Greetings and welcome to our second session of the autumn 2025 season, where our next few practices are dedicated to listening to and developing our inner strength at a time when there seems to be so much more public stress and chaos.

(We are meeting in person while the weather remains warm in Calgary, thus allowing us to enjoy awesome Calgary parks, so if you're local and would like to sit in person, please email Calgary Mindfulness @ Gmail.com.)

Today I thought to continue to another anchor but in fact the breath is our foundation and is a very fruitful anchor. Today, we continue to explore developing the embodied presence, meaning we become conscious of our thoughts, feelings, sub-talk, sensations, so that we are paying attention to here and now instead of being spaced out ruminating over the past, or in a trace afraid of the future. The present moment is the only one over which we have control, where we can align with our goals and values thoughtfully, so that we don't feel hostage to the whims of circumstances out of our control.

Our practice today explores how the simple act of breathing can be a reminder for us to be grateful, to recognize connection, unity, and strength, to honour our connection with God/Creator/Source/, and to recognize the interconnectedness of life.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Welcome back to our autumn session! I hope you had an excellent summer.

Our next session of weekly Sunday 8am meditations is guided by many of the participant suggestions we received over the summer, and most have to do with: "how do I keep my equilibrium when the world seems to be going crazy?"

From a meditator's perspective, we turn to awareness of the body and senses. Often we are operating in a trance, angry state, completely unaware of how we are mostly feeling and thinking. Once in a while we "correct" our thinking with some "shoulds" and maybe a bit of gratitude, but mostly we have the habit of being disembodied--that is, unaware of how we're really thinking and feeling.

The embodied presence - being aware of how we think, feel (both physically and emotionally) and stepping back from the hot or sad emotions to observe, nurture, and enquire is one path out of the mania of public stress, which is certainly a product of tech giants' interest in making more money by securing our attention with increasingly inflammatory media.

Let's start paying attention to YOU with the simple tools we introduce in today's meditation, and give your attention back to yourself, where it belongs, so that you can make decisions based on your values and goals, and not be dragged around by the wagon of public opinion.

To watch this meditation, please visit https://youtu.be/feDR8KLA5tM.

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards, Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness

Greetings, this is our final broadcast and podcast before the summer hiatus, where we will be meeting in person in the Calgary area in our usual meditation flashmobs! I hope you can join us. Please email me at CalgaryMindfulness@gmail.com to register for our meetings (free of charge, but registration is required).

When? Mostly on weekends I'll be travelling with my sweetheart and family so we will meet some weekends when I'm working in town, and some weeknights otherwise. It's been an excellent year. Thanks to the hundreds of people that continue to send in your questions each week to guide our practices; it is so helpful for me to tap into so many people all at once and to truly understand how most of us are loving, growing, enjoying and also struggling with the same things, in spite of the differences of age, gender, race, faith, spirituality, gender identity, class, education, income and more. We are all one mind and heart. All fences we prop up against that truth are illusions!

To watch this practice on youtube, please visit https://youtu.be/YNAGCKqXFEI

In today's class, we focus on the embodied presence. What the heck is this weird new age term? In a nutshell, it's when we are fully aware of ourselves and our surroundings in the present moment, and not spaced out multi-tasking and figuring out problems in the future or stewing over problems in the past.

Why the embodied presence? Well, for one, it is pretty relaxing not to have to multitask! It also build discipline, focus, and helps us connect with inner wisdom, the Creator, and so on; however you phrase this awareness of the consciousnesses that are outside of our own body, and that unify all life on Earth.

But, another useful purpose is that being embodied helps us notice and understand our feelings, so that we can plan and do highest and best for ourselves and others. In this class, we use our judgements of others as an anchor. I relate a painful story about my own release of judgements as an example of just how insidious and hidden they can be even when you think you're done with them! Our judgements prevent us from aligning with our highest and best, and it is cathartic to be free of them!

For more information about Calgary Mindfulness, or to join our weekly practice, please write CalgaryMindfulness@Gmail.com, where we welcome your questions, comments and intentions for future meditation practices. We offer workshops and instruction and much more! For information, please visit www.CalgaryMindfulness.ca

Kind regards,

Rosanna D'Agnillo, Founder and Lead Facilitator, Calgary Mindfulness