ALTAR: The Podcast with Heather Briann
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Guided Practices. Life Explorations. Expansive Conversations.
A podcast for the open-minded spiritual seeker and mindful mover. Join Heather, founder of ALTAR movement studio, for guided instinctive meditation practices, life explorations in a variety of topics that will enhance your vitality and growth and expansive conversations with movers from across the globe.
A podcast for the open-minded spiritual seeker and mindful mover. Join Heather, founder of ALTAR movement studio, for guided instinctive meditation practices, life explorations in a variety of topics that will enhance your vitality and growth and expansive conversations with movers from across the globe.
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Beginning today’s morning meditation, Heather invites movement to release tension and soften the body. Transitioning into a space of rest, she encourages listeners to allow their mind to explore their to-do list in a meditative state, to say yes to all that they may need through breath, and to find a release of tension through vocal sighs.
The podcast will be on a temporary hold as Heather takes some time to rest and rejuvenate this summer in preparation for the transition to van life. We look forward to returning in the near future as she continues her journey on the road. You can find us and continue your meditative practice in our virtual studio space, ALTAR DIGITAL. Follow this link to read more and to sign-up for only $1 for your first month of membership: LINK
As always, we invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
This week, Heather invites mothers (and all other nurturers) to join this guided morning meditation. She creates a space of loving intention, to mindfully bring awareness and support to those you love. You’ll also be invited to give yourself permission to rest and to allow your brain to wander in moments of purposeful awareness. Return to this meditation when needed.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
In this shortened meditative practice for difficult times, Heather invites listeners to explore the intensity of witnessing stress, to recall emotions that are uncomfortable and those that are peaceful, and to invite this duality into a safe space of practice. Heather encourages listeners to practice creating a union of intensity and peace, and invites listeners to return to this shortened meditation in difficult times.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
This week, Heather creates a safe space to explore a range of emotions through guided meditation. Encouraging the listener to envision intense, fear invoking moments in fictional scenarios, she actively works to acknowledge these emotions and evoke a sense of peace and comfort in the body. Join us in this space of flowing aliveness and return to this meditation in difficult times.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
For our last week of ‘Meditate in May’, Heather invites listeners to participate in a spacious meditative practice. Revisiting teachings from the previous practices for ‘Mediate in May’, Heather explores the use of mantras, physical movement, pauses, permission, freedom, and reflection to conclude this monthly journey in practice.
Join the Virtual Studio, ALTAR DIGITAL, for $1 this month. Use the code: MEDITATEINMAY at check-out. Follow this to read more and to sign-up: LINK
We thank you for joining us this week and throughout our Meditate in May journey. We invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
In our fourth week of ‘Mediate in May’, Heather guides another morning meditation practice. Revisiting some of the key themes and foundational tools explored this month, Heather creates a space for listeners to tune into their bodies and soul, to channel energy through mantra, and to embrace and question all that has accompanied this month-long experiment!
We thank you for joining us this week and throughout our Meditate in May journey. We invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
It is Week 3 of ‘Meditate in May’ and Heather is back to lead a short guided morning practice. She invites listeners to begin the practice with a physical undulation - to roll the shoulders, shake out the body, and lean into the body’s desire of movement or stillness. Returning to the use of mantras as a tool for daily meditative practice, Heather encourages listeners to come back to this practice throughout the third week of our “meditate in may” experience.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Heather leads a guided morning practice for Week 2 of Altar’s ‘Meditate in May’. She invites listeners to check in with their body and to embrace the use of mantras as a meditative tool. Use this episode as a daily guided meditation practice.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Heather invites listeners to join her morning meditative practice. Explaining her experience with this lifestyle shift, Heather describes how morning meditations have been extremely foundational to how she is able to show up in the world. Heather leads a guided practice, hoping to inspire listeners to begin exploring daily meditation throughout the month of May - returning to this practice whenever needed.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Kicking off Altar’s “Meditate in May” series, Heather leads a solo episode this week sharing her experience with a morning practice routine. Inspired to explore this topic in response to numerous questions from students, Heather encourages listeners to view their practice time as an experiment, tapping into the curiosity of that lifestyle: What is possible for me to learn about myself in this time? What is coming up for me? What does this experiment enhance in my life? She shares that this mindset shift will unlock a new relationship with setting and sticking to routines.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Heather and Tania discuss the importance of finding uniqueness and individuality in life and in meditative practice. Returning to the theme of freedom and permission, they invite listeners to challenge their self-contained rule books, to find their unique voice, and to move away from the desire to fit into certain spaces. In essence, they proudly proclaim the importance of being EMBOLDENED to be YOU!
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
Inspired by Lorin Roche’s Sutra 47, Heather guides the listener through a meditative inquiry into the memory of love. She creates a space to explore the melting, yearning, and merging delight of a loving memory. Heather reminds listeners that this form of sense memory can be a deeply nourishing meditation.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Building upon their exploration of Sutra 7 in the previous episode, Heather and Tania lead a guided practice on freedom and inner exploration. They invite you to tap into your instinctive relationship with freedom as it exists in the body and beyond, to wander within and between these spaces and understandings in meditative practice.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
Heather and Tania explore Lorin Roche’s Sutra 7, asking how we might invite a sense of freedom or liberation into a space of meditative practice. They discuss the possibility of freedom when letting attention glide and the inner self run wild, creating a space for liberation within practice. Tania invites listeners to consider the possibility that freedom is not solely an actionable process, but can also be attributed to a state of being.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
In this week’s episode, Heather is solo and she invites you to join her on a guided meditative practice. You’ll be invited to practice a “do nothing” instinctive meditation technique in this 15 minute meditation. Use as a daily practice if it resonates and gifts you a sense of freedom, release and relaxation.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio.
Considering the chakras through the lens of Lorin Roche’s Sutra 6, Heather and Tania discuss the energy of life that flows through the seven chakras. Particularly inspired by the notion of tension and release, they encourage listeners to stretch their capacity to pay attention, to allow tension to build, and give into the experience of release in moments of Tantra and meditative awareness.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
This week, Heather and Tania explore the complex and fascinating topic of human sensory experiences. Tania recounts her love of scents as a mode to unlock memories, while Heather describes the value of sonic cues in helping to experience a sense of calm or peace. They introduce the term Sukshma, explore the ability to find significance in seemingly insignificant sensory experience, and remind listeners of the importance of indulging in these senses especially during instinctive meditations.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR movement studio. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
Heather and Tania discuss the importance of cherishing and ‘holding’ breath. Inspired by Sutra 4 from ‘The Radiance Sutras’ by Lorin Roche, they consider the interwoven communication that occurs between breath and body. Throughout the episode they also consider the health benefits of deep breathing as it can be a tool for calming the nervous system in moments of stress.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR Digital. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
In this week’s episode, Heather and Tania consider Sutra 3 from ‘The Radiance Sutras’ by Lorin Roche. Through shared discussion, they invite listeners to be mindfully tuned to their rhythmic breathing, to cherish the moments when mind dissolves into heart, to sense life’s subtle vibrations, and adventure with breath. In essence, they consider the possibility of being ENGAGED with life when in tune with breath.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR Digital. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
Heather and Tania read Sutra 2 from ‘The Radiance Sutras’ by Lorin Roche and consider the pulsation of life between the internal and external. They invite listeners to be at play with this idea of oscillation, to tune into the various dimensions of life. Interwoven short guided breathing and meditative exercises encourage listeners to identify any emotions or misalignment that may be present.
We thank you for joining us this week and invite you to leave a review of the podcast on Apple Podcasts and on Spotify. For more guided practices and expansive conversations, visit our website www.altarmovementstudio.com or find us on YouTube at ALTAR Digital. Find Tania on her instagram at @taniakazi1.
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