Somatic Healing Meditations

When the world feels jarring or scary or out of control, the weight of it is carried by our nervous systems, hearts, and bodies. I think a lot of us are feeling that right now. The constant stream of hard things, the ongoing uncertainty, and the sense of having to stay alert all the time can make it hard to feel settled or safe, even when we’re doing our best to take care of ourselves.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle, body-centered meditation for inner safety and support, inviting you to slow down, turn inward, and listen to what’s actually happening in your nervous system and body … so you can respond to yourself with care rather than pushing through.

This practice is a way of staying with yourself when things are truly hard. Of coming back into your body when everything feels overwhelming. Of noticing where you’re holding, where you’re tired, where something inside you is asking to be met, and choosing not to turn away from those places.

When we listen inward like this, we begin to create real inner safety. We begin building a relationship with ourselves that can hold us through difficult times.

You deserve real support, especially when life feels unsteady. This meditation is a way of offering yourself that support from the inside out.

This episode is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

In this episode:

Why So Many of Us Are Exhausted Right Now

Meditation for Inner Safety and Support

Related: More Self-Compassion Exercises

Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast!

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported.

Learn more and enroll now!

Connect with Karena:

@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube

Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions

Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

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There’s something deeply relieving about having a five-minute practice that can actually help your nervous system calm down. This short episode was created for those moments when your system feels a little keyed up, a little stressed, or just in need of a grounding pause.

In this gentle somatic practice, you’ll be guided through soothing touch, slow, settling breathing, and simple somatic awareness. These are all very direct ways of giving your nervous system signals of safety and support, so it can begin to soften and come out of high alert.

If you’ve been wanting something that’s truly small, truly doable, and still genuinely supportive, this five-minute practice is a beautiful place to begin. Press play and let your nervous system slow down and settle.

Related: More Short Somatic Practices for Nervous System Regulation

Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them

Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org

Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast!

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported.

Learn more and enroll now!

Connect with Karena:

@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube

Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions

Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub

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So many of us have tried to “fix” our inner dialogue by replacing thoughts or forcing ourselves to be more positive.

But when the inner voice is critical or relentless, it’s usually because something inside is hurting or under strain. The words are just the part we hear … but the tone and feeling state come from much deeper places within.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a gentle somatic meditation that helps you turn toward the feelings underneath your inner dialogue. You’ll be invited to bring compassionate awareness to the sensations and emotions in your body, and to begin meeting the parts within that need support and understanding.

When these deeper feelings are seen and cared for, the inner world often begins to soften on its own. Your inner voice changes when your inner world is cared for.

If you’re ready for your inner dialogue to feel a little less harsh and a little more supportive, come listen now.

In this episode

Befriend your inner voice instead of fighting it

Somatic Meditation to Soften Your Inner Dialogue

Read more about the somatic approach to quieting your inner voice
Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations

Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm?

You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life.

Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast!

Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world.

There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey.

Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported.

Learn more and enroll now!

Connect with Karena:

@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube

Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions

Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub

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What if the reason your healing feels stuck isn’t that you’re doing it wrong… but that your system doesn’t yet feel safe enough to really feel?

So many of us don’t just have emotions, we have feelings about our feelings. We might be afraid of our shame, ashamed of our fear, or judge ourselves as weak for feeling anxious or angry. Over time, this ties our inner world in knots and creates tension, self-judgment, and a quiet fear of our own emotions.

Instead of our emotions moving through us and releasing, they get held at a distance. We don’t feel them deeply enough to truly heal.

In this somatic meditation, you’ll gently cultivate cues of safety in your body and practice meeting your feelings in a grounded, supported way, so your system can learn emotional safety and emotions can finally move, complete, and resolve.

Press play now and begin meeting your feelings with more safety and support.

In this episode:

Why emotional safety is the foundation of healing

Somatic Meditation to Create Emotional Safety in Your Body

Read more about the somatic approach to emotional safety
Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations

Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them

Havening Techniques is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org

Last chance to enroll!

Enrollment is closing for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing.

If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift.

Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness.

If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to join me:

https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265

Connect with Karena:

@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube

Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions

Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program

Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub

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It’s a really common (albeit frustrating!) thing to find yourself stuck in the same old patterns, even when you’re deeply aware of them and genuinely want to respond differently.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we explore why these patterns exist in the first place and why they’re not signs that something is wrong with you.

From a somatic healing perspective, many of our most stubborn old patterns formed as self-protective responses long ago and are held in the body and subconscious, which is why insight alone doesn’t always lead to change.

This compassionate, body-based meditation is designed to help you slow down and meet a part of you that’s been carrying an old pattern. You’ll be guided to connect with the deeper roots of this pattern that have been held beneath the surface, creating the conditions for those responses to begin to loosen.

If you’ve been cycling through the same emotional reactions and wondering why they haven’t shifted yet, this practice offers a grounded, supportive way to start releasing old patterns from the inside out.

Set aside a few quiet minutes, get comfortable, and join me for this somatic meditation to understand and begin to release old patterns.

In this episode:

You Make Sense: Understanding the Roots of Your Old Patterns

Somatic Meditation to Understand & Release Old Patterns (using Regenerating Images in Memory)

Related: Try more somatic emotional processing meditations!
Read more about breaking your old patterns here

Last chance to enroll!

Enrollment is closing for Rooted + Resilient, my six-month small-group program for deep somatic healing.

If you’ve spent years trying to change your patterns through mindset work or therapy but still feel stuck in the same emotional loops, this is the space where things finally shift.

Rooted + Resilient is the best way to work with me because we go to the level that truly matters: the subconscious and somatic roots that shape everything you feel, fear, and believe. As those layers dissolve, you naturally begin to move through life with more confidence, ease, and inner steadiness.

If you’re longing for real change, the kind that your body can actually feel, I’d love for you to join me:

https://learn.helloinnerlight.com/GrQ1265

Connect with Karena:

@helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube

Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here

Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions

Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

ENROLLING NOW! Rooted + Resilient 6 month program

Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.