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Mindfulness and Meditation

7/20/2022

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The Average american adult spends 47% of their waking life not paying attention to what they're doing😳!
We’re all distracted by phones, attempting to “multi-task”, etc. 🤯🤪

Our ability to focus on specific thoughts, feelings, and sensations with our midd is often lost when we get distracted by emotions & external stimuli. 

In Sanskrit, the word ‘Dhyan’ is often used as synonymous to ‘meditation’ which asks us to remain aware of whatever we think, contemplate, devise, and ponder.

Dhyana essence is the equanimous awareness of meditation. 

French author and Tibetan monk Dr. Matthieu Ricard, says the word ‘meditation’ comes from Tibetan and means “familiarization”. The process of becoming familiar with your mind.

“If you want to understand your mind, simply sit down and observe it.” -Joseph Goldstein

Mindfulness is a state of mind one arrives at through mindfulness practices. Translated from Sanskrit it means “remembering”, “awareness”, or “knowing”. It is both remembering the object of our practice (like the breath), and knowing what’s happening in our mind. It is a non-judgemental awareness of the present moment.

Meditation improves the function of the Prefrontal Cortex which controls attention, behavior, choices and our capacity to focus 🧠

Increase your attention by focusing on 1 object *a Drishti.
Specifically, try focusing on your breath or try a body scan 👁

A Blog post on on how to conduct Shavayatra, “Traveling through the Corpse” a body scan technique taught in GY Advanced YTT Programs is posted online at www.GilbertYoga.com/culture ⚡️ 🍄

These tools will give you power to:
Choose your thoughts
Complete your Tasks
Feel Good! ✨

Shift out of boredom, fear, and feelings of overwhelm and into centeredness🙏

Practice Meditation with us on Wednesdays
30 min at 12p w @divine.love.yoga
Energy Conscious Meditation w @brennanlagman at 730p

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Shavayatra Meditation

7/20/2022

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Shavayatra, “Traveling through the Corpse” 
A body scan technique taught in the Gilbert Yoga Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program
This technique travels through the “61 Points of Light” in the human body. This is referenced in the ayurvedic text, The Sushruta Samhita, the origin of this technique is ancient. 
It has many benefits: 
  • Balances energy field
  • Relaxes marma points
  • Increases mental harmony
  • Increases capacity to focus
  • Trains the mind to turn inward
  • Increases self-awareness
  • Increases sensitivity to internal states

How to conduct a Shavayatra body scan: 
Relax the body, observe the natural rhythm of your breath.
Sense your body as it breathes, as you are being breathed. 
Now focus on the point between the eyebrows. Breathe there. Imagine a pinprick of light here. Allow the light to travel as your awareness journeys through the relaxing body...
Hollow of the Throat Center.
Right shoulder. 
Right elbow joint. 
Wrist joint.
Tip of all fingers on the right hand
The right wrist joint
Right Elbow joint
Right Shoulder joint
Hollow of Throat center
Left shoulder joint
Left Elbow joint
Left Wrist  joint
Tips of all five fingers on the Left hand 
Left Wrist joint
Left Elbow joint
Left Shoulder joint
Heart’s Center, Center of the Chest
Travel down to the heart center, more of the chest. Breathe into this kind of light energy there.
Right side of the chest
Heart’s Center, Center of the Chest
Left side of the chest
Heart’s Center, Center of the Chest
Travel from the heart to the naval center
Pelvic center
Right hip joint
Right Knee joint
Right Ankle joint
Right big toe
Right Second toe
Right Middletoe
Right Fourth toe
Right Pinky toe
Right Ankle joint
Right Knee joint
Right Hip joint
Pelvic center
Left hip joint
Left knee joint
Left ankle joint
Left big toe, second toe, Middle toe, third toe, fourth toe, pinky toe
Left Ankle joint
Left Knee joint
Left hip joint
Pelvic center
Naval center
Heart center
Throat center
Eye Center, Space between the Brows
 
Now sense your body in space as these points of light 
The breath, carrying prana -divine light- upon it
The body breathes, is breathed
You are a field of awareness, occupying the whole space
The space within this body
And all of the space outside of the body.
Divine Light. All Love.
Begin to breathe more deeply as you bring life and movement back into your body.

*Shavayatra technique sourced from the Gilbert Yoga AYTT Manual. All rights reserved. 



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Well Being

7/20/2022

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How would you describe your well-being? Are you mindful? 🤔

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Harvard Psychologist & Neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson investigate the brains 🧠 & emotions of individuals practicing mindfulness and meditation…
Participants in their studies experienced more kindness and compassion in life, and felt less stress, anxiety, depression, sadness, and anger among many other perks ✨

In order to develop both emotional and physical resilience, one MUST expand upon their commitment to personal well-being 💪🏻 😊

Gilbert Yoga School Teaches many methods of increasing *well-being, *vital life-force energy, or *prana.

We do this to experience more moments of feeling good and connected to Love!💗

How?
We use Asana to unblock energy channels in the gross and subtle energy bodies⚡️
We use Pranayama to move prana through the body and initiate change & transformation⚡️
We use Yoga Nidra to teach focus, surrender, and relax😌
We use Visualization and the imagination to produce “images in action”, a great alternative to asana 👁

Well-Being is a skill to be expanded upon throughout life!
Just as a person can pick-up exercising or playing a musical instrument... Habits of well-being are extremely powerful when employed both on the individual level, and even more potent when engaged on a large scale.

Please, come practice with us at the studio 🙏

🌈Develop Resilience
🌈Improve your outlook on Life
🌈Tap your Intuition
🌈Increase Self-Awareness
🌈Learn to Focus
🌈Experience less suffering
🌈Increase your capacity to Love!

📸Jen Berg, one of our beloved instructors!
Maybe you’re just beginning; if so - Jen teaches Beginner Yoga Weds at 1030a!
@divine.love.yoga also offers:
30 Min Meditation Mon at 12p
Gentle Yoga w/Yoga Nidra Meditation Thurs at 7p
Beginner Yoga at 1030a and Yoga Nidra at 430p on Sun

Looking for more?
GY 200hr YTT begins July 30
GY Advanced 300hr YTT begins Module 3 Aug 6
GY Prenatal YTT and Doula Cert begins Sept 10
Learn More Here! 

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