KYN Meditations & Mindful Rituals

In this short breathwork practice, we show you how to use 2 breath techniques for pain relief. Shifting the attention to the breath and away from the pain sensation can help reduce the felt pain experience.

This is a guided breath-work and meditation practice for relieving tension in the body. Whether feeling anxious and stressed, tired and stiff or just in need of a "time out", this is for you. Take 10 minutes to sit comfortably and melt away your tension now.

A short breath-work practice to reduce stress and anxiety in the body and mind. By breathing long, deep, slow breaths we can begin to regulate the nervous system.  This breath tells the body we are safe. We use a three-part breath in this practice to help focus our attention, feeling the breath as it comes in and goes out. With just 5 minutes of conscious breathing, we can relax the entire body.  The more you practice, the easier it will become to make deep breathing a habit in everyday life.

This Meditation cultivates serenity in body and mind, especially when practiced regularly, over time.  It is a loving-kindness meditation designed to open the heart space both physically and emotionally.  We can use this meditation to transmute lower-frequency emotions like anger, envy, resentment, and jealousy to the highest frequency - LOVE.  If you are feeling anxious or moving through heartbreak or grief, this meditation will help to expand the heart space and help to release tension around the heart and lungs.  If you suffer from high blood pressure, this practice can help to bring you back into balance.

This is a guided deep relaxation practice. Yoga Nidra is often referred to as "the yoga of sleep" and can certainly help with deep sleep, but it is actually more of a daydream state. You are between wakefulness and sleep and the body can benefit from this deep resting state. Use this practice mid-day to reset or wind down towards the end of the day.

Every January we make plans and goals for a NEW better version of ourselves and the lives we are shaping.  There is so much pressure each new year to make big changes and by the end of the first month we can find ourselves exhausted, overwhelmed, with our hands in the air.  This intention setting ritual is a way to start again each day.  Every day we can begin again. Every moment of the day, we can choose differently, more wisely and in greater alignment with our true self.  Let go of the pressure to do it all each January 1st, and take life one step at a time.  Simply exhale, relax the shoulders, and let go of all the great expectations and rest in this knowing - every day can be a ‘Happy New Day’.

This guided meditation is a practice of accepting what is. Wherever you are in your life, at this moment, is exactly where you should be.   When you feel impatient, when you notice self judgement coming up because of unmet expectations, when you are fighting against the current of life, use this practice.  Choosing acceptance and trusting life takes courage and willpower.  It's a practice toward contentment.  Know you are all you need to be. There is nothing to run toward, nothing to run from.  Nothing to be but who you already are.

This guided meditation focuses on gratitude, as a way to reframe our vision of our life.  Daily practices in gratitude can cultivate a deeper sense of joy in everyday life.  First, we clear the body of tension, stuck emotions, or lingering thoughts, and then move in deeper to feel gratitude for all the various aspects of our life. From the mundane day-to-day privileges we may take for granted, to the deep and meaningful connections to people in our lives and out to the world, the universe that holds us. Toward the end, focus on what YOU are most grateful for.

Nature is within and around us all the time. In this guided meditation we will embody and connect to the 5 elements; Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space/Ether. As we align ourselves with these elements, we feel a sense of harmony and connectedness to the world around us, anchored in the present moment.  We connect the body to the earth, our internal water systems to the rivers, lakes and oceans, our heart's internal flame to fire.  Our breath moving through the body connects the outer world to our inner world.  Noticing the space all around us and beyond, out to the infinite depths of the universe, or into the space between thought, the space between sound.

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This is a guided meditation where we tense and soften the whole body from head to toe. By the end of the practice the entire body has settled into deep relaxation.

The pace at which many of us are moving is going so fast, we barely have a moment to breathe. Our minds are so busy trying to keep up with the fast paced modern world. In this practice, we will take 5 minutes to slow our breathing to a steady, long, and even pace and we will find silence and stillness between each breath. We will linger in the silent and still space, together.  Give yourself this time.  Repeat the practice a few times a week to help bring calm and balance to a busy mind, a busy life.

This guided meditation is all about cultivating unity and oneness with ourselves and the world around us. Using the 5 elements, earth, air, fire, water, and ether, we move through a deeply connecting practice.

On kyn.co, we wrote a 5 part series of articles delving into the story of our lives and how KYN came to be. In this episode, we dive even deeper into the second article discussing our childhood, our relationship with our mother, the beginnings of adulthood, and our wellness journey.  Stay tuned for more episodes in the Our Story series! Follow Lindsay and Laura on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kynsight/?hl=en Find a yoga, mindfulness or holistic nutrition class on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kynsight5389 Sign up for our monthly newsletter: https://www.kyn.co/newsletter Find out more about what we do and how we share: https://www.kyn.co Contact us at hello@kyn.co

This meditation cultivates Loving Kindness from within.   Mediating on loving kindness helps to still our thoughts, open our hearts, and heal our own wounds. We want to be loved. We want to be happy, healthy, safe, free and connected to the world around us. In this meditation, we will offer loving kindness to someone we love, to someone whom we have difficulty with (big or small), to ourselves, and finally out to the world. You may feel a great deal of emotion coming up with this meditation. If so, remember to be gentle with yourself, if you can, allow any emotions that come up to be there. You may not feel much at all, and that’s okay too! Every day is a new day, every meditation offers a new experience. Be open to the idea that simply through a sustainable meditation practice, we are shifting and growing, we are expanding our minds and hearts.

On kyn.co, we wrote a 5 part series of articles delving into the story of our lives and how KYN came to be. In this episode, we discussing growing up in the Turks and Caicos and Canada and the beginnings of our wellness journey. Stay tuned for more episodes in the Our Story series! Follow Lindsay and Laura on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kynsight/?hl=en Find a yoga, mindfulness or holistic nutrition class on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kynsight5389 Sign up for our monthly newsletter: https://www.kyn.co/newsletter Find out more about what we do and how we share: https://www.kyn.co Contact us at hello@kyn.co

In this guided meditation, we balance our sacral chakra, the second energy center in the body that governs our emotions, creativity, passion, and sexuality. We connect to the inner waterways of the body, ebbing and flowing like water.  When we are balanced in this center we feel more passion, creativity, fulfillment and are more open to the possibilities life brings.

In this guided meditation, we bring our awareness to the 1st chakra, The Root Chakra, located at the base of the spine. This chakra, our foundation, has an earth element and houses our basic needs for survival; our bodies, our health, security, stability, material, and monetary existence. As we connect to the pull of gravity downward, we can both shed stress and tension out of this energy center and also cultivate earth energy to feel more grounded and stable in our day to day.

This meditation is for moms. Lindsay guides you through connecting to a deep diaphragmatic breath to bring the nervous system back into balance.  Through a focused breath, we can take a 'timeout' from life and settle into the still waters of the present.  Take 5 minutes or 10, whatever you can spare, at a time when you can let the lists and To Do's go.  This practice is about giving yourself space to just breathe.  Whatever you are moving through, whatever your world is like, this meditation will help to ground the body and calm the mind and heart.

A meditation to keep you present for all of the small moments of joy happening around you.  Finding joy in small things, in happy memories.  Notice the feeling of joy as a lightness in your body and in the space around you.  Use this meditation to relieve heavy feelings or to help you find lightness and gratitude in your day.