Breathe & Release | Meditation with Gillian Rose
Breathe & Release offers guided meditation practices that are rooted in Buddhist and yogic wisdom, and accessible to everyone. Each episode provides practical techniques for working with your mind--settling attention, cultivating kindness, and meeting life's difficulties with more clarity and ease. Gillian Rose is a somatic practitioner that draws from traditions including Tibetan Buddhism, mindfulness, yoga, and contemplative psychology to create meditations that are grounded, honest, transformative, and genuinely useful. Whether you're new to meditation or have an established practice, these sessions offer space to pause, reconnect, and train your mind in more beneficial directions. Join our meditation community and find out more about Gillian's offerings through Instagram: @gillianrose____
Episodes
Connect deeply to both earth and sky in this grounding meditation practice. Begin by honoring your body with gratitude, then visualize roots growing deep into the earth beneath you while opening to starlight energy from above. This practice guides you through three energy centers—belly, heart, and crown—cultivating stability, courage, love, and spacious awareness. Perfect for centering y...
In this 15-minute guided meditation, we explore the difference between resolutions and deep intentions. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom and the teachings of Pema Chödrön and Tara Brach, this practice helps you connect with what truly matters—not what you think you should want, but what your heart genuinely longs for.
Perfect for New Year reflection or any time you need to reconnect with your ...
Join Gillian for a 30-minute walking meditation exploring the Buddhist principle of non-attachment (aparigraha). This guided practice invites you to discover the profound freedom that comes from holding life lightly—loving fully without clinging, experiencing deeply without grasping.
Through gentle guidance and mindful movement, you'll learn to release tension, let go of control, and wal...
In this episode, we practice yoga nidra—a guided meditation for deep rest and restoration. You'll lie down as I guide you into that space between waking and sleeping, where your body can completely let go while your awareness stays gently present.
This practice draws from Tibetan Buddhism, working with the concept of bodhicitta, or the awakened heart. We'll visualize compassion as a warm...
In this episode of Breathe & Release, we explore anicca—the Buddhist teaching on impermanence. Everything changes, constantly. Our breath, our thoughts, our bodies, our circumstances—nothing stays the same, even for a moment. Yet we spend so much energy trying to freeze the good moments and rush past the difficult ones, fighting against the ve...
This guided meditation explores metta—loving-kindness practice from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. We begin with shamatha (calm-abiding) meditation to settle and stabilize the mind, then move into analytical meditation to cultivate genuine loving-kindness.
The practice starts with extending kindness to you...
Join Gillian for a 20-minute guided meditation, Embracing the Unknown, on the Breathe and Release podcast. This practice invites you to meet uncertainty with curiosity and trust. Through gentle breathwork, body awareness, and heartfelt visualizations, you’ll explore the unknown as a space of possibility, drawing on wisdom from Eastern traditions and Western psychology. Perfe...
This 15 minute guided meditation explores the root chakra, or Muladhara, the energy center that helps us feel grounded, secure, and connected. Gillian will guide you into a deep sense of presence and stability.
Join Gillian for a soothing 15-minute guided meditation where we explore the art of resting in awareness. In this episode, we step away from the mind’s business to simply be with the present moment—breath by breath, sensation by sensation. With gentle guidance, you’ll learn to observe thoughts and emotions as passing clouds, finding spaciousness and ease within. Perfect for ...
This 10 minute meditation is an invitation to bring in a tenderness and an ease. If you've noticed you've been feeling guarded or blocked, or you simply want to usher in more loving presence into your life, this is the perfect meditation practice for you.
This guided meditation takes you on an imaginative journey to meet your inner elder, as you listen to the wisdom that already resides within you.
This guided meditation utilizes a mindfulness practice called RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. Through this practice, you are invited to bring loving kindness and compassion towards negative feelings during hard times.
This practice has helped me immensely throughout my life - I hope it will help you in yours.
This meditation is intended to be a practice that you can come back to each morning. Gillian guides you through a cleansing practice that emphasizes present moment awareness, gratitude, and personal affirmations that will leave you feeling peaceful, connected, and ready to have an amazing day.
Relax and fall into a deep, restful sleep with this 15 minute meditation with 4-7-8 breathwork (pranayama). 4-7-8 breathing has shown to reduce anxiety and allevaite insomnia.
This immersive body scan meditation is designed to bring awareness to each part of your body, promoting relaxation and a profound sense of calm.
Whether you're in need of a quick break during a hectic day or seeking a moment of serenity, this calming 5-minute meditation will help you release tension and promote inner peace.
In this short meditation, Gillian guides you through a heart-centered practice designed to bring peace, love, and mindfulness into your day.
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