Dear friends,
It has been wonderful to experience and grow Calista’s 5 Minute Mondays with you. Engaging in these practices for myself has shown me that I need to take a sabbatical from Calista’s 5 Minute Monday for 2022 to recharge, renew, and refocus. I hope that the last 113 episodes will stay with you as they have with me.
Until next time, may you be well,
Calista
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Body Scan episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. While this week’s episode isn’t a direct breath practice, it is one that relies entirely on the breath to succeed. Body scan meditations help us to offer ourselves compassion and to trace the connection to our mind, body, spirit, and heart through focus and breath.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Breath Focus episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week’s is Breath Focus sets the inhale and exhale up as an easy gift to give ourselves. Paying attention to our breath, breathing with intentions and mantras as we do, can help us calm our bodies and focus our minds and hearts.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Restful Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week’s is Restful Breath—one of the easiest breathing techniques. Calming techniques don’t have to be multi-step or complicated. Sometimes, just exhaling fully is enough.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Belly Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week’s is Belly Breath—a breathing technique that can bring us centeredness and congruence. Belly breath, and techniques like it, can help our body in all aspects of processing. It can help our nervous system process information, our minds, our emotions.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Mindful Breath episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week’s is Mindful Breath—an easy, important way to make space for mindfulness. It will literally calm our nervous systems and helping us create clarity.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is a replay of our Breath Walk episode. As part of our Just Breath calendar, we are replaying the best breath hits. This week’s is Breath Walk—a meditative walking practice to connect your mind, body, and spirit.
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This week’s 5 Minute Monday is the first breath practice of our Just Breathe Calendar. The “STOP” breath practice is a way to help us slow down and recognize how we are breathing.
Welcome back to Calista’s 5 Minute Monday! After our summer sabbatical, 5 Minute Monday resumes with The Just Breathe Calendar focusing on finding moments of calm, peace, and mindfulness, in easy breath practices.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday announces Calista’s summer sabbatical. 5 Minute Monday #105 marks just over 2 years since Calista’s 5 Minute Monday got started, and this summer will provide a short break, a time of renewal, of tending to what comes next, and discovering where our series will take us in the fall starting with #106! See you in the autumn!
This week marks the final 5 Minute Monday of our Personal Retreat series as well as the final 5 Minute Monday of our Nourish series. We wrap up with a discussion of connecting with our spirits as we move from “the brink of doing to being” and connect with ourselves and our intuitive wisdom through our personal retreat.
Our mini-series on the practice of a personal retreat continues this week with a focus on connecting to our minds. We take this third step into simply “being with” and nourishing our minds.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday continues our mini-series within the Nourish series. This mini-series is all about building a retreat to care for yourself. This week, we focus on steps to support our hearts and noticing our feelings.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on creating a personal retreat to help find depth and clarity within ourselves. Step #1 for creating a personal retreat is nourishing and nurturing our bodies.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on the use of compassion and compassionate acts to create change in our lives—viewing our lives compassionately can allow us to take healing and kind actions to make change in our lives.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on adapting as a way to nourish and renew ourselves. Being able to change from an old idea, an old expectation, to a new one is an important part of nourishing ourselves in a changing environment.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is all about the power of art-making. Taking time to make art, of any kind, has been shown to lower our levels of stress and anxiety.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday focuses on the idea of a “Do-Nothing Day”. Setting aside a day in which you intentionally do nothing, where you intentionally let go of the busy-ness in your life is a powerful and positive form of nourishment for our hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits.
5 Minute Monday #96 continues our journey through methods of nourishment. This week, we focus on beauty, specifically flowers, as a way to nourish.
This week’s 5 Minute Monday is all about poetry—reading it, writing it, feeling it. Poetry offers us a way to connect to ourselves, to our hearts, without rules or restrictions.