guided meditation: from perception to perceiving
Zoom yoga nidra classes will begin next week! Mondays at 7:30PM, Wednesdays at 10AM. Eastern time zone. Register in advance at: www.pathlessyoga.com/kathleen A brief guided inquiry (10 minutes) on moving from perception of sense objects to pure perceiving.
yoga nidra: finding our way home
Experiencing the entirety of life as a succession of “nows.”
yoga nidra: on identification
During this practice we explore identification by alternating between naming, labelling, describing and claiming our experiences and meeting them as pure sensation without descriptors or personalization, ending with sensing our commonality in the infinite web of “Beingness.”
yoga nidra: wheels of energy
This practice centres around the use of the breath to explore the subtle psycho-spiritual energy centres from the base of the spine to the crown.
yoga nidra: being aware
Slowly, step by step, the practice explores the difference between being “aware of” the subtle sensations of body, breath, emotions and thoughts that is, being an observer or a witness vs. pure sensing or pure experiencing, in the absence of a witness.
yoga nidra: moving between perception and perceiving
This practice centres around an inquiry into the 6 senses (including the mind), alternating between that which is perceived, our response to it, and global perceiving. Note that the recordings are made using the Zoom platform. Due to that, there are occasional sound distortions. Nothing too distracting, hopefully.
yoga nidra: a brief inquiry into being human
During this 20-minute practice, we get to know our human experience from the densest and most apparent aspect, our physical body, through progressively subtler layers; simply meeting what is present from moment-to-moment.
yoga nidra: the ‘everythingness’ of now
The totality, by definition, cannot be whole unless it includes everything. Yet as humans, we have preferences for some of those “things” over others. Our preferences can elicit much suffering. The recording begins with a short talk that follows an unrecorded conversation during which the class participants voiced a range of strong emotions arising in […]
yoga nidra: exploring solitude vs. worldly engagement
This yoga nidra practice follows a discussion about the class members’ mixed feelings in regard to the loosening of social distancing measures as the doors of the “planetary monastery” reopen inviting re-engagement with the bustling world. During the practice we first use the breath to explore body sensation. Then we sense how our body and […]
yoga nidra: “yes” and “no”
Next session of classes begins June 15. Mondays at 7:30PM and Wednesdays at 10AM EDT. Details and registration here:https://www.pathlessyoga.com/kathleen/#schedule. Exploring what it feels like when we resist what is versus accepting what is before us. Note: there are a a couple of minor sound issues at the beginning of the practice.