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Open Awareness Meditation
Karen Schwisow – 33 minute audioOpen Awareness is the practice of stabilizing attention with a broad, wide-open focus that allows mental objects, sensations, and sensory experiences to come and go. All mindfulness-based practices are oriented towards stabilizing attention. Sometimes a stable attention has a narrower focus, such as when doing a focussed task or practicing breath awareness (or see also […]
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Listening Meditation
Tim Burnett – 22 minute audioListening meditation is included in our Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. It’s a great practice for looking at preferences,conceptualization, and how easily our mental habits can “drive the bus” of perception and evaluation. In Listening Meditation we practice receiving sounds as a neutral experience of perception: hearing sounds as “just sounds.” This strengthens the ability to […]
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Breath Counting Meditation
Tim Burnett – 24 minute audioCounting the breath can be a powerful support for breathing meditation practice. Here we suggest gently applying a number, from 1 up to 10, to the exhale. This gives the cognitive mind something to do in service of breath awareness. Note, though, that this practice is probably better described as “returning to one” than “counting […]
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Breath Counting Meditation
Tim Burnett – 13 minute audioCounting the breath can be a powerful support for breathing meditation practice. Here we suggest gently applying a number, from 1 up to 10, to the exhale. This gives the cognitive mind something to do in service of breath awareness. Note, though, that this practice is probably better described as “returning to one” than “counting […]
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Awareness of Breathing
Tim Burnett – 22 minute audioIn this core meditation practice, we direct attention to the sensations associated with breathing as our bodies inhale and exhale. This practice is a powerful tool for grounding in our experience of the present moment. Other breath practices like Breath Counting and Affectionate Breathing build upon this foundation. As with all meditation practices, the moment […]
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Standing Yoga
Karen Schwisow – 46 minute audioThink of Mindful Movement as a “body scan in motion” where we practice deeply feeling the sensations in the body as we move it and as we hold different postures. We offer a few suggestions for getting started as well as diagrams of our standard full mindful movement sequence which is supported by this recording. Mindful Movement […]
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Standing Yoga
Richard Johnson – 28 minute audioThink of Mindful Movement as a “body scan in motion” where we practice deeply feeling the sensations in the body as we move it and as we hold different postures. We offer a few suggestions for getting started as well as diagrams of our standard full mindful movement sequence which is supported by this recording. Mindful Movement […]
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Lying Down Yoga
Karen Schwisow – 46 minute audioThis version of Mindful Movement is a gentle yoga sequence that can all be done while lying down. Connect with your bodily experience and enjoy gentle movement with this practice.Mindfulness Northwest Resources These practice recordings, videos, and descriptions are provided to the community for your personal use free of charge. Our mission at Mindfulness Northwest is to […]
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Chair Yoga
Karen Schwisow – 37 minute audio
with diagramsWhile Mindfulness Northwest’s recommended Mindful Movement with Gentle Yoga sequence includes getting up and down off the floor, this Chair Yoga version can be done sitting on the chair and standing with the support of the chair. A core value at Mindfulness Northwest is making these practices accessible to everyone. For an illustration of the […]
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Awareness of Breathing
Teresa Johnson – 25 minute audioIn this core meditation practice, we direct attention to the sensations associated with breathing as our bodies inhale and exhale. This practice is a powerful tool for grounding in our experience of the present moment. Other breath practices like Breath Counting and Affectionate Breathing build upon this foundation. As with all meditation practices, the moment […]
