Life Alchemy

Dear Friend,

This journey includes a series of quick (7-minutes or less) mindfulness meditations to support you in taking a moment of pause, however and wherever you may be. You’ll be guided to ground in this moment, awaken the senses, and come into deeper presence. There’s nothing to change, fix, or “get right” - instead, we practice meeting whatever’s here with loving awareness. All of you is welcome here, just as you are.

In just a few minutes, these practices can help you reset, settle the nervous system, anchor into the present moment, improve focus and mental clarity, and build the skill of meeting the full spectrum of experience with kind, curious awareness.

These are choice-based practices with different options for participation provided throughout. Please think of my guidance as suggestion, make any adaptations that serve you, and practice in whatever shape works best for your body. Remember that it’s natural for the mind to wander - noticing and gently returning is mindfulness itself.

May this journey support you in coming into greater presence and ease.

With Love,

Kelsea

Photo Credit: Kate Warren

Dear Friend,

If you’re feeling dysregulated, activated, overwhelmed, wired yet tired, or depleted - this yoga nidra journey to support the nervous system is for you. Yoga nidra (also called NSDR or non-sleep deep rest) is an easeful practice where you’re encouraged to suspend any effort and doing, and simply rest in being, just as you are. Regular practice can have profound effects on the nervous system - helping you cultivate a felt sense of safety, balance, restoration, resilience and - regulation.

Each audio experience within this series expands upon the previous one by immersing more fully into the practice of deep rest. For optimal benefits, I recommend nourishing your nervous system with the entire journey over the course of between a few days to one week (if possible). If that timing doesn’t work for you - know that a single yoga nidra practice can shift the nervous system from the sympathetic (fight/flight/freeze/fawn) state to the parasympathetic (rest/digest) state.

Please think of my guidance as suggestion, make any adaptations that serve you, and practice in whatever supported position feels best. If you drift off to sleep - that’s likely the exact restful medicine you need - know that you are still receiving all the benefits of the practice.

May this journey soothe and support you.

With Love,

Kelsea

Dear Friend,

This journey is an invitation to meet whatever is present - be it pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral - with kind, curious, loving awareness. Appropriate for both beginners and experienced meditators alike - you will be guided to start exactly where you are, to awaken your senses, and to meet physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions with care. The more we practice coming into loving awareness - the more we alchemize our relationship with our inner experience, ourselves, each other, and the world into one of freedom, balance, peace, and care.

This is a choice-based, go at your own pace series that provides lots of options for participation. You’ll be encouraged to practice: in whatever shape supports your body, with whatever meditation anchors work for you (we will explore many), within your window of tolerance (resourcing suggestions provided), and with whatever modifications would serve you. If mindfulness meditation has felt too difficult or inaccessible for you before - I’ve been there, too. This series was created for you. Mindfulness meditation is for everyone, wherever they are, however they’re feeling, whatever their background, whatever their abilities - in all their parts and wholeness. You belong here.

With Love & Encouragement,

Kelsea

Photo Credit: Kate Warren