Cultivating Heartful Compassion
In this 8-minute guided meditation, we explore cultivating heartful compassion, friendliness, and care through intentional offerings of safety, happiness, good health, and ease, both towards ourselves and to all living beings.
Bonnie Currie is the co-founder and owner of Lotus Yoga, a community-based yoga collaborative in Jacksonville. She has had extensive training in ashtanga and vinyasa yoga, adaptive and trauma-informed yoga, healthy back yoga, insight meditation, and mindfulness. Bonnie is a certified facilitator of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY-F) through the renowned Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts, and facilitates yoga and mindfulness to individuals in recovery through Yoga 4 Change and to individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injuries and their caregivers through the LoveYourBrain Foundation. Her work (as well as her own practice) has taught her firsthand about the extraordinary healing potential that lives inside the practices of yoga and mindfulness.
The power of Connection
When we feel like we don’t belong, we suffer.
After brain injury, it can feel like no one understands, which can lower self-esteem and lead to negative thought patterns.
Meditation helps.
Hear about the power of connection from Rachel Petri, LoveYourBrain’s Communication and Social Media Manager: