Body Scan: Listening to Body Signals: Moving Awareness Through the Body
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Body Scan
Mindfulness directed toward body sensations teaches us to interpret the language of our life force. By engaging in sensing, inner seeing, and visualization, we explore the body as a microcosmic landscape. This practice offers two transformative benefits:

Deepening Concentration and Focus: Focusing on body sensations sharpens our presence and concentration.

Promoting Healing: "Where the mind goes, energy flows." By directing attention to specific areas, we activate the body’s natural healing processes, releasing tension and fostering relaxation.

Emotions are stored in the body as “pockets” of tension or discomfort. This practice helps soften these areas through loving attention, allowing emotions and memories to surface for healing and release. Approach this journey with gentleness and compassion.

This Episode: Moving Awareness Through the Body
Key Focus: Developing gentle awareness of each body part.
Practice: learn the art of gentle movement of awareness from one body part to another from top of the head to the toes and back to top of the head.
Reflection Question: "What areas of your body felt most alive or in need of attention?"

Suggestions for Integration
Journaling: After each session, take a few minutes to write down your observations and reflections. Note any areas of tension, memories, or emotions that surfaced.
Daily Check-Ins: Throughout the day, take short pauses to tune into your body. Notice if any areas are calling for your attention.

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Module 4 Body Scan - Body Scan with Feelings, Vadana

with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Body Scan
Mindfulness directed toward body sensations teaches us to interpret the language of our life force. By engaging in sensing, inner seeing, and visualization, we explore the body as a microcosmic landscape. This practice offers two transformative benefits:

Deepening Concentration and Focus: Focusing on body sensations sharpens our presence and concentration.

Promoting Healing: "Where the mind goes, energy flows." By directing attention to specific areas, we activate the body’s natural healing processes, releasing tension and fostering relaxation.

Emotions are stored in the body as “pockets” of tension or discomfort. This practice helps soften these areas through loving attention, allowing emotions and memories to surface for healing and release. Approach this journey with gentleness and compassion.

This Episode: Body Scan with Feelings, Vadana

Feelings of natural, pleasant unpleasant feelings.

Touch each body part with awareness and be conscious if this part feels pleasant? Or Neutral, Or unpleasant.

Receiving the feeling with compassion and loving kindness to your body parts.

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Module 4 Body Scan - Stillness as Medicine for Our Time

with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Body Scan
Mindfulness directed toward body sensations teaches us to interpret the language of our life force. By engaging in sensing, inner seeing, and visualization, we explore the body as a microcosmic landscape. This practice offers two transformative benefits:

Deepening Concentration and Focus: Focusing on body sensations sharpens our presence and concentration.

Promoting Healing: "Where the mind goes, energy flows." By directing attention to specific areas, we activate the body’s natural healing processes, releasing tension and fostering relaxation.

Emotions are stored in the body as “pockets” of tension or discomfort. This practice helps soften these areas through loving attention, allowing emotions and memories to surface for healing and release. Approach this journey with gentleness and compassion.

This Episode: Stillness as Medicine for Our Time

Belly Breath with sounds of HAHAHAH as you exhale, empty and settle in the deep belly. Life rhythm, throbbing, pulsating, pausing, follow the body and allow movement to happen. Thoughts are quieting, silence is settling, stillness happens on its own.

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Body Scan: Washing the Body with Breath
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Body Scan
Mindfulness directed toward body sensations teaches us to interpret the language of our life force. By engaging in sensing, inner seeing, and visualization, we explore the body as a microcosmic landscape. This practice offers two transformative benefits:

Deepening Concentration and Focus: Focusing on body sensations sharpens our presence and concentration.

Promoting Healing: "Where the mind goes, energy flows." By directing attention to specific areas, we activate the body’s natural healing processes, releasing tension and fostering relaxation.

Emotions are stored in the body as “pockets” of tension or discomfort. This practice helps soften these areas through loving attention, allowing emotions and memories to surface for healing and release. Approach this journey with gentleness and compassion.

This Episode: Washing the Body with Breath
Key Focus: Combining breath and touch to deepen sensation awareness.
Practice: wash the body with breath. Gently stroke the face,
head, shoulders belly and feel the sensations. Begin with attention to the sensations on the top of the head and move downward through the whole body. notice tingling, pressure, warm, cold, movement, touch, weight, hard, soft.
Reflection Question: "What sensations stood out to you, and how did your body respond to this practice?"

Suggestions for Integration
Journaling: After each session, take a few minutes to write down your observations and reflections. Note any areas of tension, memories, or emotions that surfaced.
Daily Check-Ins: Throughout the day, take short pauses to tune into your body. Notice if any areas are calling for your attention.

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Module 3 Awareness: Arriving in the Present Moment: Begin Again with Heart Attention
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: Arriving in the Present Moment: Begin Again with Heart Attention
Key Focus: Starting anew in each moment.
Description: Presence is the heart’s recognition that all is welcome in the vessel of awareness. With each moment, practice arriving fully and begin again, holding yourself and others in loving awareness.
Takeaway: Rediscover the beauty of the present and the grace of unconditional acceptance.

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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: A Guest House: Welcoming Impermanence
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: A Guest House: Welcoming Impermanence
Key Focus: Observing the transient nature of thoughts, feelings, and sensations.
Description: View your mind and body as a guest house, welcoming each thought, sensation and emotion as temporary visitors. Remember that all experiences, including life itself, are impermanent.
Reflection: "How does acknowledging impermanence affect your experience of the present moment?"
Takeaway: Embrace the ebb and flow of life with openness and gratitude.

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Embodied Mindfulness of Awareness: Holding in Loving Attention During Crisis
with Dina Asher Kushnir

Introduction to Mindfulness of Awareness
Awareness serves as a gateway to awakening and healing, allowing the body and mind to align in the spaciousness of the present moment. Through these meditations, we cultivate an open heart that welcomes all experiences with grace and compassion.

This Episode: Holding in Loving Attention During Crisis
Key Focus: Loving presence without agenda.
Description: In moments of crisis, sit quietly and cultivate a space of loving attention for yourself or others. Strengthen the heart’s capacity to hold pain with compassion and tenderness.
Takeaway: The practice of simply “being” allows for healing to unfold naturally.

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