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Ever wonder why your body reacts the way it does? Your nervous system is speaking all day long!....most of us were never taught how to listen. This short clip explains what a Nervous System Mapping Assessment is and why it can be a powerful first step toward clarity, regulation, and real inner steadiness. If you’ve been craving a deeper understanding of YOU, start here. Nervous System Mapping Assessment | Somatic Stillness Haven

In this episode, I explore the origins of the over‑functioningwound—the childhood roots, the nervous‑system patterns, and the ways the body learns to carry what was never meant to be held alone. I share pieces of my own story as the child who held everything together, and the woman still unlearningthat weight. We soften into a gentle somatic practice to meet the shoulders, traps, and tender places that have been working overtime for far too long. . website: Nervous System Mapping, Sound Baths, Restorative Yoga & Nidra, Reiki | Somatic Stillness Haven.Facebook . email: [email protected]

In this episode, we explore the gentle yet powerful difference between traditional meditation and somatic meditation. You’ll learn why mind‑focused practices can feel challenging for stressed or activated nervous systems, and how somatic meditation offers a more body‑led, compassionate path inward. After a brief explanation, you’ll be guided through a 10‑minute somatic meditation designed to help you soften, listen, and reconnect with your natural rhythm. This practice invites presence, not perfection; and supports you in meeting our body with curiosity, warmth, and safety. Facebook . Email: [email protected] . Website: Nervous System Mapping, Sound Baths, Restorative Yoga & Nidra, Reiki | Somatic Stillness Haven

In this heartfelt episode, Vanessa shares the tender storybehind her sanctuary’s evolution—from the celestial flow of Moon Goddess Yoga to the grounded, nature-wrapped embrace of Somatic Stillness Haven. This transition reflects a deeper integration of her healing journey, her values, and her vision for client care rooted in nervous system wisdom and poetic clarity. WEBSITE:Nervous System Mapping, Sound Baths, Restorative Yoga & Nidra, Reiki | Somatic Stillness HavenEMAIL: [email protected] FACEBOOK: Facebook

For the full Open-Heart restorative yoga pose, check the newsletter and let February be a month of quiet renewal. Click the below link for February newsletter: Flow into February: Connection and Rest | Moon Goddess Yoga ⁠ This month’s theme invites you to soften the chest, soothe the nervous system, and reclaim connection from the calendar’s demands. In just fifteen minutes, you’ll explore how rest creates space for meaningful relationships, experience a guided two-minute breathing ritual, and receive reflection prompts to deepen your practice. Whether you’re navigating Valentine’s pressures or simply seeking warmth, this episode offers gentle tools to choose presence over performance.

In this gentle guided meditation, you'll be invited to settle into Easy Pose and reconnect with your breath, body, and the earth beneath you. Through mindful awareness and vivid root visualization, you'll cultivate a deep sense of grounding, calm, and inner strength. Perfect for beginning your day, resetting your energy, or returning to center. Come home to yourself—rooted, supported, and radiant.

In this meditation, you will practice cultivating gratitude for yourself, others and the world around you. Gratitude help us appreciate the gifts and blessings in our lives, and to also feel more connected and compassionate.

This meditation is designed to help you clear any negative or stagnant energy that may be blocking your natural flow of vitality. You will use your breath and visualization to draw in pure, positive energy from the universe and release unwanted energy from the body. You will also focused on each of your seven chakra centers, which are the energy hubs that regulate different aspects of not only your physical but also spiritual and emotional health.

Through this short meditation, you rest in openness, feeling your breath becoming part of your body as you create true awareness receiving whatever arises.  The internal repetition of the mantra " I am here, I love you" (while you say your name) allows you to mindfully observe sensations in your body and connect to them. Cultivating an intention of self-love and openness, while creating a mental state that recognizes whatever is present.  As you move on with your day, keep with you this state of self-awareness!

A short breathing and guided visualization meditation with the use of Citrine stone for the Solar Plexus Chakra

A short guided meditation that utilizes breath-base and visualization technique that can shift your mind from worry, stress and tension into a more grounded and centered space.

Welcome episode 6 of Awaken your Spirit, A free Violet Flame Meditation! The Violet Flame can transmute and uplift your energy field to resonate with unity consciousness. This flame, can assist with making the transition from fear-based energies and beliefs that obscure your light to elevate a connection to the divine!. The Violet Flame is infinite love, tenderness and forgiveness. It infuses every cell of our bodies, mind, memories, emotions and subconscious. “I am a being of violet fire I am the purity that God desires”

Our energy fields are not only a reflection of our physical and spiritual health, they are also a reflection of our thought process. This is a simple guided meditation to protect your energy field and call in for energetic support.

Give some kindness to your body today with this Yoga Nidra guided meditation.

Simple body scan meditation with visualization