cultivate peace
with meditation
i love meditating and helping others experience the benefits of meditation through yoga nidra.
Yoga Nidra is a totally effortless, fully guided meditation that methodically induces deep relaxation to alleviate physical, emotional, and mental tensions.
What is dhyana?
Dhyana is a Sanskrit word translated as meditating, absorption, or union. All classical yoga texts originated in Sanskrit, an official language of India. Dhyana is also the seventh stage of the Yogic path.
I experience dhyana as a dreamy bliss when I achieve present-moment awareness, transcending thoughts, feelings, and senses. It is a heart-warming and soul-felt embodiment with universal energy and consciousness.
My daily meditation practice has anchored this blissful state into my daily life, bringing an abundance of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual benefits.
why meditate?
Meditation is a state of being, a ritual, an art. It’s a balance of concentration and surrender. It’s the unification of mind-body-soul awareness. A consistent meditation practice can help to:
• Improve sleep
• Improve memory
• Improve airflow to lungs
• Improve focus + concentration
• Increase creativity
• Increase alpha waves
• Increase energy levels
• Increase mindfulness + awareness
• Increase ability to regulate behavior
• Decrease levels of cortisol (stress hormone)
• Decrease pain + pain perception
• Decrease heart + respiration rate
• Decrease blood pressure
• Reduce anxiety + depression
• Slow the aging process
Yoga Nidra is the easiest way to meditate
I enjoy exploring various schools and philosophies of meditation, and primarily spend most of my time practicing Kundalini Kriya Yoga, Buddhist Meditation, and Yoga Nidra.
In my experience, Yoga Nidra is the most effortless way to meditate, especially if your goal is relaxation. Yoga Nidra is a fully guided meditation that uses a systematic method of directing your awareness to induce relaxation and help alleviate physical, emotional, and mental tensions. Even a brief Yoga Nidra practice can offer a deeply restorative experience.
Known as “yogic sleep,” the method brings the participant into the hypnagogic state, which is a state of consciousness that naturally occurs between waking and sleeping. This state of being allows the participant to experience a deep state of rest, decreasing brainwave activity into more helpful states.
How I discovered the power of daily meditation
My meditation journey began in 2015 with a mindfulness meditation workshop.
Later, in 2017, I decided to test the impact of my meditation practice, recording my daily efforts and corresponding moods over a two-week period. The results were so positively impactful that I gained a new dedication to meditating regularly.
In 2019, my mother left this earthly realm. I turned to meditation to cope with my grief and set the intention to meditate daily for thirty consecutive days. Instead, I meditated for more than seventy days.
Now, daily meditation is a part of my lifestyle, not just a task on my to-do list. Every day, I look forward to taking my sacred solitude, knowing each day I complete my practice I prioritize my wellbeing and personal commitment to live as my best self.