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Embodied Mindfulness Meditation for Somatic and Emotional healing.

Embodied Mindfulness Meditation for Somatic and Emotional healing.

Written by: Dina Kushnir
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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.

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Episodes
  • Module 9: Episode 3 - Focus and Awareness

    Module 9: Episode 3 - Focus and Awareness
    Dec 31 2025

    Focus and Awareness

    In this meditation I invite you to explore the two tools of mindfulness; Focus and Awareness- bare attention

    We practice mindfulness through the twin tools of focus and awareness or bare attention anchored in the breath and body sensation.

    The practice of focus is simple, to return, again and again, with gentle persistence to the object of observation. With the awareness, we recognize and notice all experiences as is. In this recognition, wisdom and compassion arise naturally, and life itself becomes the meditation.

    The journey begins with a single breath, a moment of presence, a gentle return to what is here now. Like that determined baby learning to walk, we fall and get back up, over and over, with lightness and dedication.

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    33 mins
  • Module 9: Episode 2 - Living and dying with each breath

    Module 9: Episode 2 - Living and dying with each breath
    Dec 24 2025

    Living and dying with each breath

    In this meditation I invite you to explore a profound truth about aging, death, and what it means to truly live.

    • Each breath is a complete cycle of life and death—learning to be present with the emptiness after the exhale teaches us to release our grip on life while paradoxically living more fully
    • Slowing down is not giving up—it's a deeper form of caring that allows us to be present with what matters most

    · The invitation is to stop running and start walking. Feel the pause between breaths. Let death be on your shoulder not as a threat, but as a friend reminding you that this moment—this very moment—is the only one guaranteed.

    · How will you choose to live this moment?

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    40 mins
  • Module 9: Episode 1 - Presence vs. present moment

    Module 9: Episode 1 - Presence vs. present moment
    Dec 17 2025

    Presence vs. Present Moment

    In this mindfulness of breath meditation, I invite to explore the direct experience of the Present Moment and explore the feeling of Presence as energetic all seeing feeling phnomena

    Present Moment vs. Presence

    · Present moment: Direct sensory experience (feeling breath, body sensations)

    · Presence: Spacious awareness that contains experience; consciousness itself

    · Presence is connected to the Hebrew word "Havaya" (presence), described as a name for God

    I use the Ocean-Wave Metaphor to give you a different reference of reality

    · Individuals are like waves believing they're separate entities

    · In reality, all waves are part of the ocean (consciousness)

    · Suffering comes from believing in separation

    · Each wave/person is unique but not truly separate

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    Visit Dina's website, oliveoasis.com, to learn more about her work and her sanctuary in upstate New York.

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    36 mins
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