Wondering Together - The Mindful Place Podcast

10 minute guided meditation: bringing the mind back home to our body.

Conversation with Myrto Legaki  Myrto is the Founder of One Breath Mindful Living Center, teaching practices that aim to cultivate awareness, resilience and wellbeing for adults, children and organizations. She is a certified Mindfulness & MBSR instructor from UMASS and an Open Floor moving meditation instructor with an international background in Marketing & Consulting and a passion for teaching actionable, science backed methods for stress reduction, clarity and wellbeing on every level in order to lead a life of powerful purpose.  With a degree in Corporate Finance and an MBA from Boston University, transitioning from the corporate world after 15 years working as a consultant and marketing director in fast paced organizations in New York, London, Athens she now teaches the practices that helped her recover from a particularly stressful period into leading a life of powerful purpose.  With her work at One Breath Mindful Living Center, she has helped hundreds of participants, both indi

In this episode James shared 3 helpful metaphors that guide his mindfulness practice.

A Story of Loss, Strength and Resilience

This episode explores why the most important things to communicate are the most difficult for us.

This practice brings attention specifically to anxiety, tension or conflict. The awareness is brought to how the body communicates to us when we are feeling these things and a helpful way to respond.

A simple guided 5 minute breathing practice.

In this episode James talks about what he labels the dark side of the mindfulness practice.  Listen to hear more about this topic.

This episode is a clip of a guided meditation from a class taught on March 25th 2019.

In this episode James talks a little bit about what goes through his mind before his practice and during his practice of meditation. Additionally he talks the listener through one of his own personal periods of practice. He talks a little bit about commitment and interconnection. Skip to 8 minutes if you're only interested in the guided meditation portion.

In this episode James talks about a lesson he learned on one of his 10-day silent retreats. This powerful lesson was learned from an experience with something as simple as bread and the breakfast routine.

This talk is about stopping and thinking about what it is you want in this life. So often we go through our day on autopilot without bringing self-awareness or mindfulness to simple but important questions like "what do I want"? Another thing this explores is how we can find time in our lives to devote to the things we want.

This is a "Thought of the Day" by a good friend of mine. Ellis is one of the most thought provoking people I know. He talks about what it means to "be in the zone".

10 minute guided meditation of just resting in awareness.

James talks about what to do if you cannot sleep and how to use mindfulness practice to help.

Thought of the day on March 19, 2019.

5 minute guided meditation which is intended to help us "check in" with what is here in our experience. What would it mean to be here with this life as it is happening? As opposed to living on autopilot.

This is a throwback Q&A clip from a class James D'Aconti taught on 1.16.18.  The class was recorded directly into the phone's microphone, so please excuse the sound quality.

 This is a throwback guided meditation clip from a class James D'Aconti taught on 1.16.18.  The class was recorded directly into the phone's microphone, so please excuse the sound quality.  

This is a throwback clip from a class James D'Aconti taught on 1.16.18.  The class was recorded directly into the phone's microphone, so please excuse the sound quality.  The talk goes into detail about the autonomic nervous: the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system.