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Hi Julius, I enjoy zumba, yoga, arts, colouring, visiting galleries, sketching, anything arts and crafts related.. What I want to bring to the world? More unity and love. There is a lot of ego going around and people need to realise that the best thing it to forgive and forget and let go. move on in life as there is so much to experience and do. We need more light workers in this era. Existing light workers are doing all they can to better the world. I can go on and on and on lol! Thanks for reading

Yoga 2 was so enjoyable. Sitting, stretching, every movement feels good. Aware of every movement and feeling.

I visit a friend in Hong Kong for 6 days and then I go to Bali for 24 days of yoga, nature, beaches and organic food I've never been to either India or Cambodia, but one can dream hehe

@Kristi0988 Yoga, Meditation and Mindfulness are all connected. Isn't the bodyscan a take on Shavasana?

I have been working out for many years and I always try to incorporate yoga into my routine weekly. FINALLY, with mindful breathing AND yoga I am able to find the success behind it. in the past i would lay there at the end and be thinking about all the other things i could be doing. One day at a time and Im seeing the benefits of yoga and mindfulness

I've done exactly the same from Jan 2020 working part time, to enable me to explore the opportunities to help me grow as a person and to embrace life to the max. Currently embracing meditation, yoga and reiki ❤

So I'm on week 4. I love the Hathaway yoga #2. The warrior positions are really stretching. I found I got nauseous when I tried it first thing in the morning but now I do it in the afternoon or after I eat. Really enjoyable. I'm so glad I've made it to week 4.

Hi Andy, it's so nice to hear that yoga has helped you to recover and congrats to your success. I would like to know which relation you see between your previous addiction and the spiritual path now if there is any. I think yes :)

I like the yoga meditations. My next favorite is sitting meditation. But yoga keeps my mind on task. My body is moving. I have to breath to do the poses correctly. And I look forward to the yoga movements. I find on other days I get distracted with the body scan. I keep wishing I was on the next part instead of being satisfied where I am. In sitting meditation, i get antsy and distracted too. It doesnt happen with yoga as much. It's like familiarity breeds anxiety and rushing. Any ideas?

Just finished yoga and felt awkward and wasn’t able to relax. Felt very stiff. A good feeling was that I felt my body stretching muscles that I had not used in a long time

I’ve noticed that the more mindful I am in the practice, the more I’m in tune with my body, the more peaceful the Savasana is at the end. I can truly lie there and be quiet and still. This is something I haven’t really ever been able to experience before, even as a yoga teacher, who tries to encourage her students to quiet their minds during that time.

So I have tried the body scan , sitting ,and yoga Out of the three my favorite is yoga. It’s the one practice that enables me to focus more on the experience and on my body. I can feel how my body stretches and to pay attention without my mind wandering off constantly.

Hola! Interestingly I know the moment of pushing too well and know that many Fibros have that pushing idea in their heads. In yoga we try to bring this down to relaxation in movement. Still movement is super important. Pushing yourself into something that you are not will always make you feel hurt (especially with a certain belief system). As well Fibro can be part of a pain causing trauma that was never released, the soul cries, is pain and it grows through the body (a from of rheumatism). The Mediacl Medium (Anthony William) taks about a version of an EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus). And I can find a balance in that. Maybe Spirit finds is way in the expression of pain in this way: "Hey, wake up, you have an emotional pain!" Why is it so difficult to find out or find? Usually the white blood cells are in slightly higher numbers. The docs say: "Oh, yeah, you might had..." So they don't look for more. Then they check physical structures and find something evidences that coudl agree to one thing: Fibro. But there is no real test giving you the result. Williams says that only one type of EBV is really known but there are 60! And one would make you feeling the Fibro. So, I guess people have to dive into the inner wisdom. Obviously there is a something stuck (trauma, emotion, intruder, occupation, virus). A good alternative healer could read that through Kinesiology, Acupuncture, Reiki etc. or (a good!!!) maestro/curandero/shaman can help through it. Find out what bothers you in your life, what is holding you back, what sits on your heart and creates pain in your emotional or spiritual body - and all immunsystem-symptoms etc. will align because these are symptoms telling you where you have to look at. Joe Dispenza says it so nice: We can not change matter with matter. That goes back to a saying of Einstein: You can not solve the problem your have created with the same mind-set. Mind-thought-waves are matter. Change is needed. https://soundcloud.com/medicalmedium/epstein-barr-virus-revealed

Hello everyone, did my first yoga exercise and I really liked it. My thoughts were not all over the place since I had to listen and pay attention to the exercises. It felt great stretching and also had a relaxed feeling. I even got a little sleepy but enjoyed stretching the whole body.

Hi, Wayne! Welcome and thank you for joining our little community! I must admit, I too am fully charged from last night's full moon. I went to the most amazing full moon yoga session where we dedicated our practice to Kali ma and asked her to kill off anything within us that no longer serves us. We chanted kali maa namo namah throughout the practice, and it was incredibly liberating.I went to bed feeling super energised and empowered, and woke up with that same charged energy. Isn't it wonderful? ?✨

Ever since I was a child, I had a longing for Truth or what some would call the Divine. After many years of searching and meeting different teachers, I was fortunate to come into the company of Satguru Sirio and was initiated into the path of Surat Shabd Yoga. Now, I share the peace and blessings through devotional singing. I am happy to have a community like this to meet other like-minded seekers after Truth. Namaste❤️

Regarding the MBSR course, I think it's pretty straight forward: Doing the formal and informal practices as scheduled in the course. Within that, you can choose between a longer and a shorter version. But stick to the minimum time and stick with the type of meditation. Altering the position as needed is ok. Once you've finished the course, and you want to maintain your meditation routine, it becomes harder. For example, I found myself cheating using a Yoga Nidra session on insight timer to fall asleep. It's counted there as a meditation but not only did I know that while it does have it's benefits it's not the kind of mental exercise I was supposed to be doing, rather something I could do as well. After a while, I also became aware of how the positive changes mindfulness meditation were getting weaker. Going to a Vipassana retreat was my way to kickstart my meditation practice again thoroughly. Somehow I feel it's like going to the gym. If it's not somehow hard if there's no "sweat" if there's no inner resistance to overcome there's little to be gained, and if we are honest to ourselves we know when we are making the easy choice. I easily fall asleep lying down as well unless I am incredibly well-rested. So I sometimes do the bodyscan in my regular meditation position, which helps a lot staying awake as well as staying warm as I do use a warm blanket.

When I teach yoga, I always invite my students to be mindful. In order to better guide them into this idea, whilst doing say a specific arm posture I invite them to assess what is happening in another remote and apparently unrelated part of their body. When I do this myself, I really bring awareness on my entire body and my perception of time and space somehow expands.

I normally sit in meditation every day. This year in May I decided that I am a westerner and as much as I am a yoga teacher I do not have to sit crossed legs when I meditate. I now sit comfortably on a chair with my feet well grounded on the floor. This was one of the best decision of this year. I find that my practice got better, I find it easier to concentrate, connect with my breath and in general be more mindful. Maybe is just a self-convincing strategy. Whatever the case, it works and that's all that counts.

So I'm doing the body scan first thing when I wake up. I've found that I struggle to stay awake. Sometimes I open my eyes for short periods of time to get more awake. But I like to do the entire scan with my eyes closed. I do it on a yoga mat with a fuzzy blanket on top. It's really cold in the morning. I use an audio recording. I use a pillow under my head. It looks like a perfect sleep scenario. But my head hurts if I dont use a pillow. And I cant focus if I'm freezing cold. Any ideas how I can stay awake better?

I agree with jojo. When I split from my now ex husband I wasn't upset though I went through a dark period after which was grieving for the loss of my marriage. My marriage however left me mentally and emotionally scarred and it's now been 5 years since we split, but it's only been the last year that it's all fallen in to place. I allowed my self to go on a spiritual journey and meditated and practiced yoga everyday. I read up on different spiritual groups and found a way that spirituality worked for me as I don't do organised religion. I only wish I had started it sooner. The only way you will be happy is to give yourself as much time as you need to rediscover yourself, find what works for your soul and spirit and it will fall into place. I'm now a totally different person and better for it. I hope you find your happiness soon.

I practice body scan (yoga nidra) since 1992 as part of my yoga routine. I start and finish the lesson with ten minutes of yoga nidra when I run my yoga classes. In the beginning it is done to get in contact with our somatosensory system and relax every part of the body. In the end it is done to relax the muscles and start releasing the lactic acid produced during the yoga positions. Nidra means dream/sleep. It is a several thousands years old practice. It connects the body with the motor homunculus. This represents a map of brain areas dedicated to motor processing for different anatomical divisions of the body. The primary motor cortex is located in the precentral gyrus, and handles signals coming from the premotor area of the frontal lobes. All the above is part of the somatosensory system together with the neurons that make sensing touch, temperature, and position in space possible. This just to say that body scan is much more important that what we may think. What we experience (boredom and sleepiness included) is just the top of the iceberg.....

Yeh this I have to work only mind gets negative at times, then I worry that this is what the universe will return to me. As I believe what we think is what we become, so I'm trying really hard with yoga & meditation to change my mind set in order to change my life & circumstances, button this world it's a daily battle, but I will win eventually.

The person does not adjust to fit the yoga practice. The yoga practice is adjusted to fit the person. For those just starting out, I highly recommend seeking out a local instructor and invest in a handful of private sessions. The terminology is one of the biggest learning curves when just getting started in yoga. Plus, you want a teacher who can and WILL adjust the practice and the poses to you and your body as well as assist you in learning and connecting with your body. You can't get that from anything online. Namaste.

Hi everyone. Im new to this forum. Glad to be part of this journey with you all. I've been meditating for a few years with random guided meditations on you tube, but hope through this might be able to move past just the awareness to being able to move forward with goals and maintain a middle ground instead of the rollercoaster of emotions. Meditation, drumming and yoga so far, has kept me sane in a midlife reevaluating time. Thanks so much and blessings!