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Skillful Means Podcast
Skillful Means Podcast offers practical wisdom for everyday life. Host Jennifer O'Sullivan explores navigating life's challenges through the lenses of Buddhist mindfulness, yoga, Internal Family Systems, and positive psychology. Each month, episodes feature grounded guidance and accessible prac...
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#115 Yin Yoga Micro-Practice for Tension Relief
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While Jen's taking a mini-break to get her homework done, she's bringing you the first of two short practices based on re...
#114 RAIN Guided Practice
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This is an encore practice with former co-host Sarah Jane Shangraw from back in November 2019.
Developed by Tara B...
#113 Awakening the Heart Part 4: Self-Compasion
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To wrap up the 4-part series on practices and teachings that nature open-heartedness, we're focusing on self-compassion. ...
#112: Mindfulness Meditation Guided Practice
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In order to be an open-hearted, compassionate person, we first have to notice the things things that need our support. Th...
#111 Awakening the Heart Part 3: Generosity of Spirit with Lauren Goldberg
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In Part 3 of the Awakening the Heart series, we're looking at why acts of kindness and service are powerful resilience-bu...
#110 Transform Suffering with Brief Tonglen Guided Practice
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Tonglen - the practice of sending and receiving - helps us to be with hardship without falling into despair. An explanat...
#109 Awakening the Heart Part 2: Training in Compassion
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Continuing our series on Awakening the Heart, this month we're exploring the Buddhist path of the bodhisattva through the...
#108 Awakening Heart Meditation
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In this variation of loving-kindness, or metta, meditation, tap into the energetic resonance of the heart to awaken lovin...
#107 Awakening the Heart Part 1: Accentuate the Positive
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While the world may feel increasingly more fraught, we can't sustain ourselves on anger and fear alone. We must remember...
#106 Strong Back, Soft Front Guided Meditation
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This month's practice features an embodied mediation to help you stay present with life's challenges without becoming ove...
#105 Embracing Difficult Emotions
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This month, we're looking at a question that comes up a lot:
All parts are supposed to be welcome, but how do we wo...
#104 Earth and Sky Guided Visualization Practice
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The Taoists believe that we can harness the stabilizing qualities of Earth Qi along with the generative qualities of Hea...
#103 I See You, I'm With You Guided IFS Practice
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There are definitely times when we need to get a hold of ourselves. But how do we do that without dismissing our feelings...
#102 Standing Your Ground + Leading with Spiritual Values
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Grounding practices are more than just coping mechanisms during tumultuous times. They're empowering strategies to discha...
#101 Working with Resistance Guided IFS Practice
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Instead of speculating endlessly about why you might be avoiding something, ask the part that's hesitating!
Based o...
#100 What's Stopping You? Buddhist and IFS Perspectives on Resistance
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Ever wonder why you feel resistant to doing something that you actually want to do?
This month we're unpacking the...
#99 Come Home to Yourself, Yin Yoga Guided Practice
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As a practice of being, Yin Yoga creates a unique container for exploring the restless impulses to fix while encouraging...
#98 Who says you should? Uncover what matters to you.
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Feeling the pressure to do all the things?
This episode explores the balancing act between living up to exp...
Preview Pod: Upaya (Skillful Means) As Life Practice
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This preview pod explores the concept of upaya (skillful means) and its relevance in today's polarized world + how this f...
Skillful Means Podcast is returning!
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This preview pod marks the return of the Skillful Means Podcast, where Jen introduces a new format focused on listener qu...
#97 Delighting In Joy Guided Practice
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Jen wraps up her partial series on the Brahma Viharas with Mudita, commonly translated as "sympathetic joy." With Mudita,...
#96 Portals of Mindfulness Guided Practice
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Have you ever caught yourself (or been caught by someone else) with your head buried in your smartphone while doing somet...
#95 Tonglen Guided Practice
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Continuing her mini-series on the Brahma Viharas, the Four Immeasurables, Jen shares the Tibetan practice of Tonglen. Thi...
#94 Drawing A Line Guided Practice
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It’s counterintuitive but essentially true: all phenomena itself is neutral, including people and events, and they have e...
#93 Loving-Kindness Guided Practice
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Some of the most treasured and widely-practiced Buddhist Teachings are the Brahma Viharas (The Four Immeasurables). They...
#92 Mundane Ecstacy Guided Practice
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The old Zen proverb that says “before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water”...
#91 Mindfulness of Four Elements of the Body Guided Practice
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In the last of our series on the less common practices of the First Foundation of Mindfulness (Mindfulness of the Body),...
#90 Yoga Beyond Asana
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Could you imagine a yoga class without postures? In fact, millions of dedicated yoga practitioners don't practice asana...
#89 Mindfulness of Skin, Flesh, & Bones Guided Practice
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In the First Foundation of Mindfulness, the Buddha shared several practices that were intended to help practitioners rele...
#88: A Conversation with Sarah Powers on Embodying Love & Compassion
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We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Powers, author and co-founder of the Insight Yoga Institute, onto the show to talk about...
#87 Mindfully Eating an Orange Guided Practice
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While we may train up mindfulness in formal settings, our true aim is to become present and aware all the time. So, at so...
#86 Embodying Kindness & Generosity
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In their continuing exploration of Annie's 12 Embodiments of Yoga, in this episode, Annie and Jen discuss the nuances of...
#85 Mindfulness of Standing Guided Practice
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Jen continues her series on Mindfulness of the Body variations with an exploration of standing, one of the four tradition...
#84 Embodying Wonder & Whimsy
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We're back from an unplanned hiatus with our continuing series on Annie's Twelve Embodiments of Yoga. This month, Jen and...
#83 Mindfulness of Body Posture Guided Practice
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Jen's back with a series new series of guided practices exploring different ways of working with the body to establish mi...
#82 Restoring Balance Guided Practice
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Unlike all other biological organisms who have built-in mechanisms to maintain homeostasis, human minds are at the mercy...
#81: Embodying Sacrifice & Spaciousness
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Continuing with our exploration of Annie's 12 Embodiments of yoga, Jen and Annie chat about sacrifice and spaciousness. W...
#80 Laser Focus & Bright Light Guided Practice
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In this guided practice, Annie shares inspiration from recent scientific breakthroughs in nuclear fusion.
Sh...
#79 Making Room for Other Guided Practice
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In this meditation, Annie guides you through a practice of making space for others, especially those who share different...
#78 Embodying Courage & Practice
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Continuing our exploration of embodied qualities of Yoga, Jen & Annie discuss the nuances of Courage and how it's a neces...