In a world that glorifies busyness, true rest and relaxation can feel elusive (even when we try to slow down, our minds race, our bodies hold tension, and relaxation feels just out of reach). Join me for this Relaxation Vacation Guided Meditation—a soothing somatic meditation designed to help you release tension, regulate your nervous system, and settle into deep rest.

Romanticize Your Life by Finding Your Glimmers (A Somatic Mindfulness Meditation)

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Name It To Tame It: Identify Your Feelings For Emotional Clarity And Relief

Research shows that when we put our feelings into words, we activate the part of the brain that helps us feel calmer, clearer, and more in control.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle, somatic exercise to help you name what you’re feeling in a way that brings emotional clarity and relief.

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Stuck in Your Head? This Guided Somatic Meditation Will Help You Drop Into Your Body

Are you tired of being stuck in your head? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you drop out of your head and into your body.

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Somatic Journaling Prompts To Get It Off Your Chest

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Humming Bee Breath To Relax & Rebalance Your Nervous System (Simple Bhramari Pranayama For Stress Relief)

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Guided Body Scan Meditation (To Regulate Your Nervous System)

One of the simplest (yet most profound ways) to support our nervous systems is through a body scan meditation. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a soothing body scan meditation that will regulate your nervous system, quiet your mind, and help you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels grounding, safe, and soothing.

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How To Embody Your True Self (More And More) - A Guided Meditation

Do you ever wonder: Who am I beneath it all? Beneath the layers of expectations, the endless striving, the ways you’ve learned to fit in and keep going—who is the true you quietly waiting beneath the surface? In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you on a loving and profound journey inward to connect with (and embody) your true self.

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Somatic Meditation To Connect With Your True Self

This somatic meditation to connect with your true self is all about getting a deep sense of your true essence. This essence is often drowned out by the distractions around us and the expectations placed on us, but in today’s somatic meditation, you’ll be guided to pause, breathe, and turn your attention toward this true essence in a powerful and nourishing way.

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A Peaceful Pause: Somatic Meditation For The Winter Solstice

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, join Karena as she gently guides you inward with a peaceful somatic meditation for the winter solstice. “A Peaceful Pause” uses gentle, heart-centered breathwork to deeply soothe your body, heart, and mind.

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Havening To Cultivate More Self-Compassion

Cultivating self-compassion isn’t just a feel-good practice; it’s an essential ingredient for genuine healing and transformation in our lives. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a powerful Havening exercise designed to soothe your heart, mind, and body while boosting your self-compassion in real, tangible ways.

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Somatic Practice For Stress Release

It's time to move from managing stress to truly releasing it with this gentle and effective somatic practice. This Somatic Practice for Stress Release uses Self-Havening to support your nervous system, followed by Regenerating Images in Memory® to help you listen to your body, understand your stressors on a deeper level, and release stress at its source.

A Mind-Body Meditation to Cultivate Authentic Gratitude

Gratitude is not just a fleeting feeling—it’s a powerful healing resource that can ground us, nurture our nervous systems, and connect us to the beauty of the present moment. In this soothing and regulating mind-body meditation, we’re going beyond surface-level gratitude to cultivate authentic gratitude within.

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Rest And Regulate: A Somatic Meditation For When You’re Emotionally Exhausted

This deeply soothing somatic meditation is designed to regulate your nervous system and tone your vagus nerve, helping you step out of the relentless cycle of emotional exhaustion and into a space of rest and renewal.

Somatic Meditation for Inner Strength

This Somatic Meditation for Inner Strength is designed to help you connect with the depth and breadth of the true strength you carry within. No matter how much or how little you already feel aware of your inner strength, this somatic meditation can help you understand it more deeply and embody it more fully.

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Supporting Yourself Through Strong Emotions (A Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out)

This Somatic Meditation For When You’re Freaking Out is all about supporting your nervous system to come out of its dysregulated state while also helping you break the cycle of your racing thoughts. Join me for this gentle and supportive somatic meditation. Let it guide you out of the spiral of dysregulation, stress, and catastrophic thoughts and help you get your feet beneath you again.

Finding Calm In The Chaos (A Guided Meditation To Soothe Your Body + Mind)

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Somatic Self-Love Practice (A Somatic Meditation For Self-Love And Support)

In this Somatic Self-Love Practice, you’ll explore how deep listening and inner attunement can help you cultivate a relationship with yourself where you create a deep sense of connection, acceptance, and support (the true foundations of self-love).

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