Embodied Mindfulness Meditation for Somatic and Emotional healing.
Podcast Intro – Heart Attending
Welcome.
This is a space to slow down, to arrive, and to listen — not only with the mind, but with the heart and the body.
I’m Dina A. Kushnir. My work offers a feminine, embodied approach to somatic meditation and spiritual awakening — one that begins not with effort or striving, but with tenderness, presence, and loving attention.
At the center of my guidance is a practice I call Heart Attending: an invitation to awaken the heart to awareness, to meet yourself with kindness, and to allow loving attention to become the ground of healing and awakening.
In a world that often pulls us out of ourselves — into speed, fragmentation, and self-judgment — this practice invites a return. A return to the body as an ally. A return to the breath as a home. A return to the quiet wisdom already living within you.
Through Heart Attending, the body, breath, sensations, emotions, feelings, and perceptions become doorways — not obstacles — to presence and peace. As we cultivate gentle awareness and compassion toward ourselves, somatic and emotional healing unfold naturally, forming the foundation for all spiritual growth.
The roots of my work are in Buddhist Vipassana meditation, with a deep emphasis on embodied awareness and the direct experience of body sensations. For over three decades, I have guided meditation groups, retreats, and classes, integrating this lineage with somatic, body–mind, and emotional healing modalities from both Eastern and Western traditions.
In this podcast, you are invited to rest, to feel, and to remember what it is like to be at home in yourself.
There is nothing you need to fix, achieve, or become.
Just bring your presence.
And let the heart attend.
Embodied Mindfulness Meditation for Somatic and Emotional healing.
Module 11: Episode 4 - The Spark of Connection
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Awakening the Intimate Lover Within - Body Scan
Mind into matter, awareness into life—turning on your light in the darkness
What if the “light” you keep searching for is not outside you—but a spark you can switch on in a single breath? This week’s body scan is an invitation to return to the most intimate relationship you will ever have: your own living presence. When the world feels upside down, we begin again—right here.
· This practice is energetic work: mind entering matter, awareness entering the body—“turning on the light.”
· The “spark” is the moment you return from thoughts into direct sensation; it can happen instantly—no distance, no time.
· The body scan moves through head, throat, shoulders, rib cage, arms, back, belly, pelvis, legs, and feet—sometimes using actual touch, sometimes “touching with the mind.”
· You learn intimacy with pleasant and unpleasant sensations without judging; the differences between left/right sides are natural, and noticing expectations is part of awakening.
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