Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts

Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts


Latest Episodes

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 3: The Safety of a True Friend
April 16, 2024

Todays sharing on safety is an inquiry practice into the qualities that make a friendship a safe place and how these qualities are manifesting, or not, in our mindfulness practice. - Note: One qualit

Sitting Meditation- The Water of Our Being
April 16, 2024

Opening up to the shared physical nature of our being is an avenue for contemplative experience of safety, connection, and respect.

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 2 [4.3.24]
April 09, 2024

This time we look at a reliable sense of safety more through the lens of neuroscience/modern psychology as well as introduce the Buddhist practice of lovingkindness-- which was originally taught as an

Sitting Meditation- The Interwovenness of Compassion and Safety [4.3.24]
April 09, 2024

How do we learn to meet ourselves, just as we are, in a way that provides an internal sense of safety? Erich Fried, translated by: ANNA KALLIO - It is nonsense says reason It is what it is says lov

Cultivating a Reliable Sense of Safety, Part 1 [3.27.24]
April 08, 2024

We look again at the necessary nourishment of an internal sense of safety that is not dependent upon having things be the way we want them to be-- this time primarily from a spiritual standpoint, draw

Sitting Meditation- Leaning Into the Tree of Our Spine [3.27.24]
April 08, 2024

This meditation draws heavily from Amanda Blake of Embright Organization and the field of somatics. Much as we would know we can rely on the support of a strong mature tree, this mediation uses the im

Safety, Connection and Respect Inquiry Practice [3.14.24]
April 05, 2024

We come back again to safety, connection and respect this week-- this time with inquiry questions to consider these qualities for yourself. Consider a time in your life where you know something about

Sitting Meditation- Cultivating an Unshakable Sense of Safety, Connection, and Respect [3.14.24]
April 05, 2024

Again, drawing from the field of Somatics understanding that an inner sense of safety, connection and respect are foundational for our well-being, we use the body as a focus in cultivating these qual

Basic Nourishment of Safety, Connection and Respect
March 09, 2024

Just as sunlight, water and soil are basic nutrients for plant life well-being, safety, connection and respect are basic nutrients for our own human well-being. In this sharing we explore how we might

Sitting Meditation- Safety
March 09, 2024

This meditation considers how opening in the direction of safety, connection and respect is useful in our formal practice.