Heart Haven Meditations
Weekly meditations to calm your mind, connect to your heart, and take refuge in love. These practices draw from neuroscience, wisdom traditions, and teachers such as Adyashanti, Tara Brach, Pema Chodron, Joe Dispenza, Andrew Holecek, Carl Jung, Byron Katie, Thomas Merton, and Jack Kornfield. Tess Callahan, Ed.M., MFA, is a certified Mindfulness Meditation teacher and author of the novels APRIL & OLIVER and DAWNLAND. Tess invites you to attune to your own creative powers through intimate inner listening. You can find her novel writing at: https://tesscallahan.com/. Heart Haven Meditations is also on YouTube. Relax and enjoy!
See our sister podcast: Writers at the Well: Author Interviews with Tess Callahan: https://open.spotify.com/show/4GmIB2rgarR6eCA0CYSv2p?si=VPm7PpWHSS2760KUgXYdfg
DISCLAIMER: Although meditation can nurture spiritual growth, deepen wisdom, and enhance wellbeing, it is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical healthcare or therapy. We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by you acting or not acting as a result of listening to any of these recordings. You acknowledge that you use the information provided at your own risk. Do your own research. Do not drive or operate potentially dangerous equipment while listening.
Episodes
112 episodes
Awakening Practice 27: Seeking to Understand Before Seeking to be Understood
This is number 27 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode, drawn from the Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, invites you to seek to understand yourself and others ...
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Season 1
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Episode 111
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6:54
Awakening Practice 26: Pivoting Toward Peace in your Conversations
This is number 26 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to bring a sense of spaciousness into your conversations, to get curious about the tiny but i...
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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9:42
Awakening Practice 25: Leading with your Heart
This is number 25 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. It includes some imagery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but it's not necessary to be Christian to enjoy the metaphor. M...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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11:28
Awakening Practice 24: Being Honest with Yourself
This is number 24 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to do something radical, namely to tell the truth, with kindness, all day today, both in your...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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9:31
Awakening Practice 23: Rooting in Presence
This is number 23 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you root yourself in Presence. The more present you are, the more you experience your sense of al...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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9:32
Awakening Practice 22: Changing Your Relationship to Your Experience
This is number 22 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to become conscious of what you are thinking about your experience. How you relate to your thoughts determines the quality of your being in the ne...
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Season 1
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Episode 106
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10:17
Awakening Practice 21: The Infinite Opens its Eyes through You
This is number 21 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode is about going from nothing to everything and beyond. It invites you to see life as one continuous whole and to experience infinite potential.These pra...
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Season 1
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Episode 105
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13:16
Novelist Carrie Birde on Transmuting Suffering through Art
Join debut novelist Carrie Birde author of A Small Tale of Uncommon Grace (
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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39:02
Awakening Practice 20: Newborn Awareness
This is number 20 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to rediscover innocence, to let your senses be like that of a newborn, every moment as a new creation.These practices build on each other, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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10:33
Novelist Paula Saunders on Writing to Heal the Past
Join novelist Paula Saunders as she discusses her moving autobiographical novel Starting from Here, just out fr...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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48:15
Awakening Practice 19: Finding Yourself by Losing Yourself
This is number 19 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to find yourself by losing yourself. This is something we cannot “do” but rather “allow.” We let go of the notion of self that has no independent ...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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9:52
Awakening Practice 18: Intimate Mystery: Taking a Leap of Love
This is number 18 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to take a leap into the realm beyond description, a leap of love, born of your care for yourself, others, and the planet. We let go of who we imag...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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11:44
Awakening Practice 17: The Gaze of Eternity: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
This is number 17 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to relax and let go of ideas, assumptions, agendas, and self-orientation---to be what Christ called, "poor in spirit." This relinquishment allows ...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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9:34
Awakening Practice 16: Open to the Mystery of your Being
This is number 16 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to relinquish all struggle, release yourself into awareness, and rest into the dark mystery of your being. It can be used in the morning, at bedti...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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9:00
Awakening Practice 15: Access your Inner Peace with Ease
This is number 15 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode guides you into entering the ground of your being, the silence, stillness and peace beyond all understanding that rests in your depths, and which can be acces...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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11:54
Awakening Practice 14: Staying Connected to your Heart in your Daily Interactions
This is number 14 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to rest in the paradox of "being" and "becoming." It encourages you to bring the energy of the spiritual heart into your conversations and interac...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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9:45
Awakening Practice 13: Resting in the Spiritual Heart
This is number 13 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode invites you to let your human heart be soaked in the presence of your spiritual heart, allowing it to restore and reorient your whole being to completeness an...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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11:05
Awakening Practice 12: You are Life Becoming Conscious of Itself
This is number 12 of a 30-day meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This episode is a reflection on the Buddhist saying, "This very body is the Buddha." Your body, your being, is an expression of life becoming conscious of itself through yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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8:41
Awakening Practice 11: Experiencing the Unity of Existence
This is number 11 of a 30-part meditation series inspired by Adyashanti. This heart-centered meditation focuses on experiencing yourself and the world around you as pure energy, and touching into the unity of existence. This practice can be use...
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Season 1
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Episode 93
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10:20
Awakening Practice 10: See, Hear, Taste, Touch from the Silence of the Heart
As part of a 30-day series of short enlightenment practices, this meditation focuses on awakening your spiritual heart, and mixing it with your senses, (touch, sight, hearing, smelling, tasting). The spiritual heart is your perceptual center. I...
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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11:19
Awakening Practice 9: Seeing through the Eyes of Your Heart
As part of a 30-day series of short awakening practices, this meditation focuses on devotedly abiding in the silent presence of the heart. It can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. The practices build ...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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10:33
Awakening Practice 8: Flowering Heart
This is part of a 30-day series of short awakening practices. This particular practice helps you connect not just with your emotional heart--which opens and closes--but with your spiritual heart, the sacred heart, that is always open and vast a...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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9:48
Awakening Practice 7: Open and Relax into Being
This is part of a 30-day series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen cons...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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8:12
Awakening Practice 6: Your Fundamental Being
This is part of a 30-day series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen cons...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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7:29
Awakening Practice 5: Making Eye Contact
This is part of a 30-day series of short awakening practices that I will be posting over the next few weeks. They can be used in the morning, at bedtime, or on the spot in the course of your day. They build on each other, so you can listen cons...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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5:20