Into Embodiment: This is a meditation that explores the movement of formless into form via attention moving in a particular way in relationship to the breath and the base of the heart. A short, sweet micro practice.
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Into the Center: A micro meditation supporting us to find a sense of the continuity between the world beneath the skin and the world beyond it as we explore the two ways in which “center” is interpreted philosophically in The Recognition Sutras.
Vibe Check: This is a practice from The Recognition Sutras that explores receiving a bit of the ‘vibe’ we are currently emitting out into the world. It’s super interesting! And helpful for noticing, processing and digesting how we currently are feeling as a gateway into awareness.
Objects & Awareness: A meditation to explore object predominant attention and awareness predominant attention. The practice is about building capacity for both, and being able to move in between with a little more familiarity and ease.
Meet yourself as your are: A meditation to meet yourself as you are, and become interested in the sensation of how you are doing - going underneath the language we might use to describe how we are to meet ourselves in the truth of the moment, welcome ourselves into presence from that place of honesty, and explore gradually shifting attention to awareness itself.
Shiva shambo - new part added: Shiva Shambho - a classic! Naming shiva as all that is, and using the mantra as the sonic form of the deity, so that we might use the practice of chanting the name to recognise that shiva is also our essential nature. Shambho - the auspicious one. The first part is a classic meldoy, part two I added on, enjoy finding your own voice with it! :)
Radha ramana haribol: I love this one so much. It's a call to Radha, the embodiment of love and devotion and consort to Krishna - the embodiment of all that is, the enchanter of the senses. Maha mantra woven within also. A joyous all rounder! Haribol = hari (god) bol (sing) ie: I love to sing the names of god! Ramana refers to ‘the one who delights’ Radha - in other words - Krishna!
Circular breath: a nurturing practice to offer some containment and support, to help you find your breath and settle there for a little while. You will need a blanket or a towel.
Humming Breath: A gentle breath practice that infuses breath with awareness, and ends using humming as a way to soothe and calm the breath and therefore the whole system like an internal lullaby.
Space-Density Meditation: A short meditation tuning into the space-density continuum that weaves all aspects of reality, from the manifest to the unmanifest, from the earth to the sky, and explores how these opposites integrate within our bodies to offer us an enquiry to explore the experience of wholeness.
Jai Ganesha: This is a chant for Ganesha calling on Ganesha as ‘pahimam’ and ‘rakshamam’ - a feeling of protection. I’m not sure where the melody originates, I learned it from Reachel Sing here in Portugal.
Notice Life Happening: A brief meditation to invite our mode of perception from our day to day awareness into a sensitivity to noticing life moving though, and resting awareness into that flow for a few moments to replenish, to resource ourselves and to fill our cups.
Rest into breath: A moment of your day to rest into the flow of your breath. This gentle awareness practice works in a subtle way to attune to presence through the ongoing rhythm of our own breathing, building familiarity and friendship with our breath so that it becomes a familiar refuge to return awareness to.
Modes of Perception: The flow of creation explained in a framework called The Five Acts, and how we can either be in a mode of perception where we are noticing life happening, or not.
Why we don’t feel connected: A perspective from the non dual tantric thought linages about why we don’t feel the beautiful oneness we like to talk about.
Jai Ma Durga: This chant is to the goddess in all of her forms, taken from a text called the Devi Mahatmya which describes the goddess as the supreme power and creator of all.
Om mani padme hum: This beautiful buddhist chant is said to cultivate compassion. It references the jewel (mani) that sits in the lotus (padme) which some say is referring to the soul sitting in the body. The lotus famously grows through mud before it can flower, and so this idea that as we grow through there mud may we slowly recognise the spark of divinity that we hold within our body - and in recognising that in ourselves, we are much more able to recognise it within each other, at which point compassion naturally arises.
Om mani padme hum: This beautiful buddhist chant is said to cultivate compassion. It references the jewel (mani) that sits in the lotus (padme) which some say is referring to the soul sitting in the body. The lotus famously grows through mud before it can flower, and so this idea that as we grow through there mud may we slowly recognise the spark of divinity that we hold within our body - and in recognising that in ourselves, we are much more able to recognise it within each other, at which point compassion naturally arises.
Hare Om Namah Shivaya: This beautiful chant is for Shiva, amongst other things calling to shiva we call to the aspect of ourselves that knows how to remove our own ignorance (the misunderstanding that we are somehow separate from the whole of existence itself). Melody: I learned it from Lina & Joaquim here in Portugal but not sure on authorship.
Namah Shivaya: This beautiful chant is for Shiva, amongst other things calling to shiva we call to the aspect of ourselves that knows how to remove our own ignorance (the misunderstanding that we are somehow separate from the whole of existence itself). Melody: I learned it from Lina & Joaquim here in Portugal but not sure on authorship.