RAIN Meditation

Led by Kyla Pearce

RAIN, which stands for Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture, is a powerful practice for bringing kind awareness to when we're feeling stuck. The first two steps of RAIN, Recognize and Allow, are about awareness. The second two steps, Investigate and Nurture, deepen mindfulness and directly activate kindness. So, when you feel caught in a difficult emotion, you can call on RAIN to guide you in systematically offering kind attention directly to the emotional tangle, instead of turning away from it. Use this practice in daily life to help you pause and attend to the full range of feelings you're experiencing - pleasant, unpleasant, to neutral - with kindness and compassion, which can radically shift your response.

Kyla Pearce (she/her) serves as the Senior Director of Programs, overseeing the design, implementation, and evaluation of LoveYourBrain programs on a large scale. She has been part of the Pearce family for years, and, following Kevin's accident, played an integral role in the launch of LoveYourBrain. By turning inward through yoga, Kyla believes we learn to be with our whole selves with greater compassion, which is fundamental to wellbeing and inspiring positive social change. Kyla has blended her expertise as a yoga and mindfulness teacher and practitioner, researcher, and advocate to develop evidence-based, TBI-centered yoga curricula, which she trains yoga teachers and clinicians to deliver through yoga studios and health care facilities across the United States and Canada. She teaches the LoveYourBrain Yoga and Mindset programs and co-facilitates LoveYourBrain Retreats across the country. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dartmouth College investigating the impact of yoga and meditation for people with neurological conditions.