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 8: Episode 3 - Peace #3
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Peace #3: The Sacred word SHALOM
The sacred teaching of the word “Shalom” peace in ancient Hebrew
This meditation reveals the profound teaching hidden within the Hebrew word "shalom"—peace as four sacred forces: silence, learning, grounding, and water consciousness. Our bodies are essentially sacred vessels of primordial water (97% water molecules) that hold memory and consciousness from the beginning of creation.
Key Practice: By imagining ourselves as the deep ocean floor—where endless life processes occur in profound silence—we access a state of peace that is both dynamic and still. This isn't passive peace, but the vibrant silence found in the depths where life thrives beyond the surface disturbances.
The Teaching: True peace begins with silence (the "shh" of shalom) and involves grounding divine wisdom into the water consciousness of our being. We can learn to sense the vast, supportive silence that is always present within us, regardless of surface turbulence.
We are always held in the luminous waters of being—supported by the eternal teacher within.
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