Meditation, Relaxation and Breathwork

I choose to combine relaxation and meditation techniques, because the line between the two is hazy and unclear - and like all boxes and labels, more of a deterrent to understanding than an asset.

In this workshop, I’ll introduce you to a wealth of tried and tested techniques for learning to let go, and thus relaxing. Some of the techniques will be simple and you will be able to do them sitting at your desk or in the car. Others will take more time and an environment with no distractions.

The essential reason for learning any of these techniques is to achieve a sense of inner calm. Even if you practice them only rarely, the sense of calm that you feel is cumulative and stays with you even in times of high tension. And of course, if you do some sort of meditation more regularly, it will change the way you handle stress. This is helpful to anyone who worries, or suffers from anxiety or depression. And, a clam mind has a measurable effect on your physical well being. Certainly it has been established that meditation can truly help your achievement in the workplace by sharpening your mental focus.

How many times has someone told you to just relax? If you’re like most of us, you have heard this suggestion quite a few times. And yet no one has bothered to tell you how to go about doing it. Our society teaches us everything we need to know and then some about how to create goals and how to work to deadlines and how to do almost anything. But we are not every good in the West as putting things down and letting things go. And that is the essential part of relaxation that most of us have the hardest time accomplishing.

Breath Awareness - the starting point it includes “Deep” Breathing, Over Breathing, Alternate breath and Healing breath.

Meditation is something we have all heard of, but few of us have actually tried it. This may be because it seems to demand total concentration, or to be a part of an eastern religious life, or simply because we cannot imagine ourselves able to achieve the complete inner stillness than we associate with the term meditation.

First, let me assure you that there are many different types of meditation, and some are so simple and so easy to learn that you won’t realise you’re actually meditating... until you start feeling better and calmer.

In fact meditation is a little like an art form - take drawings. There are huge detailed drawings and simple unfinished ones, large ones, small ones,... but each has its own message and it’s own value and its own place. So too with meditation. And you may find, as I have, that there are several ways of meditating that are invaluable to you.