Posts in Meditation
Permission to Slow Down

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

Setting Intentions for a New Month

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.

Managing Stressful Thoughts

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 Meditation to Release Patterns of the Past

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.

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A Meditation for Unrelenting Thoughts

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.

Meditation, Balance, mind, soulLisa Dumas
Pranic Flow Meditation

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

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Meditation: Presence Through Body Awareness

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.

Meditation, body, Calm, Balance, soulLisa Dumas