Resonance of the Atlas (to get better sleep)
Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.
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Ruby's Yurt
In this visualization we envision the ribcage as a shelter for both rest and play.
This one goes out to Ruby.
Tree Within Tree
Ultimate Stress Release Guided Visualization @ 10 minutes
Make a forest diorama in yr chest and feel all the feels of trees.
You've Got Glands!
Work your head’s inner teardrop until it glows up your brain.
This one’s like a brain massage. But anywhere you got a gland you can do this. Don’t stop here. Google glands and keep going.
Marble Drop
Loosen up your joints while reducing anxiety.
Floating on a raft in a bay, we practice feeling safe and secure, and the act of letting go.
Settle the Spine
Calm stress and ease anxiety while nourishing your neck and back. This is a 12 minute guided visualization.
Find yourself in a quiet stream in the forest where everything aligns around and within.
Bright Heart Cleanse
Together we centrifuge the heart clean and clear with a shimmy-ing hula hoop of UV light. Wut.
Read MoreSeason 3 Starting Now
Keeping it real, keeping it surreal, and keeping it brief. Let’s do more with less with a season of extra shorty visualizations for the now. Wishing you good health, good luck, and composure for the continued intensity of 2020.
Recharge the Heart
This visualization goes out to the leaders working for positive change. Thank you for your efforts, your passion, and your sacrifices. We use metaphor as medicine to land in our bodies. We send ripples through the body with our breath, ignite the heart, and entrust the pelvis and the mind to support our nervous system so we can rest and recharge.
#boundaries
Feeling a bit drained these days? Working on your hashtag boundaries? We’ve got some six feet of separation self-care for ya. I talk super briefly about how fractal patterns of self:other are part of the body’s defenses from the perspective of Chinese Medicine and then we drop into a super soothing visualization that helps you disentangle your energy from others which ultimately benefits your immune system.
Read MoreA Room of Their Own
Tune in to my first visualization for teens wherein we do several somatic exercises with visualization to move energy in the ribcage and diaphragm, to land in our bodies with a sense of belonging and connection. Adults are welcome to do this too, of course. It’s really for anyone. Let me know how it goes for you! You can find me at Night Sky Acupuncture or on Instagram at Metaphor_Medicine.
Play that Song
There’s music coming from the ribcage when we use the superpowers of our imagination to turn the diaphragm into a DJ. Sound weird? Give it a try and let me know if you feel different after.
All the Jellyfish Feels
Today’s jam is about poetry and jellyfish and feeling them deep in your being to regulate your Central nervous System.
Read MoreThe Darkest Dark
If you are feeling the depths of dark winter or a dark soul, try this.
Dive into the deep yin of darkness to let go of static emotional states through some wild and colorful methods.
There's a little explanation first and then it shifts into the meditation.
Art Rx for all the Dark Feels:
Visionary artists who paint themselves and others flying and floating: Faith Ringgold and Marc Chagall
Check out the cosmic connectivity of Chani Nicholas
Jing-a-Ling!
Juice up your jing, which, in Chinese Medicine, is your deep essence goo, kinda like how oil is the deep essence goo of the Earth. People with BJE (Big Jing Energy) live long, love hard, and run strong.
Read MoreJust Me Being a Tree
No shade in pretending to be a tree.
Let's get basic and be trees together. We'll go through the seasons and feel all the shedding and growing and windfall and snow. Get ready to get leafy and stuff.
Need a Rx of art along with your visualization? Check out:
Stunning Aerial View Photography
Artist Nils-Udo
Artist Agnes Denes
This Here Joint
Let's get wacky all up in this joint. Got a sore knee, elbow, wrist, kip, ankle, shoulder? Let's start at the source of your pain and see if we can use your imagination to shift the way you are holding tension there.
Hey btw, FIRST-- if you don't have an image come to mind when you hear me say: atom shape -- google 'atom' first, so you can see it and have it readily accessible in your mind. :-)
Your Art (and Wildlife) Rx:
Artist Hilda af Kimt
The poem What's Broken by Dorianne Laux
Let's Get Real about the Diaphragm
Really, it would be more accurate to call this “Let’s Get Surreal About the Diaphragm!
For real, when your diaphragm is in a pinch you can feel all kinds of crummy symptoms: anxiety, shortness of breath, heartburn, ribside pain, poor circulation, headaches, and more, but I'll stop there. Sheesh. Let's ambush the diaphragm with lots of imagery to help you release tension from this beast of a muscle.
(P.S. the diaphragm is particularly influenced by creative expression, that's why we are going this route. P.P.S. Never worry if you are visualizing something different or at another angle from what I'm trying to describe. Just let your imagination do its thing.)
Art Rx for curious people who want to look stuff up:
Images of treetops and a phenomenon called crown shyness
Listen to Chavela Vargas, one of the most expressive singers ever
Artist Hiba Schabaz imagines the self immersed in natural
Parachute
This one goes out to your inner child.
We're going old school, all the way back to pre-school for this one, mixing memory into our senses and embracing wonder while we bloom bloom bloom the diaphragm.
Curious for more? This episode's Art Rx is full of delights:
Agnes Pelton (1881-1961)- abstract artist with spiritual vibes
Eiko and Koma's Delicious Movement Manifesto - guidelines for living 4 sure
Using Memory and Sound to Regrow - creative uses of sensory memory on NPR and in the coral reef