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.
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Whether you are arriving excited, curious, or arriving simply because you need somewhere to land — the practice is always the same. Set your intention. Find the breath. Notice the wave. Return to the ocean of awareness. And begin again.
That's the beauty of it. You can always begin again.
You are not only the wave of thought, feeling, or emotion. You are also the oceanic awareness that can hold it. Nothing needs to be pushed away. Nothing is outside of life. The practice is to remember: the wave belongs, and the ocean remains.
Rather than identifying with each wave of thought or feeling, you are invited to rest as the spacious awareness that holds it all.
The session closes with a gentle return to intention, a loving-kindness blessing for all beings, and an encouragement to carry this quality of kind, present attention into the rest of your day.
Perfect for a morning sit, a midday reset, or any moment when the waves feel like too much.
Spiritual life begins where we are most ordinary: breathing, sensing, and resting in the embrace of Earth.
"We are not human doing. We are humankind. Kindness is in our name."
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