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Body Awareness Meditation for Sleep

This is a Body Awareness Meditation to support people to prepare for sleep, or if they wake in the middle of the night and have difficulties falling back to sleep.

So often we think that we can leave our day behind when we go to bed. However, the truth is that energetically how we live within our day will have a direct impact on the quality of  our sleep. As an example, if we live in a state of anxiousness or tension through our day, we take that quality with us when we go to bed. Therefore it may take longer, or be more difficult for the nervous system to quieten to allow us to have a deeply restful sleep.

The key therefore is to build a deeply nurturing and loving relationship with our body in that we hold our connection with our body and being in all that we do throughout our day. Then, when it comes time to rest and prepare for sleep, our body is ready to receive the repose that is on offer.

This 13 minute Body Awareness Meditation offers your body and being supports you to let go of nervous tension that you may be carrying from your day and to be present with all that you are feeling in your body to and to help with rest and restoration. We hope that you enjoy it!

To learn more about how to support your sleep visit our blogs;  Top 10 Tips for a Good Nights Sleep,  An Introduction to Rhythms and Cycles around Sleep, Do you have difficulty with sleep?

Living from your essence

What we have discovered is that there is a way of living where life flows freely, where there is space, ease, joy and a strong sense of connection with the world around us. When we are in this groove and can feel this lovely flow, this is a sure indication that we are living from our essence. When things feel hard, stuck or complicated, this is also a sure indication that we are NOT living from our essence and that we have disconnected from ourselves.

So what is our essence?

Our essence is found in that inner-most part of us which when we deeply connect to our body, offers us those beautiful innate qualities that we then naturally express in and from. These qualities as an example may be sweetness, purity, grace, playfulness, tenderness… and the list goes on.

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Body Awareness Free Meditation

This is a simple body awareness meditation that is accessible to all people. This meditation can be done in a lying down position and offers you the opportunity to deeply rest and reconnect with your body. This meditation helps to develop conscious presence – that is having the mind with the body.

Read more about meditation and download further free Meditations.

Donna Nolan and Alexandra Plane offer Gentle Yoga Classes and Meditation in group, private sessions and live online. Contact us for more information.

The Gift of Self-Appreciation

By Alexandra Plane and Donna Nolan.

December is upon us and once again doesn’t it feel like it has come around quickly?

As we enter into the end of year festive holiday season, it is a great opportunity to pause and reflect on the choices (our lifestyle choices and all others) we have made throughout the year and how all those choices have affected the quality of year we have had, where we are at and how our bodies are feeling.

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True Relationships: Where Do We Start?

Have you noticed that we are in relationships ALL of the time? And have you realised that the quality of the relationships we have with others is a direct reflection of how we are with ourselves?

Relationship issues affect us all – men, women and children – and are everywhere – at home, at work, on the roads etc -, and blaming others for the relationship problems we experience is a common thing we do.

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Developing your connection with your body in your daily life

A common thing that we hear from our clients after a yoga class or an esoteric healing session, is how amazing they feel or how they feel like they have “returned home”.

This sense of deep well being, simplicity and joy experienced and expressed by our clients is a feeling that naturally derives as they re-connect back to themselves and their body.

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What is Healing?

In this article we are discussing and exploring the concept of ‘healing’. So what actually is healing?

When we talk about healing, we are not referring to some miraculous recovery from an illness, or taking a magic pill and all of our woes go away. Healing as we refer to it here, in our yoga classes and in the context of our esoteric therapy sessions, is about getting to the bottom of the underlying root cause of what is going on for us in our body or with those thought patterns, reactions or behaviours that we know are not conducive to our health and wellbeing.

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Top 10 Tips for a good night sleep

By Alexandra Plane and Donna Nolan.

Following on from our previous blogs “Do you have difficulty with sleep?” and “An Introduction to Rhythms and Cycles around Sleep“, you may wish to explore our below favourite self-loving winding down tips for a good night sleep.

1) “Tune-in” 2 to 3 hours before your bed time (for us it is around 6pm)

Make a conscious effort to become even more aware of the quality of energy that you are living in ie. are you rushing, doing mode, in drama or emotional overwhelm? Choose to stay present with what you are doing moment to moment and connected with your body (i.e feel your body, your breath, the quality of your movements, your voice etc).

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How to Meditate

To practise meditation, you don’t need to sit for hours a day. It really can be as simple as setting aside 5 – 15 minutes a day.

Choose a time of the day when you can sit or lie comfortably without being disrupted. Begin with bringing your awareness to your breath. Start to focus on feeling your breath through your nostrils.

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What is Meditation?

Meditation and mindfulness are certainly buzz words at the moment and when we hear them we may quietly say to ourselves “yes I must do that, supposedly it’s good for me”. But do you know what the purpose of meditation is and why would we put effort into learning how to do this?

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