How Yoga Changed My Life

How Yoga Changed My Life shares honest conversations about grief, resilience, healing, and the practices that help us navigate life’s hardest seasons. Through personal stories, movement, meditation, breathwork, and interviews, you’ll discover tools to help you keep moving forward—even when life changes unexpectedly.

Hosted by Adrienne Smith, Mia Obaile, Nora Pair and Natalie Pasqualone, each episode explores resilience, family, personal growth, grief and the moments that change us forever.

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198. Five Senses Meditation

August 31, 2026 • How Yoga Changed My Life • Season 4 • Episode 198

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In this week's episode, Mia guides us through a grounding meditation utilizing our fives sense; hear, touch, smell, taste and sight.

Share this meditation with someone you know that could benefit from this simple grounding exercise.

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Hey Yogis, welcome back to another episode of How Yoga Changed My Life. This is Mia. In this week's episode, I'm offering you a meditation of your five senses. For this meditation, you do need some dedicated time and space. So if you need to hit pause and press play when you're ready, take a moment to carve out that dedicated space. Now that you're in your personal time and space for this meditation, take a few rounds of breath settling in. You're creating the space in your torso for breath. If it's comfortable, close your eyes. Take a moment to listen to your surroundings. What is it that you can hear? As you come across a new sound, name it and see what else exists. Take a deep breath in and out. Consider your sense of touch with your fingers or your entire body. What is it that you can feel? Consider not only the environment around you, but the components of the environment you have direct contact with Take a deep breath in and out next couple of rounds of breath. Notice what it is that you can smell. Take a full breath in and out. Gently blink your eyes open. Take in the room and space around you. What is it that you can see? What colors are present? What can you identify that you hadn't noticed previously? Full breath in. And out. Begin to bring some gentle movement into your body. Returning to your day. Following Bella's interview, I was really inspired to return to this senses meditation. It's been something I've been offering with my students, reminding them that as we experience overwhelming emotions, anxieties, fears, that taking a moment and focusing on your senses has the ability to ground you, calm you down. I would love it if you sent this to someone who could benefit from it. And be sure to check in every week for another episode of How Yoga Changed My Life. Bye, Yogis.