Overcoming Obstacles to Meditating
"My mind is too busy to meditate" and other common obstacles to meditating. Learn what has helped others overcome obstacles and adopt a meditation practice.
I am a lover of meditation. I believe in its power to heal us at a deep level and to make life sweet.
My teaching is informed by my deep immersion in the wisdom and practices of Yoga—especially Shaivism, which is considered the pinnacle of the Yoga traditions.
I also love and teach secular meditation, mindfulness, and awareness practices. Such practices can offer a deep, direct encounter with your own awareness, and a beautiful intimacy with the present moment.
In both private and group classes we learn how to work with the mind. We strengthen our ability to concentrate and to focus our attention, and we learn easeful ways to relax into meditative states.
As we explore meditation, it’s enormously helpful to open and work with the three main centers: the third eye center, the heart center and the hara, the belly center. When we drop into our heart and hara, we access the deeper wisdom of our body.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
– Rumi
These are some of the topics we typically explore in introductory meditation classes:
One-to-one meditation instruction is available in person and via the phone and Skype.
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For more information or to schedule a private or group session or series: Contact Alice
Meditation is your true nature.... Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs your natural state.
– Ramana Maharshi
"My mind is too busy to meditate" and other common obstacles to meditating. Learn what has helped others overcome obstacles and adopt a meditation practice.
The physical practice of yoga offers many people their first experiences of meditative states. As we rest in the breath or in sensation, our attention naturally turns inside.
There is something I've done spontaneously—and for a long time, unconsciously—that is the secret to meditation practice.
The Master's mind is like space.
Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about meditation and yoga.