Meditation Conversations supports community and conversation about meditation in the tradition of viniyoga. Join us to deepen your appreciation, understanding and mastery of meditation.
I'm Carrie Heeter, a meditation teacher, writer, and scientist. Listen to the podcast as my guests and I reflect on our adventures with teaching and practicing meditation.
Then join the Meditation Conversations online community to reflect, share, and learn from each other. Bring you curiosity, civility and kindness to our safe space. Visit meditationconversations.com.
Yoga for Grief Support: A conversation with Chris Armstrong
In this episode I talk with Yoga Therapist Chris Armstrong about her work with grief – the Yoga for Grief Support classes she teaches at Mayo Clinic, how she approaches grief with her yoga therapy clients, and some of her personal grief journeys.Grief has many flavors – unresolved grief, anticipatory grief, immediate and ongoing grief, complicated grief. Grief is messy. It's not pretty. Yet I found myself responding “that’s so beautiful” to the experiences Chris shares. Yoga can help!Find Chr...
5 Apr 2024
A Being that Can Fly Meditation by Carrie Heeter
This 20 minute Being That Can Fly meditation integrates breath, movement, and visualization steps to set a stage for participants to have unique personal experiences. In the Meditation Conversations podcast episode 4 (now available) I use this Being That Can Fly meditation as an example to showcase ways to encourage students to talk about the experiences they have doing a meditation.So do the meditation, then listen to theTalking About Meditation Experiences: What's there to say? podcast.Afte...
5 Apr 2024
Talking about Meditation Experiences: What's there to say?
If you teach meditations, you and your students will benefit from encouraging your students to talk about what happened for them in the meditation. How do you get the conversation started? What is there to talk about?I share insights and guidance for conversation topics applicable to most meditations. Then I use a specific meditation (A Being That Can Fly), to illustrate points of interest in the student experience for each of the 12 steps in the meditation.It's best if you do the 20-minute B...
28 Feb 2024
Evil Buddhists and Evil Yogis: A conversation with Robyn Love
Listen to Robyn Love and Carrie Heeter discuss Robyn’s extensive study and practice of Zen Buddhism AND yoga.Then join the conversation by logging in to the Meditation Conversations online community (https://meditationconversations.com).For most of us in viniyoga, Zen Buddhists are “the other guys” and we don’t know much about them. Robyn is a unique crossover person. She is a Zen Buddhist and a certified viniyoga yoga therapist, and she founded the Atha Yoga School (https://athayoga.ca)In th...
1 Feb 2024
Meg Bratt's adventures teaching a Path in the Woods meditation
Listen to Meg Bratt and Carrie Heeter discuss Meg's adventures teaching A Path in the Woods progression of five 15-minute Breath-and-Movement meditations for Yoga Well Institute (https://yogawell.com). Then join the conversation by logging in to the Meditation Conversations online community (https://meditationconversations.com).Meg was unexpectedly called upon to teach—she had no time to prepare. When she started teaching she did not know what she would teach!Things went well. Thin...
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