Saybrook University Mindfulness Moments
Saybrook University College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences faculty, students, and alumni lead our community and guest through a regular short mindfulness meditation free of charge and designed to bring balance and calm to your daily life. Download the podcast series on your favorite podcast app!
Episodes
187 episodes
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Making Diamonds: A short meditation about stress with Dr. Jei Pearcey
In this 15 minute mindfulness session, Dr. Jei Pearcey will lead you to your own unique place, designed to help you relax and reframe your perspective on stress. The meditation begins by guiding you to imagine yourself in a serene, quiet natura...
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14:13
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Greeting Your Growth with Dr. Shannon McLain
As spring arrives, it brings forth a vibrant energy of emergence, growth, and renewal. In the northern hemisphere, as we emerge from the metaphorical cave of winter, there is a palpable surge of vitality. In this season of transition, it become...
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Awareness & Comfort For Your Face with Dr. Cliff Smyth
Dr. Cliff Smyth leads you though using attention and gentle mindful movements to develop awareness ease for your face. Relaxing the face, shifting the subtle tensions, can help relax the whole body. The ability to sense ourselves in our faces c...
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16:48
Gelassenheit: Enhancing Wellbeing through Letting Be with Dr. Donald Moss
Dean Donald Moss explores the theme of Gelassenheit, which can be defined as letting be. It is a German word with historical and spiritual origins, and Dr. Moss touches upon its contemporary existential meaning of release, acceptance, and redir...
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Breath Awareness For Mindfulness with Dr. Cliff Smyth
Description: In this session, Dr. Smyth takes us briefly though some of the basic steps of the mindfulness of breath practice found in Sattipahtana Sutta from the Buddha’s time. Steps that you can benefit from in this recording, or take i...
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Meeting The Boundless Heart with Dr. Gina Belton
Dr. Gina Belton kicks off our Spring 2024 Mindfulness Moments program with a heartfelt practice. She guides us to connect with our heart space and tap into our capacity for loving kindness.Learn more at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments:An Introduction To Autogenic Training with Dr. Donald Moss
Description: Autogenic Training is a self-regulation technique that produces profound relaxation and relief from the negative effects of stress. 'Autogenic' means 'generated from within.' The German Johann Schultz developed this procedure in th...
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Meditation For Peace with Dr. Luann Fortune
Description: In honor of personal and world peace, join Dr. Luann Fortune as she uses Metta meditation to guide us in exploring our inner awareness and projecting our loving kindness to the spaciousness of the cosmos.Learn more at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Awakening The Breath with Dr. Jenny DeDecker
Description: Need a short break or a mindful intention to help set your day? Join Dr. Jenny DeDecker as she invites us to settle into our body and tune into our breath for the next 15 minutes together.Learn more at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: This Dew Drop World with Dr. Gina Belton
Description: Join Dr. Gina Belton as she invites us to tune into our breath and drop into our own dew drop moment through the guidance of a haiku by Kobayashi Issa.Learn more at Saybrook.Edu
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Eclipse of Renewal with Dr. Shannon McLain
Description: The solar eclipse is a powerful event that invites us into a relationship of reverence with life. As the moon momentarily covers the sun, it creates a unique shadow on our world and hints at new beginnings as the brightness dims fo...
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15:44
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Reflections On Hispanic Heritage Month with Dr. Valerie Worthington
In today's meditative practice, join Dr. Valerie Worthington as she creates space for us to honor Hispanic Heritage Month through a series of reflective quotes and poetry from notable Hispanic figures.
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15:18
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Resting In The Elements of Ocean and Sky Mind with Dr. Gina Belton
Description: Join us for today's Saybrook Mindfulness Moments as we rest in the buoyant depths of ocean mind and the expansive awareness of sky mind.Learn more at Saybrook.Edu
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Connecting To The Web of Life with Dr. Selene Kumin-Vega
Description: Dr. Selene Kumin Vega invites you to tune into your breath and explore how you are intimately connected with all the elements of life, from people and nature to the universe and beyond.Learn more at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Connecting With The Movement of Breathing with Dr. Selene Kumin-Vega
Description: To conclude our summer mindfulness offerings, join Dr. Selene Kumin Vega in this somatic-based practice of moving with our breath.
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13:27
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Centering and Grounding with Dr. Luann Fortune
Description: Centering and grounding are often used interchangeably, but they are slightly different from each other. The former begins with looking inward while the latter occurs by connecting to external supporting forces. Join Dr. Luann Fort...
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Kriya Yoga Meditation with Dr. Shannon Sims
Description: Drop in for a gentle guided meditation practice grounded in the Kriya yoga tradition. Breathe the luscious air surrounding you, engage the work (kri) of the breath and soul (ya), and join in the union of yoga. The goal of Kriya yog...
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16:50
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Mindful Awareness Practice For Inner Calm with Dr. Donna Rockwell
Description: When times are rife with confusion in the outer world, it is wise to build a calm sanctuary within. Dr. Donna Rockwell leads us in a Mindful Awareness practice to help cool the heat of fear and cultivate in its place equa...
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Grounded In Balance with Dr. Jenny DeDecker
Description: As we navgiate the fluctuating weather changes of summer, Dr. Jenny DeDecker invites us to gently reconnect with our breath as a way to recenter into the root of our being.Learn more at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Discovering The Sacred In Our Lives with Dr. Valerie Worthington
Description: In today's meditative space, Dr. Valerie Worthington invites us to reflect on her shared observations of spiritual and religious core tenets and traditions from cultures around the world.Learn More at
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Progressive Muscle Relaxation with Dr. Donald Moss
Description: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) guides the individual to perceive the difference between relaxed and tense muscles, and to develop a differential awareness of muscle tension, and a corresponding ability to release tensions. The...
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16:36
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Loving Kindness and Compassion with Dr. Luann Fortune
Description: Dr. Luann Fortune leads us through a metta practice, sending loving kindness and compassion to ourselves, others, and the world.
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14:57
Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: A Body Scan for Soft Awareness with Dr. Jenny DeDecker
Description: Join Dr. Jenny DeDecker as she guides us to bring our awareness inward to gently settle on our entire body for today's meditative practice.Learn more at Saybrook.Edu
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Saybrook U Mindfulness Moments: Into The Rainbow with Dr. Shannon Sims
Description: This meditation invites you to embark on a journey into the vibrant embrace of a rainbow, exploring the spectrum of colors and how they feel in your mind, heart, and body. In recognizing the impermanence of one of Nature’...
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