COURSE

Healing Through Presence

In this course, you will learn to meet your emotions with presence instead of fear, to recognize the signals your body carries, and to soften the places where you’ve been holding too tightly. Together, we’ll explore gentle practices that help you release tension, understand your inner patterns, and offer yourself compassion in moments that feel overwhelming.

Healing Depression Secular Mindfulness Mindfulness Meditation Recovery & Healing Secular Mindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Mariana Oyaga

Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia

Mariana is a mindfulness and meditation teacher who has spent years guiding others toward inner calm, emotional clarity, and self-compassion. Through her own healing journey and dedicated practice, she has learned how presence can soften anxiety, release old patterns, and create a sense of safety within the body. Her teachings blend mindfulness, somatic awareness, and tender emotional guidance, offering students a warm and accessible path toward inner healing. With a gentle voice and a deeply empathetic approach, she creates spaces where people feel seen, supported, and invited to reconnect with themselves.

5 Days

13 students

5.0 stars

14 min / day

Healing

English

Lesson 1

The Ground Of Presence: Returning To Yourself

This first lesson invites you to settle into the quiet ground of your own presence. We will explore how slowing down and returning to your body can soften fear, ease tension, and create a sense of inner safety. You’ll learn to notice how emotions live within physical sensations and discover that healing begins the moment you are willing to simply be with what is here.

Lesson 2

Meeting Emotions With Mindfulness

In this lesson, you’ll learn to approach your emotions with curiosity rather than fear. Together, we explore how emotions arise as movements in the body — sensations, warmth, tightness, pressure, energy — and how recognizing them in this simple, grounded way can ease overwhelm. You’ll discover the difference between reacting and responding, and how mindful attention creates space for softness, clarity, and choice.

Lesson 3

Softening Resistance & Allowing Release

In this lesson, you’ll explore the quiet ways the body holds on — the tightness, guarding, or subtle pulling away that often happens when emotions feel too big or unfamiliar. We look at why resistance shows up, not as a flaw, but as a protective response learned long ago. Through mindful awareness and tender attention, you’ll learn how softening can happen without force — how simply noticing, breathing, and offering warmth to these held places can create space for release.

Lesson 4

The Healing Power Of Compassionate Presence

This lesson invites you to meet yourself with tenderness, allowing compassion to flow where judgment or tension may have lived. You’ll explore how offering gentle attention to your own emotions and experiences can soften heaviness, ease resistance, and create a sense of safety within. By learning to hold yourself with care, you begin to see that healing does not come from pushing feelings away, but from embracing them with warmth and understanding.

Lesson 5

Integrating Presence Into Daily Emotional Life

This lesson invites you to bring the gentle awareness cultivated in your practice into the flow of everyday life. You’ll explore how to meet emotions as they arise in real moments with softness and curiosity rather than resistance. Through simple, practical tools like mindful breathing, subtle body awareness, and grounding attention, you’ll learn to create small pockets of presence wherever you are.

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Recent Reviews

James

December 19, 2025

I love the pace and poetry of these meditations. Thank you.

Patricia

December 18, 2025

Thank you for this course as it brought peace and connection to myself and allowed emotions to flow freely. Your voice is clear, the pace is right to allow to make space to be present to ourselves.

Debbie

December 16, 2025

This was so calming, healing and validating. Beautifully led. I struggle with presence and acknowledging my emotions, but it is like this have me permission. I’m going to do it again!

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