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Amy Pattee Colvin
Amy Pattee Colvin is a transformation and meditation coach with a focus on cultivating compassion for the self and others. She has actively practiced meditation and qigong for over thirty years. She i...
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Sleep Well
This collection includes five classes that teach you how to achieve consistent and effective sleep nightly, which in turn bolsters your mood, memory, and performance over time, allowing you to be the best version of yourself in every moment of life.
Cultivating Compassion
This collection provides meditators with a deeper understanding of compassion. It is not just an emotion, but a trainable state of mind. The following classes will teach you how to integrate compassion both for others and for oneself into one’s daily life— thereby cultivating a healthier, more productive, and peaceful state of being.
Movement Meditation for Stress
This collection teaches how to connect mindful movement with the breath and how to listen to the messages the body gives. These techniques will help one to remain productive, boost energy, alleviate pain, reduce stress, and better realize when it’s time to rest.
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Why Sleep Enhances Performance
In this meditation, you'll learn how sleep enhances performance through visualization. It also highlights aspects of your sleep routine that may hinder rest and shows you how to correct them.
Relaxing Into Sleep
In this guided meditation, hold the intention of safety, ease, and self-kindness in order to better relax into sleep. Sleeping well improves your productivity, enhances health, and revitalizes emotions and the spirit.
Return to Sleep After Waking in the Night
This visualization meditation helps you return to sleep after waking. The phrases in this class will break the exhausting cycle of rumination that prevents you from falling back asleep.
Winding Down Before Bed Ritual
Practicing visualization, breathing exercises, and gentle movement before bed significantly enhances your sleep. This class explains how each component contributes to your pre-sleep routine and their effectiveness when combined.
Gratitude for Your Body as You Drift Into Sleep
Expressing gratitude for the body is a wonderful way to reduce the day’s stresses and worries. This guided meditation will help to slow down the busy mind and cultivate a sense of gratitude for the body as the participant drifts off to sleep.
What Is Compassion?
In this meditation, explore the three parts of compassion and how to apply them in your life. Practicing compassion helps manage emotions and thoughts, bringing peace and clarity.
Practicing Compassion When You're Feeling Overwhelmed
This meditation class helps you manage spiraling thoughts and emotions by cultivating a compassionate image that anchors you in the present. Turn to this image during stress or pain for strength and comfort.
Making Peace With People You Find to Be Difficult
This meditation fosters peace with others and recognizes our shared humanity. It teaches that rather than viewing someone as difficult, we should focus on the challenges they face.
Releasing Judgment
This meditation teaches the benefits of compassion, such as less self-criticism and judgment. The class helps apply these insights by exploring behavioral origins and using intentional language to gradually transform mindset.
Practicing Self-compassion
Explore the benefits of a compassionate perspective to release judgment of self and others in this guided meditation. The four visualization tools you will learn are essential for cultivating curiosity, self-acceptance, inner peace, and connection.
Mindful Movement
This class introduces simple-flowing movements to increase the circulation of blood, oxygen, and energy throughout the mind and body. Focusing on bodily sensations can help to quiet racing thoughts and alleviate anxiety.
Dynamic Posture Meditation
This class introduces a series of static postures that will teach the participant how to stand well and in balance. The participant will be invited to notice any sensations as they transition from one position to the next, and cultivate a deeper understanding of the body’s capabilities and limits.
Body Scan at Work Desk
In this visualization meditation, use your imagination to see your mind become stable and relaxed during the workday, like a strong rock. Despite life's chaos, this body scan will help you stay resilient and refreshed for upcoming tasks.
Posture Awareness
This meditation teaches you about the common pitfalls of poor posture at the work desk, and provides helpful tools for improving healthy posture while standing, sitting, and even driving!
Breath and Posture Connection
This class introduces when to use three methods of breathing and explains why they’re important. Maintaining good posture and deep breathing can help reduce physical pain, mental stress, and emotional strife.
