Somatic Healing Meditations

• Sea of Stars: Fantasy Sleep Story for Deep Rest | A Special Episode from Sleep And Sorcery

  If you’ve ever longed for a bedtime story that feels both magical and deeply calming, you’re in for a treat. ✨ In this week’s episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I’m sharing a special feature from the beloved podcast Sleep & Sorcery, created by Laurel Hostak Jones. 🌙 Sleep & Sorcery is one part bedtime story, one part guided meditation, and one part dreamy adventure. Laurel weaves together original folklore and fantasy-inspired tales with soothing meditations, wrapping you in magic while gently guiding you toward deep rest. I truly love her creative and soothing stories! 💖 This fantasy sleep story is called Sea of Stars. In it, you step into the role of a cosmic caretaker, tending to constellations on a gentle journey across the night sky. As dawn approaches, you return to your own cozy resting place in the cosmos. It’s a dreamy and restorative way to drift into sleep. I hope you enjoy this special episode! I’ll be back next week with a new somatic meditation for you. 🌸 xoxo, Karena Learn more about Sleep & Sorcery here Related: Enjoy more Deep Sleep Meditations here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

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• Bedtime Nervous System Reset (Gently Wind Down for Deep Sleep)

  You might feel completely exhausted at night, but if your nervous system is still “on,” your body won’t fully let go into rest. 🌙 This is why so many of us lie awake with racing thoughts, tension in our bodies, and a sense that deep sleep is just out of reach. The truth is, the quality of your sleep is directly tied to the state of your nervous system. If you go to bed dysregulated, your system stays on high alert, which makes it harder to stay asleep through the night. 😴 But when you regulate before bed, everything changes. Your breath slows, your muscles release, your heart rate settles, and your mind begins to soften. In this state, sleep not only comes more easily, it’s also deeper and more restorative. ✨ In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a Bedtime Nervous System Reset - a gentle somatic meditation designed to help you regulate, release the day, and prepare your whole body for the kind of nourishing rest you’ve been longing for. 💤💤💤 🎧 Give yourself these few minutes before sleep and notice the difference: falling asleep more quickly, waking less often, and rising in the morning with more clarity, energy, and ease. #forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation Episode timing: 00:00 - Deep Sleep and Nervous System Regulation 04:32 - Bedtime Nervous System Reset (Gently Wind Down for Deep Sleep) Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here Read more about this Bedtime Nervous System Reset here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

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• Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest and Nervous System Calm

  😴 Do you find yourself lying in bed, exhausted… yet unable to fully let go? You’re not alone. So many of us carry the tension of the day, or even the weight of years, into the night. Our bodies may be tired, but our nervous systems haven’t yet gotten the message that it’s safe to rest. 🌙 This soothing somatic sleep meditation is here to help. Designed to gently calm your nervous system and guide your body into a deeper state of regulation, this practice supports rest from the inside out. Through breath, soft inner attunement, and a gentle body scan, we’ll begin to send a powerful signal to your system: 🫶 You’re safe now. You can let go. There’s nothing you need to do. 💤 You can’t force good sleep. But when you give your body what it needs - support, regulation, and nervous system calm - deep rest begins to emerge on its own. ✨ That’s what this Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm is here to offer. #forsleep #somaticmeditation #nervoussystemcalm #deepsleep #sleepmeditation #somaticsleepmeditation Episode timing: 00:00 - Why Calming Your Nervous System Is the Key to Deep Rest 05:10 - Somatic Sleep Meditation for Deep Rest & Nervous System Calm Related: Enjoy more Deep Relaxation Meditations here Read more about Somatic Sleep Meditations here Something That’s Really Helped My Sleep 😴 I’ve been using a small handheld device called The Chill Pill for the past six months, and it’s made a noticeable difference in my sleep. You just hold it in your hand, and it sends soft electrical pulses into your palm that help calm your nervous system. It’s subtle, but so effective - especially when your body feels wired but tired. If your system struggles to settle at night (or you just want a gentle way to support your regulation), I really recommend it. Use code KARENA for 10% off (or 15% off during the month of August 2025)! 👉 Support your sleep and save! https://chillpillshop.com/?ref=KARENA ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Try The Chill Pill now! Join me in Somatic Healing Hub! Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course

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• You’re More YOU When You’re Regulated | How Nervous System Healing Helps You Be Your Best Self

  ✨ You’re more YOU when your nervous system feels safe. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore the neuroscience behind what it really means to be your best self (and how nervous system healing makes that possible). When you're dysregulated, you have less access to your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain responsible for clarity, compassion, nuanced thought, emotional regulation, and values-based decision making. Instead, your system shifts into survival mode, leading to reactivity, rigidity, or disconnection. But when you’re regulated, you reconnect with the best qualities that make you who you truly are. You become more grounded, more present, and more able to live from wisdom, compassion, and care. 🌿 I’ll also guide you through one of my favorite gentle regulation practices, a tool you can return to again and again as you reconnect with your best self. This episode is an invitation to pause, settle your system, and expand into more of who you really are. 🌸💫 In this episode: How Nervous System Healing Helps You Be Your Best Self Nervous System Healing Helps You Expand and Grow Simple + Soothing Nervous System Regulation Exercise Related: Try more nervous system regulation exercises here! Read more about how nervous system regulation helps you be your best self here! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

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• Stop Resisting, Start Allowing: Allow Your Emotions to Calm Your Nervous System

  What if your emotions aren’t the problem? What if it’s the resistance to them that’s making everything feel harder? 💭 So many of us were taught to push down our emotions, power through, or stay “in control.” But that constant inner tension doesn’t bring peace … it keeps your nervous system stuck in a state of stress and overwhelm. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, we’ll explore how resisting your emotions actually activates your nervous system, and how allowing (even just a little) can begin to bring relief, calm, and connection. You’ll learn why this shift matters, and how to begin making it in a safe and supportive way. 💗 Then we’ll move into a soothing somatic meditation to help you practice that shift. Through self-havening and gentle “iffirmations,” you’ll be guided to soften resistance, reconnect with your body, and experience the peace that comes when every part of you is allowed to be here. This is a powerful, body-based way to calm your nervous system and return to yourself with more compassion and ease. 🫶 In this episode: How Allowing Your Emotions Calms Your Nervous System Somatic Meditation To Allow Your Emotions: Self-Havening explained Gently dropping in Feeling your emotion in your body Iffirmations To Allow Your Emotions Havening Techniques® is a registered trademark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York. www.havening.org Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them Learn all about Iffirmations here Read more about how to allow your emotions here! ✨ Ready to find your center, quiet your mind, and step off the roller coaster of stress and overwhelm? You’re invited to join me in Somatic Healing Hub! SHH is a beautiful, deeply supportive online community filled with the structure, support, and somatic practices to help you actually feel better in your body - and create real change in your life. 💗💗💗 Inside, you’ll get ad-free access to the Somatic Healing Meditations podcast! 💗💗💗💗 Each week, I guide multiple live somatic healing classes - calming, grounded practices to regulate your nervous system and reconnect with your inner world. There’s also monthly group coaching with me, heart-centered workshops, and an extensive library of powerful body-based resources to support your healing journey. Your nervous system. Your emotions. Your healing — lovingly supported. 💛 Learn more and enroll now! 🐠 Join me in Costa Rica this winter for a deeply restorative Somatic Self-Love Retreat - a gentle, immersive experience designed to help you reconnect with your body, soften old self-protection, and return to your truest self. Through daily somatic practices, heart-opening workshops, and healing time in nature, you'll learn how to cultivate embodied self-love from the inside out. ✨ Space is limited! Learn more at www.helloinnerlight.com/retreats __ 🌿 Iffirmations to Allow Your Emotions What if it’s okay to feel this way right now? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to resist it? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to deny it? What would it be like to make space for what I feel, without needing to fix it? What if all of my emotions are valid and worthy of care? What if it’s safe to feel whatever I’m feeling? What if I don’t have to push my feelings away? What if I can meet them with compassion? What would it be like to meet this emotion with softness instead of judgment? What if I am allowed to feel it all, gently and at my own pace? What if the more I allow my emotions, the more I reconnect with myself? What if every feeling I have is trying to guide me back to myself? What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward deeper healing? What if allowing my emotions is a good step toward greater peace? What if allowing my emotions is part of accepting and loving myself as I am? More and more, I choose to allow my feelings More and more, I choose to come home to me. Connect with Karena: @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here 1:1 Somatic Healing Sessions with Karena Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me in Somatic Healing Hub!

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