Developing Mindfulness and Awareness helps us navigate and respond with loving kindness, rather than react along our same rigid patterns of thought. When you break free from your well-worn stories, you are able to respond with greater understanding and compassion. Awareness is a deeper knowing, a stabilizing that you can carry in all parts of your life.

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One of the most beautiful things about Mindful Awareness is that anyone can develop it. Anyone can nurture a practice that helps them connect more meaningfully with others, take time for themselves, and widen their sense of who they are.

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In these sessions we sit upright in a comfortable position, Padmasana is the ideal posture, a cross sitting position on a mat/ or cushion on the floor or a flat surface, but a chair is also quite acceptable too, really anything that works, that allows you to be comfortable and have a strong straight upright spine. We slowly develop our sessions, bringing our attention inwards towards our breath flow, its quality and various sensations in the body. This Meditation is beautifully insightful in nature. There's space for inquiry so as to help us connect with our pure emotional states that can so easily be suppressed in our busy lives, and then ultimately to help calm ourselves and our minds through the understanding of the true nature of our thoughts.

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You don't need to leave your room. Remain at your table and listen.

Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait.

Be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you.

It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.- Kafka

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ONE-POINTED MEDITATION

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Developing a One pointed Meditation is using a different technique where one concentrations on an object, a method that is described in many sacred texts, including the Patanjali Sutras. The object can be many things, as long as one is making a right effort of focusing on this object or mantra or even a rock! In these sessions we will close our eyes and focus our attention at a point/area on our body such as the area by the belly button, the tip of the nose, the in and out flow of the breath or even the sensation of breath entering our nose. Starting off with small sessions we can develop the stamina to sit for longer, and help bring our minds to settle for longer periods of time on these areas, bringing calm and help settle the thoughts down like the ripples of water to a smooth and even surface.

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'Yoga is to still the patterning of consciousness.'

There's a promise in this Sutra. Wild mind can be tamed. Stilled. And this stillness sounds good.

It sounds like rest. Like happiness. Like an afternoon in the hammock.

Like we could stop living at right angles to life.

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'The the pure awareness can abide in its very nature'

Then the Witness abides in its very nature. Just seeing. Just knowing.

Just Bali Hai and calm seas all around. -

(Patanjali Yoga Sutras / Hartranft)

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