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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what they’ve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern🎶
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
✨ 5-Minute Restorative Meditation: Quality Over Quantity
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This short, restorative meditation guides listeners through a heart-centered practice designed to help them center themselves and shift their energy in under five minutes.
• Quality over quantity: even brief moments of focused breathing can be transformative
• Simple body relaxation techniques including softening shoulders, jaw, and forehead
• Heart-centered visualization with a warm, steady light that expands with each breath
• Gentle physical movements to transition back to daily activities
• Reminder that restoration doesn't require lengthy practice, just presence
Carry this sense of calm and restoration with you throughout the rest of your day. Namaste, my friends.
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🌟✨📚 **Buy 'The Places Where There Are Spaces: Cultivating A Life of Creative Possibilities'** 📚✨🌟
Dive into a world where spontaneity leads to creativity and discover personal essays that inspire with journal space to reflect. Click the link below to grab your copy today and embark on a journey of self-discovery and unexpected joys! 🌈👇
🔗 Purchase Your Copy Here: https://a.co/d/2UlsmYC
🌟 **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
🔗 Visit Wide Open Stages https://www.wideopenstages.com
📸 **Follow Lisa on Instagram:** @wideopenstages https://www.instagram.com/wideopenstages/
💖 **SUPPORT THE SHOW:** [Buy Me a Coffee] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME
🎵 **STOPTIME Theme Music by Philip David Stern**
🔗 [Listen on Spotify]
https://open.spotify.com/artist/57A87Um5vok0uEtM8vWpKM?si=JOx7r1iVSbqAHezG4PjiPg
Hey there. Today's meditation is short and restorative and will help you come back to yourself and center. Even a few moments of focused breathing can shift your energy. This is about quality, not quantity. We don't need a long practice to feel its benefits, to feel restored. All that's required is presence. So, when you're ready, take a moment to sit comfortably, or lie down if you prefer, and close your eyes. Just settle in for a moment, letting go of any expectations and bringing yourself to the present, simply listening to my voice.
Speaker 1:I won't keep you here too long. You can trust that you're going to feel better if you just let go gently inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth once again, a slow breath in holding gently at the top and release. With Each breath, imagine your body softening. Feel your body relaxing, your shoulders dropping, your jaw unclenching and your forehead smooth. Now bring awareness to your heart and picture a soft, steady light there, warm and calm. Put your hand on your heart if it feels right, and again, with that soft, steady light there, warm and calm. With every inhale that light expands and with each exhale it restores balance and ease throughout your body.
Speaker 1:Stay here for a few breaths, simply resting, simply being, and, when you're ready, take one more deep breath in, hold it at the top and then a long gentle exhale out, roll your shoulders back, roll your head clockwise and then counterclockwise, Open your mouth nice and wide, move your jaw back and forth, take another deep breath in and, as you exhale, open your eyes, feel the sense of calm and restoration and carry this with you throughout the rest of your day. Namaste, my friends, this has been less than five minutes. Be well, namaste.
