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MINDFUL MONDAYS

by Irene Hodge

Start your week with me as we aim to mindfully navigate this life.

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Episodes

  1. Learn to Change Your Energy

    When we are feeling stuck, it’s important to remember that in the allowing we are also surrendering to the flow of this ephemeral life. Energy, Emotion, Thoughts, Life are in constant motion.

  2. Elevate Your Day with Play

    This week we explore bringing play into the everyday. Remember, playfulness is a gateway to mindfulness. By infusing play into our practice, we invite a sense of joy, wonder, and connection with the present moment. Embrace the gift of play, and let it nourish your mind, body, and spirit.

  3. The Art of Doing Nothing

    This week I lead you through a guided visualization of a practice in doing nothing but living.

  4. 33 Lessons: Reflections on Life and Wisdom Gained

    A reflection of 33 lessons learned over my 33 years with a reflection meditation after

  5. Honor Rest

    This week we explore a yoga nidra practice for resting the body and the mind.

  6. Mindfulness for Joy

    This week we explore not rushing through a moment of presence but really savoring the awe and wonder of what it is to be alive.

  7. Embracing Impermanence: What death can teach us about life

    This week we explore the idea of death and how that can help us to live more fully

  8. Finding Balance on the Equinox

    This week as we approach the spring equinox, we have the opportunity to reflect on the theme of balance and equilibrium. The equinox is a reminder that nature is constantly returning to balance. We, too, can use this time to find our sense of balance and harmony.

  9. Bringing Mindfulness to Spring

    In this weeks episode we explore bringing mindfulness off of our cushion and into our lives for spring cleaning

  10. Finding resiliency in the face of impermanence

    As we deepen our practice of meditation and mindfulness we expand our window of tolerance for both the joys and sorrows of life.

  11. Practice R.A.I.N. to avoid spiritual bypassing

    This week we explore the practice of R.A.I.N. so that we can be practice being with the entirety of our humanity

  12. Learning to slow down as things heat up

    For those of us in the northern hemisphere Summer is finally here and with it comes the rush of summer festivities. This weeks meditation is an invitation to slow down and find the beauty in presence

  13. What is in the way, is the way

    This week we practice bringing mindfulness to the big and little things that are taking up space and energy in your mind

  14. Opening to spacious awareness

    This week we explore three qualities of awareness and how this leads to embodied presence

  15. Planting the seeds of joy

    This week we explore how joy feels in the body

  16. Begin Again

    In this weeks episode we bring a beginners mind to our practice.

  17. Growing an awareness of the body

    In this weeks episode we slow down and stay present with the sensations of the body.

  18. Building a foundation in mindfulness

    This week we find a foundational practice with the breath

  19. The resolution of intention

    In this mediation we investigate why we do what we do by getting clear on intention.

  20. Rest, reset, reflect

    As we close out the year, this is an invitation to rest, reset and reflect

  21. Give yourself permission to…

    This week we hit pause in the middle of the holiday rush to check in and see what you need. Can you give yourself permission to sit with whatever arises?

  22. Mindfulness and the overthinker

    This week we bring some love and attention to our overthinker.

  23. A mindful relationship with self

    This week we practice kindness towards ourselves through the practice of loving-kindness and compassion

  24. One step at a time

    This week we meditate through the senses to take this experience on step and sensation at a time

  25. Do small things with great love

    This week we explore doing small things with great love, to bring more presence to life

  26. Mindfulness of season

    This week we bring a mindfulness to the change of seasons in both our external and internal worlds

  27. Within the stillness and silence

    This week we see what is both within and beyond the stillness and silence

  28. Keep it simple

    This week we return to the basics. Observing the body, the breath, and the mind.

  29. Bridging the gap through kind attention

    Anytime the mind is not in the present moment there is a divide of our attention. It is through observation and kind attention that we are able to come back to presence.

  30. Shifting from chronic doing to the wonder of being

    This week we step off the wheel of doing and melt into the wonder of being

  31. Mindfulness and Grief

    This week we explore how mindfulness can serve as an anchor in the sea of grief.

  32. Mindfulness of choice

    This week we explore the mindfulness of choice and how that can lead to a more present life and rich life

  33. Our relationship to time

    This week we explore our relationship to time. Time just is - it is our minds that create our relationship to it.

  34. Embracing the mystery

    This week we pause and find the mystery and magic of being right here.

  35. Mindful movement

    This week we bring mindfulness to our bodies and how we interact with the world

  36. The space between

    This week we settle into the space between the then and now, we settle into presence

  37. Mindful connection

    This week we practice bringing mindfulness to our relationships in this life

  38. Inherited stories

    This week we bring a mindfulness to the stories that sit behind our decisions.

  39. Bring play to your practice

    This week it’s all about play! What allows you to lose yourself to moment of fun?

  40. Mindfulness and technology

    This week we explore our relationship with technology and invite a mindful presence to how we use it in everyday life.

  41. Mindfulness in the murkiness

    This week we explore the difference between how it feels like to say yes and to say no to life

  42. Let life be just as it is

    This week we step into the flow of life and allow it to be just as it is

  43. Mindfully navigating change

    This week we explore mindfully navigating the changes of life.

  44. A beginner’s mind

    This week we explore a beginners mind and how this can help us lead a more mindful life

  45. The power of mindful reflection

    This week we explore how mindfulness can lead to a deeper more meaningful reflection.

  46. This ephemeral life

    This week we’re feeling into the flow of life.

  47. Find what works for you

    The journey of mindfulness is largely learning to listen to what you need moment to moment and this week is an opportunity to explore that.

  48. The power of RAIN

    RAIN stands for.. Recognize what is happening Allow the experience to be there, just as it is. Investigate with interest and care Nurture with self-compassion

  49. An invitation to soften

    This week we invite ourselves to soften into presence.

  50. Why are we so quick to turn on ourselves?

    This week we explore the question of why we are so quick to turn on ourselves. An observation of lies on the other side...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Start your week with me as we aim to mindfully navigate this life.

HOSTED BY

Irene Hodge

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Start your week with me as we aim to mindfully navigate this life.

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