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Golden Moments

info@niamhdolores.com — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:45:05 GMT

Answers Within

You have sought help.

Can you truly recognise the support that surrounds you, even through this prism of pain?

You are enveloped by shades of sorrow, grief, and sadness.
Can you feel the profound impact of these emotions weighing down upon you?

Loss, abandonment, and rejection can feel suffocating.
Are you able to identify what is genuine amidst the turmoil of confusion and the sense of inner collapse?

What if, within every hardship, there exist golden moments waiting to be unveiled?

How will you open yourself to the portals of light that emerge and penetrate through your winter?

Here, the Heavenly and Golden Mother stand to support and embrace you, offering you precious moments of grace.

What if our hardships are, in fact, golden?

They are moments to treasure, seeded with blessings and opportunities for transformation.

More than you can imagine, the help you seek is all around you:
Beside you, in front of you, behind you, and always, Above you and below you.

This golden anchor an ANSWER within.

Find yourSelf on retreat with us, in Norfolk, 17-20 OCT. DM for info

SACRED CIRCLE

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:25:35 GMT

Inner and outer circle

The Opening and Closing circle on retreat initiates the importance and symbolism of impermanence,
rebirth and renewal.

Tending to the inner circle over the days also represents the teachings of deep feminine essence and our true nature.

It is a g i f t and h o n o r to tend.

No sooner does tending stop,
petals disperse,
lose their place,
and become fragmented,
collecting dust as the soul collects debris with life's moving chaos around us. We become fragmented, leaving 'home.'

WE are the petals.

The centre light a magnet, our true light, a reminder, pulling us home, awakening all that is dim within —
revelatory and ocular wisdom transpires.

Circle asks for surrender —
to offer life's beauty and tragedy, its paradisiacal pleasures and hardships in all their forms.

Pure presence moves through circle as we embrace in witness its magical weft through us, often transcending.

A celebration of light absorption, sometimes raw, uncomfortable.

Palpable and unknown Circle contains a living pulse that moves, shifts and reforms building an energy of its own,

witnessed all along by its centre light, a reflection of truth witnessing itself. Transcending itself.

Inevitably, circle completes for new beginnings.
Carrying new life from the light of our souls into the community—imparting wisdom back into the cycle of life.

I'd love to hear what Circle means for you?

The Spiritual Heart

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:30:36 GMT

Our True Self

Once naturally awakened to the spiritual heart, the intelligence of creation informs us of our innate wisdom for the wholeness of life; deep inner peace, harmony, vibrancy, compassion, deep appreciation, kindness, and joyfulness, for no reason — and Every reason.

The Spiritual Heart is our pure essential, and ultimate nature, our true self.

Named the Supreme Self, Atman, in the yogic tradition, means the Supreme Consciousness and ultimate knowledge of everything there is of both inner and outer dimensions of our essential being.

The Spiritual Heart connects us with oneness, the greater intelligence of life and existence. It is the background source or state beyond all states of sentient beings that weave the web of life with one flowing thread of wisdom.

The spirit of the heart invites us to open receptivity to the very core of existence, to feel life's pulse, and "feel the heartbeat of every moment of life, to know, intuitively, the eternal dimension of every moment." ~ Hridaya Yoga

This invitation asks we slow down time to penetrate its subtle realm to merge and absorb its essence for natural integration in and through our lives. Evoking the heart's energy by developing more intimacy for direct experience of its revelation opens and expands awareness to the knowledge of our innate wisdom body. It is here transcendence and healing happen because it is already happening. It is a matter of softening through our layers to immerse in the subtlety of bliss. These saturating moments of blissfulness are long enough to transcend the mind into nothingness, long enough to be detached from the limits of mind and personality for the experience of pure awareness.

We may access this subtle dimension of the Spiritual Heart by quieting and calming the mind through meditation and or wakeful sleep (NSDR). I invite you to The Relaxation Space where you can find an archive of practices available for free .

Symptoms and expressions of the Spiritual Heart show vibrant, rich color and texture. You might see, hear, speak, and taste more to life. There may be openness (open attention) and spaciousness, and you may experience expressions of flowing generosity, compassion, and unconditional love, reciprocally. Even in the limits of personality in the physical body, there may be unifying with spirit — pure awareness, the state of oneness of all that is.

As we emerge from the Self, we come out from a place of love, vibrancy, peace, and warmth. An inward vision that looks out onto others in the world from the alchemy and attributes of the Spiritual Heart, which is selfless.

I hope you have found this post informative. Please feel welcome to connect with me if you are curious or feel called to inquire more deeply.

A Mothers Grief

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:13:57 GMT

Healing Wounds

A Mother's Grief is what we know in the classic tale of Mother Demeter and her daughter Persephone's descent. Grief almost always returns its loss but in unexpected and unknown ways. We are not merely struck by grief, only to continue in a descending spiral. The point is to re-emerge and reform.

The role of Persephone is for you to inquire whether she is the victim of a predator or is at the mercy of destiny's way of forging a third (that is only and always something of the good) — you decide.

For instance, the story of Persephone shows how we can embrace nature's life-death-life cycles of the seasons. Without the endurance of autumn and winter, there is no initiation into the light and joy of a liberating spring and summer. The thing is, you would never choose to go into the darker recesses.

The power and success of a predator's sense rely on the vulnerabilities of naivety and powerlessness, where only a deception into the dark can render such initiation — from an innocent maiden to a Sovereign Queen, throned with maturity, power, and wisdom. Here we have the Queen of heaven and earth and Queen of death, who can only serve both if she can relate, now that she knows of the dark and the light.

Since loss and retrieval is constant, we can see their two sides. Life and death come hand in hand. By deep listening, we can awaken to our hidden sacred, unraveling the secret light within the story of ourselves and retrieving the mystery and magic of these mythical and metaphoric tales of death and rebirth.

How do you relate to my poem, A Mother's Grief? would love to hear your comments below.

The Black River

info@niamhdolores.com — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:41:21 GMT

The Life-Death-Life series

Artwork: Tennessee Dixon

Keeper of souls need-not-brood a

ballet of blueberry blood.

His seedy control move very slow—

stole her flowering flow, and with her

descends into a black river flood.

King of the underworld reaper

A poem on the life-death-life series portrays deception as the exploiter who takes a part of us for our becoming. That, in some cruel way, a part of us had to die to receive something much higher. Showing the initiatory phase of the sometimes brutal lessons endured yet open the door of the psyche for wisdom and blessings to pour.

For instance, we see in the classic tale of Persephone's descent from where the seasons came. She, the Queen of heaven and earth, above and below, served both underworld (the shadowy inner-world of one's psyche) and the upper world of harmony and balance, which is paradisiacal.

Darkness, fear, negativity, and paralysis impart something more if we are willing to look closer for their hidden signs, meaning, and message. Revealing that deep down inside — you already knew. It is only the subtlety of this alchemy that causes us to miss it.

By deep listening, we can awaken to our hidden sacred, unraveling the secret light within the story of ourselves and retrieve the mystery and magic of mythical and metaphoric tales.

Let us not stay in amnesia, bypassing the veils of mystery. Let us see through to be informed by what jewels the life-death-life presents.

But what of this Black River? Stay tuned for my upcoming flash fiction where the Black River is revealed.

Meditation for Intuition

info@niamhdolores.com — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 12:44:46 GMT

Vision, Heart & Womb

These three simple pointers cultivate stillness for receptivity and intuition for clarity in times of confusion, overwhelm, and indecisiveness. It may be that you may even receive the insight that will guide you to be.

Sit comfortably, relaxed but vertical. Close your eyes. Take a few deepening breaths in through the nostrils, then softly let go of the exhale, notice, becoming more detached from outer circumstances situations, developing more attention to your inner world.

Vision. With eyes closed, bring awareness behind your eyes, soften the tissues and cells, relax into the space behind the eyes, and soften the jaws. Then begin to settle in. Deeper. Drop awareness through the throat, descending awareness into the great dome of your ribs inside your chest.
Heart. Take a few deepening breaths here. Evoke a deep feeling of love and appreciation. Then deepen into the cave of your heart. Focus on a pinpoint, a little to the right side of your chest, and gently breathe in and out of that pinpoint of light. Notice the air move in and out of the lungs, carrying fresh life and light. Be aware of sensations without analysis, judgment, or label. Persevere until any sensations become obvious and intensify. Allow the expression of your inner guide to speak through sensations.
Womb. Dropping all awareness down like a stone to water, giving time to allow the ripple effects of your currents to still. Keep going, watching any sensations reflect from still waters. Knowing whatever emotion or feeling surfaces does so for release. Notice with non-reactivity for release. Allow any glimmer of light to illuminate your awareness. Through felt sense, there may be a voice of wisdom through texture, colour, fragrance, symbol, or simply feeling awareness.

Complete with a prayer of gratitude to your gifts of vision, heart, and womb, whispering thank you and touch by placing your palms over these centre's.

Thank you so much for reading my blog. If you would like further assistance with meditation I offer 1:1 and/or group guidance and welcome your contact You are also welcome to listen to any of my guided recordings you may fine here

Debut Novella Launch

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:47:19 GMT

PEARL
The light of truth cannot be seen just as a pearl remains inside its shell .

I was truly delighted when I realised this title. Not only the protagonist's name, PEARL holds many meaning and association such as the light of the full moon, fruits, wisdoms... the awakening of consciousness. While a black pearl represents tears and sadness, and also the street name for opiates; black pearl. This story is full of twists & turns.

PEARL tells a poetic sense of betrayal and deception transcending the shadows of the human psyche. She not only finds herself through her darkest hours but finds how destiny meets her.

PEARL is now availabl e

Root, Replenish, Alchemise

website@sitemodify.com (Website Editor) — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 16:41:58 GMT

The Subtle Body

Root, Replenish, Alchemise - The Subtle Body starts this Thursday eve.

In the same way we apply our morning yoga sessions only ‘hugging-in’ to move more deeply IN and beyond. Finding not only the substance of energies but What is behind them - to meet your own healer and guidance system.

Just as the highest mountains have the deepest roots, we’ll explore how to deepen, finding reservoir, absorbtion, as well as expansion. This is not a metaphor, this is literal. Deepening to receive the possible gifts from our sacred space, heart and vision; infusing one paradise with another.

Not only for those around long enough on the yoga mat to realise we never actually arrive anywhere (because of our changing Earth), this 8 week course is also availble if at the begining of your journey, and offers deep surrender of:

All that you are not, and All that you cannot control, rather, embody the beauty within.

For women only. Register online: https://www.nkyoga.co/the-subtle-body

This course is also offered Banyan Tree teacher training March 2022 over 2 intensive weekends.

artwork: HEAVENLY FRUITS by Kush

Self Healing

website@sitemodify.com (Website Editor) — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 08:32:59 GMT

Anchor within

This last year has taken such a tremendous toll on the emotional body leaving residual stuff beneath our skin and in the air from impact and intrusion. Free-falling through uncharted emotions - estranged feelings of dis-comfort, unease, worry - about our future. Upset & hurt. Of things said and unspoken via the domain of fear, threat and survival - leaving unresolved issues.

Albeit it frightening blessings arise when pushed beyond such limits - it is here we can somehow open the door of transparency and expand into an ever widening field of awareness. This opportunity - a configuration of body mind spirit, is Divine connection and is where offerings of healings just happen; if open to the opportunities.

Yoga for self healing is a unique and non judgmental approach that eases into those tender, vulnerable spots; developing compassion. Deeply soothe for release in body, mind & emotions to be open to opportunities of healing and find a NEW anchoring point within.

The Beauty in Pain

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:45:58 GMT

Healing Heart

"To Love is human. To feel Pain is human. Yet to still Love despite the Pain is pure Angel." Rumi

To know the highest love is to know pain. Often, pain induces enough panic and fear to overshadow ones true, Divine golden essence. In a way, pain shows us what we are not but if we learn how to use pain as a tool, since it expresses through thoughts, emotions and physical sensations (as deep as our ancestral psyche), covering our truth. Pain brings the opportunity to — breakthrough — to penetrate through matter and immerse in true light to recover, to claim, to ultimately return home to our inherent bliss. The point of pains darkness is to realise its own light and not sink deeper into a cesspool of illusion. This two-way interplay of marrying light and dark is key for any transformation. As modern mystics we can dive deep and surrender our dualistic knowledge to the vast, nowness of pure consciousness and infinite Love. Surrendering to the cavity of darkness and all its anxious, chaotic shadows that come with pain and fear to unify with the light of our vibrant, warming, loving, peaceful, joyful, freeing soul for transmutation. It is neither me or you doing the healing, the softening, the calming, the 'headspace,' but simply opening the door (enhancing imaginative power) to let-in life-force and maybe, just maybe Grace will flow.

The recording in this post is just one technique to open into the supporting presence of the infinite heart. And as a prerequisite you might like to listen to a transmission of Unifying Fire and Air I invite you to approach with curiosity to see what that support brings for you. From this place, we can dive deeper and apply varying techniques of polar sensations for the alchemical properties of the heart to transmute, if not already happening spontaneously, which is highly possible.

I would love to hear your experiential journeys on this. Should you be called for further guidance please do not hesitate to contact

Full Moon in Cancer - Yoga session

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:05:12 GMT

Tomorrow’s yoga session at 830am is dedicated to the last Full Moon of 2020.

A sensitive phase as She (the keeper of feminine energy in spirituality, referred to as Mother Moon) aligns with the watery sign of Cancer.

Attuning to the energy of the Full Moon guides us beyond the swell of emotions into our true core where we can open with compassionate attentiveness while edging-in. An immersion that frees-up the most fragile of feelings, including those hidden ones. The purpose is to let go for a full-on release. This may require forgiveness of one self, or others and taking deep breathes of acceptance for the most tender spots. Breathing old, destructive ways or pure-grief out, tears may be felt in those longing exhales freeing a heavy heart. It will be in these emotional waves that’ll wash and soothe the shore of y/our being.

If you'd like to join us online, email: hridayayogauk@gmail.com for details to register.

Our Fragmented World

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:47:40 GMT

Finding balance

Our fragmented world..

what impact is this having on you and your communities?

It is important to remain calm so we can support each other. It’s from this place of rest we can start to re-create & reform community spirit in ways not yet known to us. This can be difficult to sense, visualise -never mind materialise - when emotions and thoughts are distorted and in a victim state and thrown off balance by loss, confusion, frightened, lack of trust, causing blind reactions.

In a time where our future has never been so uncertain let’s journey together through these fragile veils to enter the subtle, inner-world & go beyond senses for healing, balance & especially courage since life continues fragmenting around us. And since none of us have the answers.

Yoga & The Subtle Body is an 8 week journey starting Thursday 15th October offering guidance for healing and courage. Through yoga movement, dance, breath-work, blessings, meditations we’ll explore these hidden strengths each week.

Expect to:

• Step back to see clearer, helping remove blockages.
• Recognise sensations of your inner world.
• Imbue the infinite power of the heart with pain of the past, of letting go.
• Transmute fears into positive actions.
• Integrate inner healing to help outer worlds for positivity & creativity.
• Commit to regular practise (tuning inward regularly becomes more natural).
• Through self healing, become a beacon of light for others.

YOU can be in balance during this Global change. Let's do it together.

The Dark Phase

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:24:05 GMT

New Moon - Rest & Retreat

How can we accept life’s imperfections, chaos, disorganisation and destruction? How can we continue and trust as the life we know is collapsing around us?

Journey with me tomorrow during Septembers New Moon phase , dissolve survival fears & skepticism to find trust, love and faith while in dark to light transition.

As the moons face vanishes into a black mystical space; a portal activating bright beginnings, spiritually, becomes a heightened state. An opportunity for personal growth which NEVER comes without uncertainty & instability.

Where we are thrown us off balance we need to breathe deeply to release fears and go beyond layers of confusion to feel, see and be in our hearts.

We need to breathe deeply to not let what is happening around us stall or hesitate but step-up and trust - that anything is possible, that miracles are possible.

We need to breath deeply to let lighter energies in.

Instability & imbalance brings out bad reactions in us - feelings we don't have to stay in. We can shift away from tension, contraction and hostile mood swings to a much higher vibration by focusing on lighter energies.

It is especially during this dark phase we focus on love, trust & faith so we can emerge and shine our light as a beacon for others. Keeping away from division and hatred, instead developing more trust, love and faith from the medicine of our hearts.

Please click here for a recording of New Moon transmission - The Dark Phase - Heal, Rest & Retreat, Dark to Light - £11

artwork: Tomasz.

Pure Essence

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:13:18 GMT

Let us never forget

Let us never forget the one thing that is true; our pure essence.

Much more powerful than any words or headlines, because it's a feeling. As collective rage, anger and fear rampantly moves through both inner and outer worlds, of differences and beliefs, let us never forget the transparency and untainted truth and bliss of pure essence.

Let us never forget to ‘check-in’ many times a day wherein the great dome of our ribs, runs river and rhythm of life force through our breath. Let us breathe our 'way in' together & meet shadows of hate with loving embrace.

Let us never forget the tremor behind our beating hearts, of the one who cares, the one who is kind and generous, the one who loves and laughs for no reason nor thing in return, and it is from here profundity of courage, faith, trust and surrender arises, and it is that which we need.

Let us never forget that when something doesn’t feel right, it is the open-ending pure essence who knows. It is our inherent truth; which is pure bliss and is the path of the heart.

Artist : Pamela Matthews www.grail.co.nz

Master Relaxation

hridayayogauk@gmail.com (Niamh Kavanagh) — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:13:14 GMT

Heal and Grow with Master Relaxation

The purpose of these instructions here are to deepen understanding and awareness when listening to the guided visualisation, meditation and relaxation recording.

Learning how to master relaxation is essential for overcoming fear, anxiety, unwanted emotions, insomnia, stress-related issues and destructive thoughts.

With symptoms of these conditions becoming ‘normal’ overtime, it is not unusual to lose sight, no longer recognising just how un- relaxed we are. The differences between the two only become obvious once the experiential level of relaxation arises. In that time we start to want to pay more attention to becoming relaxed, simply because it feels good.

Once deeper states of relaxation are experienced we intuitively adhere more to this, eventually sustaining relaxation, even when fears or unwanted emotions arise. We can’t control what happens outside of us, but our inner world unlimited with possibilities and unconditional love, demonstrates very clearly how to take responsibility of our wellbeing.

Once relaxation ingrains deeper into the psyche it starts to create new, positive ways of being.

With feeling good being the opposite to fear, it is important to understand fear isn’t necessarily a negative reaction, but our reaction to fear is what further develops further contraction and resistance. For example, while perceiving fear as a negative, our reaction amplifies the expression of fear in the psyche and exasperates - fear of fear itself creates more fear, or feeling angry with yourself for being angry, thus multiplying anger. In both instances, positive outcome is very small since reacting impedes us from making conscious choices in the moment. By cultivating more relaxation of our being, we create space for conscious choice by responding and not reacting. Fear and anger begins to dissipate thus deeper wisdom arises. Let’s contemplate for a moment on what positive effects fear might present to us. We experience raw sensations that induce acute alertness. That very same heightened sense pushes awareness into expansion, within the present moment. Emotions and feelings become vivid and more alive. This truly wonderful raw energy when put to correct use not only brings life to its magnitude, but also saves your life in some situations. This can only be a positive. The same applies for anxiety/stress and other conditions mentioned previously. But the transmutable only takes place upon creating space in the mind, starting with relaxation.

Once any physiological and psychological issues clear, we can recondition and reprogram to live intentionally through making conscious choices and decisions to live being free to act, instead of reacting to events and people.

In the final stage of relaxation bliss is experienced. Without repetition of negative thought, or simply no longer effected by so- called disturbances of the mind, no longer reacting, no longer resisting, no longer contracting to life.

Instead a relaxed, more open body and mind from where deep peace and inherent bliss starts to arise. Of course, relaxation needs to be reinforced through regular practice for its effect to become spontaneous.
Having let go and relaxed, we can now say we are in Yoga Nidra or Corpse pose, a mini death.

“Try not to perceive this expression morbid, in fact

it’s far from it since it’s the dying of the ego.”

Such characteristics of the ego are fear, anger, self-destruction and hurt etc. Once these characteristics dissolve the feeling can be seen and understood as illusionary, a consequence of awakening into a ‘new you’.

Therefore, this conscious sleep or relaxation of rotating awareness around the whole body is like the rising of a new dawn. In the same way the process of autumn sheds its layers, there unfolds a blossoming of colours and radiance bringing out the aliveness of what’s hidden within: deep peace, beauty and pure love. You see, you can’t really feel and give love when in a contracted state. So this, the final stage of deep relaxation, an immersion of the whole integration and absorption of truth, is bliss. As in Samadhi (translating to putting together) what is putting together is the mental condition as in Adi, equanimity between thoughts where there is no longer a fight with the mind (resistance, contraction, tensions and so on).

"Therefore, this conscious sleep or relaxation
of rotating awareness around the whole body
is like the rising of a new dawn."

Relaxed is the new cool
The thing is, ego doesn’t want you to look inside only to be burned by the beacon of its being, where deep relaxation brings out the emotion of great human love. So at first, yes it is an effort, but if being relaxed ultimately effects all around you, isn't it worth it? Feeling good for no reason, knowing that even when challenges arise you still trust in life.
Learning to relax becomes the very least you can do because of its positively infectious effects of unfolding truth and love that light up the shadowed mind of another. The least becomes the most.

"Your past actions are your present living and create your future"

Sweet Silence

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:47:54 GMT

The sweetness silence brings

If I let go of where the mind wants to be, let go of trying to get somewhere, or be someone,
instead, I can hear to where body intuitively needs to be, in order to release.

When I pay more attention to my inner-world listening to sensations, I go deeper and deeper into releasing what tensions may be holding, forming something I am not. As the illusions fall away, I become more receptive, more responsive to my outer-world. More alive.

If I change the way I react to murky sensations that surface, instead respond with an inner smile...
my hips breathe. When I let my hips breath, I let go the undoing of tensions - surfacing to release, my hips breath softly, soft and sweet.

Join me for a day of yoga, breathwork, meditation in a New Year Silent City Retreat, London.

Overcoming Fear

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:19:56 GMT

Fear creates a huge distraction taking us away from the things we love, therefore only dream about. I don't believe fear arises to stop us, and is the very reason that when it does, leaves us feeling we’re missing out in life. I believe fear arises as an opportunity to open more into huge awareness.

If you look for fear, its everywhere, mostly about something that hasn't yet happened. Fear of the dark. Expressing truth to family, boss, fear of authority. An interview, job, no job. Exams. Fear of driving, a passenger. Fear of each other, friends, no friends. Of hurting a loved one. Fears of what others think of us. Drowning, heights, spiders, the future… the list is endless. That's endless opportunities to open more into huge awareness.

I’m often nervous when teaching a group of new students, speaking in public, and jumping out of aeroplanes! For sure its terrifying, but its also wonderful and offers deeper insights and opportunities to open more into huge awareness.

So how do I function when all systems in the body are fighting against me to stop the feeling of fear and nervousness? Healthy & very much a necessity FEAR is a tool built in our system to save our lives. Heightening our senses and expanding awareness (relative to my previous post), fear, if approached correctly, becomes an object of meditation since it triggers alertness and focus.

What I have learned is not, how do I stop fear, but how can I embrace in order to transcend fear, to make friends with this fight so I can make conscious choices and decisions. Learning to relax is obvious, but there is something else…

There is a technique in yoga I practice and teach, however its not seen in the common practises. Any yogi who performs this will know its huge, transformational effects. It not only transcends fear but nervousness, a lack in confidence, drive, feeling dull, depression, frustration, dis-eases of the gut, back issues & more. During this transcendence, thoughts purify and lift our sprits so we can flow in our truth.

The technique is Uddiyana Bandha & might put a smile on your face when I tell you it translates to FLY UPWARD. (Im not suggesting you do this to skydive!) UB lifts heavy moods of sadness, grief & depression because of its deep internal massage stimulating the vagus nerve (connected to the serotonin levels in the brain). But much more than this. With its alchemical process on our subtle bodies opening the heart, UB is a real life changer, the refinement of energies are THAT dynamic and radical.

My partner often says “The Gift of Flight… set yourself Free,” while this is partially true of human flight (in a 55 second free-fall) it is totally true of UB since it raises our vibration, and with practise is almost irreversible.

I perform Uddianya Bandha when sensations of fear, nervousness & lowly feeling overwhelm or intensify.

What are your fears and do they stop you?

#yoga #meditation #humanflight #yogainthesky #vagusnerve #fear

A Silent Awakening

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:03:20 GMT

I remember when a child (what I now know as) being in different states of meditation. Pure being-ness, untouched thoughts… untainted.. expanded, high quality of clarity, openness. Only back then, without name or a label.

Somewhere in between now and then, personality took shape. Many external influences added to that personal ‘make-up’, you know, the cultural differences in upbringing, play-school, friends, education. The different levels of growth during a touchy-teenage phase from ‘no-one in the world understands me’ and ‘knowing it all’ (ha!) to becoming a young adult. The new sensations exploring sexuality. Falling in and out of love, or lost in the fantasy of it! The first home, job, choosing a career. The make or break in friendships and relationships. The varying insecurities of “Do I look fat in this dress?” to those stolen moments in time worrying about bills, worrying about this and that. Figuring and learning often through making mistakes, the traumas that arise… and then, identifying with these influences as reality. All this and more before social media even began. What a distraction from my being-ness!

Back to those earlier years, I remember listening to the sound of motorcars that would speed by, listening, how sound sped out of utter silence only to disappear back into its silence again. The sound itself amplifying more silence: a pure, untouched awareness - sense and feeling - of deep peace expanding beyond my physical outline. Simply by listening, as sound comes and goes, drifting in and out of the silent self. Now as a meditator, I understand the sound of the motorcar-effect having pushed my hearing beyond its physical margins expanding awareness. Created a kind of ‘stepping back’, the same way as watching thoughts that come and go, where there sits a silence in-between, a mental void, before and after EVERY single one.

And life being the funny way it is, in that we are born with true nature, which is pure bliss and unconditional thought, later develops a personality (based on whatever life experiences) good, bad, happy, sad, see-saw duality of thought and emotion presenting issues, challenges, pressures, stress, tension, depression only to then all be undone by our true nature, or what I now know as or find and experience in meditation.

Meditation can be so powerful in removing conditions of a disturbed, distracted, unbalanced or simply, the over-thinking mind. Sitting in a correct position, for example, a pyramid shape helps lift energy while using the mind to apply simple exercises - preventing a re-occurring wayward thinking - are both the set-up and preparation to cultivate meditative states. At some point the mind falls somewhere in between the physical world and the unknown, and it is here where the over thinking & fighting thoughts dissolve, a new mind arises to intensify and bring forward its effect. Silence. Just as a new born baby awakens with fresh eyes, free from tensions and stress.

Work hard and don't give up with this, you’ll return back to that inherent bliss inside, happy or sad there always ALWAYS exists, the underlying silence, state of being-ness.

#yoga #meditate #meditation beat #stress #tensions #depression #mentalhealth

Self Healing Womb

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing There is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi

This is not to promote self healing nor deny medical treatment favouring one better than the other, each having their own meaning and purpose honouring different needs in different times. This is for you as women to become more aware of all options available.

Listening to the Body

About a year ago I sensed I had an ovarian cyst, as a womb whisperer, the first step was to validate self diagnosis with a medical one. Once confirmed through ultra sound, next was to explore all treatments available conventional and alternative. Then, finally taking confident steps. The most extreme treatment offered surgery. After tuning into the listening body such incisions felt harsh and intrusive on the energetic structure. This prompt further inquiry to self heal within the broad spectrum of tools yoga offers, when awakening of the Divine Feminine spoke to me. By the way, healing in yoga is accidental. Healing is discovered through energy manifestation during the aspiring and seeking of the Self; its findings are vast. One must be a bit of a free thinker to wish to experience the true self, to believe such a thing is possible. In the same way the edge of land is met by a wall of fog clouding vision beyond, where out of sight, the great expanse of a dynamic moving ocean exists. What is hidden is pure raw energy. Only the sound of the oceans breath a telling of this greater mystery. In the same way we can listen to the voice of the soul via communication of sensory awareness. To stretch beyond such boundaries of conventional thought and belief we can meet in a space – beyond the mind – where the true healer is. Where in-between the physical outline of what seemingly separates you-from-me emerges a connectedness and reveals a wisdom. There is knowingness, an understanding that healing and growth require moving beyond separation.

The Power of Women

Consider the collective consciousness of what women have witness and endure since the beginning of time and how this influences the psyche of the womb. Her nature and nurture, memories and pains, distortion and violation of the womb – of what she holds, posses and what she thinks she’s lost. By identifying with these ideas of right and wrong, blockages and doubts (known and unknown) arise, leaving states of confusion, contraction, impeding creativity and spontaneity; the very expression of Shakti herself. She is the energy or power of consciousness. When women come together to share in sacred sisterhood these contractions dissolve and healing energy amplifies.

Disease as Information

When disease manifests on the physical level its shows us an imbalance of energies, body is talking to us. Body is telling us there may be some unresolved trauma. During sacred awakening of the Divine Feminine, the very beginning of a healing process starts with acknowledgement of imbalance through its characteristics. For example, since the nature of an ovarian cyst likes to cling onto old energy I asked both feminine and masculine aspects of my inner and outer world,
“What am I holding onto in my life and relationships?”
“Does the feminine and masculine relationship harmonise with my outer world; friends, family, work?“
“Whats is in the way of /or holding me back in my creativity?”

Another example is too much blood-shed and clots can be perceived as the wombs tears. Why is She crying? Is there something you have not attended to? Such inquries can be explored:
"Who has hurt me?"
"What pain am I holding?"

"Have I given too much of myself away?"

While contemplating these questions, I continued to feel into what is out of balance by listening to the sensory responses. Then, moving beyond the personal, acknowledging the womb of the world carrying an archive of ancestry psyche. Expanding awareness in this way helps release what emotions may be holding or clinging onto. In the end, such analysis is not important. What matters is bringing light to what is hidden—only then does transformation start to occur.

It was in the perfect timing when our gathering Embody your Divine Feminine was scheduled. Led by Antoeaneta Goeta , who shares 24 years work with women, with us. You can expect the unexpected as you explore the wisdom of your womb through dance, meditations and breath in new ways. Ladies, you can expect to dive into your vulnerability meeting others’ too in beautifully held, non judgemental surrounds. You will laugh, cry, connect lovingly with your reflections and so much more.

Diet Number 7

One of my discoveries in our Divine Feminine gatherings was a ten day George Oswaha’s “Diet Numer 7.” This macrobiotic diet is mostly associated with healthy eating, weight loss and detox, consequently its subtler, more powerful healing advantage of curing numbers of disease is not so realised. A strict 10 day Oswaha fast is performed to re-balance yin and yang energies (female & male) by strengthening a weakened feminine charging the body with its yang energy. As this discovery transpired it resonated deeply within and seemed most natural since the symptoms expressed a feminine depletion. My mind didn’t want to do it. But I didn’t listen to mind. I listened to my body through sensory awareness, where every molecule of my being was thirsting for this solar sourced food of yang energy. During the process of Oshawa cleanse, components of the blood cells are renewed only after 7-8 days, therefore it is imperative the diet continues for the full 10 days for the healing completion. The physical is but a reflection of the emotion and mind. Oshawa diet has gives tremendous power of the mind setting bringing a deep life-appreciation and new found quiet confidence.

Healing Is Just The Beginning

Three weeks after the ten day diet I returned for a second ultra sound showing no sign of an ovarian cyst ever existed. It had gone. Healing an ovarian cyst is but the surface of this work. The depth of our Divine Feminine gatherings unveil the Divine jewels we are as women, all her quirks and imperfections, giving openness into loving relationships, ultimately life.

The Listening Body

Understanding and recognising body responses are essential when communicating for self healing. The existing polarity of both inner and outer worlds of sensations continuously play out to us and are expressed through both feminine and masculine aspects of our being. Your body temperature, gravity, emotion, tone, mood, how we think/see, touch, environment and so on, are all uniquely reflected.

Shifting Attention

The secret to energetic work is to shift away from mind into the body. Recognising symptoms, expressions & echoes of the subtle body and how they might reflect in your life through sensory awareness. Once the truth of what we feel starts to crystallise, we can move away from what mind is telling us to do. During gatherings like Embody your Divine Feminine the emergence of self healing inherently speaks to every individual as One, so let go of finding answer for Grace to orchestrate her wisdom.

The Depth of Womanhood

There is something sensually penetrative about a woman who truly knows her depth. I urge you as women to deepen and honour connection with the very creation of life – your womb. To remain free in a loving, playful dance in a life where duality exists by surrendering to the unknown. It should come of no surprise then when Divine subtleties reflect through you, healing and supporting relationships and life around.

The wisdom, trust, friendships, love and continuous gifts from this work never cease to contently satisfy, its as if I see my very own eyes smile through the mirror of my imagination.

I hope to see more of you Jewels shine forth, with love Niamh xXx

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The Beauty in Pain

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Published November/December 2012 Yoga Magazine

Be it losing a loved one, a job, or your home, notice dramatic change in sensory perceptions as you move into the unknown. Emotions charge into the body as sensations, external forms alter, changing shape and colour. Time speeds up, slows down, sounds sharpen or distance. Blind spots occur. You hold your breath in shock, a void retention demands you ‘wake up’.

Though played down, this can also be seen on the yoga mat. You enter a balance posture, your mind wanders, you wobble and you lose grasp of the very foundation that roots and grounds you: your feet! Or typically a headstand; in times of reversing situations, thoughts and notions literally toss up in the air as you tumble to the ground. Feeling humiliated, yet recognition of how silly ‘it all is’, thus evokes reflection… this is where the real work begins. No different from rush hour squashing you within crowds, or irritated with a friend anger takes hold, stays with you all day. Suddenly you have an accident. You stumble and twist your ankle and wonder “how did that happen?” This is your wakeup call. Where does the mind race to and from? Not your feet! Notice a quality in movement when you apply awareness to the place that supports you to move forward or reflect.

All this unfamiliarity triggers a barrage of emotion. Fears and doubts rise, often reflected from past experiences which causes difficulty to identify true feelings since the layers build, inhibiting clarity of thought. Reacting without choice, worsens a situation. The mind finds temporary respite in denying unwanted emotion, fearing unfamiliar situations. The mind fears pain, fears the worst could happen. Despite the abundance of tools around, you lose trust and faith, forgetting that you can handle any situation, forgetting your innate wisdom.

Though challenging and confrontational, these times offer optimum possibility for growth. This is good ‘progress in the making’ when your yoga practice or life situations show you this. Take these moments as blessings. Allow these falls to happen. What first appears to break you, becomes your strength.

Emotions, like many shades of colour, produce different states of mind. Conditioning and favouritism decipher one as good, the other bad, based on what we’ve been taught to believe. We sometimes ‘select’ what we should feel (selecting what we believe to be good) and suppress or denying bad feelings… often the real feelings… which longs to be heard, and to be released. Naturally, we’re inclined to favour the more pleasurable emotions but to deny and suppress unwanted emotions which multiply in continuous miserable cycles; re- emerging as patterns. So powerful they are, eventually ‘appearing’ as your reality – not your authentic nature.

Where there is pain, the mind has ways to trick us into ‘not going there’ pushing it away for temporary convenience. This postpones our growth.

States of mind exist in all forms, good and bad. It is our job to recognise what to do with them to live a harmonious life. To embrace pain is dissimilar to dwell ‘in pain’. Too much analyses encourages longevity of emotion, since time is spent focusing on it. Take heed in the emotion you choose to dwell on. First become aware of the emotion. How it makes you feel, witness and accept. Recognise is it good for you, if not, then let it go. Knowing emotions are sensations that are live and organic, moving in all ways.

You may find a warm glowing experience or discomfort sitting with a particular emotion. You may feel nothing. Try not to be turned off by this as emotions can be very subtle as awareness is still processing. Remember it is not important to file the good from bad, just be willing to trust and embrace the many faces of emotion. Keep surrendering and watch quietly. What happens when you sit with fear or pain? Watch how emotions move and eventually fade. You see nothing happens… that you are okay. You witness sensations come, to pass, no longer shadowed by the subconscious mind since it becomes conscious. What reveals is a natural state of pure love, joy, peace and contentment. We can call this home. This is the beauty in pain. Pain exposed shows vulnerability in self and others; this beautiful gift shows new beginnings. From pain we grow, just as in birth.

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Yoga for change

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Yin Yoga through the perspective of Hridaya Yoga, Yoga Magazine April 2015

"There is the physical edge, beyond which injury awaits;

There is the emotional edge, beyond which tears and laughter blossom;

There is the psychological edge, beyond which psychosis may erupt;

There is the spiritual edge, beyond which freedom is found.

How and when to play these edges is worth investigating playing your edge."

- Bernie Clark, Yin Yoga

Yin (passive) yoga is a grounding practice renowned for enhancing deeper states of relaxation due to optimum health benefits it brings. At first glance it appears easier than opposite yang (active) standing practises due to the ‘comfort’ of being seated on the ground! On the contrary, it’s surprisingly more challenging, as postures are held much longer. Bodily sensations arise from applied pressure to nerves and glands at the level of the fascia, releasing old patterns including the way we think. As a way of communicating the body expresses in many shades its past experiences, stories, blocked emotions and tensions. Sometimes this communication is very subtle so we don’t always hear when in the bustle of noisy mind. As they surface, try not to get involved with the stories. Step out of ‘the way of the head,’ dive deep through feeling into the radiance of your being.

“Fascia as a shape shifter, being responsible for the shape of our body and particularly locking us into permanent posture patterns.”

– Tom Myers

Watch out for resistances that deceive; the need for a quick getaway, to literally come out of the posture. The significance in recognising resistances or blockages in the moment they surface, gives opportunity for old pattern to release. Here space is created, enabling absorption of fresh energy and fascia to take new shape. Courage and perseverance arise from the practise itself by anchoring the mind in the centre of the chest (a practise found in Hridaya Yoga). The focus on the energy of the heart amplifies its alchemical properties, dissolving tensions and fears.

We see this same undulating pattern of thoughts, when, let’s say diving through different elements, for example, air into water. There is a moment’s embrace on meeting the face of the water’s edge. A transitory experience of what might unfold when diving into the unknown, on way of passing through surface tension – before gliding into the deep. The action itself demands focus, body awareness. When centring in the present moment, a kind of support and confidence arises helping overcome opposing sensations of fear/excitement, the anticipation of moving from heat/cold, dry/wet, the sensation on impact depending how high or low the dive. Once passing though surface tension into total immersion, the diver meets with an expansive openness, gliding blissfully, only to accelerate to the surface, and from its depth there is a freshness, aliveness. In the same way surrendering to gravity, we enter the posture and fall into the depth of our being, awareness of the posture itself is the focus that helps us dive deep into the heart, revealing the expansive Self.

“Fascia – or connective tissue, is what glues us together.

So, it’s a broad use of the word fascia. What we are really talking about is the body extracellular net that holds us together”

– Tom Myers

What is stored?

Habitual patterns that develop have a way of storing information in cells, tissues, bones, muscles and are all held within the intricate network of fascia – holding the entire skeleto – muscular body together. In the way muscles cling to the bone so do thoughts, ideas, stories cling to muscles, tissues, cells and so on, creating body shape and form, and ultimately, how we hold and express ourselves. By surrendering to gravity – feeling into the weight of your body as it moves downward and with it, all that is holding on, we start to relax, to let go. Moving from the weight of burdens into a lighter body.

When practising Yin yoga it is normal to experience dull, achey sensations which should not indicate that we stop. As fascia connected with the neurological system that effects daily habits, thoughts and emotions, how we think, as well as postural behaviour including environmental influence, we can welcome these dull achey sensations, since we know it is the very expression of old energy talking its way out of the body; releasing, for renewal to take shape. In the beginning, sensations that control / impede our lives one way or another such as nerves, fears, past association, etc. will be seen to play their role until eventually we see. If we act on every sensation, perhaps we will never rise to the next challenge, perhaps we will never grow. This is not about denying thoughts and sensations, but moving into and with them, bringing light there and we see they dissolve.

Embracing a fall, at some point a transcendence occurs taking us beyond dualities of the mind; fears/ identifications/personalities likes/dislikes ideas about yourself and so on. Decisions based on personal experiences often hold us back, we contract and the fall becomes a fight. Or if you decide you are one way – you can never be another. This does not mean you detract from a part of your personality in fact consequently there is more dynamism, since detached from the sensations. We still have feelings and sensation but by detachment we are not ruled by them.

Embracing a fall brings great release but, must be approached in total surrender for the body to relax and flow into the experience. Then falling becomes uplifting rather than a contraction. We fall into a sense of freedom. As said by Sahajananda of Hridaya Yoga

“To be free from body and mind, even when in a body and mind.”

Moving brings potentials into the unlimited. Since the direction of this practise involves movement with gravity connecting with earth, the process demands we let go, falling into the posture to access the cellular level for change to happen. In yoga the edge is the place of challenge and change. Awareness of sensations arise, allowing change to happen.

When in a stiff, weak and stuck body, consider how the pattern and formation of fascia builds though life style of habits. Then consider once the fascia resets back to its balance of primary function, which is to restore fluidity for flow in life, flexibility, strength and support, it cannot help but set new cravings; healthy ones for vitality, zest and love for life.

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Healing Through Yoga

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Published April 2013 Yoga Magazine

“And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields” Kahil Kibran

Healing Through Yoga

Be it a mindful or physical approach, yoga is highly beneficial for any persons in convalescence, no matter how big or small a problem appears. Yoga offers an abundance of tools for challenging situations, with profound healing effects from restorative and recuperative, to uplifting qualities for optimum health and living. Yoga can be modified to support all lifestyles, surroundings and seasons, making recovery accessible for almost everyone.

With stress a common ailment of modern living, let’s start here: When under too much pressure, the mental field shuts down preceding the ‘will’ to continue. Hence the expressions under stress, a strain putting our innate wisdom out of reach. In this stage we lose sight of what is actually happening in a body and personality of sensations, emotions and feelings. Symptoms already onset by the immune system under attack due to stress, perpetuate physical, emotional and psychological problems. Often, the root cause of stress begins with surface personality and identifying with external layers we shape; push ourselves into, to fit in with society. This constant absorption of external influence, mask our core truths. Yoga however, brings us back.

Conscious or not, a process of emotional and mental responsive data accumulates to that which we speak, eat, smell, taste, touch, feel and think. Our senses, governed by the nervous system and chemical make-up designed within the formations of the endocrine system, define our personal characteristics. It is both these functions that ‘manage’ sensory overloads. That in mind you can understand how our personalities and different roles of characteristics create false impression of which our true nature is seemingly contained in. Not to mention the intricate linear matrix born out of conditionings, patterned from all lifetimes on a soul level. When stress ‘put to one side,’ the inevitable soon manifests as pain in the physical body, in one form or another. In this time the physical body may demand precedence in the initial stages of healing through yoga before we can go beyond. The breakthrough is found within change, recognising the pain body is the trigger of what needs releasing. This change requires courage and effort, soon to reap through the very act of yoga itself.

A gentle approach in Yoga should not be dismissed because of its simple appearance, as it brings a profound effect on body and mind. Its preventative and curative qualities put pressures far from reach because it changes how we react to the world inside, instead of trying to change the world outside.

How healing through Yoga works?

Each posture applies direct pressure on the nerves and glands, therefore tunes and tones the nerves and balances hormones. This in turn has a cleansing effect since the lymphatic system is also simulated, increasing functionality of the organs. Yoga releases and removes blockages, boosting a free flow of energy to body and mind. Having a direct influence on the nervous system not only becomes highly effective for the treatment of stress, tension and nervousness, in addition, provides nurture and repair to damaged tissue and joints. A gentle and harmonious approach combined with subtle exercise, avoids the risk of further damage to connective tissue, whilst actively stimulating life-giving blood flow, through breathing into areas of neglect and injury.

The Bihar school of Yoga found that muscles relax by directing attention along with integrating breath to a specific area, send relaxed impulses back to the brain thus relaxing the mind. Synchronizing movements with the awareness of breath activates the attentive mind, allowing us to not otherwise ponder on tensions and stress. Here, neutrality arises. There is a subtle shift of brain waves that deepen our capacity to relax back to our natural state; a crucial stage for healing to take place. One must be fully absorbed in the practice and be relaxed in order to reach cellular level, freeing physical knots and tensions in body and mind. Once beyond the physicality of yoga, a consistent practice allows spontaneity to arise, thus practise integrates through daily life. A more peaceful state of ‘being’ is experienced.

When you re-establish the self, moving away from the ‘I’ the individual personality, you start living inner peacefully, nurturing self again. This reflects externally, no longer redundant from healing resources that lay within, attracting healthier living.

Shifting mood through asana:

The appearance of moods can lead us to believe we are not in the mood to do yoga. It is important to consider our moods/emotions are not our ultimate truth, and such moods can be shifted. Have you noticed the luminosity at the end of a yoga practice where you feel completely removed from a heavy feeling or thought, prior to the practice? This is the alchemical effects of yoga. Though seemingly easier to stay bored or stuck in a mood, it is far from satisfying, especially for Soul. Letting initial impulse to do … pass… creates bigger challenge for mind to want to do, best get out of mind and in body to change your mind, this activates the force eded to stimulate the energetic system, thus shifting mood. Don’t listen to the mind …just do the doing! A simple act of not reacting to the minds thoughts can change perspective and lift the mind.

Useful advice in practicing Yoga:

The intention of sequenced postures is each one prepares the body and mind to support the next. As time goes on each practice lends itself to the other. All parallel, complement and enhance the other. When practicing yoga try not to worry about creating a perfect picture with your posture; by forcing into a ‘perfect’ shape. This disconnects your flow. You can’t breath properly, your muscles cannot breath properly and you create further tension, (your nerves shrink back into state of feeling under pressure). Rather merge mind with body and breath, into a more expansive field. When soul’s colours morph into life, the real picture reveals; the luminous self.

During practice you may experience opposing forces of constant push and pull, allow gravity to pronounce its very nature and work with it rather than against, try not to create a fight. Watch how your body responds in awe, observing your mental and emotional capacity in relation to current life circumstance and attitudes. Embrace the unknown. Let your physical body grow and expand in its own time – a jovial approach will certainly give a richer and freer experience. Allow mind observe for acceptance to arise thus a meditative practice transpires, watching and not reacting to what is happening. Watching and accepting all that arises, knowing this too changes.

Your yoga practice is an ongoing process, never give up. Despite all life’s glories and woes, persevere, the rewards are abundant and never ever give up.

Teaching for over 10 years, Niamh experiences Yoga as a Gift to Self since she has observed growth and change available to ALL, no matter how big or small a problem appears.

Specialisms -Hridaya Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa flow, Stress and Pain Management , Yoga for Healing (including fears, tendencies and emotions), Hridaya Meditation, Pranayama / Breathwork ,Yoga Nidra (deep relaxation).

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Self Align with our Moons rhythms

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

As the moon's phase continues its circuitry loop around Earth, it's ever-increasing and decreasing appearance wanes a microdot in the great black of space. While it’s orbit distances to its furthest point, leaving us in total darkness, the new moon phase opposite to the high energy and creativity of Full & Super Moon, just as powerful. The time of the New Moon is special because of its deep cleansing physically, emotionally and mentally. A time for us to gravitate toward the unknown darkness within. To reflect on what patterns hold us contracted, stuck and/or in pain. A time to meet your boundaries in the deep space of unknown possibilities since during this clearing, new ideas are born. A powerful time to ingrain your true intentions into the cosmic matrix and manifest with ease, moving forward with grace. To self align, increase the journey to Self and decrease what holds you back by working with the moons circuitry rhythms to help recognize dark patterns and bring to light what old ones want to be released. Ever moving and flowing with natures rhythms for self connectedness.

Whats your favourite position?

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:46:00 GMT

Lying down

Lying down, isn't it everyone's favourite position?

In the 20 years of teaching yoga, meditation and varying relaxation techniques, time after time, sighs of relief and whispering echoes " yes" fill the space in the moment it is softly announced, " lay down, get cosy, close your eyes..."

That's right, it's time for the relaxation phase. The moment everyone waits for in a yoga session (even if they don't know it). Yet, it the most difficult to do.

That is because there's an art to relax that comes with effortless practice. The only effort is to create the time to lay down for no sleep deep rest (NSDR). Time, one of the most highest values a person can give themselves which in turn creates more time. The magical effects of this relaxation gradually integrates into your being that become more spontaneous as your practice. And I can show you how to do this but first let's look at why relaxation is something almost everyone wants more of in their life.

When relaxed your entire life changes because you start seeing, hearing, and feeling more. Your senses become more alive. Awareness opens right up. Denial ceases because when relaxed, you start feeling more comfortable in body and mind and accept all aspects of yourself. You start perceiving self and others differently and may notice you even become more creative and motivated in new ways. And what may have bothered or upset you before, suddenly becomes insignificant.

If like most people you find it difficult how to relax or sleep peacefully, you will realise you are not alone. Todays pressures are an endless list. I have-to-do this , I have to go there or feeling bad for not doing more, or simply unable to switch off, comparing yourself to others, feeling of not good enough, trying to keep up with family, friends, pressures of social media, circling over the past worrying about the future the list goes on. We see and hear these pressures all the time.

There are many reasons that stop the much needing simplicity of slowing down, even stop.

Move yourself out the way

These illusions are made up of The Three Gunas meaning qualities behind, within and around our physical and subtle bodies. They make up our thoughts, moods, how we think, inevitably, how we act. Your life validates this by continuing patterns through the qualities of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas of who you are, sleep, eat, dress, work, choice of friends and so on. The Gunas determine you.

Yoga says when making decisions, go into Sattva for clarity of truth. A kind of refining emotions and thoughts for true action to be taken through Rajas. When in Tamas you can't think properly since qualities of doubt and negativity exist there, creating blocks, fears and so on. Caught in this tendency can be destructive yet Tamas is needed to calm down for rest. Hridaya Meditation offers a direct source to Sattva since it shifts the awareness of mind into the heart who is abundant with pure and unconditional love where we no longer self judge.

Once putting personal hurdles and insecurities to one side you create space in the mind. Where there is a clearing, focus sharpens and you start becoming inspired by life again. The not liking aspects of you, turn into loving, believing and trusting in you. You'll not only like hanging out with your relaxed self but will share a newfound radiance with others.

“Thank you so much for a wonderful experience this evening. It felt so good to reconnect and feel truly alive. I felt quite emotional as I connected to my true self by taking part in this simple act of loving-kindness. I hope I can attend more classes in the new year, I’ve been so caught up in work I’d forgotten what I really need”-Andrea

For now, let's focus on you. Right now, you are the most important person you know since you have to live with you. Your internal dialogue, worries, and fears follow you everywhere. You sleep at night with them and you wake with them. So start by cultivating positive versions of you through sattvic living.

Whats Locking and not Looking?

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:39:00 GMT

Fear is always about something that has not happened yet can block you in life or stop your preferred way of living, even when aware of this.

It’s just something the mind does to lock you from looking at you.

The mind creates false senses of security as a temporary form of survival. When you take steps into the unknown leaving behind safe walls of what you know, challenges surface. Try not to be perturbed by these.

You say “I’m too scared.”

Try to see fears rising as an illusion since it’s about stuff that has not happened it has to be a projection of the mind. Although, I do understand when illusions appear how real it feels.

By identifying with a certain feeling you start believing, thus become.

Consequently dealing with strong emotions fear creates are re-ACT-ions. Emotions played out in this way are no fun and uncontrollable especially as panic arises or anxiety attacks. This is no fun at all. There are ways to approach this by changing perspective.

Start to embrace, open, even play with your fears

As you begin taking small steps for change, don’t let fear stop you from locking into acts of emotion creating a false sense of security, keeping you in mundane patterns of sleep. Fear is there to wake you up! Once learned how to switch them to positive emotions you will marvel at how they can instead fuel and charge into positive. You will have to find strength inside, which you have, and stand strong like a mountain. Tell yourself there is no turning back and continue learning to rest in moments as the reaction occurs. Eventually, you will remain neutral and nonreactive so you can live life's opportunities it presents.

If circuitry patterns keep you avoiding fears, start to use them, don't avoid them. They spark our senses and thrive aliveness

Fears and phobias are never about the subject itself but projections of hidden insecurities. Fear creates illusionary situations for you to avoid facing that insecurity OR deceives you into making fear-based decisions and present more problems. It’s just something the mind does to lock you from looking at you. The best way to refine these feelings and reactions are to approach the mind in a state of relaxation. Here is when you can heal, breathe into freedom and move past fear.

A phobia is a projection of a much deeper fear hidden in the subconscious. Often from a childhood memory labeled a bad experience or something you now don’t like based on that one-time nasty experience. The more resistance to the object/person/event over time, the bigger the projection, the deeper the pattern. As it amplifies and forms itself a psychodrama bringing up the phobia and blocks you in life.

On one hand, fear can be a great helper by saving your life, on the other fear can keep you locked in the illusion of being safe, so you avoid things in life, keeping you behind closed doors and from many beautiful people and new experiences in life.

We all express fears differently from each other. Some internal where the psychodrama implodes and attacks you otherwise known as self-sabotage. Externally psycho drama projects onto others often transferring the feeling or finding blame. Both may project in 2 different ways:

Internally

You suffer in silence and hide, create lies, believe your lies, we know this as a denial. Pushed into the cellular over time, manifests as disease and ailment of the physical body. Denial is tricky as its subliminal ways make difficulty for the person to perceive their fear as reality and often masquerades itself with accomplices such as food, alcohol and other mind-enhancing substances. Taking away the edge of contracted murky feelings often to painful for the barer to confront. This temporary fix has detriment effects of self-sabotage leading to dependency and addictions. The dependency to lean to any form of material or social circle that cushions and comforts one to escape pain or fear in turn fuels one's addictive nature.

Externally

You play out the drama to find a source or person to blame covering up your fear. Also denial. Leaves you feeling really bad about yourself often turning to self-abuse verbally in the extreme, self-harming, punishing self, anything to avoid looking at your fears.

For example, a group of you are on holiday. Alice has a fear of water. She doesn’t inform the group about her fear when they plan a boat trip to the beach. Instead, Alice pretends all is okay, has an important call to make.

“I’ll meet you guys down there.” She affirms.

Two hours later no sign of Alice, the girls start wondering where she is. Meanwhile, Alice sits alone with her deepest darkest demons who play out their psychodramas, in her head.

Fears multiply

She starts feeling left out, dumped, rejected, abandoned, fears become paranoias. She starts to create the story they left her behind. These are unpleasant emotions and insecurities to be left alone with and unnecessary to go through. By the time Alice takes herself down the beach via the road, she arrives fuming because she believes her made-up story. She will believe anything rather than face her fear. The girls are completely taken back when Alice storms past furiously, accusing them of leaving without her.

Alice’s fear of water transpires when she confides to one of the girls who created a safe space for her. The onset of her actual fear may be a near-death drowning experience as a child or maybe fear of grief, perhaps someone she loves drowned and left her. It would make sense then, relating her fears of water with abandonment. Alice creates the story that overpowers her fear so she doesn’t have to face her actual fear. Relating her fear of water with abandonment as something to blame for her fear again, removes her from facing fears.

Living in fear is is no way to live

When you see how the subliminal take place, where you can talk your way into-and-out-of anything, ask yourself: How much do you trust this voice of fear inside? Why give it the time of day when all it does is lock you in suffering?

Your fears can be your greatest teaching

You can move past fear. Try not to fight or avoid fear. Approach gently, play with and explore. Talk about your fears, let them breathe, share with your friends and loved ones whom you feel comfortable to confide in what you are frightened of, the more they come into awareness by bringing them to light, the more opportunity you create to dissolve them.

When fears, complexes, and insecurities arise step by step, breathe into and absorb the sensations as that come up. Take your time.

Find more in Moving past fear recording after listening to Master relaxation.

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Relaxing in front of TV or with a beer?

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:32:00 GMT

The only person stopping you from relaxing is you.

Relaxing is not sitting in front of the TV or having a beer in the bar. These activities are active and not resting for the mind. They are forms of escapism, brainwashing or social influences pouring more data into the psyche, the opposite of relaxing. True relaxation allows you to access your internal reservoir for the absorption and boost of fresh energy. I'm talking about a deep relaxation beyond the cellular level where you detach from and strip back all disturbances of the mind, into the core of your being, which is radiant by the way, abundant with fresh energy.

The moment your eyes open in the morning, data starts streaming into your consciousness. What thoughts you put your attention on pretty much determines your day. So if bad thoughts and ideas persist, make efferot to shift to follow positive good ones. This may will require some effort at first, to shift your attention to more positive uplifting thoughts and actions. If unpleasant experiences of the past continue in the present, only you can be responsible to start making a change for your future. By applying thoughts and emotions positively you can transmute the negative ones. We are not simply replacing negative with positive thoughts, varying technqiues and pracitses will need to be applied.

Those on a self-realization path aspire to sattvic living for the refining of thoughts and emotions when meditating. The reason why is because its positive enhancements support the journey by dissolving old patterns and unwanted habits that surface from the subconscious mind.

Your mind ingests and digests in the same way your body does

Diet is also relative since tamas can be present in food as well as mental pollution. For example, you wouldn’t have an espresso shot before going to sleep at night because of its stimulating effect and strain on the endocrine and nervous system putting you in a jittery and wired frenzy. So why then should it be any different that you watch a horror or disturbing program on the TV before going to bed , if at all?

By becoming more aware of such day to day influences you can change what you absorb you can start to take responsibility for your wellbeing.

This is not avoidance, this is making a conscious choice

When it comes to learning how to relax change knocks on your door

Life shows continuous change

By looking to nature as your teacher, you see the season's weather patterns shape and reshape the land, temperature, and color in great contrast. As you grow baby to an adult you shape your future from school to work, living with, then without parents, where people and friends come and go. As with the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, change is endless and meets you with lifelong new beginnings and experiences.

Preparing your psyche for unexpected change is a great tool to mentor your wellbeing since change is inevitable. Trying to control what happens outside of you will only cause heartache and strain, while inside you can repair pain and grow.

With practise you will come to rest in the unknown. The very least you can do is flow gracefully with change. This comes with Mastering Relaxation.

To relax is the very least you can master because of its positively infectious effect, is unlimited. The least becomes the most, as the unfolding of truth and love lights up the shadowed mind of another.

Change can be subtle and sometimes can feel like nothing is happening but is very definitely a work in progress. And while in the transition of relaxation, shifting from individual to transpersonal can be testing. The ego doesn’t want you to look inside only to be burned by the beacon of its being. So in these times ride the tiger (!!) persist and persevere.

Divert all attention from external dramas that distract by internalizing to the loving kindness and compassionate being you are.

Through regular relaxation, you will develop more acceptance and courage for change. Just as seasons shape and mold us, so does nature of the mind, and you can direct the energy of mind with varying meditation techniques according to varying seasons of the mind.

Modern or not, life has always presented pressure and challenge. As much as we humans seem to complicate things in life, within every one of us resides the emotion of great human love. And this is what we gravitate to when learning to relax, our intrinsic nature or true essence, which is pure and unconditional love.

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How to Commit to the Magic of your Being

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:13:00 GMT

The magic of your being is always there.

It just feels like it deserted you because you neglected the magic of your being with chores and slaves for money. But that's okay, in these times, a little bit of self-polishing is needed so it can shine back through you.

“ Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you’re bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.” Goenka

3 things you will need to do to commit to the magic of your being:

1. Attention: Make a date with you.

Develop self intimacy. Whether it’s relaxation, yoga practice or meditation, start preparing the space, bringing to attention all the things you need to make this happen. For example blankets, dim lights, yoga matt, music, dress comfortably, mobile off (you don’t want distraction).

2. Intention: Develop an emotional connection with what you want to commit to.

Create time by exchanging nights out or watching TV to connect with the magic of your being. See yourself play out the action of the yoga sequence, meditation, walk in nature and so on. Imagine through body-mind sensation how it would feel, see the changes, strengths, good feeling and benefits it brings about, feel it in your being now. See yourself relaxed, peaceful and glowing.

3. Action: Do it.

All the above prepares action from procrastination sneaking up on you. Your action then becomes an inspiration for others to also commit to the magic of their being.

Commitment cultivates discipline. Discipline needs attention: attention to intention.

The intention is a conscious choice, giving more power to the action.

Conscious choice is best made when in Sattva . This alone, subtly opens doors of possibilities.

Even when stuck or unhappy in a place, home or job for years, change is so very possible. When all is seemingly going nowhere, life still flows forward for you too, it's just about falling back into self-alignment or shifting back into the rhythm of flow so you can recognize again the magic of your being.

An all-important telling here is knowing how to let go. This is a big one because the heart always knows what is best, but where there is an imbalance between head and heart, the internal tussle to-and-fro consumes you, a lot can time pass by. Enough to lose recognition of who you are anymore and, it seems to stem from a voice that projects from the mind, you might have heard about it? Its called ego.

The ego doesn’t allow what the heart wants to do and tries to rule.

Makes you feel like you are against the beautifully flowing river of life.

So you have to learn how to let go of ego. Discipline will show you how.

If you have already tried to meditate you will relate to this:

After 5 mins or so just when you think you’ve got your Zen its as though someone turned on the internal radio, a clanger voice destroys the whole thing ordering you, “I don’t want to meditate.” And that's it, you stop. You have listened to the Tamas voice within. This will wipe out confidence and trust in the practice, to the point of falling through a downward spiral. And all good intentions are out the window. Many people give up or don’t try to meditate because of this. In the beginning without the support of a guide or teacher Zen may appear unattainable, but confidence in this develops through the refinement of thoughts and emotions. Determination, patience, and perseverance strengthen commitment and discipline.

The same applies to Master relaxation.

To let go of ego you have to ignore its voice. No matter how successful it appears its no good trying to win it over, you’ll spend a lifetime consumed by its undying energy. Rather than fight, approach with fun, be playful and gentle, it will ease surrender. That is why you experience a mini death in relaxation, because of its passive approach, ego has no one to feed its energy off and so it dies. But this dying of ego also has a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth which is why consistent practice to relax is paramount. The more ego dies, and dies again, the less its strength. And is the reason why yoga or relaxation is performed before meditation, to help ease and enhance the transition of surrender.

There will be moments you feel like giving up, or that you have failed, don’t be disturbed by this, continue: keep applying positive attitudes ignoring the negative voice. This will soon get bored and eventually fade, quieten.

When overcoming these hurdles they become insignificant and you soon learn to manage the patterns of your mind, you recognise symptoms that trigger thoughts and emotions and movements before they arrive – it's in that moment you have the power to access and reset for healing potency, change and growth.

The good news is mastering relaxation is just the beginning, in time, this is something you can have fun with, for being relaxed brings you in a state of play and creativity.

The thing is when you learn to let go, closing just one door opens ten more. Your growth can expand in leaps and bounds – speeding up the process of what might have taken years and this is what is so magical about the space-time continuum.

Once those circuitry patterns start breaking you will be operating with higher emotions, no longer trading conversations, and desires for money or things that come with conditions and contracts, but desiring pure love and openness, acceptance and freedom. This will reflect in your life socially and professionally.

Commit to Self

Once you have committed to self, I can't express enough how things subtly yet magically happen once you start the journey so, be prepared for a subtle change.

As Sahajananda says, “Trust in the infinite power of the heart.”

All change is positive, within the stirring of the seemingly nonmanifest, the unseen unfolding of synchronistic stories and events continue to link us forward to here and now. Your past actions are your present living and create your future.

Practice more Relaxation to rest in the unknown, rest perceived as quiet confidence.

By committing to the sessions of Master Relaxation in your home you will discover techniques helping you overcome fear, reduce anxiety, alleviate insomnia and dissolve destructive thoughts.

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Bound or Free?

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:41:00 GMT

Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas are qualities of

The Three Gunas: the general spirit of who you are and what you do.

They determine how you see and what you think about yourself.

They make up your thoughts, moods, dreams, sleep, eat, dress, work, choice of friends, inevitably how you act. Your life validates this by continuing patterns through qualities of Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.

They exist behind, within and around you (physical and subtle bodies).

They can devastate, bound or free you.

Qualities of Sattva: Truth, pure, light, state of peace, harmony, equilibrium, balance, joy, and intelligence. More receptive to higher knowledge and thinking, absorption. The Energy source that flows through when you meditate is seen and experienced. Synchronicity starts to appear. Life flows.

Qualities of Rajas: Movement, action, change, attachment, ‘over’ doing things, reactivity, confused (on waking and sleeping).

Qualities of Tamas: Darkness, inertia, inactivity and materiality, doubts, negativity, procrastination, can't think properly, ignorance, stop thinking, shut things out, stopping movement and stops the movement of truth, dark destruction chaos.

Truth
Sattva is in rajas and tamas for every movement and experience you learn from; you see the truth but only enough to get by.

Getting by is not enough.

As sattva being pure- with lots of it – you become more creative, inspiring and infectious for others. However, sattva must also be overcome, so you can be free and say goodbye to them all. To be free and go beyond – is to still the mind, at that moment – they are gone.

The stillness of the mind

Here the channel opens for sattva to pass through. It is that space-time continuum of all knowledge and information of all that has been and is to come. No past, present future is experienced. At this point of consciousness of Oneness, you have access to ask questions, though may not be immediate, answers arise. Be aware of these subtleties and synchronicities.

Meditation, why do it?

When you meditate you pause and this lets you see and be in the present moment. This pause gives you a break from patterns and negativity. During this respite phase space arises for the dissolution of old patterns (in time) allowing for the creation of new ones. Being in the moment brings beauty and vibrancy in life that already exists all around you.

Meditation becomes easily available when working with your senses or sensations because its something you know, through feeling them. Smell, sight, touch, taste, hearing. Shifting attention from the mind to sensations in the body subtly dissolves unwanted patterns stored in the subconscious mind. Meditation creates positive-feel-good emotions and puts new experiences there. In this time you attract good things. Positive living can't help but increase more and more of itself.

Cultivate positive attitude

When you make a fire, you don’t just light it then walk away leaving it burn out and die. In oder to keep the fire alive you have to cultivate and nurture the fire which requires attention. It asks for patience and perseverance because it needs time. After given attention and the flames are burning then you can sit back and rejoice in the warmth of its glow.

In the same way Hridaya yoga says:

“Cultivate Divine qualities within to light the fire of our hearts with positive attitudes” which are all sattvic:

* Pure Intention * Love * Humbleness * Courage * Generosity, charity*Goodness (kindness, forgiveness) * Sincerity (honesty, truthfulness)*Patience, tolerance, forbearance * Perseverance, diligence, discipline *Aspiration * Gratitude * Enthusiasm, joy * Wisdom * Compassion

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When darkness descends…

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:49:00 GMT

With the long & drawn out winter soon to arrive appearing to shroud the light of day, a meditative practice of hridaya yoga ignites even the dimmest of light in our hearts through drawing on the breath. Although cold & blustery elements push us into hibernation with the feeling of withdrawing into the night, this time spent wisely allows absorption, where within the great dome of our ribs we connect more deeply with ourselves. By using the breath to caress the inner walls of our chest we ignite the fire of our hearts. Just like blowing on the embers, we hear the warm voice of our soul light up the fire of our hearts. This listening is nurturing. This absorption is one of transmuting unwanted emotions of loneliness, darkness, sadness, depression into lighter thoughts and emotions.

Remember, the brightest light is seen in the dark.

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Intuitive Being

Tue, 09 May 2017 12:43:00 GMT

Why do we do the opposite even when the distinct gut-feeling tells us otherwise? Intuition may not be easily conceived, may not be sensed, heard or felt during different phases or situations. With our emotional body hardwired to the psyche, thoughts and emotions often deceive us to believe otherwise along with the dance and distraction of external force and influence. Not to mention attachments to these, known and unknown. So, a lot is going on if to see through these veils. Sometimes we get it – the so-called right – and other times we don’t – the so-called very wrong!

I often hear, “How do I listen to body-mind responses?” “How do I recognize the feeling of knowing what I want, from what I think I want?”

When in your darkest hour, feeling alone or simply when all appear to fail, despair not. By looking ‘out – there’, developing commune with the big sky and great ocean we can find not only a console but answers that conceive without words. In ways of great mystery and surprise, we can start to find joy and rest in the unknown. Which is why I love to return to some of Cornwall’s most remote areas to re-connect. Become charged again by the freshness of nature's elements. To watch nature’s most finest story unfold and be touched through her raw wilderness, and to share this other way of feeling, seeing and hearing of inner-outer space for a whole integration of being of the subtle self.

Photo by Tim Porter

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Twilight Special Yoga & Unique Relaxation

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:17:00 GMT

Twilight Yoga & Unique Relaxation – Hridaya Hatha yoga – Devotion to the Self

A sweet flow bringing freedom in hips, spine & shoulders before easing into stillness – where we’ll hear this voice inside – through a unique relaxation with a moving & heart opening LIVE classical performance. During this UPLIFTING event where we transition from twilgiht into night sky we will awaken beneath a pure white moonlight in the atmospheric palmhouse.

Relaxation in yoga its sanskrit name Savasana, translates to corpse pose. Once mastered this pose its benefits at very least are equivalent to a whole night sleep for entire body cell renewal – freshness, newness & aliveness. Savasana is also perceived as a ‘mini death’. A dying of old energy: letting go of old ways, thoughts, patterns & memories for the reawakening of the Self.

Check out how our relaxation went

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Heal & Evolve through Subtle Breath

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 16:55:00 GMT

Healing & Evolving through Subtle Breath work, published April 2016, Yoga Magazine

”Be the breath that birthed you, the love that created you.”

Are you aware that your breath is the very thing that can bring about a carefree, higher sense of pleasure?

Your own breath can free up past traumas, shock and stuck emotions.

Subtle breath is a work of intimacy. Journeying inward takes courage, but by breathing subtly into past stories we release them, fast forward our evolution and free ourselves. The person is able to shift through a process of release by cultivating and infusing the energy of love.

This transformative, heartfelt healing does not begin and end with the individual but goes beyond personality, reconnecting with Self. It is an ongoing process of moving through entire fields of humanity—evolving through boundless space time—as souls on a path of evolution in one life.

Your breath—a process of detoxification and purification—influences the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. Since the play of the breath gives great balance and strength to the nervous system, consequently, this interrelation co-ordinates our actions, reactions, and responses to stress—internally and externally.

Subtle breath work helps our relationships too—we can resolve and change as a result, often erasing the need to talk over what was previously an issue. As the breath unfolds, the heart opens, fears and traumas are released and total clarity arises.

By greatly influencing relationship between body and mind, we improve functionality and creativity. The psyche simply chooses to no longer hang on to negativity but see beyond limitations for soul to emanate its shiny self.

At the very survival level the breath distributes oxygen and keeps us alive. Becoming conscious of breath at first may seem like a lot of effort, but during this time one merges with the finer qualities of subtle breath or prana—the very sustenance of aliveness.

Prana, life force or vital energy breathed in, absorbed, seems abstract since it has no physical form. Breath is not the only way of ingesting prana—it can be done through nature, sun, food, water and so on. What is alive has prana. One of the easier ways to absorb prana is through the breath and the awareness of it.

Subtle breathwork aims for the individual to break free from functioning on the level of fear-based decisions and actions. For instance by holding onto our breath unconsciously during, and as a reaction to, trauma and shock (past, present or future projection) we hold onto the experience itself.

The energy of fear gets stuck and ingrains itself deep in the psyche, reinforcing the survival instinct (fight of flight). Fear that gets hold of us becomes a reoccurring, reactive pattern than can’t help its insidious self. Fear also affects stress, pressures and emotional triggers which can deplete the optimum levels of absorption of prana. Over time this can create illness and disease. Unless released this push and pull expressed in the body, mind, and emotions continues to circle, forming habitual behavioural patterns—affecting how we move, things we do and say, ultimately how we live our lives. We see its formation in psychosomatics. For example, fear written on a person’s face with worry drawn around the eyes and so on. Nonetheless, fear is a powerful and useful tool once we know how to transcend it positively, becoming fuel for freedom.

As we pass through life collecting surplus emotions that make-up our identities, we continue to build layer upon layer, preventing us from experiencing our true self. These layers of identity and personality not only constitute from memories, past influences, our parent’s psychodramas, and other lifetime experiences held within—information held on a soul level—it is what we know as karma.

Starting with the individual enhances inner for outer peace.

Pranayama is the expansion of life force and so breathwork becomes the bridge of transcending matter to spirit, where personal domains of so-called bad emotions, thoughts and feelings transfer into higher, more refined ones. Increased awareness of breath itself or “conscious breathing” amplifies absorption of prana. Once a large amount is absorbed one becomes saturated in prana. This presents an abundance of healing qualities, charged with vitality and the realisation of different levels of consciousness for evolving. All the person has to do is to lay down, rest with the eyes closed and breathe softly until the body completely relaxes. Awareness of circular breathing is gently introduced by the breathwork facilitator.

As subtle breathwork dissolves behavioural patterns and addictions, it increases our potential to love and enjoy the life we have. Once physiological and psychological issues clear, then we can re-condition and re-program—training to live intentionally by making conscious choices and decisions. Live being free-to-act instead of reacting to events and people. Once cleared, this authentic breathwork draws understanding and awareness of how ego is presented, creating space for awakening to arise. Soul becomes addicted to the luminous self (because it is the luminous self) and as a consequence longs to be with spirit, the pathway of love.

To realise the self and your truth is all your soul wants to experience.

It is only the body and personality that projects out into the world that seemingly appears to separate us from the self. We simply return back “home” finding deep contentment where we recognise the omnipresent self within the linear matrix born out of conditioning, into an all-expanding encompassing Oneness. Here, we journey to the path of consciousness. Experiencing sensations are eventually something not to become identified with as reality, but rather to help realise we can go beyond any limits of existence as we know it.

Heal & Evolve through Subtle Breath