yoga nidra: keeping our practice fresh

During this practice we explore our physical form first through its bony structure and then its skin, both inside and outside, sensing how the movement of breath touches the entire body and beyond, as boundaries of inside and outside gradually dissolve away

video: guided meditation on the breath

A short practice of accompanying the breath while sensing in particular the gaps, or turning points, at the end of each exhalation and at the end of each inhalation, and also that which permeates them.

yoga nidra: breath of life

A quiet practice homing in on the gift of breath that sustains form, its eventual ceasing, that which preceded it and that which will remain. There is a little bit of “clicking” at the beginning of the recording. It stops after about a minute or two.

yoga nidra: everything is changing, la la la…

Everything we can see, hear, smell, taste or perceive changes. When we resist this reality, we suffer. The recording begins with a short talk on the changing nature of the phenomenal world and the simultaneously ever-present steady-unchangingness which permeates it all. The practice, beginning at about 13 minutes, offers a somatic understanding of pure perceiving. […]

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: 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.