Acknowledging the Land

  Original airdate: November 24, 2021 Guide: Caryl Opening Song: Remember by Joy Harjo Featured focus This practice is called Connect In because our vision was to create a space for people to connect into themselves and one another. Today’s invitation is to connect into the land and open our awareness to the histories of […]

Guided Mindfulness Practice: Focus on the Positive

Original airdate: November 3, 2021 Guide: Linda Opening Song: New York Riopy Connect In is a guided mindfulness practice that happens every Wednesday at 8:15 a.m. EST. This community event is virtual, free, and open to all levels of mindfulness practice. 15 minutes is all it takes to start your day with intention.  Connect In now! 

Audio Mindfulness Practice: Practicing Gratitude

Original airdate: October 13, 2021 Guide: Caryl Opening Song: Unstruck Chord by Steve Gold Featured practice: Studies show that practicing gratitude for even a short amount of time increases well-being. Gratitude as an intervention for mental health, relational health, and even physical health. Gratitude is an amazing technology in health that brings along with it […]

Appreciative Joy

  Original airdate: October 6, 2021 Guide: Linda Opening Song: Too High by Moon Taxi featuring Jake Shimabukuro Featured practice: The focus of this practice is appreciating the joy and happiness in our lives through paying mindful attention to a moment of joy. When we are able to recognize our moments of joy and happiness […]

Meeting the Moment

Original airdate: September 29, 2021 Guide: Caryl Opening Song: Hiddensee Featured practice: It’s only human to have plans, expectations and ideas for how things will go. More often than not, the moment presents unexpected events, people or situations that change our plans. What does it feel like to meet the moment? How can we practice […]

Let Us Slow Down

Guide: Caryl Featured song: Take It Slow, Ayla Nereo Featured practice: Let us slow down. Bayo Akomolafe says, “The times are urgent, let us slow down.” Let us slow down. Often the demand of urgency requires rapid, habitual responses that create tension and stress. There is an unwritten contract in urgency that says get it […]

Mindfulness in the Youth Garden

I was up unusually early this sunny Saturday morning, having invited myself on a field trip with my daughter, who was meeting my sister for a garden tour. There was a time years ago when I was always up and out of the house early on Saturday mornings. My husband was traveling weekly back and […]

Letting Go of Fixing

Guided audio practice from the 8/18/21 Connect In virtual community mindfulness practice.  Guide: Linda Snyder Opening song: Epiphany by Riopy Featured practice: It is in our nature to fix things, to problem solve. On days where we may have a problem, practicing mindful meditation may be challenging. Our minds’ natural tendency to wander and problem […]

The Body’s Wisdom: Seated Mindful Movement Meditation

Guide: Linda Opening song: Put Down What You Are Carrying by Trevor Hall Featured Practice: 15 minute seated mindful movement meditation is about noticing what’s here in each moment, listening and responding to your body’s wisdom and bringing a kind, curious and patient quality of awareness to whatever you find.    Connect In with us […]

14 Ways to Take Your Mindfulness Practice Outside

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. -Mary Oliver, poet   The beloved Mary Oliver wrote volumes of poems and prose that reflect her intentional and mindful engagement with the living earth. In her poem, Sometimes, she leaves us these instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell […]