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Feb 11 2017

How To Balance Meditation, Parenting, and the Spiritual Life

  I am a meditator and yoga teacher. These practices have brought depth to my life and helped me find perspective and purpose. But a year and a half ago, I became a mom for the first time. As you might expect, it’s had a big impact on my practice, but not in the way […]

Written by Erin Aquin · Categorized: Benefits of Meditation, Spirituality · Tagged: benefits of meditation, Evening meditation, how to meditate, meditation, parenthood and meditation, pregnancy, spiritual life, spiritual practice, yoga

Dec 11 2016

Letting Go And Coming Home

Letting Go And Coming Home

There is a myth about meditation. A lot of people think that it is something you can do well or do poorly. I often work with people who are brand new to meditation. Sometimes they say they have “tried it but haven’t done it right” or feel that they “can’t do it.” But here’s the thing. […]

Written by David Eyerman · Categorized: Beginner, Benefits of Meditation, Featured, Habits · Tagged: benefits of meditation, how to meditate, how to meditate properly, meditation, meditation techniques

Dec 09 2016

What Is Transmission Meditation? How Meditation Moves Between Us

transmission meditation

Many years ago, after spending time with different meditation teachers, I became aware of an interesting phenomenon. Some teachers seemed to have the ability to actually transmit their own state of meditative awareness to their students. Sometimes I would attend a meditation class and walk away feeling good from the meditation, but I didn’t necessarily […]

Written by Morgan Dix · Categorized: Spirituality

Dec 05 2016

Meditation Without Practice & The Mystery Of Awakening

meditation without practice

Commonly we refer to meditation as a practice. I think this is a bad idea. Practice is something you do now so that you will be able to perform better in the future when it counts. I practice piano so that I will be great during my recital. I practice football so that I will […]

Written by Jeff Carreira · Categorized: Spirituality, Techniques · Tagged: freedom, liberated awareness, mantra, meditation, The Mystery Of Awakening, visualizing sacred symbols

Jul 14 2016

Do You Fall Asleep Meditating? 6 Simple Strategies To Help

Years ago, when I started to practice the art of meditation, I would regularly start to fall asleep meditating. It began in yoga. I would lie on the floor in corpse pose (savasana) and start to drift off. When these times came, nothing would stop the sleepiness. Even if I was doing breathing exercises (pranayama). I […]

Written by Julia Rymut · Categorized: Lifestyle

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