MBSR Body Scan (20 min)

The Body Scan is a core practice of the free 8-week MBSR course found at Palouse Mindfulness.

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Loving this course and so grateful that the recordings are available here.

This practice made me aware of how often my mind was wandering throughout. I will get back regularly to work at it.
Thank you 🌷

Such a comfortable, soothing voice. I love how your words flow to guide me from one body part to the next, and how you connect the breath with such ease to the entire experience in my body.
Thank you

A great, relaxing body scan. Thank you for sharing your gift, Dave. 🙏💛

As someone who is new to body scan meditation I appreciated the slow simple guidance. I am just starting to become aware of body sensations and this session was very helpful in establishing this connection and awareness. Thank you.

Thank you so much
Great !
And love your background with John Kabat -Zin !!!
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Different but very beautiful and powerful. I am quite deaf and wear a hearing device and cannot normally distinguish words easily but was able to hear you fairly easily so thank you so very much!♥️♥️♥️

The Palouse MBSR program has been a life changer for me. MBSR is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. It is an 8 week course (actually 8 modules you can take as long as you like!) that covers the basic practices of mindfulness: being present and aware in order to experience life fully. This course is modeled after that taught by Jon Kabat Zin . Dave Potter put it all together online: every module has a video playlist (very entertaining and thought provoking) that is illustrative of that weeks theme from being present in your body, turning toward pain and difficult emotions, Lovingkindness and ultimately developing your own ongoing practice. Also each week is a guided meditation: this one is week 1 and a staple of the course along with the 37 minute version. This course changed my life as it formed the scaffold I have long sought to encompass all my meditation, yoga and self growth in to a related system. Thank you Dave Potter. This meditation is ideal to begin the process of awareness and learning to live in the now. Palouse mindfulness is secular and has helped me with the ongoing goal to respond instead of react and live life moment to moment in joy, appreciation and gratitude. I am sure I will need to keep up this practice and this Meditation and its accompanying longer version is the foundation I will return to over and over to ground myself in my body and this perspective . Thank you for the program and this meditation. It and the course can be found free of charge and in a variety of languages at www.palousemindfulness.com

One of my favorites 😍. It's been a great addition while taking the Palouse training and since I'm also a martial
artist. It helps to re-engage with my body at the end of the week. Thank you

The pacing is perfect. It gave me just the right amount of time to sense each place in the body. This is my favorite body scan meditation.

I mix things up, but this is always a great way to start the day. Thank you, Dave Potter!

MBSR was a lifesaver for me. Dave’s body scan is quieting and focusing.

Simple MBSR Body Scan. Thanks to Teacher Potter. 🙏

Always new! Thank you

I am usually too distractable to do body scans, especially “long” ones like this 20-minute session. But this guided meditation worked really well for me, because he was very specific in his suggestions on what body parts & sensations to focus on at each moment, and the pauses were relatively short before moving on to the next specific thing. I also liked the mental imagery of imagining my body was hollow and then attending to each place my breath “filled”. Thank you!

Wow, that felt amazing.

Brilliant! Restarting the mbsr by myself and this will be my go to body scan for sure thank you for sharing

Very relaxing 🙏 I use it before I go to sleep.

This is literally my favorite meditation to listen to. It’s my main “go to” meditation. It just instantly brings me home. Thank you 🙏🏼 💙