Teaching Opportunities After Meditation Certification
We all look forward to Yoga in the movies. Enjoy these films and the many others available, including documentaries available from…
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 …
How to Teach Meditation to Students
A powerful Yoga practice can help a dancer learn to be present in the moment, which in turn gives her stage presence. Much like the Yoga…
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.
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…
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.
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.
Teaching Chakra Visualization During Yoga Nidra
Bhakti Yoga practitioners also have an intense longing for oneness with their Guru or teacher. An enlightened teacher who awakens the inner divinity of a student will embody divine love and grace for that student. The student’s Guru will also act as a mirror for the student, reflecting the student’s positive and negative qualities back to the student, so that the student may go through the alchemical process of purification and live more fully in the awareness of God’s love and presence within his or her own heart.
The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Yoga Nidra
Yoga, due to its increasing popularity, has become such a focus. Below, please find some accessories that marketers have tried to pair…
Can Meditation Manage Illness?
During a study, participants engaged in daily mindfulness meditation and their results were recorded over an 8 week period. At the end…