If you’re building up your “sitting” time in this resource, welcome to 17 minutes! Expect to help focus your mind with a breath visualization and the repetition of a mantra.
If you’ve been progressing your meditation time in this program, I invite you to be compassionate with yourself as you explore a 15 minute sit. A breath technique and mantra are here to help your mind focus, but remember, thoughts will still arise. You are invited to be with whatever comes and goes. It’s a practice.
To help you increase your meditation time incrementally, this practice builds on the 10 min meditation. It utilizes a technique where you will “watch” the breath and repeat 2 mantras with your awareness at 2 different locations of the body.
Your invitation is to practice this meditation most days, if not every day of one week. Next week we’ll build our sit by a few minutes with the intention to sit for 20 mins by the end of the month. The technique offered is a breath visualization- watch the inhale move up from a few inches below the body to a few inches above the crown of the head and the watch the exhale flow back down from crown to earth,
A meditation suited for beginning a new day, week, month, or year! To support you in creating a new meditation habit in 2021, explore how techniques that prepare the body and mind to “sit” can create a more easeful experience. Includes intention setting on how you desire to feel, gentle movement and breathwork to enhance focus.
A special extended class featuring some of my favorite therapeutic techniques for reconnecting with your natural, peaceful place within. Expect a very calming breath practice, an extended guided meditation followed by nourishing movement and a deep, heart centered yoga nidra to close.
A deluxe practice that begins and ends on the ground. Expect to prepare your joints for strengthening in postures that stay close to the mat. Once warm, we’ll move into a few yin and restorative shapes to balance the “yang” energy we experience in most hours of the day. Thoughts are also invited to slow and rest through several cues to “be here now”, an ideal evening practice
A short, accessible breath practice to relax the mind and body quickly. If it works for you, use it 3 times a day to help become more calm and content on the regular!
In December's workshop we explored several therapeutic skills for connecting with qualities of the heart. Expect philosophy, meditation and use of mantra. You are also invited to offer your practice to someone you appreciate and to deeply rest in a 20 minute guided Yoga Nidra.
This 45 minute moving meditation and visualization could be useful at the beginning of every new month as a way of reminding you of what’s truly important and where you choose to place your energy and attention. This unique class utilizes self-inquiry inspired by the chakra system and journaling (which has been shown to aid in creating positive mood states and goal attainment) to create 7 statements to use as your North Star in living an authentic life.
This 65 minute practice offers the opportunity to “watch” your thoughts rather than identify with them or react to them, explores how breath and movement can affect the quality of the mind and displays the empowering skill of choosing a thought to create more contentment which may ultimately create a condition where we can open to the truer, softer voice of the heart.
A deluxe practice beginning with a breath technique to center and focus and a softening skill to become intentional with our attention. A stress relieving, yet uplifting and dynamic sequence is followed by a meditation to cultivate openness then, enjoy a yoga nidra to welcome inner knowing. Journal suggested
This is an open-ended meditation so please set your timer if you would like a practice that is longer than 10 minutes before beginning. Regular meditation helps us to move what we are not aware of into our conscious mind so we can have a deeper understanding of the roots of our reactions, thoughts and patterns and eventually helps us move and clear what doesn’t contribute to our highest good. This practice begins with “Bhairava Mudra” that supports all systems of the body and helps us to release fear and continues with a visualization and mantra.
This meditation is intended to support you in softening into the qualities of the heart. Have your timer ready set to your desired practice time and enjoy this healing visualization practice.
Anchor the mind with a meditation that invites you to inwardly repeat the sounds associated with aspects of the energetic body. The intention of this practice is to harness our ability to focus our attention on one point and to create balance in our systems eventually creating more harmony in the mind. The sounds we repeat are said to be the sounds that harmonize internal centers of energy called chakras.
A practice that views the breath as the base form of our internal life force “prana”. You will be invited to visualize the breath move in various directions, and sense the energy moving in your body. Intended to balance the flow of prana within to help harmonize body and mind
For those of us who count ourselves as worriers, focusing on our breath during meditation can be anxiety-inducing. This meditation invites you to focus on sensations of the body- the part of you that’s always present. You might find this technique to be very relaxing, because it helps us to arrive in the present moment where we belong and feel the most content. It’s also useful for those of us not accustomed to feeling our bodies and helps us befriend them and the sensations within.