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What is meditation? How do you do it? Why would you want to do it? Is it fun? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the articles and stories below.

Expand your yoga into the dreamscape.

June 13, 2022 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Sarah Marlowe Spence That time a vacuum cleaner sabotaged my kirtan. Yup, an odd situation. So I delved into that dream to figure out what it was trying to tell me. Dreams happen to most of us when we’re asleep, yet dreams can also be daydreams of where you want to go in life, or waking dreams, i.e. what is happening right now in life. When I was a teenager, I found a dream dictionary in the secondhand bookstore, as we did in life before Google. I wondered what the meanings of my busy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World, Energetic Practices, Meditation Practices, The Process of Waking Up, Uncategorized, Yoga Styles Tagged With: dream yoga, dreams, unconscious

Journeys in Mindfulness – Part one

July 29, 2021 by Guest Author 1 Comment

by Erica Viedma, Yoga with Erica As a yoga teacher, I am aware of the delicate somatic connection between our physical sensations, thoughts and emotions. In yoga we often instruct people to stand tall and broaden the chest - opening the heart area. We ask people to open into areas that may have been guarded and held tight. At times I have observed myself and others struggle with the emotions that this kind of movement can evoke. With this in mind, I have chosen to study towards a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Awakening • Creating a More Beautiful World, Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices, Teaching Insights Tagged With: emotions, meditation, mindfulness, sensations, suffering, yoga

Yoga Nidra for Sobriety – A journey to wholeness.

February 10, 2021 by Guest Author 1 Comment

A new outlook for 2021

By Veronica King, The Yoga Nidra Project As a tantric yogi I have always enjoyed saying yes to life, all of it! For years I’ve had boundless energy to work, play, practice and party. All in equal measure. But over the last few years I noticed a significant shift, my tank that was always full, was not topping up and suddenly I had a completely empty tank. I was depleted, exhausted, facing a health crisis. So I sat with the questions: what depletes me, and what nourishes me?  I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Energetic Practices, How Yoga Helped Me, Meditation Practices Tagged With: Integrative Amrit Method, Sobriety, tantra, yoga nidra, yoga practice

Building Resilience with Yoga and Meditation

October 22, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat What is Resilience? No matter who we are, the state of the bank balance, or which country we live in; the twists and turns of life, deaths, jobs, relationship stresses, natural disasters, and trauma can affect us all. Change influences each of us differently, altering our biochemistry, thoughts, and emotions. Resilience is our ability to come back to our centre, to rebound from adversity, and to respond to a challenge in a creative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, resilience, stress management, swami karma karuna, yoga, yoga nidra

The Yoga of Self-Enquiry

September 30, 2020 by Guest Author 1 Comment

Exploring Witnessing, Strengths, Weaknesses, Aims and Needs By Swami Karma Karuna, Anahata Yoga Retreat Recently, we have been living through a time that has thrown the ‘norm’ out the door and, despite the challenges for many, it is also a wakeup call - an opportunity to think about our lives and take stock. Jnana yoga is a process of sincere self-inquiry with the aim of finding true inner wisdom. Whilst the physical practices of yoga continue to be important, looking in and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: jnana, meditation, witness, yoga

Tantra and Purpose in the Time of the Pandemic

September 10, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una As I write this we’re over halfway into the “Year of the Pandemic”, or what boils down to the “Year of Great Upheaval and Uncertainty”. If you’ve been on Facebook you’ve no doubt seen the many memes declaring 2020 the year we all would just as soon forget. It’s as though we’re all holding our breath until this Covid thing is over. We’re biding our time, waiting it out. And at some point in the future, there will be a fix …. and then we’ll be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: meditation, pandemic, purpose, tantra, yoga nidra

Mindfulness and the Prefrontal Cortex

July 16, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Dyana Wells A lot of us have heard about mindfulness and its possible benefits. Recently I have learned a few interesting things about the brain that have made the benefits of mindfulness meditation even clearer to me. Meditation produces a thickening of the prefrontal cortex – the part of the cerebral hemispheres above and behind the eyes. The prefrontal cortex increased in size massively during our evolution into human beings and it may hold the key to our human potential. Bodywork … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Deepening • The Yoga of Life, Meditation Practices Tagged With: freedom, meditation, mindfulness, prefrontal cortex, Somatics

Meeting Life As It Is: iRest Yoga Nidra & The Practice of Opposites

March 19, 2020 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by Una Hubbard, Meditation and Yoga with Una I used to be a perfectionist living life in black and white, ‘either/or’. My understanding of the depression I experienced, for instance, was to find a way to be happy. If sad, be happy. I mean, simple really. I also had a real beef with anger. And that beef was simply this: I really didn’t like it. I didn't like it when someone raised their voice or showed displeasure. I wanted it all to go away. I wanted calm instead. If angry, be calm. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices Tagged With: Dr Richard Miller, iRest, meditation, Opposites, Una Hubbard, yoga nidra

The Simple Trick That Transformed My Meditation Practice

May 18, 2017 by Lucinda Staniland 4 Comments

by Lucinda Staniland I'm a perfectionist. I love getting things exactly right. So when I got interested in meditation, I had a lot of questions about how I should be doing it: How long should I meditate for? Eyes open or closed? Should I focus on the breath or chant a mantra? Visualise chakras or empty my mind completely? I tried all these things. But somehow, no matter what I did, I felt like I was never quite getting it right. Meditation always felt like hard work to me. It was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: how to meditate, Lucinda Staniland, lying down meditation, meditation, meditation tip

How Long Should I Meditate For?

January 19, 2017 by Kara-Leah Grant 2 Comments

Samuel meditating

by Kara-Leah Grant If you've googled your way to this article, you've likely come looking for some kind of concrete answer to your question. Like 10 minutes a day. Or twenty minutes, three times a week. If that's the kind of answer you're looking for, because you're using meditation as a way to de-stress, or chill out, or because all the cool kids are doing it, you may as well stop reading right now. This article won't help you by giving you a definitive answer. However, if you're meditating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meditation Practices, Practices Tagged With: consciousness, enlightenment, fears, meditation, waking up

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