Somatic Healing Meditations

Self-kindness is one of the most powerful things we can cultivate on our healing journey. When we learn to meet ourselves with warmth instead of judgment, it creates a safe and supportive container for us to navigate the complexities of our inner world with real honesty and compassion.

As we cultivate this kind of kindness toward ourselves, our nervous system softens, our inner voice gets gentler, and we become more able to love ourselves as we are.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a loving somatic exploration of what true self-kindness feels like in your body. We'll gently open to greater possibilities of self-kindness, and then explore how to embody that kindness in a tangible, felt way.

And this is a practice that keeps deepening the more we return to it. Every time we come back to it, self-kindness becomes a little more natural, a little more familiar.

Perfect for self-kindness, self-love, nervous system regulation, and cultivating a more compassionate relationship with yourself.

Iffirmations for Self-Kindness

What if I can soften my heart towards myself today?

What if I’m worthy of love and kindness … especially from myself?

What would it be like to consistently treat myself with more warmth and more kindness?

What if it’s safe for me to become kinder and kinder to myself?

What if I could feel more appreciation for the beauty within me?

What if I could feel more acceptance for the struggle within me?

What if I can look beneath my stories of self-judgment and connect more with my true self?

What if I could be gentle with myself even when things are difficult?

What if I can honor my imperfections and allow myself to grow from my mistakes?

Who could I become if I had more and more consistent access to self-compassion and kindness?

More and more I choose to be kind to myself.

More and more I choose me.

In this episode:

The healing power of self-kindness

Somatic Meditation to Soften Into Self-Kindness

Soothing Breathing to Drop in

Iffirmations for Self-Kindness

Deeply Connecting with Authentic Self-Kindness using Regenerating Images in Memory

Related: More Embodied Self-Love Meditations
Learn all about Iffirmations here

Read more about the healing power of self-kindness

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Our bodies are incredible. They hold so much wisdom and capacity for healing, and one of the simplest, yet most profound ways to support our nervous systems is through a body scan meditation.

This episode is an extended, slower version of one of our most loved episodes, the Guided Body Scan Meditation to Regulate Your Nervous System. If you've done that practice before, this one moves at a gentler pace, with more space between each cue so you have more time to feel into each part of your body rather than moving through quickly. (And if you haven't tried that one, this is a wonderful place to begin.)

When we gently bring our attention to the sensations in our bodies, we create a sense of safety and presence. This practice helps to downregulate the stress response and invites our vagus nerve, the cornerstone of nervous system regulation, to activate its calming, grounding effects.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a slow, extended 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.

Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or just wanting more time to settle into your body, this extended body scan meditation is for you.

In this episode:

An Invitation To Slow Down and Regulate Your Nervous System

Guided Body Scan Meditation (Extended, Slower Pace)

Soothing + Regulating Breathing

Rotation of Consciousness Full Body Scan

Related: More Deep Relaxation Meditations
Related: Listen to the original Guided Body Scan Meditation

Learn more about how body scans regulate our nervous systems!

If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

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There's a reason so much of daily life can leave us feeling frayed and exhausted, even on days when nothing especially hard has happened. Our nervous systems weren't designed for the volume of stimulation we live with every day.

We're living in a world that generates more sensory and emotional input in a day than our nervous systems were designed to handle in a year. It takes such a huge toll on us, and we end up overstimulated and dysregulated, like we have too many tabs open in our brains at the same time.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a short somatic practice that can help your nervous system settle and regulate in a tangible way. It's a simple and gentle breathing technique I call Body Scan Breathing, and it's my favorite practice to turn to when I want to ground, relax, and feel less overstimulated quickly.

If you've been feeling wired, exhausted, and unable to relax, this episode will give you a real, felt way to help your nervous system come back down, even in the middle of a busy or overstimulating day.

Perfect for nervous system regulation, grounding, stress relief, and finding calm when you're feeling overstimulated

In this episode:

Understanding an Overstimulated Nervous System

Somatic Practice to Settle Your Nervous System

Love this practice? Here’s a longer version!
Read more about healing your overstimulated nervous system

Related: More Somatic Practices to Regulate Your Nervous System

If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course!

In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey.

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Most of us have a running list of shoulds and supposed tos living within us... I should be more productive. I shouldn't feel this way. I'm supposed to have it more together by now. I'm not supposed to struggle, or be vulnerable, or imperfect, or human.

The pressure of it is immense.

And even when we recognize it, we often can't seem to stop, because these shoulds and supposed tos don't just live in our conscious thoughts. They live much deeper than that, woven into our nervous systems, our bodies, and our subconscious experience. Quietly shaping what we believe we deserve, how we feel about ourselves, and how much joy and authenticity we allow ourselves to experience. That's why these patterns are so hard to change even when we cognitively understand them. They don't live in our thoughts, so our thoughts alone can't reach them.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a healing meditation that will take you beneath the surface of the conscious mind to work with these exhausting patterns at their very roots. It's some of the most powerful self-healing work I know, and my hope is that you come away feeling genuinely lighter, freer, and more reconnected with your own authentic needs, feelings, and desires.

Perfect for releasing shoulds and supposed tos and self-criticism, reconnecting with your authentic self, and finding real freedom from the pressures of who you think you're supposed to be.

Episode timing:

00:00 - How We Learned to “Should On” Ourselves

05:21 - Healing Meditation to Release Your Shoulds and Supposed Tos

35:53 - Conclusion and Reflections

Read more about the somatic approach to freeing yourself from shoulds

Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Exercises

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Most of us know how much sleep matters for our overall well-being, but we don't always think about how much the state we fall asleep in affects us.

The quality of our sleep cycles, our dreaming, and how we wake up feeling the next morning are all shaped by what our nervous system is carrying when we close our eyes.

In this Guided Sleep Meditation for Self-Love, you'll be led through gentle somatic practices designed to help your nervous system settle, and your heart soften as you drift off to sleep.

You'll be invited to connect with a warm, healing quality of love and to cultivate that as a real, felt experience in the body, so that you can close your eyes tonight feeling cared for, peaceful, and truly loved.

This is a beautiful way to close your day and a meaningful way to deepen your relationship with yourself, one night at a time.

Perfect for deep sleep, nervous system regulation, self-love, stress relief, and cultivating a deeper and more compassionate relationship with yourself.

(And if you want to deepen your self-love in a tangible way when you're awake again, my Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself is a beautiful place to continue exploring how to build a relationship with yourself where feeling loved becomes something real and embodied in everyday life.)

In this episode:

Welcome to this Self-Love Sleep Meditation

Self-Love Sleep Meditation

Soothing and Regulating Breathing

Cultivating A Feeling of Love Within

Quiet Music for Sleep (with no talking at the very end)

Read more about Why Bedtime Is the Perfect Time for Self-Love
Related: Embodied Self-Love Series

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Go deeper on your somatic healing journey:

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Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

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