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Meditation / Nidra

How to Teach Mindfulness Meditation

By Gopi Rao and Faye Martins Let’s look at how to teach mindfulness meditation to reduce stress.  Of course, Mindfulness meditation will teach you to help your clients or students cope with the daily challenges that create an atmosphere of stress. Moreover, stress is a part of life. Stress is pressure on the mind and …

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Meditation for Anxiety and Overthinking

In pre-Communist Russia, some credit a painter and aristocrat, named Nicolas Roerich, and his wife, with traveling to India to study Agni or Fire Yoga and bringing back the teachings around 1894. The man was nearly single-handedly responsible for Yoga in the Soviet Bloc; Vasily Brodov, was an intriguing figure. A Moscow native, born in 1912, he was a natural dissident who spent time in the gulags, and on the front lines, in World War II.

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Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training

I attended a Yoga teacher intensive in Attleboro, Massachusetts on meditation in 2006. At that intensive, Paul taught us so many different forms of meditation over the course of a Columbus Day weekend that I filled a note book. One method that really stuck to my mind was a mantra meditation…

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Why Should Yoga Practitioners Meditate?

Yoga is meditation. Whether it’s fast or slow, hot or cold; all forms of yogic methodology rely on the principles of meditation to exist. It’s true that yoga is a form of exercise as well, but yogic exercise is exercise at its most evolved level, which means that yogic exercise itself is a form of meditation.

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Dynamic Techniques of Yoga Nidra

The core experience of Bhakti Yoga is that the essential nature of all reality is comprised of love, and love is what comprises the essential nature of God. The deep inner longing for oneness with the Divine is what propels and catalyzes the devotional practices of a Bhakti Yogi or Yogini. At the core of this longing is a sense of separateness from the Divine.

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