ym meditations

YM meditations

Vinyasa movement meditation is the primary meditation practice of the YM meditation system.

Practising breath-work is a wonderful support for meditation practice.

We also aim to build our ability to be still through Simply Sitting, a meditation practice that prepares the practitioner for seated meditation.

Side note

I also teach non-YM specific techniques such as:

• Midline meditations

• Chakra meditations

• Bandha meditation

• Mantra meditations

and others.

YM teachers teach the techniques they are most familiar with and practised in, always beginning with YM movement meditations and Simply Sitting for beginners in seated practice.

There is also an advanced YM meditation technique called Root Meditation.

What YM meditations bring

All YM meditation draws you away from the head, away from being purely in the mind, and asks your attention to be based in the body.

Since the body is unquestionably present in the world, the body then anchors your mind in the present.

From here the senses journey deeper into what is happening, expanding awareness and giving us a real sense of how we reach beyond ourselves into what is unknown.

Learning how to do this gradually makes us more comfortable with not knowing, and slowly our need to know and control begins to fall away.

We experience this first in one area, then another.
This is the beginning of a deeper freedom.

How it works

All YM meditation is simple.

We learn to see and experience things as they are, without labelling, predicting or trying to understand them.

We begin to learn what it feels like to allow one thing to earth.

This meditation method teaches us grounding.

It shows us where the Earth is.

It allows us to unconditionally let go of everything.

It teaches us that Mother Earth is always giving — we simply need to learn to empty ourselves.

In this way the practice also teaches us how to let go.

It teaches us how to listen, feel and allow the natural juxtaposition of energy.

The meditation of movement keeps us in constant change.

It trains our interested muscle to stay with what is happening without wishing to control or affect the outcome.

Because of how we meditate in the YM Method it leads naturally to a greater sense of embodiment.

You allow your entire being to let go and then allow yourself to be filled again — much like a tree receives rain both from above and from below.

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