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”
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”
Find a Comfortable Seat
When settling in for a meditation, or starting off a yoga class. The yoga teacher may ask you to “find a comfortable seat”. What does that mean? How do you find this comfortable seat? Picture your pelvis as a three legged stool. You want to balance the weight of your body evenly between the frontContinue reading “Find a Comfortable Seat”
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”
Grounding Meditation
A grounding meditation 🧘🏻♀️ to settle in, find your balance and start from a place of stability. This meditation can be done standing, seated or lying down. Just make yourself comfortable. Take a deep breath and as you do, see if you can find any extra length in the spine. Exhale slowly and fully. TakingContinue reading “Grounding Meditation”
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”
Day One of My Second Life
Confucius says that everyone is born with two lives, the second one begins when you realize you only have one. I’ve jumped two feet into living. January 31st, 2021 marks a day that my mind changed. Something clicked. I felt sick with my choices. I couldn’t go back to living like this: Drinking daily, notContinue reading “Day One of My Second Life”
with love , Esta 