Oliver: I’ll just come out and say it: I hate the word concentration. To me it has a kind of furrowed brow, clamp-down quality that actually hindered my early years of meditation practice. Many tight, serious, headache filled sessions later, I came to better understand what my teachers meant when instructing me to “concentrate”. If you’ve … Continued
Tasha: A flash of insight can rock our worldview and knock us into wakefulness, but like a profound dream (or film, or acid trip) the insight soon fades and we’re back in our old patterns, chasing a memory of clarity. It’s not difficult to touch the profound, but it is difficult to sustain our contact with … Continued
Steph: In the Yogic Tradition (and many other lineages) everything is connected to the seasons, even the breath cycle. It is said, IN breath = the arrival of life with Spring. Breath all the way in = the fullness of Summer. OUT breath = breath gently falling away like the leaves of Autumn. Breath all the … Continued
Jude: Lately I’ve been realizing that one of the most important aspects of meditation is learning the ins and outs of our own unique nervous system. My own system has an ever present buzz, a feeling that there’s some problem somewhere that needs fixing, and every time I’d sit down to meditate my mind would race … Continued