What you'll learn:
- How to use your current emotional state to ease into meditation
- Whether your emotions are air, fire, or earth-dominant and how to balance them out
- Your unique mind-body constitution, according to Ayurveda
- How to meditate when you are feeling restless, worried, anxious
- How to meditate when you are feeling stressed, impatient, self-critical
- How to meditate when you are feeling low energy, dull, uninspired
- Breathing techniques to calm, chill, and uplift your energy, according to your needs in the moment
- What diet best supports a meditation practice
Have you tried to meditate, but couldn't because you felt restless, anxious, stressed, bored or else? If so, welcome! Trying to rise above our emotions is a sure way to struggle with, and ultimately give up on meditation, missing out on the countless benefits of this amazing practice. No more !
This course will meet you exactly where you are and teach you to work with, instead of fight, the energy of your emotions so you can ease into a meditative state.
In this course, you will:
Practice an individualized approach to meditation, based on your current emotional
Identify your emotions by their dominant element (air, ether, fire, water, earth)
Practice meditation techniques to balance your energy, whether you are feeling high, low or all-over
Find out your Ayurvedic mind-body constitution (dosha) and what you need to do to keep yourself balanced
Use your breath to relax, focus, cool down, warm up, energize or lift your spirit, according to your needs of the moment
Clarify your intentions for meditating, in order to get results
Discover which diet is most supportive to your meditation practice
Why learn about meditation?
In a world where everything is changing so rapidly, knowing how to stay grounded in yourself is of the essence, for your health and life enjoyment. Meditation is a profoundly grounding practice.It will help you access a state where you feel calm, clear-minded, and able to navigate your life's circumstances with ease. As such, it truly is a life skill.
Meditation has been shown to lower high blood pressure, relieve stress, anxiety, depression, increase focus, creativity, productivity, and more.
Why focus on my emotions?
If you are human, you most likely experience a bunch of emotions daily! Emotions have so much energy in them, but that energy needs to be channeled and circulated efficiently, otherwise it can turn destructive and make it difficult for your meditation practice to get off the ground. Conversely, one might be able to "sit down to meditate", yet do nothing but battle with thoughts, restlessness, or boredom. In this course you will learn how to meet and regulate the energy of your emotions in order to ease into meditation.
Some of the exercises you will complete:
Clarify your intention(s) for your meditation practice, to get results
Practice progressive muscle relaxation
Learn abdominal, or diaphragmatic breathing
Take a questionnaire to determine your ayurvedic constitution (or dosha)
Take a questionnaire to determine your current emotional state based on the Five Elements, and how to balance it out
Practice breathing techniques to ground yourself, when you feeling are worried, restless, anxious...
Practice breathing techniques to help you chill when you are feeling stressed, impatient, irritable...
Practice breathing techniques to energize you, when you are feeling stuck, down, uninspired...
Learn and practice a total of 6 guided meditations, 2 for each category of emotions (air, fire or earth-dominant)
Why this meditation course is different?
No meditation technique works for everyone, every time. This course teaches an individualized approach to meditation, informed by Ayurveda, itself an individualized system of healing. Meditate for How You Feel takes into account the student's unique mind-body constitution, as well as their current emotional state, for a more authentic experience of meditation.
Enroll now and join me on this meditation journey!