Calm By Lane

Lane Kennedy

CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life helps you understand your nervous system and learn practical ways to work with your body instead of constantly fighting it. Through short, focused episodes, we explore meditation, chronic stress, sleep, breathwork, fatigue, Long COVID, dysautonomia, the brain-body connection, somatic awareness, pain, resilience, and recovery—and what these things actually look like in everyday life. This isn't about being calm all the time. It's about building capacity, understanding the signals your body is sending, creating more space around stress, and learning how to find your way back when life knocks you sideways. Some episodes explore the science. Some are guided meditation, breathing or somatic practices. And some come from my own experience recovering from autonomic collapse and dysautonomia. I'm Lane Kennedy, a longtime meditation and stress management teacher and functional nutritionist, and much of what I share here comes from the practices I've taught for years—and then had to learn in an entirely different way when my own nervous system stopped cooperating. Expect practical conversations about nervous system regulation without turning your body into another project to perfect. New episodes arrive weekly. For longer practices, CALM by Lane Premium is my private, completely ad-free Practice Library of guided meditations, breathwork, somatic practices, sleep practices, walking meditations and nervous system practices. Join for $9.99/month at LaneKennedy.com/practicewithme.

  1. Sep 28

    What If You Don’t Need the Game Face Anymore? | Trauma, IFS & the Nervous System

    What happens when the version of you that learned how to survive is no longer the version you need? In this episode of CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life, I explore childhood trauma, Internal Family Systems (IFS), nervous system regulation, and the parts of ourselves we develop to feel safe, accepted and capable. For much of my life, I knew how to put on my “game face.” I could show up, perform, keep going and handle things. Then my body forced me to slow down. Over the past year, I haven't had the capacity to maintain the same pace or keep being “on”—and underneath all that effort, I discovered something unexpected: I feel settled. This episode explores how childhood experiences can continue shaping our adult behavior long after we've left the original environment. We look at the IFS concept of “parts,” people-pleasing, hypervigilance, achievement, identity, social media, and the subtle ways we may still be performing for an audience we don't even realize is there. This isn't about blaming your childhood or getting rid of parts of yourself. It's about becoming curious about which parts still serve you, which ones are working overtime, and what might emerge when they don't have to work quite so hard. The first part of this episode is free here on YouTube. To hear the complete conversation and practice with me at the end, join CALM by Lane Premium for the full episode, private ad-free Practice Library, longer meditations, breathwork, somatic practices and more. Join CALM by Lane Premium: LaneKennedy.com/practicewithme Subscribe to CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life for conversations and practices around nervous system regulation, meditation, stress, burnout, somatics and the brain-body connection. #ChildhoodTrauma #IFS #InternalFamilySystems #NervousSystemRegulation #Meditation #TraumaHealing #SomaticHealing #PeoplePleasing #CALMbyLane

  2. Sep 22

    Feeling Stressed, Burned Out or Dysregulated? Start Here | CALM by Lane

    Feeling stressed, burned out, exhausted but wired, or like your nervous system just won’t settle? CALM by Lane is about nervous system regulation, meditation, breathwork and finding your way back to yourself. Welcome to CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life. In this first episode, I’m sharing why I created this podcast, who it’s for, and why my own experience with nervous system dysregulation completely changed the way I think about stress, meditation and recovery. This isn’t about learning how to be calm all the time. A healthy nervous system needs activation. What matters is our ability to move through stress and find our way back. Here we’ll explore nervous system regulation, chronic stress, burnout, meditation, breathwork, somatic practices, sleep, fatigue, the brain-body connection, homeostasis and recovery—with practical tools you can actually use in everyday life. Some episodes will teach. Some will be personal. And some will be guided practices where we stop talking and actually breathe, sense and practice together. If you’ve been thinking, I’m exhausted. I’m overwhelmed. I can’t shut my brain off. I don’t feel like myself anymore, you’re in the right place. Want to practice more deeply with me? CALM by Lane Premium is my private, completely ad-free library of longer guided meditations, breathwork, somatic practices, sleep support, walking meditations and nervous system practices. Join CALM by Lane Premium: LaneKennedy.com/practicewithme Subscribe for new episodes twice a week, and if someone in your life is struggling with stress, burnout or nervous system dysregulation, share this episode with them. #NervousSystemRegulation #Meditation #Burnout #StressRelief #Breathwork #SomaticHealing #CALMbyLane

  3. Jun 17

    Day 15 of 30 Day Meditation Practice

    Day fifteen. CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life helps you understand your nervous system and learn practical ways to work with your body instead of constantly fighting it. Through short 15-minute episodes, we explore meditation, chronic stress, sleep, breathwork, fatigue, Long COVID, dysautonomia, the brain-body connection, somatic awareness, pain, resilience and recovery—and what these things actually look like in everyday life. This isn't about being calm all the time. It's about building capacity, understanding the signals your body is sending, creating more space around stress, and learning how to find your way back when life knocks you sideways. Some episodes explore the science. Some are guided meditation, breathing or somatic practices. And some come from my own experience recovering from autonomic collapse and dysautonomia. I'm Lane Kennedy, a longtime meditation and stress management teacher and functional nutritionist, and much of what I share here comes from the practices I've taught for years—and then had to learn in an entirely different way when my own nervous system stopped cooperating. Expect practical conversations about nervous system regulation without turning your body into another project to perfect. New episodes arrive twice a week. For longer practices, CALM by Lane Premium is my private, completely ad-free Practice Library of guided meditations, breathwork, somatic practices, sleep practices, walking meditations and nervous system practices. Join for $9.99/month at LaneKennedy.com/practicewithme Join at lanekennedy.com/PracticeWithMe Free Stress Test at lanekennedy.com/StressTest Learn more at lanekennedy.com

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CALM by Lane: Meditation for Life helps you understand your nervous system and learn practical ways to work with your body instead of constantly fighting it. Through short, focused episodes, we explore meditation, chronic stress, sleep, breathwork, fatigue, Long COVID, dysautonomia, the brain-body connection, somatic awareness, pain, resilience, and recovery—and what these things actually look like in everyday life. This isn't about being calm all the time. It's about building capacity, understanding the signals your body is sending, creating more space around stress, and learning how to find your way back when life knocks you sideways. Some episodes explore the science. Some are guided meditation, breathing or somatic practices. And some come from my own experience recovering from autonomic collapse and dysautonomia. I'm Lane Kennedy, a longtime meditation and stress management teacher and functional nutritionist, and much of what I share here comes from the practices I've taught for years—and then had to learn in an entirely different way when my own nervous system stopped cooperating. Expect practical conversations about nervous system regulation without turning your body into another project to perfect. New episodes arrive weekly. For longer practices, CALM by Lane Premium is my private, completely ad-free Practice Library of guided meditations, breathwork, somatic practices, sleep practices, walking meditations and nervous system practices. Join for $9.99/month at LaneKennedy.com/practicewithme.