At the Turning of the Year

This New Year meditation offers a gentle threshold between what has been and what is becoming. Participants are guided to reflect on the past year with honesty and compassion—acknowledging moments of growth, grief, effort, and surprise—without judgment or repair. Through breath and body awareness, the practice invites release: loosening what no longer needs to be carried, setting down expectations, regrets, and unfinished narratives. From this clearing, attention turns toward the year ahead—not as a list of goals, but as a field of possibility. Participants are invited to listen inwardly for qualities they wish to cultivate, values they want to live from, and intentions that feel spacious rather than demanding. The meditation closes by anchoring openness and presence, welcoming the new year not as something to conquer, but as a relationship to enter with curiosity, courage, and care.

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At the Turning of the Year is an episode from Rabbi Alon C Ferency by Rabbi Alon C Ferency.

This episode is 4:05 long.

This episode was published on Dec 19, 2025.

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