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From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

2026 Intention Setting Practice: Let Your Heart Guide The Way

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.74.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our last podcast of 2025, where, as usual, it’s time for our big Intention Setting Practice. This is our biggest and most sacred practice of the year. We will dance, move, feel into our hearts, and spill it all out on paper. Who do you want to become in 2026? This practice will guide your way there. You will set goals in four different areas of your life (home, mind, body, and soul) and you will also set a clear intention, affirmation, and word of the year for 2026. This is not about ‘new year, new you’. This has nothing to do with who society wants you to be. This practice is all about becoming the most authentic version of you. All you need is a journal and a pen. Let’s dive in! The song Rachel dances to in the practice is called Township Krishna by Krishna Das and can be found here. To do this practice, make sure you have first done Processing 2025: A Ritual to Move On. This will clear the air of anything still lingering from 2025. And, From the Heart Podcast is now on Patreon, where you will find bonus content and ad-free episodes. Available as a support for the Intention Setting Practice, you will find a Guidebook as well as a Bonus Episode: Embodying Your Intentions for 2026 on Patreon.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to our last podcast episode of 2025, where of course it's time for our big New Year's

0:07.3

intention setting practice. As usual, this is a big one. You're going to need your journal and

0:12.6

your pen. We're going to dance and move and then sit down and feel into our heart so we can

0:18.3

figure out what we want out of 2026. It's a very sacred practice,

0:23.9

this gift that you're giving to yourself right now, and I know it's going to bring you so

0:28.3

much clarity. Thank you for being here. We are about to dive into our biggest podcast episode of the year, our New Year's

0:41.8

intention setting practice. And I wanted to share that I have a bonus episode of the show

0:47.3

out on my Patreon right now. When you have finished this practice, when you've arrived at your

0:53.5

clear intention, you have your affirmation, your you've arrived at your clear intention, you have your

0:55.3

affirmation, your word of the year, take those things, head over to my Patreon and join me for

1:01.2

the bonus episode, which is a practice to embody and physically integrate the work that

1:07.9

you're doing here today. We are going to be using our affirmation as a mantra

1:12.3

for a really beautiful restorative meditation, a place to let go and lean in to trust that

1:19.6

the universe is going to support us in arriving at that place that we are longing for in 2026.

1:27.1

So head over to patreon.com slash Rachel Brathen

1:30.3

after you finish today's practice if you want a meditation to really let everything settle

1:35.3

in your body. Now let's get started.

1:41.6

Hi friends. Welcome to a brand new episode of the show. Welcome to our final episode of

1:49.4

2025 and a big welcome to our New Year's intention setting practice. I am, I'm smiling really big.

1:58.8

My face is aching a little bit because I've been smiling so big all morning.

2:03.8

I did a big chunk of my preparation for this practice this morning already, so I feel so aligned

2:10.4

about everything I'm about to share and just so ready to dive right in. I so hope that you have already done last week's practice.

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