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.
Episodes
71 episodes
Module 12: Episode 8 - Awareness of thoughts, reactions and emotions
This meditation explores the nature of thought and its impact on our inner world. Thoughts themselves are not solid—they are like vapor—but when believed, they become emotions, sensations, and behaviors. By developing the skill of witnessing, w...
Module 12: Episode 7 - Awareness and Appreciation
This meditation invites us into the practice of awareness and appreciation.We return to the simplest and most essential truth: we are alive. And with each breath—the gift of the trees—the world is beaming with life.Through the med...
Module 12: Episode 6 - Simplicity
This meditation invites you to simplicity;"Stay low to the ground. Stay close to the earth. Don't go away from your heart. It's the simple things that tell the reason we are here. It's the simple things that make us whole."<...
Module 12: Episode 5 - The holy trinity
When everything feels as if it is crumbling, what can we lean on? What can hold us?In this meditation you are invited to embody three aspects of life that can become your refuge in uncertain time: the earth—our ground, always th...
Module 12: Episode 4 - The Healing Power of Imagination
We cannot imagine anything that does not exist.What if imagination isn’t “making things up,” but remembering a reality that already exists—just beyond what the eyes can see? In this practice, we bathe the body in living light, a...
Module 12: Episode 3 - Smiling at life’s simplicity
What if the doorway to happiness isn’t a big breakthrough—but the air touching your nostrils, the soft beat of your heart, or a stranger asking for help opening a bottle? Today’s meditation invites you to practice the holy art of no...
Module 12: Episode 2 - The “I” that we don’t know
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 –...
Module 12: Episode 1 - All My Relations - The Sacred Work of Connection
In this powerful teaching, we explore a truth that will change everything: connection is work.The Hebrew word for "to connect" literally means taking two ropes and binding them together—it's an action, an effort, not something tha...
Module 11: Episode 8 - Healing lungs through attention
Healing lungs through attentionWhat if healing begins not with effort, but with loving attention?In this meditation, we explore the lungs as a living temple of breath—touched from within by the priestess of life itself....
Module 11: Episode 7 - Earth Support
Earth SupportThis teaching begins with feeling the earth's support beneath you—not as concept but as lived reality—which shifts consciousness from the dream state of "I'm unsupported and alone" to the truth that the earth (the Div...
Module 11: Episode 6 - The Raft in the Storm - Earth, Breath, and Mothering Yourself
The Raft in the Storm - Earth, Breath, and Mothering YourselfWhen life feels stormy, you have a “raft” you can return to at any moment: the felt support of the earth beneath you and the breath moving through you. These two ...
Module 11: Episode 5 - The Wise Observer
The Wise ObserverLearning to watch the waves of thought—without drowning in the storyWhat if meditation isn’t about emptying the mind—but about discovering the one who can watch it? Today we practice becoming the W...
Module 11: Episode 4 - The Spark of Connection
Awakening the Intimate Lover Within - Body ScanMind into matter, awareness into life—turning on your light in the darknessWhat if the “light” you keep searching for is not outside you—but a spark you can switch on in ...
Module 11: Episode 3 - When the Battle Rages Within
When the Battle Rages WithinThis peace meditation offers a profound way to work with inner conflict by recognizing that battles within create casualties in the body—tension, pain, discomfort, agitation that call for our att...
Module 11: Episode 2 - Touch Consciousness and One-Pointed Meditation
Touch Consciousness and One-Pointed MeditationThis practice introduces touch-consciousness meditation focused at the tip of the nose—a traditional Buddhist one-pointedness training offered with the Divine Feminine approach ...
Module 11: Episode 1 - Pause and Gateway to Stillness
Pause and a gateway to stillnessThis reflection explores the sacred stillness found in the pause at the end of each exhale. That tiny moment of nothingness is not empty—it is alive, fertile, and full of possibility. By resting in ...
Module 11: Episode 5 - The Wise Observer
The Wise ObserverLearning to watch the waves of thought—without drowning in the storyWhat if meditation isn’t about emptying the mind—but about discovering the one who can watch it? Today we practice becoming the W...
Module 10: Episode 4 - The Hidden Light: Finding Refuge Within
This meditation invites us to discover the "hidden light"—the enlightened awareness that already exists within each of us. Drawing from Buddhist wisdom about the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha), the teaching guides practitioners to take r...
Module 10: Episode 3 - Door to the heart
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:
Module 10: Episode 2 - Inner peace in breath
Peace is not somewhere “out there.” It’s here in the simple, exquisite act of breathing.Inner peace arises in the simple act of mindful breathing. By noticing each inhale and exhale, sensing it in the body, and gently returning awareness...
Module 10: Episode 1 - Holding difficult emotions
This reflection offers a gentle meditation on meeting difficult emotions with loving awareness rather than resistance or fixing. guided from a place of personal and collective pain, it invites us to sit—especially when we are not well—and to di...
Module 9: Episode 5 - The Mirror Mind
The Mirror MindTake a breath. Let’s look into the quiet mirror of awareness together.Mindfulness is not a task or a state to achieve — it’s a way of seeing,a clear mirror through which life is quietly known.
Module 9: Episode 4 - Meet life moment by moment
Meet life moment by momentThis meditation invites us to explore how we meet life in each moment — through sensations of warmth or coolness, comfort or discomfort, desire or aversion. By noticing our natural tendencies to grasp, rejec...