So Shhhhh! Just now we are taking a little nap, but we are busy getting to relaunch our site and our services on November 1, 2013!
Meanwhile meet cassandra - owner of nilambu - a personal yoga studio.
cassandra’s been a yogini for almost 20 years and a teacher for over 10. She values stability, stories and space. And knows the healing power of yoga.
Why does she teach yoga? Play the video and find out!
nilambu yoga from Izaca Productions LLC on Vimeo.
Earlier this month, we celebrated our 10th birthday! Soon we will be refreshed and renewed to begin teaching again very soon.
Please visit us again. Email us your name at cass(at)nilambu.com, and we will be sure to let you know when we are up and running again!
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Why We Don't Quiet Our Minds in Meditation
David Nichtern was my first meditation teacher, and he is really special and awesome.
He is now writing for The Huffington Post and has some wonderfully helpful essays posted there.
I especially love this one How to Meditate Through Strong Emotions. He points out that the instruction to just sit there and quiet your mind is an oversimplification of what we do in meditation. And then he sets forth what we are to do:
He concludes,
He is now writing for The Huffington Post and has some wonderfully helpful essays posted there.
I especially love this one How to Meditate Through Strong Emotions. He points out that the instruction to just sit there and quiet your mind is an oversimplification of what we do in meditation. And then he sets forth what we are to do:
1. Place our awareness on our breath.
2. Recognize what arises in our minds -- without trying to manipulate, judge or suppress anything.
3. Simply see what arises in our mind as it comes up. Just notice it.
4. Then let go of the thoughts and return our awareness to the breath thereby coming back to the present moment.
He concludes,
Our emotions, rather than feeding stale and repetitive mental habits, can manifest as the very expressions of being alive and living fully in an authentic way. From that point of view we do not utilize our meditation practice to suppress our feelings and emotions but to liberate them, by becoming more familiar with how they arise, what they actually feel like beyond acting out or repressing them, and therefore working with them in a more constructive way.Please go and check out this and his other essays.
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