Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts

Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts


Latest Episodes

What is Skillful, Empowering Acceptance?
September 26, 2025

Acceptance is a mind/heart quality that is so easily misunderstood... What is the difference between a reactive (i.e. fight/flight/freeze) misunderstanding this quality and an empowering opening to li

Sitting Meditation- Exploring an Orientation of Acceptance
September 26, 2025

We use the Arriving Sequence (Arriving, Being Available, Aligning) to ground ourselves in order to open to an exploration-- what does it mean somatically, emotionally with curiosity to be accepting in

Mindfulness of Elements
September 18, 2025

Contemplating our "elemental" nature is a powerful way of breaking apart a sense of a separate self and understanding how fundamentally we are part of a flow of all things.

Sitting Meditation- Arriving Here Now
September 18, 2025

This meditation again explores the "Arriving Sequence" from Phillip Moffit and Dharma Ground. These 3 steps of 1) arriving, 2) being available and 3) aligning with our values and what inspires us is s

Sitting Meditation- Recognizing Gift Moments
July 30, 2025

In this version of a loving-kindness practice, we pay particular attention to how we meet our moments of distraction.

When We Wake Up “Empty and Frightened”
July 22, 2025

Night time worries, sleeplessness and morning "dread" are all prevalent as we deal anxiety in our changing world. In this sharing, we will explore a neuroscience based understanding of why this is so

Sitting Meditation- Compassionate Resonating with Breath
July 22, 2025

One useful way to settle into a practice is to use the breath to attune or "resonate" compassionately with whatever is present in the body/mind/heart.

Flowing With Change
July 14, 2025

This sharing invites a grounded reflection on the 2 basic fears of impermanence: that we cant hold on to what we want and that what we dont want will last forever. - Through a meditative inquiry,

Sitting Meditation- Changes on a Mountain
July 14, 2025

A mountain meditation is a beautiful opportunity to explore a sense of a calm abiding mountain strength unmoved by the the endless natural changes of passing seasons, years and eons of time. It helps

Learning to Swim
July 07, 2025

Wise understanding of the true nature of impermanence is akin to learning to swim in the ocean's ever changing waves. - - - *Please note: technical difficulties throughout this podcast. We are wor