Self-Love Meditation

A Guided Gratitude Meditation for the Body

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Take a deep breath and let yourself settle into the present moment.

This free guided meditation is an invitation to pause and come home to your body through breath, awareness, and gratitude. You’ll be guided to notice the quiet intelligence of your body—your breath breathing you, your heart beating, your senses and systems working on your behalf all day long. Through simple attention, touch, and inner acknowledgment, this practice supports a felt sense of presence, care, and connection with your body-mind, just as you are. It’s a moment to listen inward, to notice what’s here, and to remember that even in difficult seasons, more of you is working than not.

Download now and gift yourself a few minutes of calm, connection, and renewal.

About Our Founder

With several decades of experience in outdoor education, therapy, teaching, mentoring, and rites of passage guiding, Katie Asmus, MA, BMP, LPC, incorporates present-moment awareness, relationship to the natural world, body-mind connection and ceremonial practices to support people in more deeply and compassionately connecting to themselves, others, and the earth.

She believes strongly in the power of spending time in nature as a way to deeply listen inward, and has a long history of creating, practicing, and facilitating personally meaningful, culturally relevant ceremonies and rites of passage. Katie also has had a 30-plus-year career working with therapy and coaching clients and over 20 years teaching wilderness therapy, adventure therapy, ecotherapy, and somatic therapy at a graduate level.

Currently, Katie directs and facilitates rites of passage trainings and experiences, sees therapy and coaching clients, guest teaches, and trains therapists and healers through The Somatic Nature Therapy Institute. She is known for saying that “Inner work is world peace work.”