Meditation with Ashley Brown

54. The Power of Mindfulness: To empty the mind or to be full of awareness?

Mindfulness is one of the most commonly used words in the world of meditation, but what does it actually mean? And how does engaging with it transform our experience, both inner and outer?
 
Many people believe meditation is about emptying the mind, silencing thoughts, or somehow stopping the mind from doing what it naturally does. But what if the pathway to inner stillness isn't through force, control, or pushing thoughts away in search of emptiness?
 
Topics covered:
 
✨ What is mindfulness?
✨ Emptiness vs fullness
✨ Shunya and Buddhist emptiness
✨ Why thoughts aren't the problem
✨ The true skill of meditation
✨ The power of the present moment
✨ Awareness, freedom & choice
✨ Mindfulness vs heartfulness
✨ The Nature of Pure Awareness
✨ Being present vs becoming
 
Mindfulness is not only a doorway into the miracle of our existence, but also a portal into deeper and more expansive states of awareness. Through presence, we begin to reclaim our freedom, reconnect with what matters most, and rediscover the sacredness and preciousness of life.
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:
📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com

53. Guided Grounding Meditation | Return to the Present Moment (Express)

Join Ash for a gentle guided grounding meditation designed to help you return to the Here & Now through the gateway of awareness.
In this meditation, you will be guided through a simple yet powerful sensory awareness practice that uses touch, sound, sight, feeling, and awareness itself as anchors into the present moment.
This meditation is perfect for anyone feeling overwhelmed, distracted, anxious, scattered, or disconnected from life or themselves.
It can be practised at any time of day and is particularly helpful when you need to slow down, ground your nervous system, and reconnect with what is most alive. 
All you need is a comfortable space and a willingness to pause.
So with that being said... sit back, relax, and enjoy.
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:
📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation
📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation
🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show
🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com
📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
🎶 Music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Shrine by Tranquilium https://uppbeat.io/track/tranquilium/shrine

52. Guided Grounding Meditation | Return to the Present Moment (Full)

Join Ash for a gentle guided grounding meditation designed to help you return to the Here & Now through the gateway of awareness.
In this meditation, you will be guided through a simple yet powerful sensory awareness practice that uses touch, sound, sight, feeling, and awareness itself as anchors into the present moment.
This meditation is perfect for anyone feeling overwhelmed, distracted, anxious, scattered, or disconnected from life or themselves.
It can be practised at any time of day and is particularly helpful when you need to slow down, ground your nervous system, and reconnect with what is most alive. 
All you need is a comfortable space and a willingness to pause.
So with that being said... sit back, relax, and enjoy.
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:
📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation
📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation
🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show
🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com
📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
🎶 Music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Shrine by Tranquilium https://uppbeat.io/track/tranquilium/shrine

51. Meditation, Mysticism & Spiritual Awakening with Krista Marie Starr

In this episode, I sit down with Krista Marie Star to explore meditation, mysticism, awakening, ritual, non duality, Kashmir Shaivism, and the deeper dimensions of the spiritual path.
 
Krista is a mystic, yogi, artist, ritualist, channel, and spiritual guide whose work beautifully bridges the worlds of ancient wisdom and modern life. 
 
Topics Covered:
 
• What is spiritual awakening?
• 3 helpful things on the path to awakening
• Direct experience, teachers & teachings
• Balancing the esoteric & the everyday
• Mysticism and why it matters
• Ritual as a pathway to the divine
• Kashmir Shaivism and non dual philosophy
• Working with archetypes, gods & goddesses
• The spiritual heart (Hridaya)
• The subtle body and subtle perception
• The nature of mind
• Dharma and life purpose
• How to relate to thoughts in meditation
• True nature, Self, and consciousness
 
Timings:
00:00 Introduction
01:09 Meditation as Prayer
 
03:04 The force of awakening
08:25 3 helpful things on the path of awakening
14:03 Bridging the esoteric and the everyday
17:30 3 main rivers of yoga
26:52 God v Goddess
29:48 Mysticism
34:29 Connecting to the divine through ritual
38:04 The Spiritual Heart
41:20 Connection to the subtle
45:30 What is the mind?
49:10 The Bodies role in awakening
This was one of those conversations that invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and remember that the wisdom we seek is often much closer than we imagine.
 
Connect with Krista:
📸 Instagram → @kristamariestarr
🌿 Wild Light Academy → https://templeofwildlight.mykajabi.com 
 
Stay Connected & Explore More:
📸 Instagram → @ashbrown.meditation
📺 YouTube → Ash Brown Meditation
🎙 Spotify → Ash Brown Meditation Show
🌐 Website → ashbrownmeditation.com
 

50. Meditation Secrets for Women with Annie Mc Callum | Menstrual Cycle Coach & Fertility Yoga Teacher

In this episode, I sit down with Annie McCallum, a Menstrual Cycle Coach and Certified Fertility Yoga Teacher for a deeply important conversation around... meditation, hormones, nervous system regulation, and the wisdom of the menstrual cycle.
Together we explore how meditation and yoga practices can evolve to honour female biology rather than work against it. We explore the profound relationship between stress, hormones, fertility, emotional wellbeing, and the nervous system… and how reconnecting to the body can become a powerful path of healing, empowerment, and self-trust.
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00:00 Introduction
00:30 What it means to be a Menstrual Cycle Coach & Fertility Yoga Teacher
08:32 Masculine & Feminine Energy as Principles
13:56 Honouring the Phases of Your Cycle
15:51 The Inner Seasons
19:09 The Vayus
28:25 Menstruation as a Superpower
33:00 How Women Can Adapt Yoga for Their Biology
35:36 Ash’s Personal Story
39:13 The Myth of Period Pain
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Topics Covered:
• Meditation through the menstrual cycle
• The inner seasons of the feminine body
• Hormones, mood, energy & creativity
• Masculine and feminine energy
• PMS, pain & hormonal imbalance
• Stress, fertility & the nervous system
• Practices for different phases of the cycle
• Making fluctuations part of the practice
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This was such a beautiful and important conversation… and one I truly wish I had heard much earlier in life.
Connect with Annie.
Instagram → @flowincycle
12 Week Course & Coaching → https://www.flowincycle.com.au/work-with-me
Online Yoga & Monthly Live Workshops → https://sacred.flowincycle.com.au/offers/vBTb43aD/checkout
Resources & Free guides→ https://sacred.flowincycle.com.au/store
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Stay Connected & Explore More:
📸 Instagram → @ashbrown.meditation
📺 YouTube → Ash Brown Meditation
🎙 Spotify → Ash Brown Meditation Show
🌐 Website → ashbrownmeditation.com
📩 Email → ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 

49. What is Vedic Meditation? Exploring Transcendence - Insight #25

What is Vedic Meditation… & why has it transformed millions of lives around the world?
 
In this episode, Ash explores the roots, philosophy, and experience of Vedic Meditation, a powerful technique designed to take the mind beyond thought and into deep states of rest and awareness.
 
Originating from the ancient Vedic tradition of India, passed down by Brahmananda Saraswati and later brought into the modern world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Today, it is widely practised as a simple, accessible pathway to transcendence.
 
In this episode, Ash explores:
00:00 Introduction
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1:12 What is Transcendence
2:03 The experience of Being
4:02 4 States of consciousness
5:19 Order of Reality
7:42 Mantra
9:18 Art of letting go
11:50 Why do we control
12:54 The intelligence of nature
14:10 Universal Technique
14:31 The Vedas
17:01 Where did Vedic meditation come from?
18:24 Other opinions
20:15 Become embodied in being, perform action
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This episode offers a grounded and experiential look into meditation the art of transcendence. 
 
If you have ever been curious about Vedic Meditation, Transcendental Meditation, or how to go beyond the mind, this episode will give you a clear and powerful entry point.
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
 
Intro music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Amazing Day by Iris Young https://uppbeat.io/track/iros-young/amazing-day

48. How Meditation Transforms the Mind | Vedic Wisdom with Oscar Meerman

Oscar has a rare ability to take profound, often abstract wisdom and express it in a way that feels simple, precise, and deeply experiential. There’s a clarity in the way he speaks that cuts through confusion and brings you closer to the essence of the practice.
 
In this conversation, we explore the Vedic worldview… the laws of nature… the mechanics of the mind… and the art of letting go. We dive into what meditation actually is, what thoughts are, how stress is released, and how the practice gently leads us back to our natural state.
 
✨ In this episode, we cover:
 
00:29 Oscars Personal Relationship to Meditation
 
05:18 How the external world is nothing but a reflection of our internal world
 
07:55 What it means to be whole and complete
 
11:45 The three laws of nature
 
18:35 What are thoughts and where do thoughts come from?
 
23:44 What is the mind?
 
30:46 Why is connection to subtly so important?
 
33:31 Does consistency matter?
 
38:52 What is love?
 
If you’re curious about meditation, the nature of the mind, or how to access deeper states of rest and awareness without force... this conversation is for you.
Oscar’s way of articulating subtly makes meditation feel both accessible and profound, reminding us that what we’re searching for is already here.
 
Get in Contant:
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oscarmeerman/ 
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
 
Intro music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Amazing Day by Iris Young https://uppbeat.io/track/iros-young/amazing-day

47. Re-Think Rest: A Corporate Wellness Talk on the 5 Types of Rest

In this talk, recorded from a corporate wellness event, I explore the 5 types of rest and why they’re essential for well-being and avoiding burnout.
 
Topics covered:
Why rest is more than just sleep — and why good sleep isn’t always restorative
The difference between “working out” and “working in” 
The concept of Vital Rest 
The 5 archetypes of Rest
The effect of a dysfunctional relationship with rest 
The link between rest, energy, vitality, productivity, and long-term health
The warning signals of ignored rest 
The truth that rest will always win 
 
For rest to be most effective it needs to revive, restore and refill the parts of our lives we deplete regularly. 
 
My hope is that in sharing this talk you are able to create a healthier and more effective relationship with rest that allows you to live the life you want to create. 
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com

46. The Magic of Stillness (Part 3) | Dharma & Karma - Insight #24

In this episode Ash explores how stillness, awareness, and deeper self-understanding guide us toward Dharma; not as a fixed purpose, but as moment-to-moment right action in alignment with life.
 
Explore how the Vedic worldview reveals that life is always guiding us, through subtle signals, challenges, and synchronicities, toward greater harmony, healing, and expression of our unique place within the whole.
 
Topics covered:• The relationship between Dharma and Karma• What “right action” is and how it naturally arises• The difference between ego-driven action and aligned action• The three forces of nature: creation, maintenance, and destruction• Why destruction is a force for transformation, not something to fear• How joy and intuition act as signals guiding your path• The role of stillness in accessing deeper layers of awareness• The koshas and your inner navigation system• How synchronicity reflects alignment with life• Why Dharma is lived moment to moment, not planned in advance
 
Hopefully this episode helps you deepen your understanding of Dharma, and trust the ways life is guiding you toward it.
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
 
Intro music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Amazing Day by Iris Young https://uppbeat.io/track/iros-young/amazing-day

45. Yoga Nidra Through the Layers of the Body and Mind | Deep Reset Meditation

In this guided Yoga Nidra practice with Ash, you will be lead into deep rest and recovery through the Pancha Koshas, the layers of inner experieince from gross to subtle. 
 
Think of this journey as moving through the layers of yourself:
from the physical body
to the breath and energy
to thoughts and emotions
to intuition and inner wisdom
and finally into deep rest and presence.
 
This practise has been created to help you nurture your relationship with yourself. 
 
All you have to do is find a comfortable place to lie down on your back, using as many props, cushions, and blankets as you like, so you can be as comfortable as possible.
 
If this practice supports you, consider liking the video, subscribing, or sharing it with someone who could use some rest today 💛
 
Intro music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Shrine by Tranquilium https://uppbeat.io/track/tranquilium/shrine
 
🙏 Stay Connected & Explore More:📸 Instagram: @ashbrown.meditation📺 YouTube: Ash Brown Meditation🎙 Spotify: Ash Brown Meditation Show🌐 Website: ashbrownmeditation.com📩 Email: ashleysarinebrown@gmail.com
 
 
Intro music from Upbeat (free for Creators!):
Amazing Day by Iris Young https://uppbeat.io/track/iros-young/amazing-day