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 10: Episode 3 - Door to the heart
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This meditation explores gratitude not merely as an emotion, but as an energetic field that surrounds and protects the heart—a living membrane that allows the heart's deeper essence to open and radiate outward.
Key teachings:
- Gratitude is a doorway. It is one of the final layers protecting the divine spark hidden within us—the pure, unconditional, golden light at the center of our being.
- The hidden light. Many traditions tell the story of a radiant light hidden inside humanity, placed there because "they will never look for it there." Gratitude helps us approach this hidden treasure.
- The sound "Ah." In Hebrew, "Ah" begins the word for love (Ahava). The exhale of Ah is the heart beginning to open—not through effort, but through trust and release.
- The breath as practice. Inhale with gratitude for life returning. Pause at the top of the breath. Exhale with the sound Ah. Each cycle gathers, holds, and spreads the heart's light.
- The 360-degree field. As we practice, the heart's energy expands in all directions—a field of protection made not from fear, but from love. We can send this light through our room, into the world, to all beings.
- In the giving, we are protected. The light is not ours to own—it is ours to circulate. What we spread is what we return to.
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