Wendy E. Crane, LMFT
Bedtime Yoga for Restful Sleep Video Yoga can be a wonderful way to complete your day and wind down for a restful night of sleep. Sleep is such an integral part of health and well-being and allows our bodies and minds to recover, repair, and integrate our day-to-day experiences in a holistic way. Making sure … Read more
Heart-Centered Meditation This video is one that I created to accompany the blog outlining 5 Steps to Hope and Healing after the shootings at Pulse Night Club in Orlando. It provides a great idea for practicing a heart-centered meditation with a focus on the word “LOVE” as your mantra. This meditation helps to open up … Read more
Morning Yoga Sun Salutations Video Wake up and start your day with Yoga! The video below is a great introduction to a basic and common yoga series called “Sun Salutations.” This series of poses is used frequently in many yoga classes as a way to wake up and warm up the body. I recommend that … Read more
“I AM” Mantra Meditation When used together, the words, “I AM,” form a very ancient and powerful phrase. “I AM THAT I AM,” is used in the Bible to define the creative and all encompassing force of the Universe that many of us call “God.” We may also refer to this force as “Creator,” “Light,” … Read more
Is Your Life Sustainable? “It is not exactly the rightness of a person or thing or its wrongness that causes the theft of our [true Self], it is the cost of these things to us. It is what costs us in time, energy, observation, attention, hovering, prompting, instructing, teaching, training. These motions of psyche are … Read more
5 Tools to Help Build Hope and Healing After Pulse When I got in the car last Sunday morning, I heard Johnny Magic on XL106.7 speaking about a shooting that had occurred at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando overnight. I do not usually listen to much news, but this seemed way beyond a typical news … Read more
For many years as a younger woman, I struggled with body image distortion, obsessive dieting, and self-criticism.
What is meditation? I have been talking with many of you about meditation lately and how you might bring it into your life on a regular basis. Meditation is one of those practices that may take some special planning to make time or space for it at first, however my hope is that it eventually … Read more
This first video is a part of a series of blog posts that will introduce you to the concepts of yoga and meditation as well as provide you with opportunities to practice both with me, right from the comfort of your home or office! I have also included a transcript of the video for you to read along so that you may take this information in on a variety of levels.
Are you friends with your Self? When someone asks you who your friends are, do you include your Self? This does not seem to be a common practice in our society and may even elicit a few questioning looks. However, a solid relationship with your Self is incredibly beneficial. Often in my writing you may … Read more