Self Compassion - Metta Inspired Practices - with Jillian Pransky

✨Experience Kindness & Connection ✨

This “Just Like Me” practice invites us to feel our connectedness and to consider that we are all human beings. This practice helps us to remember our shared humanity and our shared basic needs - to be safe, to be well, to be happy, to be peaceful and at ease - and to be loved.
All human beings at our foundation have this in common.
We know that a sense of separateness can lead to stress and states of chronic stress and anxiety.

Recognizing our interconnectedness is in the way that we think about other people - not necessarily being physically together with more people. This practice fosters this connectedness as we invite ourselves to recognize that just like me, all other people share the same desires to be safe, well happy, at ease, and to feel loved. This practice starts on our mat so that we can carry it into our lives and into the world, wherever we are.

✨May you be safe and well.
May you be happy and at ease.
May you be loved or feel love.✨

“Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened. We exercise kindness is any moment when we recognize our shared humanity- with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering it implies. Such simple but profound awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.”
—Sharon Salzberg

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Jillian Pransky is an international presenter and the author of Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart. As a certified yoga therapist recognized by the International Association of Yoga Therapy, she leads retreats, yoga teacher trainings, and restorative workshops—both in person and online—for students all over the world. Jillian gave a TEDx Talk on metta meditation; created and leads Yoga Journal's online course Restorative Yoga 101; and is a featured yoga expert to magazines such as Prevention, Mindful, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, and more. She is a guest teacher at many renowned holistic learning centers including Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, the Omega Institute, Mohonk Mountain House, and Blue Spirit Retreat Center. Jillian infuses her yoga classes with mindfulness practices, compassion, and ease and inspires an integrative, holistic healing experience.