Dear Listener
I’ve decided to update the name of this podcast to reflect meditations I record and encourage contemplation/self reflection. Rather than make the title long by adding a string of words too lengthy to remember, I just selected one word, this one- meditations.
These past few weeks I’ve been on a quest to dive deeper within, challenging when I’m running around A LOT! It felt like opposite actions. How to be still with so much movement? Yin yoga helps bring me arrive ‘home’ to myself, consider what helps you. Wiped out from a lot of driving, I didn’t have the motivation to do much more than a reclined supportive inversion (feet up the wall) thus settled for a Yin class. 60minutes stretched the fascia and releases breathing enough for the fatigue to lift. I cannot praise the benefits or restorative and yin yoga enough! If you struggle with fatigue, anxiety, sleep issues, I suggest you give it a try to supplement your current plan, it helps do practice a few times a week to see benefit. I added some abhyanga (ayurvedic self massage, using oils that corresponds to one’s dosha) and felt renewed the next morning. It was like a coffee without the buzz.
Today’s meditation was inspired by moments I noticed the spark of life, people’s dollops of vitality, some may understand it as a little piece of creation that dwells within. I felt the spark during July 4th- and not due to the fireworks. It was a vibrant local town scene- festive in a way that contrasted the ongoing political, social, economic collateral of the pandemic’s drag. It was a pleasure to hear adults share laughter, watch strangers celebrate with one another and kids run around full of curiosity. It felt like a moment we regained our humanity. A few homes went all out with fireworks, a gift of fun they gave all of us- whom they may never meet. The spark was in the laughter, the warmth, how people’s eyes sparkle. Let’s never lose that.
When you do this meditation, let your body rest, allow the mind to follow the breath, engage your imagination as a point of focus. Imagination is a uniquely human trait, visualizations engages the mind in a way that can help expand consciousness, quiet the mind and open creativity.
This pod intends to offer tools to help you find calm in the storm. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think it might help. Thank you for your interest and welcome the listeners from North America, Europe and now … the Caribbean! :)
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