Practices
A Simple Restorative Posture for Your Back
Slow Flow for Unity and Healing
Brianna’s class on Sunday 5/31/20 was offered for free providing the opportunity for students to process recent events and connect with community. If you weren’t able to join, here’s the practice:
Guided Meditation
Use this guided meditation to improve concentration, calm the nervous system, support your energy system. From birth, we learned and lived in the external world through our senses. Most of us have not been trained to move into the inner realm of the mind. This practice calms our mind, nervous system, and supports our prana (life force). Meditation is a process and this 61-pt practice paves the way to meditate on your own. If you already have a meditation practice, then you will also appreciate the benefits of this practice. Start with a movement and breath practice and then settle into this guided meditation.
Guided Breath Awareness Practice with Ann Blackburn
I recorded this practice to experience the energetic properties of nature (the Gunas), which are Activity (Rajas), Inertia (Tamas) (and Light/Harmony (Sattva). The breath and the mind affect each other so when the breath is chaotic the mind may be chaotic and vice versa. When the breath is dull/held, the mind can be dull, and vice versa. And when the breath is sattvic, this can allow the mind to be calm and focused. Baba Hari Dass states that “regular pranayama (the practice of breath control) practice settles the restlessness of rajas, removes the dullness of tamas.” One of the main goals in yoga practice is to have a sattvic flow of prana (vital life force) through the breath so that the fluctuations of the mind can be calm. Please let me know what you experience with the practice. Ann Blackburn
