Meditation/Mindfulness
Adventures in Contemplative Design #1: Making Something Out of Nothing
Making Something Out of Nothing is a introductory video that is applicable to new and experienced creatives. MeLisa’s creative + design framework, Contemplative Design, is based in Tibetan Buddhist Meditation, Mindfulness-Awareness, Deep Listening, + Earth-Based/Elemental Intuitive wisdom and communication. This video takes you through the use of simple “raw” materials into the creation of various…
Read MoreWorking with Grief
Demeteria guides you with Kundalini + Meditation to work with Grief
Read MoreHealing Guilt and Shame
Demeteria guides you with Kundalini + Meditation to work with healing guilt and shame
Read MoreAncient Breathwork for Modern Times
Explore 3 major breathing techniques known as pranayama in Yogic traditions, and how they help nourish the nervous system, balance being calm but energized, and build more resiliency and capacity in the face of many stressors in our current world.
Read MoreSelf-Compassion Practice for Racial Healing
This practice is for developing greater embodied felt sense, connection, and understanding of what true self-compassion is. It is rooted in Tibetan Buddhist teachings of Tonglen and Metta (practice of sending and receiving AND Loving-Kindness practice). Additionally other prompts and visualizations are given to the practice in order to address a variety of challenges and…
Read MoreOM/AUM Chakra Meditation
OM/AUM meditation connected to the Chakras has been used for centuries. Rather than “performing” yoga and chanting, this powerful beej mantra (seed sound) is a way to go inward to expand inner healing and one’s consciousness as it connects, clears, and revitalizes our chakras/energy centers linked to our physical, emotional, mental, and auric bodies.
Read MoreWarrior-Triangle Series Yoga Asana
(Intensity Level: Medium Vigour, Warming Practice) Strength comes in many forms, not just physical. The strength of being a warrior in many teachings is to be a compassionate heart, for the self so it can extend out to others. Triangles are considered one of the strongest sacred shapes in many traditions, able to bear weight…
Read MoreMoon Salutation/Chandra Namaskar Yoga Asana
(Intensity Level: Slow to Medium Vigour, Rejuvenating, Cooling + Warming Practice) This deeply rejuvenating practice connects us to the moon essence in us, opening up our creativity, intuition, emotional intelligence, and strong cosmic feminine energy (regardless of our gender we all have this energy in us! And since its an energy that our modern society…
Read MoreSun Salutation/Surya Namaskar Yoga Asana
(Intensity Level: Medium to High Vigour, Heating/Warming Practice) We greet the sun, honour and invite its ever luminous revitalizing energy, building our metabolic fire and ability to digest and transform everything from our food to our subtlest energies. Many teachings share that our true nature is like the luminous sun- under the clouds and through…
Read MoreNervous System Reset: 3 Yogic Practices to Build Resiliency
This video, half theory and half practical, shares an introduction to how Ayurvedic and Yogic Sciences understand trauma and stress, and 3 yogic techniques that build the foundation to reset the nervous system, and cultivate inner spaciousness, tools, and resiliency for when activation, triggers, and deregulating stimulus may arise again.
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