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 13: Episode 3 - Life as a Feast; finding the jewel in every moment
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This meditation session begins in standing. Just standing — breathing, releasing, arriving.
felling the ground beneath our feet. Always there. Always rising up to meet us.
Then we sit and we are invited to meet our life as a feast, to see it — all of it — the grief, the joy, the not-knowing, the hoping, spread before us like a feast on the table.
Because that's what it is. Your life. My life. All of it on the table.
The disturbance. The sadness. The love that arrives wearing grief's face. Each one — a jewel.
And what we recognize as beautiful in another? That's us. It was always us.
So this week — feel the ground. Let the emotions move. Sit at your feast. And remember:
A friend doesn't stand above you. A friend pulls up a chair and says — let's look at this together.
From zero to one hundred — all of it is life. All of it belongs.
Namaste.
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