Snow Buddha - Mindfulness Meditation Yoga

Mindfulness Meditation

no-mudBased on traditional forms of Buddhist meditation, our ‘Mindfulness meditation’ classes are designed to relax, center, and balance the body and mind by bringing direct awareness and deep insight into the fundamental truth of change and impermanence that characterizes all of reality at every level.

Learn to bring attention to your breathing, and to the sensations of the body. Observe thoughts and emotions from a dis-engaged, non-attached perspective. Let go of your mind’s continuous chatter and experience reality more directly, without the need to always react.

Many of us often go on unintentional ‘roller-coaster-rides’ of cravings, desires, and clinging, followed by aversion, anger, and resistance; a never-ending cycle of grasping for experiences we ‘like’, and rejecting those we ‘dislike’. With Mindfulness we can experience reality more directly, without the need to always react emotionally to positive or negative experiences, without the endless swing between happiness and unhappiness, that can be so exhausting and draining for our energy. We can learn to rest in a peaceful calmness deep within ourselves.

Mindfulness Yoga

Meditation has always been at the very heart of virtually all yogic paths, but has unfortunately been pushed into the background with Western Yoga’s emphasis on physical posture practice.‘Mindfulness Yoga’ brings the practice back to its roots, aiming to achieve insight into and mastery over the mind by awakening the witnessing faculty within us. Our class merges Buddhist Mindfulness meditation with simple yoga postures and Feldenkrais/Somatic bodywork exercises, into a single practice of ‘meditation in motion’, that enlivens the body, liberates the spirit, and awakens compassion, equanimity and joy.

Please note: bring some loose, comfortable clothing to class. This class is NOT exercise intensive, so we do recommend long pants and a long-sleeved shirt, in order to stay warm.