Stabilizing Movement & Meditation

Trouble meditating? One way to cultivate the sort of restful awareness that helps you sink into a meditation session is to start with a movement practice. This Embodied Meditation includes a 10-minute sequence that helps open your hips and side body, stabilize your back, and relax your neck and shoulders. Then we’ll settle in for 5 minutes of seated meditation. A great way to start or end your day -- all in 15 minutes.

Reviews

Gorgeous voice, excellent elocution, meaningful movement & meditation.

Such a lovely way to start the day (and an excellent transition from movement to meditation). Thank you Paige! ❤️✨🙏

I love the combination of embodied asana and meditation. I am so glad that I found Paige’s meditations and welcome any additional practices or courses.

Love this practice. Only issue I have - and it's purely a personal one - is that with my sleep disorder, I wake up groggy and fuzzy-headed, so I tend to forget that grabbing a blanket or mat means I'm going to actually be in a position for a while other than sitting or kneeling - it takes me by surprise, basically. 🙃

A good chunk of the time I end up sitting on my bed and for child, I am cross legged towards the edge of the bed, and I lean forward so my arms and upper body dangle over the side. Wonderful loose stretch, and easy to walk my hands over to each side at whatever height feels best. Cat/cow is modified, and with my bad knees, I don't often do table, but the bed is comfy - and just unstable enough to give me a good core workout at the same time - so that works too.

I do absolutely adore the casual and accepting guidance of how to move- the idea of "playing with" the positions and exploring the body sensations is always much welcomed. (I really do need to get back to my Feldenkrais, truly.) If I am unable or not ready to do a position or movement here, I always feel warm and welcomed and supported, never pressured to do this or go there, sit up, breathe this way. The focus on the unique inner body awareness and outward body movenent that is right at that present moment is such a beautiful gift to us all.

It reminds me of the gentle Kripalu yoga practice I used to do regularly until my healthcare team put some limits on the frequency of my practice to keep me from injuring myself with hyperextension. Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and poor proprioception among other things make yoga a much more concentration-intensive practice than it is for most, so unless I'm super awake/alert, and focus on tone and biomechanics rather than flexibility, yoga is generally a no-go as a full practice these days. Selected poses are fine on a daily assessment basis...all the ones here are quite familiar and work fine for me except the kneeling/table type sometimes, which my physical therapist and I figured out how to modify long ago anyway. 😊 I just toss in a few extra upper back/neck loosening moves here and there.

I have yet to find any practice that helps me loosen the side of my ribcage, alas. I can't feel any trigger points or knots (neither can my two medical massage therapist, nor my chiropractor), and I do static foam roller floor stretches to ensure there isn't odd rotation of the ribcage to the spine, but there's been this one area of sore, almost frozen, constricted movement on my left ribcage about elbow height (when held at 90° angle) that just doesn't go away. Pulmonologist said I have paradoxical lung inflation and probable diaphragm weakness too, which is odd considering my years in choir, playing a wind instrument, competitive race walking, and military service. I will say that your practices give a lot if relief in other areas, which makes this particularly annoying spot much easier to handle, absent "noise" from elsewhere in my body once I've completed your sessions. ❤ If you have any suggestions, I'd gladly take them on board. 😊

As always, wonderful session, and my thanks to you, Paige, for continuing to make this available to us here on Insight Timer. This and other tracks if yours continue to hold places on my Playlist for frequent use, and I don't see that changing on my side any time soon. 😊

Thank you again, Paige, so very much. I see you and the light within you. Be well. 🤲🏻❤🤲🏻

I love this perfect combination! Wonderful way to begin strengthening my body as I continue to expand my mind and develop in being more aware, centered, and grounded.