Visiting Your Wisest Self: A Meditation

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Visiting Your Wisest Self: A Meditation

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Mar 6, 2019

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This meditation - recorded during one of Shell's Tuesday night classes - is a 30-minute guided visualization practice, designed to help us discover our wisest self, and listen to the wisdom of our hearts for the answers we have been seeking.

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Mar 6, 2019

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Insight Meditation teacher, Shell Fischer, founder of Mindful Shenandoah Valley, offers her 25+ years of study and experience in these weekly talks about meditation practice, and how it can help us nurture more compassion, kindness, joy, and calm in our lives.

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Visiting Your Wisest Self: A Meditation

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