Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Meditation
by Calgary Mindfulness
Welcome to the weekly podcast of Calgary Mindfulness. We can be reached by email at [email protected] or visit our website at www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Join us for a 15 minute meditation practice using the anchors of mindfulness meditation--body, breath, sound, sight, stress, pain, as well as loving-kindness, gratitude and visualization. Streamed live on Zoom from Calgary each Sunday. You are welcome to join our group live.
Episodes
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Mindfulness Meditation - cycling through our anchors.
Mindfulness Meditation - cycling through our anchors. Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we practice cycling through our many mindfulness anchors more freely, exploring breath, body, thoughts, emotions. To...
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Mindfulness of needing to fix ourselves and others in order to be content
Gratitude Mindfulness Meditation - Mindfulness of needing to fix ourselves and others in order to be content Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we review mindfulness of thoughts, specifically, sitting with...
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Gratitude Mindfulness Meditation - Happy Thanksgiving!
Gratitude Mindfulness Meditation - Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we continue to review some basics of breathing meditation, with a session presented in a way that might be more...
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Mindfulness Meditation: Body, Breath, and Thoughts/Emotions Anchors
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we continue to review some basics of breathing meditation, with a session presented in a way that might be more engaging for younger meditators. To watch this practice,...
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Breath Meditation Basics: Calgary Mindfulness Weekly Podcast
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation, and welcome to our second episode of season 9 with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we review some basics of breathing meditation. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at...
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Introduction to Mindfulness - Season 9 with Calgary Mindfulness
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation, and welcome to Season 9 with Calgary Mindfulness! www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Today we review some basics of mindfulness meditation. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/zlq2S0CmTwI If you...
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Final spring online meditation! Have a great summer. Join us in person at Calgary parks in summer 2026.
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This is our final practice online for the 2026 spring season. Please contact Calgary Mindfulness if you'd like to meet in person at a variety of Calgary parks over the summer. This week, we review interrupting the negative…
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Interrupting the Negative Spiral Process with Mindfulness Meditation
Interrupting the Negative Spiral Process with Mindfulness Meditation Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore interrupting the negative spiral process with mindfulness meditation. Our job is to pay attention to the negative thoughts that arise from…
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Creating an Inner Place of Refuge
Creating and Nourishing an Inner Place of Refuge Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore, with a guided visualization meditation, creating and nourishing an inner place of refuge from the storm of day-to-day living. To watch this practice, please...
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Attachments to happiness
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of mindfulness of thoughts, exploring our self-imposed blocks to happiness. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/FjLix0yAg7k If you enjoy this podcast,...
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What is a better thought? Rewiring our thinking habits with meditation
What is a better thought? Rewiring our thinking habits with meditation Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of toxic thinking. In our practice, we identify thoughts that may be harming our well being, and restate them in ways…
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Mindfulness of Toxic Thinking - Thoughts & Emotions 2
Mindfulness of Toxic Thinking - Thoughts & Emotions 2 Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue to explore mindfulness of our thoughts and emotions, in noting our particular thoughts that block our ability to receive love, abundance, wisdom, clarity...
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The Importance of Understanding Our Beliefs & Values - Mindfulness Meditation
The Importance of Understanding Our Beliefs & Values - Mindfulness Meditation Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore the beliefs and values that underpin our thoughts and emotions. All our perception is controlled by what we believe. Do we feel...
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Happy Mother's Day! Meditation for our mothers, mother figure and for the divine feminine
Happy Mother's Day! Meditation for our mothers, mother figure and for the divine feminine Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore gratitude and loving kindness for our mothers, mother figures, as well as amplifying important qualities of the divine...
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What is happiness? Temporary vs Long-Lasting Happiness
What is happiness? Temporary vs Long-Lasting Happiness Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of happiness, and explore the "things" we think we need to be happy vs. the qualities we want to experience while happy - these are...
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Letting Go: Feeling Appreciation Right Now
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we continue our exploration of releasing our blocks to happiness and appreciation in the moment. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/mj5jHREJ93k If you enjoy this podcast, we...
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Releasing our Self-Imposed Blocks to Happiness
Releasing Our Self-Imposed Blocks to Happiness Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore the ways we hold on to our grievances instead of allowing ourselves to enjoy ease and joy in our circumstances and relationships. To watch this practice, please...
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Easter Meditation - Celebrating our Connection with the Creator
Easter Meditation - Celebrating our Connection with the Creator Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we celebrate our connection with all other people, and our Creator, Source Energy, God. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at...
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Sharing Loving Kindness with Self & Others - Conflict Management & Stress Reduction
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we piggyback off of the daily ACIM meditation for today--the light has come--in order to share loving kindness with ourselves and others, in particular those situations, relationships and circumstances where we are...
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Stress Relief & Nurturing Ease and Resilience
Mindfulness Meditation for Relieving Stress and Self-Nurturing Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore mindfulness meditation techniques for stress management and supporting relaxation, ease and resilience. To watch this meditation, please visit...
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Mindfulness Meditation for Defusing Anxiety: Grounding Techniques for the Senses
Mindfulness Meditation for Defusing Anxiety: Grounding Techniques for the Senses Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore a grounding technique for the senses that can help defuse anxiety when we are feeling stressed out. To watch this practice,...
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Self Love: Giving Ourselves Loving Kindness
Self Love: Giving Ourselves Loving Kindness Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore being kinder to ourselves in a loving kindness meditation. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/m1x5vAXFY90 If you enjoy…
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Self-Sabotage: Mindfulness of Thoughts
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore how our thoughts of self-sabotage can be quite pervasive despite how detrimental they are to building our emotional resilience and spiritual open-heartedness. If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you to leave…
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Sitting with our Hidden Fears
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore facing our deepest worries, and sitting with the anxiety they bring to mind. To watch this practice, please visit our Youtube Channel at https://youtu.be/qBMDs1XZ90s If you enjoy this podcast, we invite you…
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Forgiveness of Self & Other: The Path to Resilience & Strength in Hard Times
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore forgiveness, with the knowledge that all condemnation of others is self-condemnation. We can disagree with others without dehumanizing them. We can work to forgive the transgressions of others, just as we…
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My Unloving Thoughts Are The Cause of My Suffering
My Unloving Thoughts Are The Cause of My Suffering Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore how our unloving thoughts are the cause of our suffering. We continue our exploration into how to improve our resilience in times of suffering. To watch this...
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Seeing beyond the surface: Compassion for others
Seeing Beyond the Surface: Compassion for Others Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore seeing beyond the surface in our interactions with others. We sit with visualizations for conflict management that allow us to see, hear and feel beyond the...
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Mindfuless of Perception & Goals
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore mindfulness of perception and goals. Each perception, thought, choice, word and action aligns us with love or fear/hate. Which are we choosing? To watch this video, visit https://youtu.be/BHPO8ojUKqs If you...
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Anger & The Development of Self Control
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore anger and the development of self control. We suffer when we react emotionally to everything that is said to us. When others' words & actions control our emotions, we allow them to control us; we surrender…
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Mindful Meditation for Inner Peace
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we are back to where we started in Sept 2025, how to foster inner peace in a turbulent time. Thich Nhat Hanh teaches that other human beings are not our real enemies; our true enemies are the internal forces of…
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New Year's Meditation: Approaching our Lives with Curiosity & Open Heartedness
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore letting go of defensiveness and needing to protect ourselves, and look at how we can approach the world around us with curiosity and wonder, which gives a greater understanding of our true agency. When we're…
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Authenticity: A New Year's Meditation for Setting Intention
Thanks for participating in our weekly Sunday 15 minute meditation. This week we explore setting intentions for the new year. Our topic is authenticity: having an inner and outer experience, mind/body/heart congruence, so that we don't feel like we're checked out of any part of our lives....
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Generosity to Others: A Christmas Hannakah Holiday Meditation
Greetings meditators, continuing our preparations for the Christmas, Hannukah and holiday season with meditations upon generosity. Last week we covered ways to be generous with ourselves, and today we explore a generosity practice for others. Generosity doesn't equal giving STUFF to others, but…
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Generosity: Mindfulness Meditation Preparations for the Christmas Holiday
Good day! In today's practice, we begin preparations for the Christmas holiday season, and our first theme is generosity. Not with stuff, but with our attention, focus, and presence, for ourselves and others. To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/0mWuwZOOyDQ For more information...
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Mindfulness & Depression - Part 3
Greetings! Today is part 3 of our work with mindfulness & depression. We have a guided practice that explores focus on sensations in the body and visualizations. To watch today's practice, please visit https://youtu.be/T0dL8n-Q4fw For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our...
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Mindfulness & Depression # 2
Welcome! Our second sit regarding depression. In today's practice, we continue our exploration of thoughts of fear, shame, anxiety, and work through a couple breathing practices to help bring these thoughts to light and to release their hold on our stream of consciousness. To watch this practice,...
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Mindful Approaches to Exploring Depression
Good morning and welcome to our weekly Sunday meditation. We began this season with mindfulness approaches to managing stress and anxiety in difficult times, and now after a couple weeks of honoring the Day of the Dead and Remembrance Day with loving kindness meditations, we are moving on to a…
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Remembrance Day Mindfulness Meditation
Good morning & welcome to our annual remembrance day meditation. Today we practice loving kindness for those that have passed on during the violence humans inflict upon one another in war. We also meditate upon our own peaceful thoughts, from the premise that peace comes from within, and that the...
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Identifying Toxic Mistrust - How to Keep it Cool in Stressful Times
Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence. We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that...
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All Soul's Day: Ancestor Meditation
Welcome to our Sunday morning meditation. Today we're taking a break from our current series on how to keep your cool in stressful times. Today we stop to celebrate our ancestors and loved ones who have passed on, in loving kindness meditation. To watch this podcast on video, please visit:...
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Mindfulness of Emotional Intensity in our Thoughts & Emotions
Greetings! In today's podcast, we continue our theme of nurture our inner strength when the external world seems very stressful. This topic is the gift that keeps on giving, since we have approached it from many different angles in the seven episodes of this season! Today, we explore mindfulness…
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Toxic Mistrust 2: How to Investigate and Nurture our Toxic Mistrust in Mindfulness Meditation
Welcome to our Sunday 15 minute mindfulness meditation, where we explore how to investigate and nuture our thoughts of toxic mistrust. We go further than last week, where we explored how to recognize and acknowledge it. Today we learn techniques for investigating and nurturing these…
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Embodied Presence #5: Toxic Mistrust - Mindfulness of Thoughts
Today, it's about mindfulness of toxic mistrust! Greetings and welcome to our FIFTH session of the autumn 2025 season, Today, we use mindfulness of thoughts as our primary anchor to continue to explore developing the embodied presence. We are tasked with noticing thoughts of toxic mistrust that...
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Embodied Presence #4: Mindfulness of Emotions
Greetings and welcome to our FOURTH session of the autumn 2025 season, where we are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. Alas it is now too cold to meet outside early in the morning! I will schedule...
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Embodied Presence #3- The Body Scan (Mindfulness Meditation)
Greetings and welcome to our third session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. To watch this video, please visit https://youtu.be/WmKt2nZqrWE…
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The Embodied Presence #2- Connection in Breath - Developing Inner Strength When There's Public Stress
Greetings and welcome to our second session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos. (We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in...
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Feeling Hijacked by Public Stress? Embodied Presence #1
Welcome back to our autumn session! I hope you had an excellent summer. Our next session of weekly Sunday 8am meditations is guided by many of the participant suggestions we received over the summer, and most have to do with: "how do I keep my equilibrium when the world seems to be going crazy?"...
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Final Class Before Summer Hiatus - Embodied Presence
Greetings, this is our final broadcast and podcast before the summer hiatus, where we will be meeting in person in the Calgary area in our usual meditation flashmobs! I hope you can join us. Please email me at [email protected] to register for our meetings (free of charge, but...
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Annual Summer Solstice Meditation: Heartful Presence, Heartful Living
This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch our practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a…
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Annual Summer Solstice Meditation: Heartful Presence, Heartful Living
This is our seventh annual Summer Solstice Meditation! To watch this practice, please visit https://youtu.be/8WcAM7HAs8Y. For folks like me in the northern hemisphere, where it is light by 4:30 and not dark until midnight here at the 51st line of latitude in Calgary, the summer solstice is a...
About this show
Welcome to the weekly podcast of Calgary Mindfulness. We can be reached by email at [email protected] or visit our website at www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca. Join us for a 15 minute meditation practice using the anchors of mindfulness meditation--body, breath, sound, sight, stress, pain, as well as loving-kindness, gratitude and visualization. Streamed live on Zoom from Calgary each Sunday. You are welcome to join our group live.
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