennifer guides you through the four qualities of freshness, solidity, clarity, and freedom in the container of a cal…
BONUS: Guided Heart Center Practice With Sarah Powers
In Episode 17, Sarah Jane and Jen spoke with their teacher Sarah Powers about the wisdom and opportunity for awakening amidst the suffering of the coronavirus pandemic.
During th…
#17 A Conversation with Sarah Powers
Our primary teacher Sarah Powers has spent decades studying, living, and teaching from the Wisdom traditions--Buddhism, Yoga, Taoism, and contemporary western psychology. As the…
#16 Sympathetic Joy Guided Practice
Mudita, or sympathetic joy, is the third in the series of the four most highly regarded qualities, or “sublime states,” in Buddhism: metta (loving-kindness), karuna (compassion)…
#15 Yin Yoga For Strengthening Wei Qi Guided Practice
In Chinese Medicine, the immune system is comprised of a protective barrier of energy (Qi), called Wei Qi ( pronounced “way chee”), that circulates through the body while also e…
#14 Yin Yoga for the Physical Body (Part 2)
Continuing the conversation on how Yin Yoga affects the physical body, Jen and Sarah Jane talk about the physical benefits of the practice, immediately zeroing in on the elephan…
#13 Compassion Guided Practice
Karuna, or compassion, is the second in the series of the four most highly regarded qualities, or “sublime states,” in Buddhism: metta (loving-kindness), karuna (compassion), mu…
#12 Yin Yoga for the Physical Body (Part 1)
In this episode of our continuing series on Yin Yoga, Jen and Sarah Jane talk about the physical benefits of the practice. Many of us practice Yin Yoga, at least in part, to giv…
#11 3-Part Check-in Meditation in Butterfly Pose Guided Practice
Many yoga and mindfulness practices are specifically designed to grow one's capacity to remain present - internally and externally - from moment to moment.
In this guided practi…
#10: The Life-Changing Magic of Yin Yoga
Yin yoga, the slow and quiet approach to asana, flows against the current of mainstream yoga practices these days. With this episode, we urge you to try it based on the ways in …
# 9 Loving Kindness Guided Practice
Metta, or loving-kindness, is the first of a series of meditation practices offered by the Buddha to cultivate the four qualities of love: metta (loving-kindness), karuna (compa…
#8 Maintaining Practice While Traveling & Visiting Family
Maintaining practice is a must for yoga and meditation teachers, as well as serious practitioners of all sorts who are interested in spiritual growth. Establishing and maintaini…
#7 Body Scan Guided Practice
This relaxing Body Scan practice is inspired by a Buddhist teaching called Mindfulness of the Reality of the Body that appears in the First Foundation of Mindfulness. It's desig…
BONUS: RAIN Guided Practice
In this bonus episode and companion to Episode 6, Sarah Jane takes you through a guided RAIN practice. Experience for yourself this transformative method for reframing your rela…
#6 What is RAIN meditation?
RAIN (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Nurture) is a mindfulness meditation method developed by western Insight Meditation teachers to support practitioners in skillfully dealing…