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by Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light
Are you ready to regulate your nervous system, deepen your healing journey and feel better in your body? Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way. Using Havening techniques, Iffirmations and other powerful somatic tools and techniques, you’ll leverage the mind-body connection to reduce your stress, deepen your compassionate self awareness and release trapped emotions and old patterns. Join me for this beautiful journey out of your head and into your more embodied and authentic self.
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- 5 days ago37 min
Slow, Extended Body Scan Meditation (To Regulate Your Nervous System)
Our bodies are incredible. They hold so much wisdom and capacity for healing, and one of the simplest, yet most profound ways to support our nervous systems is through a body scan meditation. This episode is an extended, slower version of one of our most loved episodes, the Guided Body Scan Meditation to Regulate Your Nervous System. If you've done that practice before, this one moves at a gentler pace, with more space between each cue so you have more time to feel into each part of your body rather than moving through quickly. (And if you haven't tried that one, this is a wonderful place to begin.) When we gently bring our attention to the sensations in our bodies, we create a sense of safety and presence. This practice helps to downregulate the stress response and invites our vagus nerve, the cornerstone of nervous system regulation, to activate its calming, grounding effects. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, Karena guides you through a slow, extended body scan meditation that will regulate your nervous system, quiet your mind, and help you reconnect with yourself in a way that feels grounding, safe, and soothing. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or just wanting more time to settle into your body, this extended body scan meditation is for you. In this episode: An Invitation To Slow Down and Regulate Your Nervous System Guided Body Scan Meditation (Extended, Slower Pace) Soothing + Regulating Breathing Rotation of Consciousness Full Body Scan Related: More Deep Relaxation Meditations Related: Listen to the original Guided Body Scan Meditation Learn more about how body scans regulate our nervous systems! If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! Early bird pricing available now! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- 1 weeks ago9 min
Feeling Overstimulated? A Somatic Practice to Settle Your Nervous System
There's a reason so much of daily life can leave us feeling frayed and exhausted, even on days when nothing especially hard has happened. Our nervous systems weren't designed for the volume of stimulation we live with every day. We're living in a world that generates more sensory and emotional input in a day than our nervous systems were designed to handle in a year. It takes such a huge toll on us, and we end up overstimulated and dysregulated, like we have too many tabs open in our brains at the same time. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a short somatic practice that can help your nervous system settle and regulate in a tangible way. It's a simple and gentle breathing technique I call Body Scan Breathing, and it's my favorite practice to turn to when I want to ground, relax, and feel less overstimulated quickly. If you've been feeling wired, exhausted, and unable to relax, this episode will give you a real, felt way to help your nervous system come back down, even in the middle of a busy or overstimulating day. Perfect for nervous system regulation, grounding, stress relief, and finding calm when you're feeling overstimulated In this episode: Understanding an Overstimulated Nervous System Somatic Practice to Settle Your Nervous System Love this practice? Here’s a longer version! Read more about healing your overstimulated nervous system Related: More Somatic Practices to Regulate Your Nervous System If you want to learn even more about how to regulate your nervous system and connect with your body and emotions in a deep and supportive way, enroll now in The Feel It To Heal It Mini-Course! In 5 powerful mini-lessons, it will help you drop in, deepen your compassionate self-understanding, and find more clarity and healing on your journey. Enroll for free now! Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! Early bird pricing available now! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- 2 weeks ago37 min
Release Your Shoulds and Supposed Tos: A Meditation for Inner Freedom and Authenticity
Most of us have a running list of shoulds and supposed tos living within us... I should be more productive. I shouldn't feel this way. I'm supposed to have it more together by now. I'm not supposed to struggle, or be vulnerable, or imperfect, or human. The pressure of it is immense. And even when we recognize it, we often can't seem to stop, because these shoulds and supposed tos don't just live in our conscious thoughts. They live much deeper than that, woven into our nervous systems, our bodies, and our subconscious experience. Quietly shaping what we believe we deserve, how we feel about ourselves, and how much joy and authenticity we allow ourselves to experience. That's why these patterns are so hard to change even when we cognitively understand them. They don't live in our thoughts, so our thoughts alone can't reach them. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a healing meditation that will take you beneath the surface of the conscious mind to work with these exhausting patterns at their very roots. It's some of the most powerful self-healing work I know, and my hope is that you come away feeling genuinely lighter, freer, and more reconnected with your own authentic needs, feelings, and desires. Perfect for releasing shoulds and supposed tos and self-criticism, reconnecting with your authentic self, and finding real freedom from the pressures of who you think you're supposed to be. Episode timing: 00:00 - How We Learned to “Should On” Ourselves 05:21 - Healing Meditation to Release Your Shoulds and Supposed Tos 35:53 - Conclusion and Reflections Read more about the somatic approach to freeing yourself from shoulds Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Exercises Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! Early bird pricing available now! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- Jun 26, 202633 min
Guided Sleep Meditation for Self-Love | Drift Off Feeling Loved
Most of us know how much sleep matters for our overall well-being, but we don't always think about how much the state we fall asleep in affects us. The quality of our sleep cycles, our dreaming, and how we wake up feeling the next morning are all shaped by what our nervous system is carrying when we close our eyes. In this Guided Sleep Meditation for Self-Love, you'll be led through gentle somatic practices designed to help your nervous system settle, and your heart soften as you drift off to sleep. You'll be invited to connect with a warm, healing quality of love and to cultivate that as a real, felt experience in the body, so that you can close your eyes tonight feeling cared for, peaceful, and truly loved. This is a beautiful way to close your day and a meaningful way to deepen your relationship with yourself, one night at a time. Perfect for deep sleep, nervous system regulation, self-love, stress relief, and cultivating a deeper and more compassionate relationship with yourself. (And if you want to deepen your self-love in a tangible way when you're awake again, my Meditation for Secure Attachment with Yourself is a beautiful place to continue exploring how to build a relationship with yourself where feeling loved becomes something real and embodied in everyday life.) In this episode: Welcome to this Self-Love Sleep Meditation Self-Love Sleep Meditation Soothing and Regulating Breathing Cultivating A Feeling of Love Within Quiet Music for Sleep (with no talking at the very end) Read more about Why Bedtime Is the Perfect Time for Self-Love Related: Embodied Self-Love Series If you're looking to support deeper, more restful sleep, magnesium is one of the most well-researched nutrients for exactly that. Unfortunately, most supplements are just magnesium salts extracted from rocks that your body struggles to absorb. But Rainforest Activated Magnesium from Buoy is whole food-bound, so it comes with the cofactors and phytonutrients your body needs to actually absorb and activate it. I've been using it faithfully, and I definitely notice a difference in my sleep quality and my ability to relax and recover from stress. I've got a special discount for you at this link if you'd like to try it: https://www.justaddbuoy.com/BUOY147706 Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! Early bird pricing available now! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- Jun 19, 202620 min
Resourcing Your Nervous System | A Somatic Meditation to Feel Safe and Supported
Resourcing is a somatic practice where we intentionally connect with a felt sense of safety, support, calm, or joy in our bodies, in order to soothe ourselves and shift our nervous system state. And the more we practice it, the more our nervous system learns that safety is possible. Each time we offer our bodies this experience, the stress and threat responses in our brain and body are able to soften and quiet down, and over time, that capacity for regulation becomes something we can access more and more easily in our everyday lives. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a resourcing meditation paired with Havening, a psycho-sensory therapeutic approach that uses gentle touch to calm the nervous system and ease feelings of stress. Together, these two practices create a real sense of relaxation and support from the inside out. If you've been wanting a simple, body-centered way to feel more safe and supported, this episode will show you how to access that, using tools you already carry within you. Perfect for nervous system regulation, stress relief, resourcing your nervous system, and learning how to feel safer and more supported in your body Episode timing: How resourcing helps us heal Somatic Meditation To Resource Your Nervous System Self-Havening to settle and drop in Bringing to mind a resource Read more about how to resource your nervous system here Related: More Somatic Regulation Exercises 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! Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! Early bird pricing available now! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- Jun 12, 202631 min
How to Listen to Your Heart: A Guided Meditation for Inner Knowing
In a world of overthinking and endless choices, the intelligence of your heart can be your truest compass. For thousands of years and across hundreds of cultures, the heart has been understood as the seat of a deeper wisdom and a source of inner knowing that goes beyond what the thinking mind can access on its own. And now science has confirmed it: there are intelligent, brain-like cells in your heart that form their own neural network, sending far more information up to the brain than the brain sends down to it. When we learn to listen to the intelligence of our hearts, our mental noise begins to quiet, our decisions start to feel clearer, and we begin to feel more connected to who we actually are and what we actually value. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, you’ll be guided on an inward journey to help you drop beneath the noise of your thinking mind and connect with your heart's inner knowing. We'll use a heart coherence technique from the HeartMath Institute and a somatic process called Regenerating Images in Memory to help you really hear what your heart wants to say. Perfect for inner knowing, self-trust, heart coherence, listening to your heart, quieting the thinking mind, and anyone longing to feel more genuinely aligned with who they truly are. In this episode: What Happens When You Listen To Your Heart Guided Meditation to Listen To Your Heart: Heart Coherence Exercise Deeply Listening to Your Heart Related: More Embodied Self-Love Meditations Read More About The Deep Intelligence of Your Heart here Join me in Costa Rica in 2027 for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive week designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and come home to yourself in the most loving and profound way. Through somatic meditations on the beach, deeply healing workshops, and gentle nervous system practices, you'll begin to create a more loving and compassionate relationship with yourself. And woven throughout the week is the wild beauty of Costa Rica itself. Snorkeling in turquoise waters, visiting sea turtle nesting grounds, setting out on an ocean safari in search of dolphins and migrating whales. You'll remember what it feels like to be deeply held by nature. Early bird pricing is available now, and I would love for you to join me. Learn more at helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Enroll in the free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- Jun 5, 202619 min
Glimmers and Gratitude: A Meditation to Brighten Your Day
If you've ever noticed a sudden lift in your mood when sunlight hits a window just right, or felt something soften in your chest when a stranger smiles at you, that's a glimmer. And learning to notice these small moments is one of the simplest ways we can support our nervous systems and brighten our day. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. They're small, everyday moments of beauty or felt goodness (like sunlight coming through a window, the softness of a sweater, the color of something lovely on your wall) that gently cue our nervous systems toward safety and ease. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a short glimmers and gratitude meditation to help you orient toward the quiet beauty and comfort already surrounding you. When we practice noticing glimmers, not only do we shift our nervous system state, but we also naturally cultivate a sense of authentic gratitude. We start to realize that our lives, in their quiet ordinariness, are already full of things worth appreciating. Perfect for nervous system regulation, gratitude, brightening your mood, stress relief, and cultivating more presence and appreciation in everyday life. Bonus: I also made you a free Glimmers Bingo Card to help you start noticing the small moments of goodness in your everyday life. You can find it here! Episode timing: 00:00 - What Are Glimmers? 02:55 - Glimmers & Gratitude: A Meditation to Brighten Your Day 17:32 - Conclusion and Reflections Related: More Somatic Nervous System Regulation Meditations Read more about glimmers and get your Glimmers Bingo Card here Join me in Costa Rica in 2027 for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive week designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and come home to yourself in the most loving and profound way. Through somatic meditations on the beach, deeply healing workshops, and gentle nervous system practices, you'll begin to create a more loving and compassionate relationship with yourself. And woven throughout the week is the wild beauty of Costa Rica itself. Snorkeling in turquoise waters, visiting sea turtle nesting grounds, setting out on an ocean safari in search of dolphins and migrating whales. You'll remember what it feels like to be deeply held by nature. Early bird pricing is available now, and I would love for you to join me. Learn more at helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
- May 29, 202633 min
Release Emotional Stress | A Somatic Meditation to Soften and Heal
Emotional stress has a way of building up quietly … until it's not so quiet anymore. We may feel it as overwhelm, as thoughts that won't quiet down, as a bone-deep exhaustion, or as irritability and reactivity that seem to come out of nowhere. Most of us are carrying more emotional stress than we realize, and we come by it honestly. We've been conditioned our whole lives to push our emotions aside rather than actually feel them, and over time, that unprocessed emotion accumulates in the body as stress and tension. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a somatic meditation to release emotional stress by actually meeting and processing what you've been carrying emotionally. We'll work on two levels of healing: first, we'll support your nervous system to soften and regulate, and then we’ll drop in more deeply to feel and process your emotions. This is the kind of practice that helps emotions actually move through and release, so we can feel lighter, clearer, and more like ourselves again. Perfect for emotional stress relief, nervous system regulation, emotional release, somatic healing, and processing emotions in a gentle, body-centered way. In this episode: How to Release Emotional Stress: A Somatic Approach Somatic Meditation to Release Emotional Stress: Self-Havening for nervous system regulation Regenerating Images in Memory for deeper release Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Meditations Read more about the somatic way to release emotional stress 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 Join me in Costa Rica in 2027 for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive week designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and come home to yourself in the most loving and profound way. Through somatic meditations on the beach, deeply healing workshops, and gentle nervous system practices, you'll begin to create a more loving and compassionate relationship with yourself. And woven throughout the week is the wild beauty of Costa Rica itself. Snorkeling in turquoise waters, visiting sea turtle nesting grounds, setting out on an ocean safari in search of dolphins and migrating whales. You'll remember what it feels like to be deeply held by nature. Early bird pricing is available now, and I would love for you to join me. Learn more at helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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 Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats 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.
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Are you ready to regulate your nervous system, deepen your healing journey and feel better in your body? Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way. Using Havening techniques, Iffirmations and other powerful somatic tools and techniques, you’ll leverage the mind-body connection to reduce your stress, deepen your compassionate self awareness and release trapped emotions and old patterns. Join me for this beautiful journey out of your head and into your more embodied and authentic self.
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