Meditation

As we head into the holidays, it’s easy to become caught up in the crowds and the shopping and the planning. At times, it can be tough to remember what the season is really all about - the simple giving and receiving of thanks and love. Sometimes, it’s necessary to stop for a moment and check in. That’s what this sequence is all about.

We’ll begin with a short series of hip opening postures that will prepare your body to sit comfortably for a moment of reflection. From there, we’ll move into a short meditation that will help you feel the simple presence of your physical being. May the recognition of this gift of your body bring an innate sense of thanks from the inside out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A wonderful journey has invited me to soften and settle into the culmination of a year of study.  During the past 12 months I have committed to practice with Professor Paul Muller-Ortega in a course of philosophy and meditation.  We have our final retreat together this coming weekend.  In preparation for this amazing time with teacher and community, I am fortunate to step into some non-structured time.

My boyfriend and I have traveled from Wyoming to California over the past few days, practicing yoga at Yoga Kula in Salt Lake City, climbing rocks in Nevada, playing in the Pacific Ocean, more yoga at Soul Yoga in Encinitas, and meditating wherever we find ourselves.

Throughout this experience we have found ourselves surrounded in the love of friends, the texture of learning about each other and the laughter of our fun together.  I look forward to this time with my teacher with a rested, clear and refreshed perspective.

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Me and G :)

Hi everyone… I recently returned to Jackson from Kripalu in Lenox, Massachusetts where I was practicing with Gurmukh at a women’s retreat.

the practice space

Gurmukh’s name means “One who helps people across the world ocean”…and let me tell you it was inspirational…we were up at 4:30am every morning for sadhana… morning practice which invigorated and inspired us for the day’s teaching!

Since that retreat I have committed to early morning sadhana, before the sun rises 3-6am is known in many traditions as the “Amrit Vela”–the time of nectar. It is the time before not only the sun rises, but the population rises and therefore everything is still, quiet and divine. Gurmukh promises if you can do your sadhana at this time of day the effects will be even more powerful. Read the rest of this entry »