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 12: Episode 2 - The “I” that we don’t know
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What if you are not the one breathing? What if breath is breathing you—bringing the world in, and returning you to the world again and again? In this meditation you are invited to a special invitation to sit at the threshold – not in, not out – but in the doorway, and send the I out to the world and receive it back.
Here is the strange invitation of this practice:
Let the “I” come in with the inhalation.
Let the “I” go out with the exhalation.
Not I am breathing.
Not I am doing this.
Just: the I comes in.
The I goes out.
And we don’t even know what that I is.
Imagine it: when the out-breath leaves you, the I is out there—touching. It touches the air. It touches the suffering. It touches the clouds. It touches the trees. It touches other humans and other beings.
And others are breathing too. Their “I”s are touching you.
The I comes in gently.
The I goes out gently.
It touches gently.
And it returns gently.
Let this be today the doorway for your meditation.
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