Meditation or Yoga or both! WHO I am a certified Yoga Teacher, with over a decade of meditation experience. My direct experience with anxiety and depression symptoms, drove me to collect tools that would help me in my day to day. Now I want to share those tools with you! WHAT Meditation or yoga sessions,Continue reading “Introducing 1:1 Sessions”
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Why Meditate?
What are the real life benefits – and where are my sources? While my personal relationship with meditation will look different than another’s experience with meditation … there are tangible benefits to practising meditation for anyone – including you! Here’s Why I Meditate Meditation isn’t the goal to simply “empty the mind”. The mind willContinue reading “Why Meditate?”
Meditating Through a 40 Day Kriya
Why I chose meditation as my practise to show up to for 40 days straight, and what’s a kriya anyway? Let’s start with, what is a kriya anyway? Kriya is a Sanskrit word meaning “effort” or “deed” – commonly translated as “a completed action”. It’s a self discipline exercise really: the showing up to theContinue reading “Meditating Through a 40 Day Kriya”
Multitasking Meditation
I’m here to argue that you don’t need to be in a perfectly still folded leg seat, to reap the benefits of meditation! Meditation to me, is simply being present. Tuning in to the breath, or the sounds/smells/sights around you is a moment of meditation. Sure, you can get all fancy with different patterns ofContinue reading “Multitasking Meditation”
Where to Start with Meditation
Train the Puppy I learned early in my years of meditation, that the mind wanders. It’s natural. It wants to problem solve, ruminate, forecast, report the weather. Practising meditation is like training a puppy. Know that the puppy will run around all over the place. It will get distracted. Redirect the puppy with all theContinue reading “Where to Start with Meditation”
Meditation SOS
Hi, I come to you today with a bit of a racing heart, and I feel like I have been shallowly breathing all day. Maybe you’ve had a day like this, too. So I thought together we could take a few deep breaths, remember that we are all powerful and sometimes that’s scarier than theContinue reading “Meditation SOS”
Body Scan Meditation
Find a comfortable seat. Take a big, deep inhale and let it out with a sigh. Close your eyes and drop the shoulders. Try to release any thoughts and commentary on the day, as you take this moment to come home to yourself. Inhale. Lift your heart space, and settle your tailbone. Exhale. Bring yourContinue reading “Body Scan Meditation”
From the Archives: Anxiety Toolbox
Bell Let’s Talk Day is coming up Jan. 28th 2021. This article, written for my previous blog, outlines tools I use to calm and manage my anxiety symptoms. Maybe they will help you too. On Bell Let’s Talk Day Bell will donate 5 cents towards mental health initiatives in Canada for every applicable text, call,Continue reading “From the Archives: Anxiety Toolbox”
with love , Esta 