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Meditation for Your Type

Course Intention:

Yoga meditation is geared to the beginner meditator by showing, step-by-step, how to slow down the mind. Exercises that ease a person into a meditative mindset help beginners avoid feeling overwhelmed by the intensity of thought that disturbs the mind. By sharing tools listed below in the lessons and practicing those tools, students will begin to quiet their minds and prepare them for meditation. Note that while this process is unending, knowing these tools can be a warm-up for the experienced meditator and will feel akin to meditation for the beginner.

All of our training programs are designed for students who want to deepen their practice. YogaLife's Meditation for Your Type aids people of all levels of experience by teaching tools to transform ingrained mental habits. Not all techniques work for all people so we experience the six basic types of meditation, as well as many movement, breathing, sensory, and emotional practices. Change your mind, change your life. Certification is an additional benefit for professionals.

Option to Participate in 3 Separate Components or a Full-Year Experience

"This program has benefitted me in being a more complete person to myself, to my family, and to [my partner], in the way of not judging who I am or judging others, and learning to forgive others..."

Schedule

Seminars: Tuesdays, 5:30-6:45pm
Practice Class: Thursdays, 5:30-6:45pm
Meditation Workshops: Second Sunday of the Month, 9:30-11:30am
Weekly Online Lesson with Dr. Bob Butera
Weekly Inspirational Summary E-mail

"I am able to think about my words more carefully before speaking. This is due to learning about silence: how to live with silence plus avoiding negative thoughts, ideas, and words."

Themes

Maintaining a healthy nervous system
Proper breathing to calm the mind
Relaxation techniques
Coping strategies
Clearing sense organs
Breath/energy meditation
Mantra meditation
Prayer and contemplation
Mindfulness practice
Conceptual meditation
Visualization

"This course taught me a lot about myself, about spiritual living, positive thoughts, [and a] calm and steady mind is a goal which is possible."

Requirements

Layers of meaning are woven through each lesson. In the last three years of running these sessions, we have supported a range of students. From people with no previous experience to people who use these techniques in their professions to lifetime meditators, we have time and again received powerful positive feedback about the Meditation for Your Type program.

Practice

Each week you will receive suggestions for home practice. It is recommended that you spend 15 - 20 minutes per day working with the techniques. Remember, the intention of the program is to help you find the style(s) of meditation that suit your type. Through the course you will enjoy a range of techniques and practices to enrich your journey. One seminar per week plus one practice class per week gives you time with teachers and peers and share experiences and learning. Once per month a two-hour workshop will offer even more depth.

Summer Program: Skills to Maintaining a Personal Practice
Find Freedom from Stress Through Longevity of Practice

This 10-week program is excellent for students interested in maintaining practice through the summer months and those who are considering our Meditation for Your Type Program.

Learn how to:

- Create and maintain meditative discipline
- Cultivate skills for clarity and tranquility
- Find tools to understand the ego/personality self
- Face the issues that lie beneath the surface
- Release the past using gratitude and forgiveness
- Develop a healthy relationship to future goals
- Identify, understand, and cope with daily emotions

Program Includes:

- 10 Weekly Group Classes Thursdays, 6:30 at Welkin YogaLife
- 10 Weekly Email Lessons
- 10 Weekly Video Lectures
- 10 Weeks of supplemental Yoga/Meditation Classes