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find simple ways to be more present
In this meditation series, you’ll explore:
from a wide variety of meditative traditions to find the practices that suit you and your life best. Here, you’ll find fertile ground to establish, or further support, a lifelong daily meditation practice. Much like a laboratory, you’ll become more familiar with the subtle distinctions of more than 27 different meditations.
Inside this series, you’ll:
As you complete this course you’ll have uncovered which practices work for you, developed your meditation practice, and built a greater understanding of the way these tools can be utilized.
When you sign up for this course, you will gain lifetime access to the entire recorded course, including all 27 meditations, exercises, practices, and lectures which you can access any time, anywhere.
As a practitioner, you can:
As a teacher, you’ll gain the tools to create a positive impact in your community:
This course is open to anyone.
JOY students must first apply to the 100-Hour JOY MAP Certification or the JOY 300-Hour Certification to receive credit.
It is eligible for 15 elective hours toward the JOY of Yoga 300 Hour Teacher Training. It is also eligible for 15 CEUs (continuing education units); hours will be broken down on the certificate of completion, available after the last day of training – please contact joy@breathetogetheryoga.com.
You can work with this course in a number of ways. If you are new to meditation, this experience was designed to begin at the beginning and try a new meditation each day. This gives you the lay of the land. If you have been practicing a particular method of meditation for some time, it can be useful from time to time to experiment with a new practice.
Physical meditation practices, sometimes called “moving meditations,” utilize kinesthetic awareness and the five senses. The practice of yoga asana is a moving meditation. Breath exercises prepare the mind to turn inward to develop concentration. Through concentration comes meditation. For many it is helpful to move the body and the breath before coming to a seat. Some techniques in this course invite you to observe sensations of the body, while others are an invitation to use the senses to focus attention.
Mind practices are structured meditations that create the conditions to gradually educate the mind to come to one-pointed focus. While mind practices tend to be traditional seated meditations, many of these meditations can (to a certain extent) also be practiced while moving through daily life.
There is a long-standing tradition of meditations that expand our capacity to care for and love ourselves and others. These meditations include cultivating love for the God of our own understanding. Traditions known for these practices are Christian or Gnostic Mysticism, Bhakti Yoga and Sufism. These practices also often include mantra, chanting, ritual and prostration.
Meditation in action refers to how we exercise our creativity. Action oriented meditation goes beyond ritualized forms of meditation. Some seemingly mundane forms are through acts such as doing the laundry, the dishes and yes, even taxes. Can we perform any act as if this moment is all there is?
The essential feature of this branch of meditation is to develop the capacity to listen and remain open. With an alert mind, the meditation is about perceiving and responding to events as they occur. There is an immediacy with the present moment and less attachment to the stories of past and future.