I’m committed to helping you stay grounded as you get to know yourself in a space of stillness.
Guided Meditations
Taking Your Seat: Establishing Presence in Meditation
Before fully engaging in meditation, it’s essential to take your seat—creating a strong, stable, and relaxed foundation for practice. This guided meditation helps you set up your posture, connect with the present moment, and prepare your mind for stillness. By focusing on breath awareness and gentle relaxation, you’ll develop the foundation for a centered and mindful meditation experience. Whether you’re a beginner or returning to practice, this session will help you cultivate intention, presence, and a deep sense of grounding.
Using Breath as an Anchor: Cultivating Stillness & Focus
Your breath is a natural anchor, bringing clarity, presence, and ease. This guided meditation focuses on breath awareness—helping you observe its rhythm, depth, and movement—while calming the mind and releasing tension from the body. Through this practice, you’ll develop single-pointed concentration, learning to witness thoughts without judgment and deepen your mindfulness. Whether you’re new to meditation or looking to refine your practice, this session provides a foundation for inner stillness, focus, and self-awareness.
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Resting in Stillness: Cultivating Receptivity and Presence
Stillness is more than silence—it’s a state of presence and openness. This meditation invites you to rest in the present moment by grounding into your body and tuning into your breath’s natural rhythm. By practicing receptivity, you’ll allow thoughts, sensations, and emotions to arise and pass without resistance. This mindful stillness cultivates deep awareness, balance, and calm that extends beyond your meditation into daily life. Whether seated, standing, or lying down, this practice will help you reconnect with yourself and embrace a sense of ease.
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Anchoring in Presence: Letting Go of Judgement
True presence is about accepting rather than controlling your experience. This guided meditation explores how the mind clings to pleasure, resists discomfort, and how awareness can help free you from these habitual patterns. By anchoring your focus on the breath, bodily sensations, or sounds, you’ll develop equanimity, sharpen awareness, and cultivate non-judgmental mindfulness. This session is ideal for both beginners and experienced meditators looking to strengthen their ability to stay grounded and present in everyday life.
Eyes Open, Mind Present: A Grounding Meditation
Meditation isn’t limited to closed eyes. This practice introduces open-eyed meditation, helping you cultivate mindfulness while staying engaged with your surroundings. By maintaining a soft, unfocused gaze, you’ll learn to ground yourself, sharpen concentration, and integrate mindfulness into daily life. Ideal for those who struggle with focus, this session trains your mind to stay present—whether sitting, walking, or moving through your day. Discover how meditation can help you see with clarity and awareness.
Breath & Presence: A Mindful Meditation
Take a deep breath and reconnect with yourself in this calming guided meditation. Designed to ease stress and quiet a busy mind, this practice helps you cultivate awareness of your breath, foster self-compassion, and develop inner stillness. By allowing thoughts to arise and pass naturally, you’ll practice non-judgmental mindfulness while embracing presence and ease.
This meditation is perfect for all levels, helping you integrate peace, awareness, and mindfulness into your daily life.
Michael O'Connell
Mindfulness Coach
Specialties
States
What It’s Like to Work With Me
Together, we will create a serene and therapeutic space to help you access an intimate connection with your internal world. I will help guide you into easy concentrative states where you can observe thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations to better understand your thought patterns and reactions as well as the true nature to their changing phenomenon.
Over time, you will start to develop insight into reactive patterns and frameworks that have been perpetuating blockages or ailments that you are looking to heal from. Our goal together is personal freedom and sovereignty of your own peace and well being. Using meditative tools, we will learn together and you will become equipped to navigate your own reality with a new sense of presence, autonomy, and self expression.
Training and Education
- Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher (MMT), Dharma Moon, NYC
- BA in Philosophy & Buddhist Studies
- Certified Baptiste Yoga Teacher, RYT-200
- Shamanic Vocal Transformation LVL 1 & 2
- Deep understanding of Buddhist Insight Meditation from training with various schools and teachers such as: The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Vipassana Meditation International, and Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction by Jon Kabat Zinn
- Volunteer at Three Jewels Meditation School in NYC
- Healing Arts Director at Hanuman Lounge 2014 – 2019
Foundations in Mindfulness
Real change happens when you bring new insights into your daily life. Sign up to watch this exclusive video from Michael O’Connell, where he shares profound teachings on mindfulness and how to build a strong foundation for growth and healing.
Insurance and Billing Details
Coaching services are not covered by insurance. However, HSA is accepted, and flexible payment plans are available.