About the Guided Meditation
Experience a calming and restorative Inner Light Meditation with Kathrine Cays. Kathrine, a Certified Nesting Ambassador, softly guides you to awaken your innate sense of interbeingness with the living world, and healing.
This ten-minute session features background music, “Transcendental Meditation” by NewSense.* *Royalty-free
About the Meditation
Nature-assisted expressive arts therapist Kathrine Cays’ Inner Light and Restorative Calm guided meditation invites listeners to turn toward their inner life, cultivating a felt sense of safety, warmth, and spaciousness. It weaves together grounding attention to breath, imagination, and sensory awareness to support restorative calm in the nervous system and to reconnect people with a sense of awe and quiet beauty in and around them.
This meditation is designed to bridge contemplative practice, creativity, and the more-than-human world, helping participants notice how inner images, emotions, and sensations are influenced by contact with living landscapes and elements. It treats imagination, metaphor, and sensory connection as pathways for healing in both the human community and relationships with the Natural living world, honoring reciprocity.
As a trained psychologist and a student in the Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability doctoral program, Kathrine practices this work out of a deep interest in integrative healing approaches that attend to the mind, heart, and body together. The Inner Light and Restorative Calm meditation is intentionally crafted to support somatic outcomes such as downregulating stress responses, increasing felt safety, and widening capacity for connection, while also calling to remembrance awe, beauty, and the possibility of more regenerative relationships with the living world.
About Kathrine Cays, Certified Nesting Ambassador
As an art therapist in North Carolina, Kathrine works with individuals of all ages and facilitates nature-assisted expressive arts workshops. Her offerings weave together mindfulness, natural movement, creative writing, and visual art to cultivate healing, resilience, and life-affirming awareness. Guided by her reverence for Nature as a sacred teacher, her work invites others into meaningful engagement with inner and outer landscapes.
Learn more about Kathrine: https://nestedworld.org/places/kathrine-cays/
Learn more about the Nested World Initiative and becoming a Nesting Ambassador at www.NestedWorld.org.
Kindred World’s Strategic Ecology of Initiatives and Projects:
Nested World is the home of the Nesting Ambassador Program. www.NestedWorld.org
Evolved Nest Initiative is the home of the science of the Evolved Nest. www.EvolvedNest.org
Kindred Magazine is where we share our New Story of the Human Family. www.KindredMagazine.org
Worldview Literacy Project is where we take a deep dive into Restoring the Kinship Worldview (the book), the Worldview Chart by Four Arrows, and discover a 90-day self-guided meditation on worldview shifting. www.WorldviewLiteracy.org
Discover the history of Kindred World, the parent nonprofit of these initiatives and the vision holder for Welcoming a Wisdom-based, Wellness-informed World at www.KindredWorld.org.