Breathwork is conscious breathing. You will learn to manipulate your breathing rate and depth with the intention of bringing awareness to your breath and body. This will ultimately provide you with the same benefits you would achieve from a meditative practice. While various breathing practices have been around for centuries, science and medicine has only recently begun to validate all the benefits. It has been shown to reduce stress, activate the parasympathetic nervous system and boost your immune system.

Visualization is a specific way of using your imagination to purposefully create visual mental imagery, with eyes open or closed, in order to maintain, inspect or transform those images. The intention is to transform associated emotions or feelings, which may result in subsequent positive physiological or psychological effects, such as expediting the healing of wounds to the body, minimizing physical pain, alleviating strong emotions, such as anxiety and sadness, and improving self-esteem.

Body Relaxation is a process that decreases the effects of stress on your mind and body. In general, body relaxation techniques involve refocusing your attention on something calming and increasing awareness of your body and all your physical senses. Progressive muscle relaxation is one technique, and yoga is another.

A mantra is a syllable, word, or phrase that is repeated during meditation. Words and symbols each have their own energy. Through their use in meditation, we can at times achieve more. Mantras can be spoken, chanted, whispered, or repeated in the mind. Most mantra meditation techniques have two essential components: mindfulness meditation and mantra recitation or chanting. While this age-old practice is known to have Buddhist and Hindu roots, forms of “sacred word” recitation exist within a great variety of spiritual traditions, including Judeo-Christian and Shamanic. 

There are 7 main energy centers focused within the human body that help to regulate all its processes, from organ function to the immune system and emotions. These energy centers have been written about in India centuries ago in a Sanskrit text called the Vedas, a collection of knowledge texts. Chakras are said to possess a vibrational frequency in our bodies that govern specific functions to help you connect to your spiritual and physical well-being. In today’s Western culture, the knowledge of these specific energy centers are used to harness energy and awaken your body and mind in meditation and in treating mental, emotional and physical ailments. 

Recent research has shown that non-directive meditation is the most effective kind of meditation. This form of meditation is one in which you achieve a relaxed focus of attention and let your mind simply wander as it pleases. You do not try to control your mind or get rid of thoughts or judge those thoughts. You let things come as they do, allowing flow throughout your mind and body. Eventually, you may transcend, or move past thought. You may experience levels beyond thought, such as bliss, transcendence and pure consciousness. All of these are extremely beneficial to you for all levels of your being.

We will together create personalized meditative practices that will be personalized according to your needs and challenges. They will go beyond meditation and will allow for an increased integration in your daily life, resulting in more effective and long-lasting results. This is particularly useful if you have difficulty incorporating meditation in your daily life.