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Tag: Meditation

  • How to Float: Float Tank Tips from a Meditator

    I was lucky enough to have the following article published on Elephant Journal! Check out my article on there! If you’re familiar with my writing, there’s a chance that you read My Spiritual Journey of Healing, and you read Part 9: Swimming with the Infinite where I had an amazing Float Tank experience. A float tank,…

  • Tools of the Trade: Meditation, Mantras, Visions, & Radishes

    Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya After spending the last seven months being trained in the Teachings of Silence, I have…

  • Witnessing From Within

    I wrote this post on April 1st 2015, which was at a very busy time for me, so I never got around to posting it. Once I wrote a new post today, I realized, I should probably put this one up! For particular reasons, I didn’t think I’d release this post, but I feel as…

  • A Meditation Technique: Surfing the Breath

    After spending numerous hours in meditation these last few months, I’ve come to the realization that I’ve uncovered a great meditation technique for staying focused and quieting the mind. As you look inward and subject yourself to the contents of you mind, thoughts will easily arise. Before, I would simply observe my breath: watch the inhales, watch…

  • Meditation Saved My Life

    Yes, that’s right. Meditation saved my life. Not once, but twice, and possibly in more ways than I’m capable of being aware of. For the sake of time and energy, just understand that a daily, healthy mix of yoga and meditation previously pulled me out of a 10 year funk. (My story here.) With that…

  • Cloud Space

    Since this has happened twice, I feel as if it is worth some documentation. I’ve been fortunate enough to witness many a great meditation moments: from receiving images to assist me on my path, to accessing waves of ultimate bliss. In the past month, I’ve had a recurring experience: About a half hour into my meditation,…

  • Passing Insights from a Meditation Master

    Sometimes it seems as if life can be likened to a big game of chess: Pieces being moved about, each with their own attributes and capabilities. Forces from above, calculating: which way, and when to move. Black, white. Moving ahead, falling back. Last night I spent an hour with a Meditation Master, for the fourth time in the past…

  • Falcon-headed Mary

    Mind never ceases to amaze me. If we are open enough, we are able to realize that mind is not just what is in our heads. Mind is universal: an open field of consciousness. In moments of deep mediation, usually after a yoga practice where I am able to let go of every fiber of my…

  • The Big Thaw

    Profundity has pulled me from what I thought was a simple path. For quite some time I innocently drifted along.  Feeling a strong urge to take myself into my next stage, I asked the universe to deliver: “I want to be trained in yoga professionally.  I want to attend Yoga Teacher Certification Training.” Within a…

  • Yoga Teacher Training: The Beginning, First Meditation & First Yoga Class

    “If only we would let ourselves be dominated, like by some immense storm, then we would not need names.” -Rainer Maria Rilke This quote was shared by my new instructor during Savasana in my first class with her. It hit me so deeply.  Once it hit, I removed my eye pillow in fear that I might…