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Somatic Healing Meditations

Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light

Are you ready to regulate your nervous system, deepen your healing journey and feel better in your body?

Every episode of Somatic Healing Meditations contains a guided meditation specifically designed to help you be more present in your body (and your life) by connecting to your physical sensations and awakening your inner knowing in a gentle and healing way.

Using Havening techniques, Iffirmations and other powerful somatic tools and techniques, you’ll leverage the mind-body connection to reduce your stress, deepen your compassionate self awareness and release trapped emotions and old patterns.

Join me for this beautiful journey out of your head and into your more embodied and authentic self.

Brought to you by Karena Neukirchner with Hello Inner Light

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#151
Today · 30 min
How to Listen to Yourself (A Guided Meditation for Deep Listening)
Learning how to listen to yourself is one of the most important things you can do for your healing and your relationship with yourself. In this gentle somatic meditation, you'll reconnect with your body, explore your feelings and needs with compassion, and deepen your ability to understand and care for yourself.
#150
October 30 · 28 min
Reconnect With Your Inherent Worthiness (A Healing Meditation)
What would it feel like to truly know your own worth and experience yourself as someone deserving of love, kindness, and care, even when you're struggling or making mistakes? In this guided healing meditation, you’ll be gently guided to reconnect with your inherent goodness and value, cultivating a deeper sense of self-worth, self-love, and enoughness.
#149
October 23 · 43 min
Why You Never Feel Good Enough (A Meditation to Heal the Roots of Unworthiness)
In this guided parts work meditation, we'll explore the emotional roots of unworthiness and connect compassionately with the younger parts of ourselves that are still carrying feelings of shame and not being good enough. Through deep listening and somatic emotional processing, we'll begin healing these old wounds and shifting deeply held beliefs and patterns at their roots, creating the possibility for meaningful, lasting change.
#148
October 16 · 36 min
Feeling Unworthy? A Guided Meditation to Soothe Shame and Self-Judgment
Feeling unworthy is one of the most common core wounds, and it's often at the root of deeply ingrained patterns of shame, self-doubt, and self-judgment. In this gentle guided somatic meditation, we'll use nervous system regulation to soothe these painful feelings, become less reactive to old triggers, and develop greater self-compassion.
#147
October 15 · 15 min
Why Haven't I Healed This Yet? A Somatic Healing Perspective (Educational Episode)
If you've spent years trying to heal anxiety, people-pleasing, self-criticism, or other deeply rooted emotional patterns but still feel stuck, this episode explores why those patterns can be so difficult to change. Through a somatic healing perspective, you'll discover how nervous system regulation, somatic emotional processing, and connecting with the deeper parts of yourself can help you navigate your healing journey and create lasting change.
#146
October 9 · 9 min
Psychedelic-Like Effects Without Drugs? A Surprising New Study (Educational Episode)
Can you experience psychedelic-like effects without taking psychedelics? A fascinating 2025 study on Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM), a body-centered emotional processing method, reveals surprising similarities in brain activity and altered states of consciousness, offering new insights into somatic healing and how we access and process deeply rooted emotional patterns.
#145
October 2 · 29 min
Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM): What It Is + How It Works
Discover how Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM) helps us work with the body and subconscious to heal old emotional wounds and change deeply rooted patterns. We’ll explore how RIM works, the role of memory reconsolidation, fascinating new research into what happens in the brain during RIM, and why this approach has been so transformative in my own healing.
#144
September 25 · 30 min
The INauthentic Self (A Healing Meditation to Get Real)
Explore the deeper reasons you may struggle to be fully yourself (and why your inauthentic self may actually be trying to protect you). This compassionate healing meditation will help you understand why you contort yourself, perform, or people please, while creating more safety and self-acceptance within so you can begin to shift these protective patterns and feel more free to be yourself.
#143
September 18 · 21 min
Self-Love Affirmations That Don’t Feel Fake (Try “Iffirmations” Instead)
If self-love affirmations have ever felt fake or created more resistance than reassurance, there’s a meaningful reason why. Discover how self-love “iffirmations” can help you open to new possibilities and cultivate self-love in a way that feels more authentic in your body.
#142
September 11 · 28 min
Inner Smile Meditation | Cultivate a Loving Presence Within
This Inner Smile Meditation is a beautiful somatic practice for bringing more warmth, kindness, and softness into the relationship you have with yourself. You’ll turn the gentle energy of a smile inward and explore what it feels like to embody a more loving, compassionate presence within.
#141
August 28 · 13 min
Orienting + Havening: My Favorite Quick Nervous System Regulation Tool (Guided Practice)
When you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or dysregulated, this quick somatic practice can help you shift your nervous system state and find more groundedness and calm. I’ll guide you step by step through Orienting and Havening, two powerful body-based techniques that work with your senses to help your nervous system settle.
#140
August 27 · 18 min
Can't Regulate Your Nervous System? Here's the Mistake Most of Us Are Making [Educational Episode]
If you’re trying hard to regulate your nervous system but it just feels like it’s not working, this episode is for you. In this educational episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I explain one of the most common ways we get stuck with regulation (and what can help create deeper, lasting change).
#139
August 21 · 35 min
Why That One Person Triggers You So Much (Guided Healing Meditation)
Why does that one person trigger you SO MUCH? In this healing meditation, you’ll explore what the intensity of your reaction may be trying to show you, as you connect with and begin healing the deeper roots of your trigger.
#138
August 14 · 41 min
How to Stop Ruminating | Feel the Feelings Beneath Your Thoughts (Guided Meditation)
If you're exhausted from thinking the same thoughts on repeat, this meditation offers a different way out: feeling the feelings underneath your thoughts instead of trying to think your way through it. This gentle, guided meditation helps those feelings move through and release, so you can finally stop ruminating and come back to yourself.
#137
August 7 · 22 min
Try Softer | A Guided Meditation for More Ease, Less Effort
So many of us have learned to treat trying hard, pushing, and striving as the only way forward ... even in our healing journeys. This guided meditation to try softer is a gentle exploration to discover what trying softer actually means for you, in your own body and your own life.
#136
July 31 · 32 min
Soften Into Self-Kindness | A Somatic Self-Love Meditation
Self-kindness is one of the most powerful inner qualities we can cultivate on our healing journey, and it's something so many of us never learned how to do. This meditation to soften into self-kindness offers a soothing, gentle way to explore what true self-kindness feels like in your body and will help you cultivate more of it in your life.
#135
July 24 · 37 min
Slow, Extended Body Scan Meditation (To Regulate Your Nervous System)
This episode is a slow, extended version of one of our most loved practices, The Guided body Scan Meditation to Regulate Your Nervous System, with more space between each cue so you have real time to feel into every part of your body. As we gently bring our attention inward in this way, our nervous systems can settle, and we can come back to a feeling of relaxation and safety.
#134
July 17 · 9 min
Feeling Overstimulated? A Somatic Practice to Settle Your Nervous System
Our nervous systems weren't designed for the volume of sensory and emotional input we live with every day, and that takes a huge toll, leaving us feeling overstimulated and dysregulated much of the time. This short somatic practice to settle your nervous system is a gentle technique you can turn to anytime you want to ground, relax, and feel more like yourself again.
#133
July 10 · 37 min
Release Your Shoulds and Supposed Tos: A Meditation for Inner Freedom and Authenticity
Most of us are carrying a long list of shoulds and supposed tos within us, and the pressure of trying to live up to them can be immense. In this guided healing meditation, you'll work with those patterns at their very roots and begin to reconnect with your authentic needs, feelings, and desires.
#132
June 26 · 33 min
Guided Sleep Meditation for Self-Love | Drift Off Feeling Loved
In this guided sleep meditation for self-love, you'll be gently led to cultivate a warm and healing sense of love in your body as it helps you relax into deep, restful sleep. Press play tonight and let yourself drift off feeling loved.

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